The Republicans in the House finally did something right. Alejandro Mayorkas was finally impeached.
Way back when the House Republicans dumped Kevin McCarthy and finally replaced him with Mike Johnson, I predicted nothing would change. Republicans have too small a majority to get much of anything done.
Instead of fighting about who would lead the caucus to nowhere legislatively, I argued that the Republicans had one good thing they could do this session: run investigations into the Biden administration and into the abuses of power that are now rampant.
The Mayorkas impeachment is an example of both the best and the worst aspects of this moment for Republicans. On the one hand, it took two votes to impeach Mayorkas due to the razor-thin majority the Republicans have in the House and the fractious politics of the caucus. On the other hand, Speaker Johnson managed to get something…
