Critics of President Joe Biden thought this would be the easiest of all efforts to hold somebody in the administration accountable – an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for facilitating the worst border crisis this nation has ever seen.
Instead, a measure put forth by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to do just that failed, and it includes the usual caveat: X number of Republicans joined Democrats to kill the effort.
In this scenario, X=8, thanks to Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Ken Buck (R-CO), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Cliff Bentz (R-OR), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), John Duarte (R-CA), and Mike Turner (R-OH).
The resolution accused Mayorkas of “fail(ing) to maintain operational control of the border, thereby violating the Secure Fence Act of 2006,” and suggested that he and his department had engaged in “willful admittance of border crossers, terrorists, human traffickers, drugs and other contraband.”
All of this is demonstrably true, according to Greene. And yet, in typical fashion, a handful of GOP members turned into the G-O-Flee, and a final count of 209-201, sent the resolution back to the Homeland Security Committee, effectively killing it.
Per colleague @ChadPergram, these are the 8 House Republicans who voted with Democrats on the impeachment resolution, which essentially killed it by sending it back to commitee. https://t.co/wJE7mzWF1o
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 14, 2023
Anger At Eight Republicans Who Couldn’t Muster Courage To Impeach Mayorkas
According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, who has extensively documented activity at the wide open southern border for years, some GOP sources are livid that the eight aforementioned Republicans couldn’t get on board with an effort to impeach Mayorkas.
It all seems fairly simple: Mayorkas has overseen the worst crisis at the border that this nation has ever seen. The numbers are staggering.
Even the DHS Secretary himself has admitted that over 600,000 illegal “gotaways” have evaded law enforcement and escaped into the country this fiscal year.
Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says there were more than 600,000 known “gotaways” — illegal immigrants who have escaped into the country — in FY2023 alone pic.twitter.com/OeDXXPEUbr
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 31, 2023
Melugin reports on one source who was particularly furious at the Republican lawmakers that sided with Democrats to ensure Mayorkas would not be held accountable.
“Impeachment of Mayorkas is literally the lowest hanging fruit and we are fucking it up,” they allegedly texted to the Fox News reporter. “Some of these people want to have endless hearings and do nothing. I can’t see how [we] can’t deliver one damn win.”
BREAKING: 8 House Republicans vote w/ Democrats to kill @mtgreenee resolution to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas by sending it to committee.
Text from House GOP source:
“Impeachment of Mayorkas is literally the lowest hanging fruit and we are fucking it up. Some of these people…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 14, 2023
The media and feckless Republicans argued repeatedly last week that they keep losing at the ballot box because of the former President Donald Trump’s influence or a backlash to pro-life policies.
But this is the real reason the GOP loses. Their voters believe that time and again, they will side with Democrats no matter the scenario.
DHS Celebrates – Greene Blasts Her Republican Colleagues
The Department of Homeland Security celebrated the failed effort to impeach Mayorkas in a statement.
“While the House Majority has wasted months trying to score points with baseless attacks, Secretary Mayorkas has been doing his job and working to keep Americans safe,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
That effort includes, as reported by The Political Insider earlier this month, an African illegal immigrant wanted in Senegal for alleged “terroristic activities” who was unwittingly released by Border Patrol officials in Arizona for weeks before being arrested in New York City.
NEW: Border Patrol unknowingly released an African terrorism suspect into the U.S. after he was caught crossing illegally into AZ on 10/3. One week later, on 10/10, HSI notified ICE that he was wanted in Senegal for “terroristic activities”. ICE then arrested him in NYC on 10/17.…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 3, 2023
The Biden administration has overseen the arrests of 172 individuals on the terror watchlist at ports of entry so far this fiscal year and has allowed upwards of 2 million “gotaways” to vanish into the country since the President took office.
Also reported here at The Political Insider in late August is the fact that the FBI struggled to “identify and assess” more than a dozen illegal immigrants after they crossed the southern border with the aid of a smuggler that has ties to the terrorist group ISIS.
This is not “working to keep Americans safe.”
And yet, the GOP, like a lion in the land of Oz, couldn’t find the courage to impeach Mayorkas.
? BREAKING NEWS: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped illegal aliens enter the US from Mexico
Why doesn’t the Biden administration care about the disaster at the southern border? https://t.co/ghck4LPrw6
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 29, 2023
Greene tore into her Republican colleagues for helping Democrats shield Mayorkas from accountability.
“What are these Republicans even worth?” she asked, according to an X post by Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram.
“But all we hear about is send money to Ukraine, send money to this. And people want Mayorkas impeached. They want accountability,” she reportedly said. “And I can’t believe it.”
A) From colleague Brianna O’Neil. Greene on GOPers voting to block impeachment of Mayorkas: They’re going to face their voters. The American people are fed up. We have an invasion at the southern border and Americans are dying every single day.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 14, 2023
Republicans have left their voters dismayed regarding several efforts in which they sided with Democrats even as they hold the majority in the House. There have been no impeachments of the President, Mayorkas, or January 6th prosecutors, just to name a few.
Republicans didn’t help curb inflation, they helped facilitate it with the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling bill.
They promised no more “blank checks” to Ukraine, but taxpayer money has continued to flow to that country unabated.
8 Republicans just joined Democrats to KILL my Articles of Impeachment against Mayorkas https://t.co/DYCLubvjJH
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) November 14, 2023
“They stood with the Democrats to protect Secretary Mayorkas and prevent his impeachment by, putting it back in the Judiciary Committee, where they can put articles of impeachment up on the shelf to collect more dust,” Greene fumed.
That’s the bottom line: Republicans promise their voters the world and then deliver hearings that ultimately fizzle out as they hope beyond hope that their base will forget or forgive the failures.
Democrats, by contrast, deliver red meat to their voters with multiple impeachments and prosecutions of their political adversaries.
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Republican politicians have a long history of stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. Primary their asses!
Greene ought to be blasting the Democraps too. why don’t ANY of them care that our border is being grossly mismanaged by Brandon? Congress is PATHETIC, they ALL are to blame for so many of our problems
sorry, not just the GOP. the way Congress operates there is ZERO attention to the serious needs of our Country. all they do is make sure the Federal money is administered to the benefit of whomever can deal most effectively for political gain. no one wants to risk anything to pursue what’s best for the Nation. and the independently minded yo yo’s in the GOP are too dumb to see how they’ve destroyed any power their party might have with their slim majority. this is why i hang up on any Republican attempts to get me to throw money at their s**t show
I wrote down all the Republicans who voted with the Democrats against Impeaching Mayorkas and They Will Not Get Voted back in; however guys with no Gonads like Ken Buck of Colorado Springs showed how he really has none and is retiring!! What a Chicken S..T &Yellowbelly he is now! What the H..L is going on with these Idiot Republicans anyway!
I guess they think Mayorkas is doing great giving away America with all those ILLEGALS and Paid Assassins coming in with all the others so they can kill Americans because they hate all of us? What are these Republicans thinking of! Here are the Traitors in case you missed the Representatives: Ken Buck-Colorado; Darrell Issa-California- Tom McClintock-California- Patrick McHenry-N.C- John Duarte-California -Virginia Foxx-N. C. – Cliff Bentz- & Mike Turner-OH!
Well, you all made a choice NOT TO IMPEACH Mayorkas, for Dereliction of Duty, for heaven’s sake, now you have done the same thing by not doing this and it is still Dereliction from you! You all have no GONADS, yes even Virginia Foxx!
Is there no way to recall these RINOS?
“An ideal form of government is democracy, tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
Well some are retiring, but not soon enough! Others will hopefully be voted out next time around! These are gutless people with no gonads and as for Virginia not guts to strand up for America! I guess they do not really love America or Mayorkas and maybe Biden are blackmailing them too!! Thank goodness for freedom of speech I say! Jess
Just and FYI to the gutless wonders in Congress and the Senate. You may want to call and reserve your moving van a bit ahead of time as they are going to be in great demand.
Jason-Not everyone can afford to move away to a RED State as some of us are just to old to do this! Wish we could!! We have a major problem too with Governor and nothing is working, because we have too many Democrats to get him voted out, darn it!!Jess
Gutless, spineless no courage at all Republicans need to pack their yellow suitcases and go home to (CO, OH, OR, CA, and NC). They lack the gonads necessary to get the job done and rid America of this blight named, Mayorkas. The only things I can remotely consider might have caused them to waffle are, 1)they, too, are owned by Soros and the left-wing of the democommie party of America, or 2) all of their deep-pocket donors own businesses in need of cheap, illegal labor. Or, perhaps # 3, their names appear on the flight manifest to Epstein Island in years past. They are all, in my humble opinion, in line to be FIRED!!!!
More likely blackmail. Who wants to bet that their names are on the Epstein client list?
Mayorkas needs to be impeached, he is not doing his job properly and he is a damn liar.
What is wrong with Republican Party is they should get rid of these RINOS that don’t like to come together with the rest of republicans. At least the liberals stick together on issues.
Republicans stop the whining, pick up the pieces, draft it again then go for it… again.
Recall each and every one of them. They are supposed to represent the people who elected them and are failing to do so, therfore they are failing at their jobs and should be fired just like any bad employee.
The Uni-Party is real. The Deep State exists and any belief that our system is not completely corrupt will result in this nation’s utter demise. We, the People, NEED to take back control.
Did these infamous 8 Republicans vote with Democrats because they love Ukraine so much or because they dislike MJG so much they will not support any bill she introduces?
all I can say, AMERICA YOU ARE SO FINISHED, RIP, 1776-2023.
THESE 8 are a DISGRACE to the people of the USA!!
There 8 are a DISGRACE.to the people of the USA!!!
It is truly pathetic. The republicans are pathetic. Top level leaders show no ability to keep them together to do anything. Anything at all….except spend non-existent money.
I’ll never vote for a dem again in my life. I promise that, but come on.
Kick them out. We don’t need more democrats and that’s what RINOs are. Just democrats pretending to be republicans.
Republican control of the House means nothing, as long as RINOs sabotage conservatives. The Republicans must purge these traitors. Do not elect them. We cannot have hammer and sickle Democrats pretending to be Republicans.
Every one of these Republican RHINO’s Should be FIRED! Stripped of their Health benefits & Golden Pension!
These RINOS MUST BE VOTED OUT. MAYORKAS IS USELESS. BUILD THE WALL, AND CLOSE OUR BORDER. Crime. Homelessness, drug deaths, terrorists coming thru and Ole Joe is begging them to come. He hates America and loves power. He has dementia.
Vote them out people. Vote the RINOS out!!!!!!!!!
This is incredible, no one is ever held responsible for anything they do. Mayorka should be fired and jailed
Republicans are becoming a self-destructing party. The more they ignore the voters’ wishes the less likely a red wave in 2024.
The Uniparty wins again this Country is run by elected people it’s run by Billionaires giving money to get the way this Country is run.