No Shoes, No Shirt, No Servitude
Again and again, our national sanity hangs on by a shoestring. Even when there’s no shoe. The House GOP’s long-promised plot to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed in shocking manner last night. Usually, a House Leader doesn’t call everyone to the floor unless they’re sure they have the votes. But this is not a usual House. Even by today’s standards, the impeachment vote was weird, as it was doomed by a surgical strike. Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas was unexpectedly wheeled onto the House floor from surgery, with no shoes, to vote against the impeachment, resulting in “a shocking loss for Republicans.” These guys can’t even do corruption right. If irony weren’t dead, this would be a good time to point out that the GOP is trying to impeach Mayorkas for his failure to secure the border during the same week they scuttled the bipartisan deal that they negotiated to secure the border because Donald Trump told them it would be bad if something good got done while Biden is president. Shortly after the impeachment debacle, the House looked to pass a standalone bill to support Israel (Israel, Ukraine, and border funding were previously tied together). That bill failed, too. It’s all enough to make one laugh, as long as one isn’t an American ally like Ukraine, fighting a war and desperately waiting for funding. Putin’s probably laughing though…
+ “The paralysis left the fate of aid to Ukraine and Israel in peril, closing off what had been seen as the best remaining avenue on Capitol Hill for approval of critical military assistance to U.S. allies. A broad measure that includes both is expected to fail in a Senate test vote Wednesday, raising immediate questions about whether Congress could salvage the emergency aid package — and if so, how.” NYT (Gift Article): Dysfunction Reigns in Congress as GOP Defeats Multiply.
+ Here’s the latest on the Senate vote on the border bill and foreign aid package. You can assume it will result in another punch (to the gut) line.
