A discussion of the possible impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday quickly devolved into a speech connecting former President John Adams and Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, Huffington Post reporter Jen Bendery posted on social media.
The diatribe came after Republican officials in the House Homeland Security Committee confessed they didn't have the evidence necessary to meet the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the Washington Post wrote over the weekend. The charges against Mayorkas include that he failed to enforce U.S. immigration policies at the nation’s border.
"The charges come as Republicans swiftly concluded two public impeachment hearings this month without Mayorkas’s in-person testimony or testimony from any fact witnesses," said the report. "Although the Biden administration has been struggling with the overwhelming surge of migrants at the southern border, congressional lawmakers have yet to detail clear evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors on the part of leaders."
At the same time, a conflict has erupted with former President Donald Trump demanding that no compromise be struck to help solve immigration problems.
"Please, blame me!" he told a rally crowd in Nevada.
“The border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and Congress people that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem — because he wants to blame Biden for it — is really appalling,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).
He wasn't the only angry Republican in the Senate. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told reporters, “I didn’t come here to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy. It is immoral for me to think you looked the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Trump to win.”
When Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) continued to work with Democrats on building the bipartisan compromise, he was "censured' by the state's Republican Party. There are now questions about the legitimacy of the censure as the president of the party said that the vice president went "rogue" in passing it.
Before the Homeland Security Committee recessed Tuesday afternoon, House Republican Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma stated that giving all power to the presidency to make decisions about the border isn't the way governing the country should work.
"All of us who know that we did not have a king implemented in our government, our governance, that is really what we are doing," Brecheen said. "When we allow that ideology to be pervasive to allow the executives how to enforce, what to enforce, you granted them the ability to become a king. That flies in the face of party politics. We do not have a king."
President Joe Biden has asked that Congress pass laws and funding measures to enact what they want to see happen at the border.
"Think about what John Adams said," Brecheen continued. "'We are to be a government of law, not of men.' What is he talking about? He is talking about the rule of law. Think about what his cousin Samuel Adams said, that neither the wisest constitution or the wisest of laws will secure the liberty and happiness of people whose manners are universally corrupt. ... Don't you think it is quite ironic?"
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That's when the Republican cited Alanis Morissette, saying they'll use the impeachment whether it is a legitimate impeachment or not.
"We will go through these hurdles all day long. And you have a right to bog this process down. But we are using that dot and tiddle to make sure that we adhere to it and that will be respected by the chairman. We are defending someone who refuses to play by the rules. And that Alanis Morissette song from my youth is coming up, 'Isn't it ironic, don't you think?'" he closed by asking.
See the clip of Brecheen below or at the link here.
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