As conservative Rep. Chip Roy of Texas admits, Republicans have nothing to run for this year. “I don’t know how you could go out of your way to campaign, raise money, go to events, talk to people, come to this town as a member of a political party that supposedly supports something. Don’t understand. Don’t do anything about it,” he yelled on the House floor. in November. “One thing, I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing that I can campaign for and say we did. One!” He didn’t have an answer.
Most Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the infrastructure bill. Now they routinely claim credit for it. They are only occasionally accused of hypocrisy. (Prepare to hear a lot of talk as the campaign heats up.) With the help of some Republicans in the Senate and a small minority in the House, Democrats will pass an infrastructure bill in 2021. is completed. As with infrastructure, Republicans have largely escaped blame. For causing economic havoc thanks to Democratic votes that opened up the government and avoided debt default.
But now, with no one to cover their tracks, Republicans risk becoming vulnerable to voters turned off by partisan melodrama. On the impeachment front, Republicans have embarrassingly not come up with anything that would justify impeaching Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas or President Biden. As for Mr. Mayorkas, Jonathan Turley, a favorite Republican lawyer, wrote in the Daily Beast, “Being a bad person is not impeachable. Otherwise, many Cabinet seats would be largely vacant.” And it’s not like I’m doing a bad job. He said that if his poor performance were grounds for impeachment, Mayorkas “would be just the latest in a long line of Cabinet members to frog-march to Congress demanding constitutional termination.” added.
Norman Eisen, a former impeachment adviser on the House Judiciary Committee, along with Democracy 21 founder Fred Wertheimer and researcher Sasha Matski, wrote on MSNBC: …But what really concerns us is the way these impeachments weaponize important constitutional remedies and undermine their sober original intent. ” By turning impeachment into a “partisan joke” to satisfy President Trump, who has been indicted four times and impeached twice, they are exposing their own recklessness, irresponsibility, and deep dishonesty. If Mr. Turley, who passionately defended Mr. Trump during his impeachment, and Mr. Eisen, an adviser to the House impeachment managers, agree that these are baseless pretenses, Republicans could mount this attack.
Worse, House and Senate Republicans’ opposition to a massive border security funding bill to make Mr. Mayorkas’ job easier highlights their cynical indifference to actual border security. Just do it. Even for some Republicans, this is a bridge too far. “I didn’t come here to have the president as my boss or his candidate as my boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (Sen. RN.C.) said last week. “It’s immoral to me to think that we’re turning a blind eye because we think this is the key to President Trump’s victory.”
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) also accused Republicans of obstructionism. “The border is a very important issue to Donald Trump. And Mr. Romney has told Republican senators and members of Congress that they don’t want to solve the border problem because he wants to blame it on Biden. The fact that they’re telling us that is really frightening,” Romney said. “The American people are suffering because of what’s happening at the border. And the person running for president should try to solve the problem instead of saying, ‘Hey, save me the problem!’ It is. Don’t settle! Please give me credit for solving it later. ”
Put another way, Republicans’ brazen opposition to perhaps the most serious border funding measure in decades makes both the impeachment of Mayorkas and the pandering to border issues seem absurdly cynical, even for Republicans. .
Naturally, the public isn’t buying it. A Wall Street Journal poll last year found that, regarding Mr. 51%, 37% in favor, the poll found.” Post colleague Aaron Blake found in a review of December polls that they showed only marginal support for impeachment. “If the poll numbers don’t move significantly from when they were in favor of impeaching Trump (and are now in support of impeachment), (His indictment), Biden’s impeachment vote could be difficult for many Republicans and for the Republican leadership as well. And if they don’t even vote, it will be a stunning capitulation. ”
Things are not looking good for Republicans. A poll conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University in January found that “Republican impeachment inquiries into President Joe Biden may be harming voters, especially American moderates.” Roughly twice as many of these moderate voters, a key bloc for both parties in this year’s presidential election, said they opposed House Republicans’ recent impeachment inquiry than supported it. ”
Republicans overwhelmingly opposed Biden’s popular infrastructure bill and opposed tough border control legislation while favoring government shutdowns, debt defaults and sham impeachment hearings that voters didn’t want. Democrats can’t believe their good fortune heading into November. Chip Roy isn’t the only one who can’t think of a single reason why they should remain in power.