Border Security: House Republicans Impeach Mayorkas for Border Policies
Border Security: House Republicans Impeach Mayorkas for Border Policies
In a redo of their first failed attempt, Republicans pushed through the charges over solid Democratic opposition, making the homeland security secretary the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached.
For context, Senate Republicans just tanked legislation to change policy at the best of House Republicans and Trump and don't seem to have much beyond "we don't like current policy" as a reason to impeach.
these fucks have nothing better to do.
Which brings to mind an ancient addage. "if you're not part of the solution, there's money to be had in prolonging the problem. "
I'm so tired of Republicans.
They’ll be gone soon. They’re making themselves irrelevant day by day.
"Congress has taken decisive action to defend our constitutional order and hold accountable a public official who has violated his oath of office,” Representative Mark E. Green, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
But you decided to tank the bipartisan border reform bill. Clearly sound logic here. SMH
But yeah, even Republicans in the Senate are indicating that it's likely the Senate will dismiss the trail as, shockingly, everyone has way better things to do.
However, this is Republicans attempting to normalize impeachment. So this way, when someone mentions Trump being impeached twice they can say, "well so-and-so was impeached sixty-three times!! Impeachment doesn't mean anything!" Which impeachment does mean something, just in this case it shows how petty the House Republicans have become.
Impeaching someone ALWAYS means something, just that if you're sitting there impeaching someone over border issues when yourself have tabled solving those border issues at the behest of the leading candidate for a political party, it clearly doesn't say the thing these Republicans are hoping it says. You cannot reasonably believe people OF SOUND MIND can look at the justification of this impeachment and the recent tanking of solutions by this exact body in the House and think that the conclusions were arrived at in an apolitical manner.
Literally Trump said, "Don't give Biden the win on the border." I mean c'mon, okay you might have an issue with how the guy was running things, you're Congress, you can literally pass legislation forcing the guy to do your bidding. That's actually an option. But Republicans of the House cannot actually get it passed, not just because of their dysfunctional nature, but because Trump told them to not. So this is the result, rather than actually pass legislation to set the guy on the "right" path (I mean I'm going to give GOP House a benefit of doubt here, that they actually want to fix something) and boy oh boy, it was bipartisan it COULD HAVE been a slam dunk here. But rather than do that, they did this.
Republicans are going to think that this is some sort of win, that's cool, whatever helps them to sleep. But nobody is going to forget that Trump literally asked Republicans to tank any kind of solution. That's what this impeachment says. And literally, that's the echo over at r/conservative, it basically boils down to a "take that Biden!" Rather than people actually going, "shouldn't have Congress given clarity if they had issues?"
But of course you ask that question to some of them and it'll instantly devolve into "did Democrats give Trump … ?" And that's the tell that it's tit-for-tat for those people.
In approving the charges, the House also appointed 11 Republicans to serve as impeachment managers, including Mr. Green and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the right-wing lawmaker who has led the charge against Mr. Mayorkas.
LOL!!! In a perverse sense though, I would love to see MTG attempt to form solid arguments in an impeachment trail. Lady routinely trips on logic and her fallback is just screeching, which given a Democrat would be presiding over the trial, I would love to see Sen. Patty Murray figuratively chuck a gavel at MTG's head and tell her to "shut the fuck up!" Ah man, I almost miss the chance to see MTG as an impeachment manager. Impeachments are usually highly politically charged (hence the reason the background upon which it is set is pretty important) and that's like Rep. Greene's trigger to ignite. Lady doesn't know how to pump the breaks on her partisanship or emotions (which there's a time and place for that in Congress for sure, not when you're in the Senate with the opposite party presiding). Now Rep. Mark Green now that's an obvious choice, he's absolutely got a flare for dotting the i's in an argument. Perfect choice for a manager into this and has a great deal of understanding this domain. But him opposite of MTG, that's just hilarious. I would love to see Rep. Mark Green give Rep. Greene side eyes to reel it in on an almost consistent basis during the hearing.
That's just entertainment you cannot make up.
I would love to see Sen. Patty Murray figuratively chuck a gavel at MTG’s head and tell her to “shut the fuck up!”
I've seen plenty of people say "literally" when they meant "figuratively" but I've never seen anyone do the reverse before.
My brother in christ I must tell you that this is too long
I'm a bit wordy, that's something I'm working on. Thank you here's your boost for the kind reminder.
they can literally write a new policy but instead they jacking off with this nonsense.
Y'all remember the Benghazi hearings? Just as consequential.
Whelp, had to happen sometime.
First time since the 1800s?
For a cabinet member. They generally resign or are fired by the President when crimes are exposed. Which doesn't make sense when there isn't a crime.