During recent discussion in the House about a push spearheaded by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for President Joe Biden’s impeachment on the basis of supposedly mishandling the southern border, Dems systematically dismantled the shoddy, nonsense arguments being presented.
In short, Boebert has taken the recent GOP claim of “open borders” even further, lying that criminal groups have taken what is effectively total control of the U.S. border with Mexico. That is utter nonsense. In debate on the House floor, Boebert also tried to politicize deaths among Americans from the drug fentanyl, directly blaming Biden for the fatalities, though the problem of the drug’s proliferation has been longstanding and continued while Donald Trump was in office.
Boebert has elsewhere faced criticism for all of this from even inside the GOP, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) recently engaging in a highly publicized spat with the Colorado Republican over the latter taking the spotlight with her own proposed impeachment of the president. At least their infighting means they’re less effective.
“Mr. Speaker, I point this out because this is crazy what is being talked about here on the House floor,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said in the House, referring to the fact that the southern border isn’t in any reasonable sense “open.” “This is not about a policy disagreement; if it was, maybe my friends would actually pass a bill that had an alternative policy… If they wanted to, they would legislate in a way that would change a policy, but that is not what they want to do. This is about protecting Donald Trump. Donald Trump says to them, you know: Jump. And they ask: How high? That is what this is about. This is about covering up for the former President. It is about deflecting from the former President’s criminality, the 37 felony counts that he has been indicted on, and they don’t like it. Unfortunately, that is who he is.”
McGovern was speaking after Boebert, though he also commented at other points. The House opted to send Boebert’s proposal to impeach the president for further consideration by relevant committees, potentially setting up another showdown over the issue down the line.
