House Republicans embarrassed themselves with their failure to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and they have no one to blame but themselves.

House Republicans have sabotaged themselves at every turn, directly or indirectly, leading to the caucus rolling into this vote with a razor-thin majority. The spite-fueled decision to remove former California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker, driven by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), persuaded McCarthy to resign from the chamber entirely. Gaetz sees no problem with this, though, apparently thinking that working with Democrats to oust a Republican is something Republicans should just accept for the good of the team, which Gaetz himself doesn’t believe in.