So the GOP-led House chooses to spend its time attempting to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and these same folks STILL haven’t passed a budget for a fiscal year that began on Oct. 1? And tomorrow is Feb 1?. It’s more than appropriate that we’re celebrating Groundhog Day this week.
I guess we can only hope that there are a few Republican members who are unwilling to go along with the impeachment charade. You'd think the Speaker would know, for certain, that he had the votes for impeachment in his pocket before allowing it to reach the floor - but House leadership has been so dysfunctional this session that I have to think that might not be the case.
Of course any Republicans voting against impeachment would have to be willing to suffer the anger of much of the rest of the party - and these days that level of vituperation and threats just might be too much to take.
My worry is that the former president seems to have no compunction about putting the whole government into a chaotic disaster. The more catastrophic the threats the more he will capitalize, arguing that he alone can fix it. My fear, of course, is that the longer the chaos continues, the stronger that argument seems to grow. And too many Republicans are letting him get away with it.
By advancing this Mayorkas sham impeachment, their continuing inaction on passing a budget, their threat to torpedo the only chance of a bipartisan border deal and allowing themselves to be pawns of an unelected puppet master (who's currently staring at 91 criminal indictments), House GOP members are writing the Dem's campaign ads for them.
Impeachment is rapidly becoming just a letter of reprimand. Is an official reprimand appropriate for Mayorkas? Probably, along with the last few DHS Secretaries. But just as Johnson, Clinton, and Trump were all acquitted in the Senate, Mayorkas would be, too.
So the GOP-led House chooses to spend its time attempting to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and these same folks STILL haven’t passed a budget for a fiscal year that began on Oct. 1? And tomorrow is Feb 1?. It’s more than appropriate that we’re celebrating Groundhog Day this week.
I guess we can only hope that there are a few Republican members who are unwilling to go along with the impeachment charade. You'd think the Speaker would know, for certain, that he had the votes for impeachment in his pocket before allowing it to reach the floor - but House leadership has been so dysfunctional this session that I have to think that might not be the case.
Of course any Republicans voting against impeachment would have to be willing to suffer the anger of much of the rest of the party - and these days that level of vituperation and threats just might be too much to take.
You used the right word -- HOPE.
My worry is that the former president seems to have no compunction about putting the whole government into a chaotic disaster. The more catastrophic the threats the more he will capitalize, arguing that he alone can fix it. My fear, of course, is that the longer the chaos continues, the stronger that argument seems to grow. And too many Republicans are letting him get away with it.
By advancing this Mayorkas sham impeachment, their continuing inaction on passing a budget, their threat to torpedo the only chance of a bipartisan border deal and allowing themselves to be pawns of an unelected puppet master (who's currently staring at 91 criminal indictments), House GOP members are writing the Dem's campaign ads for them.
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Impeachment is rapidly becoming just a letter of reprimand. Is an official reprimand appropriate for Mayorkas? Probably, along with the last few DHS Secretaries. But just as Johnson, Clinton, and Trump were all acquitted in the Senate, Mayorkas would be, too.