The Republican-dominated Homeland Security Committee voted 18-15 to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security. The standard for impeachment is high, but Republicans want to humiliate the Biden administration by impeaching a Cabinet Secretary for the first time in 150 years.
Given the Republicans’ slim majority, they will need almost every Republican vote to impeach Mayorkas.
The Democratic majority in the Senate will certainly defeat anything this absurd from the House.
The G.O.P. was plowing forward without producing evidence that Mr. Mayorkas committed a crime or acts of corruption, arguing instead that the Biden administration border policies he implemented ran afoul of the law. Legal scholars, including prominent conservatives, have argued that the effort is a perversion of the constitutional power of impeachment, and Democrats remained solidly opposed…
“Neither of the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime or misdemeanor,” said Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the panel’s most senior Democrat. He added that House Republicans “don’t want progress. They don’t want solutions. They want a political issue.”
At least one House Republican is skeptical.
“I’m a ‘lean no’ at this point,” Representative Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado, said in an interview on Tuesday, adding that he feared that impeaching Mr. Mayorkas would damage Congress institutionally and be “moving in the wrong direction.”
“To say that someone was incompetent — we wouldn’t have anybody in Congress, if the standard was competence,” Mr. Buck added.
Omg…Buck actually said this,
“To say that someone was incompetent — we wouldn’t have anybody in Congress, if the standard was competence.”
I read this one way, and one way only. Traitor Trump is determined to see Biden and members of his administration impeached. So, the twice impeached Traitor’s orders to his elected loyalist MAGA cult members in Congress is to impeach Biden repeatedly … and anyone else in his administration they can cook up crime for even if it isn’t a crime.
Trace the message trail back to its source and it’s almost always going to lead to Traitor Trump, a known micromanager.
Trump is the most aggressive micromanager in the history…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/13/trump-is-most-aggressive-micromanager-history-oval-office/
Ex-Trump workers describe egocenter micromanager: “Donald loves Donald”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/14/donald-trump-former-employee-interviews-ego-diversity
Traitor Trump uses chaos as a weapon and this go nowhere impeachments are just another form of spreading chaos for him. His mind is perfect for spreading chaos since the traitor’s thinking is chaotic.
“Based on conversations with people who have worked for him, people who still work for him and a half dozen of his biographers, the reality of Trump as an executive—his methods and his manner—bears little resemblance to the man viewers saw on the show (The Apprentice). Rather than magisterial and decisive, Trump the actual boss swings wildly between micromanaging meddler and can’t-be-bothered, broad-brush, big-picture thinker. He is both impulsive and intuitive, for better and for worse. He hires on gut instinct rather than qualifications; he listens to others, but not as much or as often as he listens to himself. He’s loyal—“like, this great loyalty freak,” as he once put it—except when he’s not.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/2016-donald-trump-boss-employer-company-hired-fired-employees-workers-management-business-214020/
A group of baboons is called a troop, a flange, or a congress. The last of these is defamation of baboons.
So would 4 be a subcommittee?
Half a baboon brain = Mike Johnson.
Half a baboon brain is required in order to be the Repugnican Speaker.