It’s the end of another week‚ one in which the Republican Party was presented with oodles of opportunities to miss opportunities … and took full advantage. One day‚ some day‚ the GOP will be led by people who are competent‚ committed‚ and backed by suitable resources to do a good job. When that day comes‚ we can begin talking about dusting America off and standing her back on her feet. But we are unfortunately not at that day. To wit… 1. Buck‚ Gallagher‚ and McClintock Have Adam Kinzinger’s Disease‚ and Maybe They Need to Go the Way Of Kinzinger The GOP had the votes to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas this week. It didn’t happen. The House of Representatives let Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas off the hook for the border crisis created under his watch in a historic 216-214 vote against impeachment. Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) announced before the vote they would vote against impeachment. They were joined by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) in voting with unified Democrats. After the vote was decided‚ Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) voted nay‚ but only for procedural reasons so that the House may vote on the measure again at some point. I could give you the reasons that Buck‚ McClintock‚ and Gallagher gave for failing to vote for the impeachment. Those reasons are crap. They don’t matter. Oh‚ sure‚ there are some finer debate-society points we could discuss about the standard for impeachment‚ blah blah blah. Those points were surely aired in the House GOP caucus meetings‚ and they were not convincing. The Mayorkas impeachment was the best‚ most realistic opportunity House Republicans have had to hold the Biden administration responsible for the border invasion that Mayorkas has been the instrument of. And it was derailed by these three prima donna jake legs. Donald Trump was impeached for asking the Ukrainians to participate in a criminal investigation of something we now know is a — in Joe Biden’s words — big f’ing deal. Then he was impeached‚ post-presidency‚ over a protest that turned violent in significant part due to the actions of people under the direction or pay of the federal government. So don’t tell me that Alejandro Mayorkas‚ who‚ as the federal bureaucrat put in charge of the agencies tasked with keeping a secure border and controlling who comes into the country‚ has overseen some 10 million foreign trespassers‚ many of whom from countries that are hostile to us‚ can’t be impeached. Ken Buck says he has interest in becoming a talking head on MSNBC. Perhaps he ought to go and do that now so the people of Colorado can replace him with somebody who isn’t working out his emotional problems on the floor of the House of Representatives. As for McClintock‚ maybe it’s time to start pointing fingers at him as a reason the GOP in California is kaput. And Gallagher? It seems like he needs to learn when to lecture others and when to keep his mouth shut. I’m not Mike Johnson. I don’t expect that he’ll take my advice. But if I was Johnson‚ I would strip these three clowns of all their committee assignments‚ and I would fund primary challengers to them through the NRCC. When all you have is a 219-vote majority‚ performative histrionics from members of that majority at the expense of the herd simply cannot be tolerated. 2. Bye‚ Ronna A good thing happened this week… BREAKING: RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has told Donald Trump she will be resigning after the South Carolina primary. Good Here is what Vivek Ramaswamy had to say about McDaniel during the primary debates. "We've become a party of losers… Since Ronna McDaniel took over as… pic.twitter.com/MvnuidPjdH — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 7‚ 2024 …except now we’re really going to do this? Rep. Matt Gaetz‚ R-Fla.‚ turned heads Tuesday with an out-of-character post on social media after news broke of Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel’s plans to step down from her post. The Sunshine State congressman appeared to announce his endorsement of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to take over as chair of the Republican National Committee. Rep. McCarthy‚ he said‚ would make a “terrific” leader for the party. “I fully endorse Kevin McCarthy for RNC Chair‚” Rep. Gaetz wrote. “Kevin is well organized and a very high-revenue fundraiser. He will also be well-liked by the RNC Committee. The RNC Chair doesn’t make any policy decisions‚ set any agenda‚ or negotiate against Democrats‚ ever. Kevin would be terrific.” No‚ of course not. Gaetz was joking. But why? How is that helpful? McCarthy is gone from Congress‚ while Matt Gaetz is still around. It is of zero value to attempt to skin him again when the party and the GOP House delegation are attempting to rebuild from the damage that the triumvirate of McCarthy‚ McConnell‚ and McDaniel have done. Do better‚ Matt. Do much better. Actually‚ Collin Rugg might have stumbled on the answer for fixing the mess Ronna McDaniel has made: get Ramaswamy to take that job for a year or two. He’s a financial guy‚ he understands the need for a reformed Republican Party that attracts votes from middle-class and working-class Americans‚ and he’s a successful businessman who knows how to run things. The chances are pretty good that Ramaswamy would have the energy to fight back against what the Democrats have done to American elections. 3. This. My Lord‚ This. …which Mollie Hemingway absolutely nailed earlier this week. WATCH: In four minutes of testimony before Congress‚ @MZHemingway sums up everything wrong with America's elections from mail in ballots‚ to Zuckerbucks‚ to censorship‚ to Big Tech censorship‚ to Democrats trying to put Trump in jail. pic.twitter.com/lXAJJxFp7n — Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 7‚ 2024 Why did the Republican Party allow this to happen? And why isn’t the party organization being tasked to push back with all the political force in the world against it? There are “voters” in Michigan‚ still on the rolls‚ who have been dead for 16 federal election cycles. Nothing is done about it. All the money Ronna McDaniel spent on flowers could have bought a whole lot of TV ads in her own state to inflame the voters over getting the stiffs off the voter rolls. But of course‚ there are no bigger stiffs than the people in charge of the GOP. Just when it’s clearly time for a change‚ you have these people in the way. 4. The National Guard Heads to the Border This is a positive‚ as Louisiana is the latest state to commit to standing at our border to attempt to stop Biden’s flood of trespassers. But we need far more clarity‚ especially from a party that can’t even get a consensus for throwing ammo downrange at Mayorkas‚ the most egregious failure (almost certainly intentionally so‚ given his chronic lies to Congress about the border) in the history of the U.S. federal bureaucracy. One day‚ I’d like to hear someone in the political class say something like this: The Democrat Party has made a conscious decision to change the demographics of America to make it look more like the unstable democracies‚ communist dictatorships and rank kleptocracies these people are fleeing from. That isn’t to say people from Venezuela or Nigeria or Iraq can’t succeed as Americans. Of course they can. But coming in a wave of 10 million‚ which is the current estimate of migrants who have crossed our borders during Joe Biden’s time in office‚ it’s virtually impossible to assimilate these people. And that assimilation becomes even more difficult when they’re immediately put on welfare. What they’re assimilated into‚ therefore‚ is the American underclass/dependency culture‚ and all the behavioral pathologies that involves. None of which is an accident‚ of course. This is being done intentionally. It’s meant to change America from an exceptional country whose citizens will stand and fight for freedom to something much less‚ unexceptional and comfortable in the dysfunction and betrayal of its ruling class. Biden and the people handling him know that stopping the flood of migrants is a 3-to-1 issue not in their favor with the American people. But they think that ultimately they can get amnesty for this horde of illegals which ultimately leads to citizenship and voter registration. And where they control the mechanisms of state government‚ like in New York and California and Oregon and other places‚ they’ll register them to vote in local elections which will almost assuredly bleed into federal elections. And if they can’t get that‚ they know the children of this flood born here will be American citizens – they’ll be born and raised in a government-dependent underclass‚ radicalized in left-dominated public schools using indoctrination into concepts like “equity” and critical race theory and intersectionalist feminism and transgenderism. They’ll have been stripped of whatever Christianity or other great religion their parents carried from the Old Country and taught the catechisms of the woke religion‚ and then they’ll be set upon the electorate as hard-core Marxists‚ miserable‚ alone and desperate for meaning and belonging in a country to which they are alien and alienated. In short‚ they’re the perfect Democrat voters. Rather than argue with cretins like Jamie Raskin and Chris Murphy about useless pieces of legislation‚ which is a classic wrestling-with-pigs analogy‚ the GOP needs to learn to play over the top of the Democrats and make them answer for what they’re actually doing. If I was advising Donald Trump‚ I would not even talk about anything else. I would have him bring every single campaign issue back to the border and press the fact that the Democrat Party‚ Barack Obama‚ proprietor‚ is actively and unmistakably perpetuating the replacement of our current electorate with something from the Third World because it likes the idea of governing as Third World kleptocrats and dictators do. And when they bellyache about the rudeness of the accusation‚ I would suggest that Trump bring up the current state of the big blue cities they’ve run into the ground. There is no comeback to that point. 5. The Bloomberg–Rockefeller Anti-American Alliance Normally‚ we conclude the 5QT with something light. This week‚ I can’t. You know by now about the atrocious decision — Sen. John Kennedy called it “energy suicide” in a great speech this week — by the Obama Redux Biden administration to slap a moratorium on construction of new liquefied natural gas terminals. There’s a Wall Street Journal article on this subject that will almost certainly infuriate you beyond measure: Charities controlled by members of the Rockefeller family and billionaire donors were key funders of a successful campaign to pressure President Biden to pause new approvals of liquefied natural gas exports from the U.S. The Rockefellers‚ along with other wealthy donors including the philanthropy of Michael Bloomberg‚ have provided millions of dollars in recent years to front-line environmental groups that are campaigning against fossil-fuel projects‚ including LNG terminals that have been proposed on the Gulf Coast‚ according to people familiar with the effort. Some green funders hadn’t given much attention to the LNG exports until recently‚ in part because of ambivalence about the role natural gas should play in the energy transition. Plus‚ some previous campaigns to kill LNG terminals had been unsuccessful‚ damping some donors’ and large environmental organizations’ appetite for taking on the industry. Mega-rich white leftists — the Rockefellers’ money came from oil and gas‚ for crying out loud! — trying desperately to kill middle-class jobs by ginning up poor people against economic development is one of the most evil‚ atrocious things politics can offer. Be prepared‚ because this will piss you off: The initiative dispatched scouts to the Gulf Coast‚ where several facilities crank out LNG‚ and developers plan to build at least a dozen more. They met with front-line leaders opposed to the projects‚ and started making grants to their organizations. Among them was Roishetta Ozane‚ a single mom of six from Sulphur‚ La.‚ who has emerged as one of the campaign’s foremost voices. The environmental-justice activist had for years been trying to alert large environmental groups about a fossil-fuel expansion in southwestern Louisiana‚ largely in vain‚ she said. Emphasis mine. A single mom of six? So she’s inflicted six fatherless children on society and Michael Bloomberg and the Rockefellers want to send her forth to lecture the rest of us on public policy with an eye toward killing middle-class jobs in the energy sector? How interested are you in listening to Roishetta Ozane’s bromides on economic development and ecological science? And how do you think John D. Rockefeller would feel about his descendants’ treatment of his legacy and fortune? If it weren’t for the fact that the government is capable of doing more damage than any other entity‚ this is enough to make one open to the ideas of Bernie Sanders and others in the radical Left about breaking up the massive family fortunes of our titans of industry. If there is a single Rockefeller left in America who isn’t a net negative on society‚ I’m not aware of him or her (but open to the possibility). As for Bloomberg‚ he’s a James Bond villain almost on the order of George Soros and his disgusting son. READ MORE: The Enemy Within: Corrupt DOJ Will Not Charge Biden — Only Trump Trump Is the Front-Runner and Biden Is Drifting to Disaster The post Five Quick Things: The GOP’s Kinzinger Syndrome appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.