GOP Gets Squishy On Impeaching Mayorkas

I was never quite clear why he was the target in the first place, since he was essentially doing the bidding of Brandon and his advisors

The impeachment effort losing steam in the House GOP

House Republicans once regarded Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as their easiest impeachment target. Yet even that seems increasingly out of reach.

Centrist Republicans were never quite sold on impeaching the secretary over problems at the border, nor aligned with their colleagues’ belief that Mayorkas lied to lawmakers at a committee hearing. Now, some of the most vocal Republicans pushing to remove him are acknowledging they’re finding GOP skeptics virtually immovable.

Even Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who thrilled conservatives last year when he opened the door to impeachment proceedings, is signaling he’s still not convinced.

“The only time you use impeachment is if someone has done something that rises to impeachment,” McCarthy told POLITICO, noting that committees are still investigating Mayorkas.

Mayorkas did lie under oath. The smarter move would have been to find him in contempt of Congress, because, really, if you impeach Mayorkas, the Democrat run Senate would not vote against hum, and he’d stay in the job. And, even if they did vote to boot Mayorkas, Biden would just replace him with someone exactly the same.

But other House Republicans acknowledge that, anecdotally, they aren’t hearing as much about the idea of impeaching Mayorkas from their colleagues. And Roy, though he insisted they’ve made progress, admitted the votes just might not exist in the narrow House majority.

The thing here is, if you have such a huge problem with impeaching Mayorkas from the squishes for something easy, how will that work with Biden? It’s clear as day that Biden is corrupt, that he used his position to get money for himself and his family, that there was bribery and extortion involved, and so much more. If the situation was reversed, Democrats would have already started impeachment hearings. Heck, they might have already held the impeachment vote and sent it to the Senate. Maybe twice. There might have been two to four who voted against, but, the rest would have been in lockstep.

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