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Republicans Again Mock Us with a Sham Impeachment
Each day Republicans control Congress reminds me of those ‘weirdest people you at Walmart’ videos
The week began with Republicans in Congress trashing a bipartisan border control agreement that had been reached in the Senate. Before most had a chance to look at it, the cockroaches scampered about with thesauruses, looking up the most clever ways to say they would never support it.
These are the same Republicans who have declared the most pressing problem for the nation is illegal immigration. These are the ones that tell us that as each hour passes without a resolution for how to strengthen border security, the nation is at risk of being overrun by terrorists. This is the same grouping of Walmart and trailer park misfits who are today voting in the House of Representatives to impeach a man, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary because they say he failed to do anything about the immigration problem.
A bipartisan agreement has been reached in the Senate, and Walmart Republicans refuse to bring it up for a vote in the House.
Republicans are pressing forward despite the assessment of legal experts, including some prominent conservatives, that Mr. Mayorkas has not committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional threshold for impeachment. If they succeed, which would take near unanimity among the G.O.P. given the party’s tiny majority, Mr. Mayorkas would become the only sitting cabinet member to be impeached in American history.
The move is an escalation of Republicans’ efforts to attack Mr. Biden and Democrats over immigration, as the two parties clash over how best to secure the border during an election year when the issue is expected to take center stage in the presidential campaign (Republican-led House to Vote).
By morning, they are impeaching a man who has done nothing wrong. By night, they are killing a bipartisan agreement that could strengthen the security of the border and, in many ways, give them the political (tribal) victories they seek. The hypocrisy is off the charts.
Much of this attack on Mayorkas has been led by Marjorie Taylor Greene. If there is anyone in Congress who is a…
