I want people to never forget this.
George Bush and his Administration lied us into not one, but, TWO WARS.
And, even he, couldn’t get Comprehensive Immigration Reform passed.
Why, you may ask?
Because, Republicans don’t actually WANT immigration reform. If we had actual Immigration Reform, then how could they use the immigration issue to fear monger and peddle in White Supremacy?
The top issue for Iowa Caucus voters was Immigration.
Immigration.
For a state, in the Midwest, over 1500 miles from our Southern Border (don’t kid yourself, they don’t give a rat’s ass about the border with Canada)
For a state that is 90+% WHITE
For a state whose population is 96% U. S. Citizen
THIS state had IMMIGRATION as it’s top concern?
Lips so pursed. Eyes rolling.
So, remember that, when you read things like this:
So, the Senate does all the work to get a bill together that:
Funds the border
More Security for the Border
Funds for Ukraine
Funds for Israel
But, the right-wing clowns in the House refuse to bring it to a vote.
Greg Sargent
February 5, 2024
OWN IT MIKE
Why Mike Johnson Is Having a MAGA Meltdown Over the Border Deal
The House speaker is afraid that if the Senate bill passes, the GOP will partially own the border crisis. He—and Trump—also fear the bill will work.
Because Republicans are so profoundly concerned about the border, the House GOP leadership’s first response to the new Senate border security deal was to declare that the House will never even vote on it. Why? Because if it did, the bill would pass the House on a comfortable bipartisan basis, and for Republicans, that is an unacceptable outcome.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s reaction to the announcement of a deal late Sunday from a bipartisan group of senators was particularly telling. The bill, Johnson said, is “dead on arrival” in the House, because it “won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the president has created.”
In saying this, Johnson exposed the real GOP calculation: If the bill passes, Biden might no longer fully own what happens at the border. Republicans will have participated in passing a solution, making it harder for them to blame Biden for it. That’s plainly why Donald Trump keeps urging Republicans to kill the bill.
The bill would, in fact, do a great deal that Republicans say they want. It would make it significantly harder to qualify for asylum, and it would channel major new expenditures into border security, expanded detention of migrants, and expedited processing of asylum claims, reducing backlogs in migrant processing—including faster removals of those who don’t qualify.
The Senate bill—negotiated by Republican James Lankford, independent Kyrsten Sinema, and Democrat Chris Murphy—would also create a new authority for the president to effectively shut down asylum seeking entirely once encounters with migrants hit an average of 4,000 per day. At 5,000, it would mandate this.
Trump and his allies are pretend-raging that the deal would “allow” 5,000 migrants to illegally enter daily. In fact, that number refers to encounters with migrants, meaning they’re put into the system where their claims are adjudicated. While many do get released while they await hearings, the law requires that those picked up on U.S. soil receive an asylum hearing if sought. Courts are badly backlogged, and detaining all migrants is logistically impossible, requiring enormous expenditures that the public would never tolerate.
That’s why every president releases a lot of migrants—including Trump, who released hundreds of thousands of them. True, the bill would not reinstate his policy of forcing migrants to await hearings in Mexico or basically end asylum seeking entirely, as the House GOP approach would. But this is what makes the deal a compromise.
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 8:04 PM on Sun, Feb 04, 2024:
House leadership will not allow this deal to be voted on because they know enough of their own Members will vote for it that it will be a total humiliation for them. https://t.co/tbSnt0ym3D
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1754325086725713932?t=AHgHvw1-LNNwQ6fKwTwvyQ&s=03)
Ghost of Shamble Bangs (@Drea_got_banned) posted at 9:03 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
the bill that shuts down the board and also sends funding to Ukraine and Israel has Republicans ripping each other to shreds.Why wont House Republicans let Joe Biden close the border!?!🧐 i thought it was a crisis! https://t.co/ImDoTnSnei
(https://x.com/Drea_got_banned/status/1754521120907137140?t=8VoKEH7WXCFFwFOkNzD9NQ&s=03)
Alexander S. Vindman ❎ (@AVindman) posted at 8:52 PM on Sun, Feb 04, 2024:
Contact Scalise.
(202) 225-3015 And contact YOUR Representative to let them know what you think of them not voting to secure our borders and provide aid to allies. https://t.co/Lx76vX6Cis
(https://x.com/AVindman/status/1754337107487695304?t=RbwWu6050GAav8yoAgFBIQ&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 8:52 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Lankford: The key aspect of this again is are we as Republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border is bad and then intentionally leave it open? https://t.co/Yk48ePjziO
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1754518315152674932?t=c_tw5zr2PBH2W1n1sv_kOA&s=03)
Why not? The MSM seems to be willing to go along with the FARCE, instead of asking serious questions, and looking at the POLICY as a whole.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:42 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Sen. Lankford on Newsmax: “I would remind folks that during the Trump administration we also had days of more than 4,000 people that were illegally crossing the border in 2019 and they were struggling because there were gaps and loopholes in the law.” https://t.co/U1tKcKSVwS
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1754531065312543187?t=MQx3XbRJ7BiyT81kIcbQ2A&s=03)
BECAUSE, they like those gaps and loopholes.
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 7:29 PM on Sun, Feb 04, 2024:
We just announced a bipartisan agreement to fund Ukraine and address our overwhelmed border.As the author of the border provisions, tonight I want to explain to you why this BIPARTISAN compromise is so important and what it does to fix our broken immigration system. https://t.co/3NMAo9LIav
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754316244470136978?t=4mHVRB0qrfQKgAZnk6UluA&s=03)
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 9:57 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
For a long time, political opportunists could pretend they wanted to fix the border while never actually having to try.This week, every Senator gets to vote. Support a compromise, bipartisan bill to fix the border
or
keep the system broken because it’s good politics.
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754534612284441010?t=CkFz0kvWMXApvBd-Xz7AFQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:10 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Sen. Lankford on Fox & Friends: “It is interesting. I have some folks that are upset about trying to get humanitarian aid to people who are struggling. We are Americans. We provide food and water to people and don’t just leave them in the desert to be able to die.” https://t.co/R9uAqaqIYz
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1754522907529597214?t=RDWyMCyq8rjlhPtZO2Lx-w&s=03)
Has he seen his fellow Republicans? Maybe he should talk to Abbott of Texas, who thinks nothing of the possibility of killing people trying to cross the Rio Grande.
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 7:26 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
“Americans want leaders to stop playing politics with immigration. They want us to come together and find a solution. That’s what we’ve done here.“Congress now has a decision: do you want immigration to just be a perpetual political cudgel, or do you want to solve the problem?” https://t.co/5NVwCrhNkN
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754496697848193494?t=TLUjWlP131VV4ZPVFKabHQ&s=03)
They don’t want to actually SOLVE the problem. What do they have, if they don’t have racist tropes of the invading brown hoards at our Southern Border. Once again, I’ll point out that they could care less about who gets in our country illegally from our Northern Border.
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 6:53 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Uh there’s $2 BILLION a day in trade that crosses the border. Our economy would die if we “closed the border.” We should control the border (which our bill does), not close it.There’s just a lot of bad faith actors who want to keep chaos at the border for political reasons.
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754488329930694663?t=uj29Eu83_ymL9XV9pc5GFA&s=03)
Not lot of bad faith actors —–call them out for what they are…REPUBLICANS.
Hope Restored In DFW (@Kennymack1971) posted at 9:14 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
The Republicans and the media are revealing that they played in everyone’s face about the “Border Crisis” and everyone who took them seriously is stupid.Yeah….I said it.
(https://x.com/Kennymack1971/status/1754523904410788132?t=usMtsmlH6PesoZhCk9THSw&s=03)
Not one lie told.
Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) posted at 8:57 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
I do think House Republicans are underestimating how easy it will be to point out that this bill does the stuff they asked for and they suddenly opposed it because Trump wanted to deny Biden a victory. It’s quite easy to explain in the suburbs.
(https://x.com/brianschatz/status/1754519559191568707?t=HsO8l5MNAv3mZmc2UNZ5hQ&s=03)
But, will the MSM play along with the idiocy? Pretend that the bill doesn’t exist? And, that it’s Republicans, under orders from the Orange Menace, that are blocking this?
The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) posted at 4:48 PM on Sun, Feb 04, 2024:
Q: Are you saying any member of congress who votes against aid to Ukraine is voting for Putin?WH: I believe that any member of congress who does not support funding for Ukraine is voting for an outcome that will make it easier for Putin to prevail.
https://t.co/SwQPFLHnKG
(https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1754275761337315653?t=C5NVb_iIOVrhgVBhhU6Rjw&s=03)
About Ukraine.
Said it before: Ukraine is England, 1940.
It’s best to help them now, and thus hurt Putin now. Because, if he is a victor in Ukraine, it won’t be the last European country that he will invade. Best to stop him NOW. Give Ukraine the weapons to fight for themselves.
The WH is being diplomatic.
HELL YEAH, those who vote against aid to Ukraine are nothing but Putin’s puppets and lackeys.
Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) posted at 1:12 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Putin winning a war on European soil would upheave the international world order, such that things will become even worse. I say this not in service of any other argument. I only say this b/c every time I hear people discuss Ukraine, they do not understand what a big deal this is
(https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1754583876154859673?t=H_mu_yTEWRTNb7JZwxKHkg&s=03)
Glad someone else sees it.
Deirdre Walsh (@deirdrekwalsh) posted at 0:28 PM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:
GOP Sen Jim Lankford says 4 weeks ago before bipartisan border deal was out a “popular commentator” told him if you try to move a bill that solves border problem “I will do whatever I can to destroy you”, & says since it’s come out that person has followed through on that threat
(https://x.com/deirdrekwalsh/status/1755297577136693591?t=4xNo5RexT8KnCC_JlxxoZg&s=03)
YA THINK???
Steve Benen (@stevebenen) posted at 11:49 AM on Wed, Feb 07, 2024:
In 2006, Dems endorsed a bipartisan immigration/border bill, which Republicans rejected.
In 2014, it happened again.
In 2018, it happened again.
In 2024, it happened again.
Maybe the GOP doesn’t want to solve the problem? https://t.co/x8g1916rQK
(https://x.com/stevebenen/status/1755287729980502189?t=Wf6BwZAYeNlVa6T99InK0Q&s=03)
Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 10:04 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Eventually we need to have the conversation of why people assume President Biden should shoulder the responsibility of shielding Palestinians from Israel moreso than Hamas who has deliberately put their citizens in danger time and time again.
Why must he do their job for them?
(https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1754717614641684866?t=W_pJH7IOr8khzEAj7y3Kxg&s=03)
Manu Raju (@mkraju) posted at 0:20 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Joe Biden comes out and pointedly blames Donald Trump for expected defeat of bipartisan border bill. Blames Trump for wanting to make this a campaign issue and says “he’d rather weaponize” border than solve it. He calls on GOP to show “some spine” and stand up to Trump
(https://x.com/mkraju/status/1754933174633685267?t=1M2V00xcxAuR8EvVxV1rRg&s=03)
TAKE IT TO THEM, MR. PRESIDENT!!
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 0:33 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Biden: But if the bill fails, I want to be absolutely clear about something. The American people are going to know why it fails. I’ll be taking this issue to the country… the American people are going to know the reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump https://t.co/5bRNFSlWjk
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1754936349738541172?t=84ai0QqfU8_1p8StgcMFIA&s=03)
Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) posted at 6:53 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
NEWS — McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources, bc it’s clear that most Republicans are preparing to vote no — either because they oppose the bill or want more time. w/ @bresreports @JakeSherman
(https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1754669544151429337?t=uS0dgnjMiSmNKuGzQOmNRw&s=03)
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Tim (@trouble_man90) posted at 9:36 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
A couple billion dollars in foreign aid is not the reason why we don’t have universal health coverage or a $15 min wage, republicans are the reason why, and until y’all are serious about removing them from power and keeping them out of power, it’s just a bunch of talk.
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1754710588205195381?t=TNSp1RSvRs9jq0FjFS0b_A&s=03)
Folks really be clowning over that Trump Stimulus check.
Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) posted at 7:55 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
This proves a lot of black people thought they were ballin’ with that little stimulus check from Trump…even though Biden’s check was 2x times bigger:
(https://x.com/Purify_toast17/status/1754866486559072522?t=17pS-iuLAMZdDFiZZSrbZw&s=03)
Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) posted at 1:53 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Donald Trump, who has avoided all debates in the GOP primary this cycle, tells @dbongino he wants to debate @POTUS in the fall. He suggests President Biden can’t answer basic questions – and provides as evidence that the president is choosing not to do a Super Bowl interview Sun.
(https://x.com/GarrettHaake/status/1754594052937265195?s=03)
Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) posted at 6:59 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Just gobsmacked. I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it.
(https://x.com/brianschatz/status/1754671014703710248?t=Pt4-tbWMJ4WnTz4AqFhUag&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:49 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Important point from @mtomasky: Biden can use the State of the Union address to confront Republicans, directly, for killing the border bill because Trump told them to.
“They’ll boo him. Let them. It’ll be great theater.”
Throw it right in their faces.
https://t.co/bCgnoxjBYO
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1754880052691358081?s=03)
Disagree. The Orange Menace is in charge.
Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) posted at 11:21 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Sen. Murphy, lead Dem negotiator: “There’s nobody in charge. There’s no ability to follow a plan. We did everything they said and they abandoned it before they even read the bill. So I don’t know. This is admittedly a scary situation…”
Via @LauraEWeiss16
(https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1754918341062390240?s=03)
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 11:19 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
And Senate Democrats must finally step up to the plate. If, as seems likely, the plan fails on a Republican filibuster, they must hold hearings on how Republicans have sabotaged a border deal both to increase chaos, and to undermine Ukraine.
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1754917773376159905?t=yp1ZlvkPu41CK4RFr-qL-g&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:38 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
If media tells voters that “Republicans, on Trump orders, are taking steps to exacerbate border chaos to help them in the election, voters will be better informed, and it’ll blow up in GOP faces.”
Via @brianbeutler Ds must press media to tell this truth
https://t.co/gd4chIrUGw
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1754877175415644237?t=av2VltPZHL-Mh_mIwGpa6g&s=03)
Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) posted at 3:35 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
BREAKING: The Border Patrol Union has endorsed President Biden’s border legislation. This is a major win for President Biden and a significant loss for House Republicans credibility in the issue.
(https://x.com/BidensWins/status/1754619815929479476?t=ZpGENrwVPBtwKYHGkUGJ6g&s=03)
Could this be reason for the delay with the ruling concerning monetary damages?
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) posted at 11:53 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Trump accountant Allen Weisselberg is apparently working out a deal addressing lies he told on the stand in the New York bank fraud trial. Now Trump is in even more trouble.
https://t.co/4miNCximDO
(https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1754926383979979202?t=Hx8uGCzAq6tYr85KAytuWQ&s=03)
Millennial Politics (@MillenPolitics) posted at 0:05 PM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Don’t lose sight of the fact that Joe Biden out-flanked Republicans from the right, called their bluff on immigration, and exposed their unwillingness to make any deal at all.
Haven’t seen the GOP in this level of disarray since they fired their own Speaker of the House.
(https://x.com/MillenPolitics/status/1754929242347823398?t=Odk5EditmOfI8au_S96y5g&s=03)
Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) posted at 7:14 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
I covered 3 failed immig bills. Formula was always a swap: GOP got border security; Dems got pathway to citizenship or legalization. Senate Dems were prepared to give away the store, a border-security only bill that would sacrifice all leverage for legalization. GOP rejected it.
(https://x.com/jonathanweisman/status/1754856152179822895?t=TxntX5KHewz2iv84tGLXSA&s=03)
Talk of the Charts (@talkofthecharts) posted at 4:05 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Female artists win every single category in the main telecast at the #GRAMMYs for the first time ever. https://t.co/gKmYqKEMV8
(https://x.com/talkofthecharts/status/1754627360811356402?t=aOjV7S2MR2wNIYjO64dbzw&s=03)
Cooning clown, trying to be too cute by half:
Dre Baldwin | #WorkOnYourGame (@DreAllDay) posted at 2:46 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Perhaps the other candidate was better, regardless of Mike’s opinion.
What would be different about your life right now, today, if Stacey Abrams had won?
(https://x.com/DreAllDay/status/1754607491348828311?t=-9s1wE37IJCbHFUaLm8A9A&s=03)
Kenny, coming with the receipts.
2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) posted at 2:54 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
I can easily answer that right now the state of Georgia is sitting on a surplus and Stacey Abrams promised to give federal contracts to black businesses & also expand Medicaid thank to the federal $ sent by the Bidenharris administration. Instead kemp chose to lose trauma centers https://t.co/0OLShsLSkd
(https://x.com/2RawTooReal/status/1754609440966262985?t=bTVcmF70CKqkANfuPR7BaQ&s=03)
Hmmmmm….
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 11:49 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Seems to me President Biden called the House Republicans’ bluff. They asked for a border bill. They got one. Now they’re proving they were never going to pass one because they need a problem to run on and they were never going to fund Ukraine.
(https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1754562853967896611?t=LXsaSDgi4oU5KRkP0FG1TA&s=03)
We knew this
HRH Zola SugaCane💃🏿❤️ Brazen Hussy💃🏿 (@Mrs_K_Suleiman) posted at 7:46 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
So the police protection can be arranged without the 28 days notice 😅‼️🤷🏽♀️
#PrinceHarry arrives in UK a day after his father, the Kings diagnosis
Arrival of the King and everyone can relax now
https://t.co/5pc51vuocf
(https://x.com/Mrs_K_Suleiman/status/1754864049706176971?t=1GinePqE5kQvJQuCJrocqg&s=03)
Like we already didn’t know this.
Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) posted at 10:56 AM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
NEW: Paul Krugman admits to @GregTSargent that editors at The New York Times give him pushback to “qualify” or focus on the negatives when he praises the Biden economy based on the empirical data.
This is the exact bias that so many of us have been calling out for years. https://t.co/2bpxu2IA6l
(https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/1754549589359645011?t=owCh7C1IadsngB5N1hJKiA&s=03)
It’s Prom Season 2024…so, time to check in with one of my favorite accounts.
Will be cutting onions all throughout her videos.
JuicyBodyGoddess (@JuicyBodyGodde1) posted at 9:48 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
She looks good in EVERYTHING! Prom 2024 at Juicy Body Goddess! I hope every girl feels good looking for her prom dress https://t.co/nwWzPhwRxB
(https://x.com/JuicyBodyGodde1/status/1754894736597356914?t=BwCLhs97eCizAdHJKdpsJA&s=03)
The Recount (@therecount) posted at 4:44 PM on Mon, Feb 05, 2024:
Reporter: “Donald Trump says he’s ready to debate you right now. Do you accept?”
Reporter: “He wants to debate you ‘immediately.’”
President Biden: “If I were him, I’d want him to debate me, too. He’s got nothing else to do.” https://t.co/rz5CPdDzJH
(https://x.com/therecount/status/1754637261780418767?t=At7wWNtwSL5hB1QUGpWICw&s=03)
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) posted at 7:53 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
This took my breath away. @Heritage president flips the narrative and says “They’re leveraging the border crisis and the needs of our allies in Israel and Taiwan to extract more than $60 billion in additional unaccountable aid for Ukraine.”
This weird bill was THEIR IDEA
David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) posted at 7:58 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
This lie is already gaining momentum on the right. Challenge it every time you hear it. The GOP were the ones who demanded the aid package be tied to the border…back when they allegedly cared about the border. They did this. This was their plan.
(https://x.com/djrothkopf/status/1754867241110138973?t=VCpKqMSTLD-fV1bqQATgRA&s=03)
expose them all
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) posted at 8:44 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
THIS JUST IN: A major polling and consulting firm run by a progressive Democrat has been working for the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, the anti vaxxer and conspiracy theorist. Read my report:
https://t.co/WvRTvkAnHX
(https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/1754878828768329743?t=wbQ-rujUH2qL5_1kMZbUTg&s=03)
Absolutely on point.
Today’s G.O.P. bumper sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third
About Tracy Chapman at the Grammys, and how moved she seemed at the beginning of her performance in response to the cheers she heard from the crowd.
I think that she never grasped how deeply she touched us all those years ago. How her music pierced our souls and never left.
It’s sort of not comparable, but sort of is….Hayden Christensen – who played Anakin Skywalker, and was villified when he was actually doing the movies, is now doing work on Disney+ Star Wars material. They brought him out, at a fan appearance, and the crowd went CRAZY. I mean, an ovation for MINUTES. He was stunned to tears. As someone wrote in post I saw on this, ” We were kids, so, our voices couldn’t be heard. But, you were always OUR Anakin. Now that we are adults, we can tell you how much you were always loved. ”
Tracy touched our soul. For an entire generation, her music wasn’t flashy, but, it spoke to us. We thought that we loved her. We thought that she knew that. Seeing her on that stage, both of us -realized just how much she touched us. Chapman was 24 when she wrote that song. She will be 60 this year.
The song means something completely different to those of us who were young, and now that we’re older. That’s also why WE were overwhelmed when we saw her.
SOO….. we can stop pretending that the GOP are honest actors…no matter the topic.
they.simply.aren’t.
THEY.DO.NOT.WANT.TO.GOVERN.
Opinion The GOP dog caught the car. Again.
By Catherine Rampell
Columnist
February 5, 2024 at 6:27 p.m. EST
Welp, the dog caught the car again. After months — decades? — of running on tightening the border, House Republicans are suddenly paralyzed when offered the chance to do so.
A hard-won, bipartisan Senate deal dropped Sunday evening, with tons of items on conservatives’ border-policy bucket list, including many that former president Donald Trump had begged for. These include:
beefing up border security as a condition for giving any more aid to Ukraine (check!)
a tougher and faster asylum-processing system so that those who don’t meet asylum criteria cannot stay and work for years while their cases crawl through the courts (check!)
hiring more personnel for Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (1,500 and 1,200, respectively — so, check, check!)
huge investments in fentanyl detection technologies and other anti-trafficking enforcement (check!)
reviving something like Title 42 restrictions, wherein the president can “shut down” most of the asylum system (though this version doesn’t require a public health pretext and has more severe consequences for border-crossers — so, check-plus, perhaps).
House Republicans should have been pinching themselves in disbelief. Yet within hours of this 370-page bill dropping, House GOP leaders ruled out letting their chamber vote on any of it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/05/border-security-deal-immigration-johnson-obamacare/
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊