A House GOP effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed in an embarrassing fashion Tuesday as three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against what would have been t…
    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
      171·
      5 months ago

      What else can be said that would actually to add to the conversation after this? I can think of nothing. Good day sir.

      • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        5 months ago

        I think it’s important to point out that this vote only failed because they basically pulled a guy out of a hospital bed to vote no

        The failure came about because of the surprise appearance in the chamber of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who showed up unexpectedly — having recently had surgery and wearing hospital scrubs and no socks, according to NBC — to vote against the bill.

        So not exactly a stunning rebuke of the wackos.

        • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
          9·
          5 months ago

          Somewhat ironically Republicans will likely be pulling a different guy out of a hospital bed (Steve Scalise, getting chemo) to counter this one and vote on it again.

        • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
          4·
          5 months ago

          And they’re hoping another vote will pass once another rep gets out of his hospital bed. There seems to be a common theme here.

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        134·
        5 months ago

        What else can be said that would actually to add to the conversation after this? I can think of nothing.

        Yet you still commented.