{"id":8836,"date":"2024-02-07T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:57:56","slug":"gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher\u2019s Defense of Vote is Not Principled. It is Idiotic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/02\/07\/gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/02\/07\/gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep.Gallagher posted the following defense for his \u201cno\u201d vote on impeaching Secretary Mayorkas on X. Here\u2019re the problems with his argument:<\/p>\n<p>1) An unelected cabinet secretary is not the same as an elected president. How you treat one does not set a precedent for the other. It is perfectly acceptable to have a higher bar for an elected president than an unelected member of the government.<\/p>\n<p>2) Impeachment is an inherently political action. It was intended to be so by the Founders, which is one of the reasons the language in the Constitution is broad and does not include specific prerequisites. Lawmakers are allowed to use their judment to decide if a government official is meeting the ethical standards we want our government to meet.<\/p>\n<p>3) Specifically for Mayorkas, it is not just about him dutifully implementing Biden\u2019s open border policies. Mayorkas has repeatedly, deliberately, and condescendingly lied under oath and obstructed Congress\u2019 consitutionaly responsibility to provide oversight.<\/p>\n<p>4) From a political lens, we all know that Mayorkas is never going to be convicted by a Democrat Senate. Impeachment is mostly symbolic, but symboilism is important. While Democrats are willing to use every political and legal lever available to them (and some that aren\u2019t) to fight for their agenda, Republicans repeatedly fall short. Impeachment is a perfectly suitable and constitutional response to the Biden Administration and Mayorkas\u2019 blatant disregard for the border enforcment laws dutifully passed into law by previous Congresses and Presidents. The fact that Gallagher isn\u2019t willing to use that response is a failure on his part and confirms for many base Republicans that the Republican Party is in it to lose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240207_105825.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22267\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240207_105825-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/02\/07\/gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gallaghers-defense-of-vote-is-not-principled-it-is-idiotic Rep.Gallagher posted the following defense for his \u201cno\u201d vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8839,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions\/8839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}