Clown car crashes into a wall

Congressional Republicans are refusing to do anything about the “crisis” at the border because they don’t actually care about the substance of the issue, as opposed to using it as a race-baiting political weapon. It is amazing, however, that House Republicans can’t even whip the votes to do empty partisan symbolism over the issue:

A measure to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrowly failed in the House on Tuesday, after three Republicans voted with Democrats against what would have been the first impeachment of a Cabinet member in nearly 150 years. The failed vote was a stunning rebuke of a months-long investigation into Mayorkas that legal experts and even some Republicans had raised concerns about.

Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) bucked the party line to vote against the measure, joining with Democrats who have decried the process as a sham with only two hearings last month that featured no fact witnesses or testimony from the secretary. Even if the measure had passed, Mayorkas was unlikely to have been convicted in a trial in the Democratic-led Senate.

When the vote unexpectedly came to a tie after Gallagher’s vote against the measure, he was swarmed by his colleagues on the House floor in a last-ditch attempt to change his mind. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) were among the members who approached Gallagher and animatedly tried to persuade him to flip his vote. Gallagher stood listening with his arms folded across his chest as he intermittently gesticulated and shook his head. 

Shocking that sending Marjorie Taylor Greene to heckle Gallagher didn’t pan out. Maybe they can lean on the moral authority of Lauren Boebert next time.

…the Frye Festival of (non)legislating.