Once their articles of impeachment go to the floor, all their shenanigans (hindering immigration and border reforms) will be revealed publicly. There goes the November re-elections for many of them.

being offered to them by the President for the border? They are trying to impeach this guy for not protecting the border and yet when they get all this money to fix the border they say, "NO"

I bet some of our smart senators could make this into a big deal that makes it to the news.

Because Congress refuses to do its job.

Seems kind of upside down, right?

A two-thirds Senate majority would be needed to convict and remove him from office

And just found this that offered that argument due to how the provision is written in the Consitituion - vesting the "sole power" of impeachment and "sole power" to try an impeachment, to the House and Senate respectively (with no specifics for if/when/how they would do this, leaving it up to each chamber) - https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-senate-decline-try-impeachment-case

Considering how ignorant so many congresscritters are of the constitution, it seems wise to spread this idea of getting the Senate to ignore the House impeachment (should it pass) as far and wide as we can.

I'll help in my circles.

Maybe make your comment an OP and flesh it out a bit more? I'd recc that with ALL my sockpuppets (just kidding! I don't have any!)

so I definitely haven't had time to delve into the arguments and counter-arguments enough to even consider doing an OP. But it brings up interesting points. Most of the impeachments to date have been judges, and they tend to "quietly" happen behind the scenes of the media. But the Presidential ones obviously get attention as is this Department head one given that it would be almost unprecedented, with reports, IIRC, that only one other time has something like that occurred. But we know that the GOP does things "for show" and doesn't care if it makes any legal sense to do it.

There's a couple rotten apples in the Dem senate, and a handful of conservative Dems (I refuse to call them "moderates"... the Overton Window is too far to the right, already).

But maybe... I boosted the Lawfare article without comment on Mastodon and already a couple favs, so...

If Senate Dem leaders have the will, they could whip support to quash this impeachment... maybe.

a few swing-state GOP members to vote against it along with all Democrats to kill it in the House. Tthe GOP is down to only 219 members (and at the moment 218 with Scalise out) who are left to vote at the moment due to vacancies (and "out sick", since they have no "proxy voting" Rule).

Having 432/431 available divided 2 + 1 means (D)s just need 3 or 4 (R)s to vote "no" to reach what would be a majority of 216/217. Any other non-voters or "present" voters could affect the tally as well.

if we force them to vote to remove him, then hang that around their necks in an election year? It will go on record as a purely partisan vote.

If the Democrats choose to ignore it, then they will say we were afraid to bring it to a vote.

is that ALL business (including other hearings, general Committee meetings, and Committee legislative markups, etc), CEASES, and they have to direct full attention to those extraordinary processes.

Meanwhile the department appropriations bills have STILL not been completed yet.

and not allow testimony from any witnesses. IIRC, that one didn't take very long.

if just a handful of GOP swing-state members vote "no", it will deep-six the whole thing, and it'll never get to the Senate.

No argument there. I was just speaking about what to do if it did get to the Senate.

and I expect a number of them also pissed off at Johnson "DOAing" the work they are doing with the border bill. So all kinds of interesting things might or might now happen.

God forbid these morons work on police reform, immigration reform, and any of the myriad problems that always need to be updated.

Isn't he Homeland security?

They did finally update it 9 hours later (added the update as I was not home when they did the update).

Gallup has the current House approval rating at 15%.

...and THIS is what they think is going to turn things around for them.