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[Breadbassket]

A GOP House Representative who led the Mayorkas impeachment effort announced he won't seek re-election.

Powerful House GOP chair retiring after Mayorkas impeachment​

House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) won’t seek re-election, he told Axios in an interview.

Why it matters: Green joins a sizable number of powerful Republicans exiting Congress, with the Tennessee Republican noting that the slim GOP majority and dysfunction in Congress was part of his decision not to seek re-election.

• Green's decision to retire comes the same week as the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
• Green joins House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas), Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), and House Select Committee on China Chair Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) in announcing they won't seek re-election.

Between the lines: "There's also just the frustration of trying to get something done here," Green told Axios in an interview.

• "This place is so broken, and making a difference here is just you know, just it feels like a lot of something for nothing."

What he's saying: While Green — a former Army officer, doctor and state senator — noted the struggles of the current state of play in Congress, he said serving has often been rewarding.

• Green touted the work he's done on the committee, including impeaching Mayorkas and his efforts to pass the House GOP's border security bill, noting that he still would like to tackle cyber workforce legislation before the end of his term.
• "The NDAA amendments that I've gotten to build more barracks for soldiers to get better training facilities for soldiers. You know, those Gold Star families you know, had an amendment, and I had the K2 bill. Getting those things done to take care of veterans, those are the things that I'm the most proud of," he said.

What's next: Green said he's not ruling out a future bid for higher office, but he's currently working to get former President Trump elected in November.

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[Polyboros2]

A GOP House Representative who led the Mayorkas impeachment effort announced he won't seek re-election.

That actually sounds like he's preparing to be part of Trump's Administration.

 

[Gehenna]

That actually sounds like he's preparing to be part of Trump's Administration.

That or he is getting while the getting is good.

While I am absolutely sure there will be fraud the general feel from the halls of congress is that Trump is inevitable. I expect the Uniparty to do everything they can to stop this so don't bother with the rainbows. What I am saying is that their is a sort of pall that has descended that makes many feel that Trump will get back in and will absolutely begin to reap whatever he can out of petty, tantrum rage. They largely feel he will go after anyone and everyone regardless of actual guilt or complicity just because he can.

So as we draw closer and closer to the election and so long as Trump is not stopped somehow in the meantime, expect more and more resignations as people decide they have too many skeletons in the closet to risk being a casualty.

Not saying that is the case for Green by the way. Just noting it as a possibility, You can find a lot of people who did good thins have plenty of skeletons to be worried about.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

That or he is getting while the getting is good.

While I am absolutely sure there will be fraud the general feel from the halls of congress is that Trump is inevitable. I expect the Uniparty to do everything they can to stop this so don't bother with the rainbows. What I am saying is that their is a sort of pall that has descended that makes many feel that Trump will get back in and will absolutely begin to reap whatever he can out of petty, tantrum rage. They largely feel he will go after anyone and everyone regardless of actual guilt or complicity just because he can.

So as we draw closer and closer to the election and so long as Trump is not stopped somehow in the meantime, expect more and more resignations as people decide they have too many skeletons in the closet to risk being a casualty.

Not saying that is the case for Green by the way. Just noting it as a possibility, You can find a lot of people who did good thins have plenty of skeletons to be worried about.

What are the odds, in your opinion, he actually roots out any corruption? Assuming he gets in.

 

[Gehenna]

What are the odds, in your opinion, he actually roots out any corruption? Assuming he gets in.

Undeterminable. It really, really depends on a few key factors and could range from not at all to true rainbow territory. Who gets in and holds power in congress, how much the other branches of government and of the civilian and military structure are tired of this farce, who Trump surrounds himself in, how much Trump's age has actually effected him behind closed doors, and most critically... who he picks as VP.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

What are the odds, in your opinion, he actually roots out any corruption? Assuming he gets in.

Roughly 0. He hasn't tried to fight corruption in his first term. Trump's just more of the same old bullshit, just like the other idiots. However, he does make the leftoids seethe.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Not buying the accusation that starlink contains nukes.
It's too low in earth orbit and designed to burn back to earth rather quickly in satellite terms.
It's basically raining free nukes to anyone who can catch them as they fall.
Also, LOL at being able to enrich enough fissiles to launch 90 of these fuckers a month.

I mean the idea is undercut by the idea that the feds are backing away from SpaceX.

 

[Betonhaus]

Undeterminable. It really, really depends on a few key factors and could range from not at all to true rainbow territory. Who gets in and holds power in congress, how much the other branches of government and of the civilian and military structure are tired of this farce, who Trump surrounds himself in, how much Trump's age has actually effected him behind closed doors, and most critically... who he picks as VP.

Also if he gets a Maga supermajority in the house and senate

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

Also if he gets a Maga supermajority in the house and senate

This would be an infeasibly long shot. Like I don't think there's enough new Freedom Caucus/MAGA candidates running in contestable districts/states

 

[You're MDNWU]

who Trump surrounds himself in, how much Trump's age has actually effected him behind closed doors, and most critically... who he picks as VP

So you're saying we're fucked no matter who wins.

 

[George Lucas]

Just start the Maga Party already!

 

[Gehenna]

So you're saying we're fucked no matter who wins.

No? I am saying that one variable of "Who Wins" is not enough to say we are or are not fucked in most cases. Biden winning? Oh yes, we are fucked, Biden Losing? We are less fucked but to see an actual good outcome now has a variety of other factors that will decide how much less fucked to not fucked we are.

If Trump's first term should teach anyone anything its that just having someone good in office is not enough alone to completely sort the mess that is this country.

 

[The Ugly One]

So you're saying we're fucked no matter who wins.

If you don't control personnel or budgets, you don't control an organization. Since the creation of the OPM, the President does not have much control over who works for him. And of course, he can veto budgets, but then you get shutdown theater. After Nixon, Congress took away the President's impoundment ability.

You need at minimum a Congress that is willing to reform the government, and both the Republican and Democrat Congresses Trump had to deal with last time were interested only in crippling him and reforming nothing whatsoever.

 

[clipartfan92]

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1757819736744739122 (archive.ph)

 

[mandatorylurk]

It is so creepy how the left operates, Huma Abudeen, Hillary's assistant who was married to Anthony Weiner and whose laptop was another subject of scrutiny before the '16 election, is now dating Soros' son, I guess on orders from her boss to honeypot as much money as she can for the Clinton Foundation.

 

[northstar747]

If Trump's first term should teach anyone anything its that just having someone good in office is not enough alone to completely sort the mess that is this country.

Eh I would say its less about the big prize of the POTUS and more about having better members of the house and congress.

After all any EO can be undone by the nest admin.

I thought with trump in office and not listening to the lobbyist it would starve the beast for 8 years.

 

[Gehenna]

Eh I would say its less about the big prize of the POTUS and more about having better members of the house and congress.

After all any EO can be undone by the nest admin.

I thought with trump in office and not listening to the lobbyist it would starve the beast for 8 years.

The person at the top can veto what congress does and short of a supermajority they have to sit and spin. As well, the president is in charge of executing what Congress puts down to law and see Biden for what happens if a president just decides not to enforce it. You need both as well as a SCOTUS who is not utterly insane, which thankfully we do have even if it can be somewhat dubious.

Our government is a three part system of checks and blances, focusing on any one part is insufficient.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Our government is a three part system of checks and blances, focusing on any one part is insufficient.

And the sum is lesser than its parts.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

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It is so creepy how the left operates, Huma Abudeen, Hillary's assistant who was married to Anthony Weiner and whose laptop was another subject of scrutiny before the '16 election, is now dating Soros' son, I guess on orders from her boss to honeypot as much money as she can for the Clinton Foundation.

What're the odds that despite the Soros money she's still an idiot and gets her new beau's shit compromised like she did Weiner's?

 

[dustbuster]

A GOP House Representative who led the Mayorkas impeachment effort announced he won't seek re-election.

Old rinos being hounded to extinction.

Trump will get back in and will absolutely begin to reap whatever he can out of petty, tantrum rage.

I hope he does.
I hope he straight-up pulls out am M4A1, starts putting 5.56 into traitors, pardons himself, then leaves for russia.