The gloves are off in the House of Representatives today. If the Senate is the world’s greatest deliberative body then it can be reasonably argued that this iteration of the House is the world’s most dysfunctional body. That was the case before the sham impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas took place but what you’re about to hear completely takes the cake. The New York Times is reporting “G.O.P. leaders, whose House majority has shrunk to only the barest of margins, will need near-unanimous support to impeach Mr. Mayorkas in the full chamber. They believe they can reach that level despite some lingering skepticism in their ranks about whether impeachment is warranted.”
“Neither of the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime or misdemeanor,” Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the panel’s most senior Democrat, said Tuesday. He added that House Republicans “don’t want progress. They don’t want solutions. They want a political issue.” Listen to both clips, top and bottom.
“As Republicans sink deeper into lawlessness, their greatest fear is being held accountable. They worry that prosecutors will indict them”
“Point of order, I can’t hear the reading of the amendment” pic.twitter.com/q6mCNQX5mu
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 31, 2024
They want a political issue, yes and no. What they really want more than anything is to have an ongoing border crisis for Donald Trump to campaign on, when all efforts have been made to put forth a reasonable bill before both the House and the Senate to solve the problems at the southern border. But reasonable and viable are the enemies of soap opera and Trump needs the latter to gin up both his fundraising and his rhetoric. So elected Republicans are following that agenda and not the one that they were elected to execute.
Everybody gets impeached by the GOP these days. You get an impeachment and you get an impeachment and you get an impeachment. Maybe Oprah could do the honors. Whatever you do, don’t get a job mopping the floors of the Capitol in this political climate. You’ll get impeached for dropping your bucket and you’ll have to have a lawyer explain to Mike Johnson that you’re not an elected or even appointed official and he can’t impeach you. Don’t do it.
The charges, should they pass the House, would be all but certain to collapse in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where a two-thirds majority would be required to convict and remove Mr. Mayorkas. But they would force an election-year trial in which Republicans will have the chance to air their indictment of Mr. Biden’s immigration policies. […]
“Republicans are perpetuating challenges at the border to help re-elect Donald Trump,” Democrats on the Homeland Security panel wrote in a report. They argued that the G.O.P. was trying to make Mr. Mayorkas a scapegoat for problems only Congress could solve.
“They are playing the political blame game to deflect attention from their failure to take meaningful action on border security and immigration legislation and provide necessary border security funding,” the report said.
Republicans argue that the Constitution offers ample latitude to impeach an official over what they call his “ill behavior” toward the law.
The best in political theater, brought to you by the Republican party, performance artists sans pareil. Can’t govern worth a damn, but perform? Oh, yes. Expect tumbling, juggling, and dancing bears next. Maybe even Chip Roy twirling fire batons, Matt Gaetz with a chorus of dancing underage girls. This GOP-led House is lit.
Republican has become just another name for idiot.
and all-purpose butt-holes.