In reply to: GOP fails to impeach Mayorkas. posted by Revue Party
(I had seen at least one other conservative recently state he/she was against the impeachment vote, but can't recall who.)
See the link below for the whole op-ed piece, but here's how it concludes:
In 2019 and 2021, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats used impeachment as a weapon against Mr. Trump, though they couldn’t produce evidence he had committed a crime. It was a rushed, hyperpartisan process that lowered the bar for what constitutes an impeachable offense. Republicans rightly railed against this effort and the dangers of a single-party impeachment, impeachment for unpopular decisions, impeachment for non-criminal acts, and impeachment for not complying with congressional subpoenas.
Republicans should reject the Pelosi precedent. Creating a new, lower standard for impeachment, one without any clear limiting principle, wouldn’t secure the border or hold Mr. Biden accountable. It would only pry open the Pandora’s box of perpetual impeachment.
Portraying the 2021 impeachment, in particular, as a lowering of the standard for impeachment is absurd. Trump is precisely the sort of person who would have worried the founders. The 2021 impeachment was not single-party, was not for "unpopular decisions," did not concern a subpoena, and there is no support for the notion that an impeachment requires a violation of a criminal statute.
Every Republican who voted against it, particularly the Senators who voted to certify the election results but voted to acquit Trump, should be ashamed to look people in they eye. They had the tools to save us from all of this. Gallagher has a very impressive resume, so I will presume this is deceit rather than ignorance.