A party in disarray: Republicans are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Weakness, corrupt ideologies, a love of power and an inability to unify prevent the GOP from being the party of We The People this country needs.
Three Republican House members — Ken Buck of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California and Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin — betrayed their party Tuesday when they cast “Nay” votes to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to uphold his sworn duty and lying to Congress. (Photo Montage: Debbie Franks/Exposing American Fascists)
The failure of Republicans in the House to properly count votes for Tuesday’s impeachment vote of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is yet another indicator of how disorganized and fractured is the party.
Failing to properly count both their own votes and the number of Democrats in the House chamber, the Republicans failed to pass the articles of impeachment 216-214. Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Ken Buck (R-CO) all voted “Nay.” Three votes were all the House leadership could afford to lose, unless there wee fewer Democrats available to vote than was estimated.
Apparently, the assumption was not all Democrats would be present. But they were, and the bill went down to defeat. House Vice Conference Chairman Blake Moore (R-UT) changed his vote from “Yay” to “Nay” in the closing seconds of the vote. Under House rules, that enables him to bring the bill back to the floor for reconsideration at a later date.
This debacle highlights a lack of competency, direction and organization in the House Republican leadership. Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has been out since the beginning of the year as he receives chemo for multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. Majority Whip Tom Emmer and his deputies were responsible for counting noses and making certain the party had the votes to impeach Mayorkas.
Obviously, they failed.
The failure of the impeachment vote came on the heels of a stand-alone Israel aid package also being voted down despite 46 Democrats voting with 204 Republicans for passage. House leadership had inexplicably suspended House rules on the bill, meaning it had to pass with a two-thirds majority without a debate. It would have easily passed had it been left subject to regular debate and markup.
Unlike their Democrat counterparts, Republicans find party unity a difficult concept to grasp. Polling throughout the Biden presidency showing a large majority of Americans do not like his and the Democrats’ policies on border security, the economy/inflation, threats to personal freedoms, high crime rates and foreign policy. Yet Republicans don’t seem to be able to “read the room” and get on the same page together.
Despite having a largely unpopular agenda, Democrats are in lock step on their favorite issues, which number only two: Trump and abortion. They have no other issues to talk about, and they don’t dare do so for fear of reminding their voters just how corrupt and far Left — to the point of Fascism — they have become.
Illustrating the divide — and not incidentally, a lack of reason — among RINOs (Republican in Name Only) and the conservative populist wing of the party is the reasoning behind the votes case by Gallagher, McClintock and Buck to defeat the impeachment articles. McClintock and Buck claimed even before the vote there was “no evidence” Mayorkas had committed impeachable offenses. Gallagher was silent about how he would vote up to the moment he arose to say “Nay” to the two counts. He claimed impeaching the first Cabinet secretary in 150 years would open “Pandora’s box.”
One has to wonder what box Buck believes the two farcical and unfounded impeachment efforts by the Democrats against President Trump opened up. Simply because those efforts were bogus and politically motivated does not taint the nature of the efforts to impeach Mayorkas, and Attorney General Garland or President Biden after him.
The articles of impeachment alleged Mayorkas refused to enforce a law that mandates the detention of migrants who lack authorization to enter the United States, and of exceeding his authority to parole those people into the country, allowing them to live and work temporarily while they wait for their immigration claims to be processed. Further, the second article accuses the secretary of breaching the public trust by misrepresenting the state of the border to lawmakers and hampering the Republican-led investigation into his conduct.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in previous testimony, has lied to Congress by claiming the border is secure and has systematically violated his sworn duties in failing to stem the tide of illegals at the Southern border. (Photo: Stephanie Scarbrough/Associated Press)
Without question, just from the obvious public policy of the DHS secretary and from his testimony before Congress, the articles are true. They aren’t allegations. They aren’t unproven. Any unbiased, reasoning individual knows these are the facts. Yet these three RINOs decided the blatant, disastrous, unilateral abrogation of U.S. immigration laws by this president and his corrupt, lying DHS secretary should be questioned.
Even so, Majority Whip Emmer was, as always, tasked with getting the votes in line to pass legislation important to the party — and in this case, the nation and our national security. He failed miserably.
At the time Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted as Speaker, Emmer was on a short list among RINOs in the House as a potential replacement. President Trump reacted negatively, calling him "globalist RINO" and warning that electing him Speaker "would be a tragic mistake."
After Tuesday night, it appears Trump is correct. Were Emmer Speaker, it is questionable if the articles would have even been brought to the floor, though he did vote in favor of it. He really had no choice, however, given he was the member in charge of stirring up unwavering support for the articles.
This division and internal fighting is even more evident in the Senate. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is as much in bed with China as is Joe Biden, and for similar reasons. Where Biden has been enriched by official Chinese loans and gifts through his son Hunter, McConnell wife’s is former Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who has deep and high-reaching political connections to the government of China, run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In numerous reports that outlined Chao’s ties to Foremost Group, the owner of the shipping company, it has been noted that Chao “has no formal affiliation or stake” in the company. Nonetheless, she and her husband have received millions in gifts from Chao’s father, who used to run the company, along with political donations from her family, who continue to hold vested interests and administrative positions in Foremost Group.
Chao, according to the report, has boosted the company in China, whose government runs a bank that has loan commitments from the shipping company in the order of “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The report said in addition to the shipping company, Chao’s family has other ties to official China, including board positions in state companies and a close relationship between Chao’s father and former Chinese President and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
At the time of her nomination to Transportation, Chao declined media interviews. The Transportation Department provided a statement from her defending herself and her family.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a vocal critic of Beijing who has vowed to launch investigations into the Biden family’s alleged relationships with Chinese businesses, declared $57 million in income in his first 10 years in office in connection to his ownership stake in a company whose growth has closely been linked to China.
To be fair, literally a dozen Democrat senators, most notably the late Diane Feinstein (D-CA), have been compromised by financial interests in China. The CCP planted a spy in her office as her personal driver who was not discovered until he had served her 20 years.
But the fact Democrats are led by a man who has gotten rich in his son’s dealings with China, it isn’t surprising the whole party is abnormally friendly to China. It is not the Democrats that have a problem coalescing around the issues key to their party’s success.
Until Republicans can become unified, be loyal to party ideals and willing to go to the mat, as are the Democrats, to get their agenda established and unassailable, the most we can hope for as patriotic, freedom-loving Americans is that Republicans can hold back the tide. Picture them as the little Dutch boy, his finger in the dike holding back the North Sea as the seawall cracks around him.
That is our only hope.
Even electing Donald Trump once again to the presidency will not resolve the issues tearing the GOP apart. Where Democrats have managed to organize and eliminate disunity, the Republicans are unable to weed out the weak and ideologically compromised. Democrats like to say there are about 30 so-called “MAGA extremists” who stand in the way of bipartisan cooperation, but the reality is quite the opposite.
Long gone is the big-government Republican Party. It died a slow, hard, excruciating death that Americans should welcome. However, those warped, un-American ideals live on in the Democrats. It is time for a true alternative to be offered to voters. Donald Trump offers a simple ideology of American first, peace through strength, unabashed capitalism, small government and fair trade.
Until Republican embrace this ideology, lay aside antiquated and subversive ideas of a strong central government and codify putting an end to graft, insider trading and power-thirsty movers and shakers in a strong ethics pledge for all members of Congress, we as a party will continue to flounder. We will enjoy minor and fleeting successes and concentrate so much on infighting that we will not notice Democrats quite literally taking over the world.
It is that serious. It is urgent we act, making our views known and insisting that the party and government return to serving We The People instead of expecting us to serve them.\
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