Why would ANYONE vote for a Republican, party of hypocrites, who hate government and take away freedoms for people?
The White House, as you know, has been under immense pressure to offer concessions to address the continuing large number of migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border. Now there’s a bipartisan compromise bill in the Senate. Last night Majority Leader Steve Scalise said that bill is DOA in the House. But Speaker Johnson said something more specific and revealing. He refused to bring up the bill and according to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl said “Congress can’t solve border until Trump is elected or a republican is back in the White House.”
Two things to note here. First, Johnson isn’t saying they won’t consider this bill. He’s saying they won’t consider any bill until Trump is elected. Sherman appears to have accepted the GOP wording — that “Congress can’t solve [the] border until Trump is elected.” But there’s more here. Johnson is saying openly that they won’t pass any bill until Trump is elected. In other words, however out of control they claim the border is they want to keep it that way through November to use it as a political issue. There’s a bipartisan deal but House Republicans are rejecting it out of hand.
I’ve been saying for some time that if Republicans don’t like what’s happening at the border, there is absolutely nothing that’s stopping Republicans in Congress from writing whatever laws and appropriating whatever money needed to create a better system for border security. I suspect if the plan isn’t too crazy a lot of Democrats would sign on. But nope. The House Republican plan is to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Yeah, that’ll fix it.
It appears a faction of House Republicans (and we know who they are) sincerely believe it is their duty to be sure the government doens’t do a dadblamed thing that requires negotiating with Democrats. Which means Congress is frozen. A tiny House majority by itself cannot pass anything. They are already grumbling about dumping Mike Johnson, I understand.
