It's impeachment day for Mayorkas

[brooklynite]

Source: Punchbowl

The House will vote today to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first time the chamber has moved to oust a Cabinet secretary in nearly 150 years.

You can call this the “House Freedom Caucus Impeachment” if you want. These conservatives, along with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who was kicked out of the HFC last year — have been leading the push to target Mayorkas for months, both in the Homeland Security Committee and on the floor.
And once a Senate trial begins for Mayorkas — which will ultimately lead to his acquittal — multiple HFC members will be on the Senate floor helping to manage the case against him. More on this below.

Today’s vote: If all 431 members are present and voting, House Republicans can only lose three votes. Democrats are expecting one absence, which gives Republicans a little more room to maneuver.

Read more: https://punchbowl.news/archive/2624-punchbowl-news-am/#__itsimpeachmentdayformayorkas__

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If Mitch could snuff the Garland nomination, why can't we snuff a sham impeachment?

Or is the idea go quickly and get it off the table?

[brooklynite]

2. The vote is in the House.

Schumer has already indicated the Senate won't take this seriously.

[maxsolomon]

7. Assuming that the Impeachment squeaks through the House

the Senate acts as jurors in a trial. They won't convict, but they do have to go through the procedure.

[Walleye]

3. They are being led by a woman who is too dumb to read English language, and I can't even list all the ridiculous lies

She repeats and believe. What has happened to the people. She’s obviously stupid and deranged and yet they are doing what she wants. She believes fervently that school shootings are crisis actors. For crying out loud.She’ll do the same thing to Biden with all kinds of ridiculous stupid slanderous conspiracy theories . Republicans believe stuff because they want to. There is no evidence. They haven’t understood theimpeachment process since they impeached Clinton. Part of their purpose is the delegitimization the impeachment process because of trump’s impeachments

[gab13by13]

4. This is a distraction from the border bill.

[cab67]

5. All for optics.

It's DOA in the Senate. Even the most ignorant among the boneheads promoting this in the House know this.

I wish the media wouldn't treat this whole thing as "historic." Cynical maneuvers to get attention aren't historic.

[maxsolomon]

8. Trump Impeachment 1.0 was DOA in the Senate.

The Dems knew it.

Trump Impeachment 2.0 was on life support when it arrived. McConnell smothered it.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I would bet they can't pass it.

Any partisan vote like this can always expect 10 or 15 who don't fall in line, for whatever reason. It think it may be more.

This Freedom Caucus is far from being a popular median committee in The House. There are many in Congress who think they're too far right.