Right-wing lawmakers are proving increasingly willing to force potentially divisive votes.

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    He has a D next to his name, which in itself is an impeachable offense to half the House.

    It’s being led by Lauren Boebert which is really all you need to know about it, but the reason given:

    The resolution charges Biden with abuse of power and dereliction of duty over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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      Every year I think that the shenanigans R’s pull will make them suffer in the next election. Still, with gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the “if they go low, we stay high” attitude we have, the election ends up becoming a coin toss.

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      Lololol. The border situation that is objectively better than last year even with Title 42 ending and trending downward?

      Also, these are encounters/apprehensions, which by the very definition of those terms means we are interdicting illegal crossers. So if you want to play the game of “record apprehensions!” Then, great. Kudos to the Biden administration for stopping the most people ever. More than Trump! More than Obama! More than Bush!

      This is a waste of time and resources. For the party that throws “witch hunt” around, I can’t think of a better term to describe this type of BS.

      Fixing our immigration issues requires nuance and compromise. Neither of those things are an earmark of our current Congress or political climate.

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        It’s all just a song-and-dance for their base, and everyone - on either side of the aisle - should be concerned with just how much time is being spent on that song-and-dance. These are the people who were elected - and are being paid - to run the country, but instead of doing anything material, they’re wasting time on shit like this.

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      They should be required to compare all previous presidents for the particular reason and judge if any of them would be impeached on the same standard because that one is super vague and applicable to all previous presidents.