Let’s never see this kind of impeachment circus in the Senate again.
Of course Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, should not have been impeached, and good on the United States Senate this week for dismissing the trumped-up charges against him before his trial even got underway.
He committed no high crimes nor misdemeanors in carrying out his duties, which, whether or not the House Republicans who forced the issue, or the Senate Republicans who voted along party lines, like it, involve carrying out the policies of the president.
If they want to impeach the president over his policies about immigration and the southern border … well, let’s not go there. There’s equally no case for impeachment.
But how absurd it is that the serious matter of controlling immigration into this country has become almost entirely a partisan issue, with the Republicans and Democrats merely jockeying against each other rather than doing what is best for our country.
The vote to do the right thing in the Senate was 51-48, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voting “present.” This is what it has come to in our country: party over properness, with one dissent.
