Posted on 02/08/2024 4:00:28 AM PST by jacknhoo
Republicans took a major blow after their attempt to impeach disgraced Deputy of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas failed, and someone was waiting in the wings with a savage 3-word response. You remember George Santos, whom Republicans voted to oust, right?
Well, after the failed vote, he had something to say, which Republicans should take to heart. After all, they can’t impeach a man who’s destroying the country, but they can get rid of a Republican congressman who could have voted with them. Either the GOP is just plain stupid, or they’re doing everything they can to help the left.
Santos wasted no time rubbing salt in the right’s wounds with this photo and his brutal, but true, response:
By the looks of the comments, conservatives agree with Santos. Here’s what some folks are saying:
“You are 100% right to post this!!”
“Savage!”
“No way should anyone have voted to remove you unless they included Adam Schiff & communist traitor Eric Swalwell ! We know you would’ve voted correctly today …”
“Ultimate Trolling! But he’s right”
“The GOP is in on it, they’re destroying us by design”
“The only thing the GOP has been successful at was kicking out a fellow Republcian. Idiots”
“You were never convicted unlike Jamal for pulling the fire alarm (insurrection) … he should have been impeached. You weren’t given due process. Screw them, George. I wish you would still be there.”
The anger, as usual, is directed exactly where it belongs: at the cowardly GOP.
Trolling and anger aside, this vote put Republicans in a weak and tough spot. What else is new?
Fox News:
The Republican-led House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the crisis at the southern border – marking a major blow for House Republicans who have pushed for Mayorkas’ removal.
The House voted mostly along party lines, but Republicans suffered a number of defections which torpedoed the vote. Four Republicans ultimately voted no: Rep. Tom Clintock, R-Calif., Ken Buck, R-Colo., Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Blake Moore, R-Utah, who switched his vote at the last minute in a procedural move to be able to bring the resolution back to the floor.
But Democrats remained united. The vote was 214-216. Lawmakers voted on a resolution combining two articles of impeachment that accused Mayorkas of having “refused to comply with Federal immigration laws” and the other of having violated “public trust.” A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached since 1876, when Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached.
The move is a crushing defeat for the Republican majority, which held hearings throughout 2023 on Mayorkas’ “dereliction of duty” and additional hearings on the impeachment articles themselves earlier this year. Lawmakers accused Mayorkas of disregarding federal law with “open border policies” that have made the ongoing crisis at the southern border worse. They have pointed to the rolling back of Trump-era policies like border wall construction and Remain-in-Mexico as well as reducing interior enforcement and expanding “catch-and-release.” They say it has fueled record numbers at the southern border, where numbers breached the 300,000 mark in December.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says the GOP will regroup and come back when they have the votes.
In any case, the principle of due process is more important than the vote advantage that the GOP would have had with Santos still in the House. The idea that Congressmen can be expelled for mere allegations of criminality only encourages the Deep State to bring even more of its political enemies up on charges. At the very least, the House should have waited for at least a conviction before expelling Santos, if not expel him at all. After all, why not let the voters decide or let Santos see the writing on the wall and decide not to seek another term?
Sadly, it’s probably a wrap, given how too many RINOs in the GOP seem to fight harder for their Democrat leaders than they do for their own voters. At any rate, big shoutout to Santos for dropping the day’s top troll—spot on and couldn’t be more accurate!
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Gotta love David Giglio's comment on twitter:
David Giglio @DavidGiglioCA The @HouseGOP can’t even muster the courage to impeach Mayorkis but they still want us to believe they intend to hold Joe & Hunter Biden accountable.
Laughable.
They don’t have the balls it’s going to take to save this nation from the Marxist Left.
Time to clean house.
Read the article still don’t know what he said.
UNIPARTY
The author makes a good point, but he’s wrong on the facts. In 2023 Santos pled guilty to check fraud charges in Brazil.
Obfuscate all you want but the Republicans refuse to win and purposefully aided the Rats in taking out Santos. The GOPe likes to screw us while protesting they had to do it for virtue’s sake.
Yeah, it’s in a X post at the link, sorry I don’t know how to include those in the posting.
But, he just posted on X, “Miss me yet?” with a image of the house floor with 215 to 215 vote count shown.
Using Santos as precedent, let’s throw out all the lying, cross-dressing, thieving congress critters.
Probably at least half.
This source typically is.
But it promotes a narrative its readers apparently want to hear and that's what counts the most these days. This used to be a characteristic of the Left, but not increasingly so on the right. Just the narrative, ma'am.
It was 214-216, not 215-215.
Nevermind - I see that one of the votes was procedural.
It is odd that some of the most conservative members of the House are who voted against it to kill this while the RINOs in more marginal districts stuck their necks out and held together with the rest of the caucus, then got left holding by bag by who have been typically mostly reliable votes historically and are in safer districts.
Who cares. The guy is a nut.
No, it was 215-215 but one of the Republican dissenters switched his vote so the matter could be easily rescheduled. Santos would have made a difference: I sadly predict this seat goes Democrat on Feb. 13.
How is that “obfuscating?”
Jurno trash in which the lead was omitted, not buried but omitted.
If the Republicans have a 40 seat plus MAJORITY in the House, then yes, it might be ok to ‘purify’ the caucus (a little inside DC talk, from my days there).
But when you’re a car accident or two away from losing your majority, perhaps, JUST PERHAPS, one should be a bit more careful about throwing away seats to the other side.
This reminds me of the way we threw away a Virginia Senate seat because Oliver North wasn’t ‘pure’ enough for Senate Republicans (he had made the Democrats look bad)...and it cost us BIG TIME in the following years.
Journalists should “have their license suspended” for writing articles like this one!
Yes that part was missing because it was a Twitter post copied into the article:
“Miss me yet?”
No kidding, freakin’ clickbait article.
All of them are pervs and nuts! He was our perv that could be handled, big difference. Politicians are tools to be used by the constituents not to be confused with clergymen.
“Miss me yet?”
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