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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Formerly Once-Ler on June 19, 2018, 07:06:42 pm
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/18/republicans-splitting-families-midterms-border-652369 (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/18/republicans-splitting-families-midterms-border-652369)
Republicans want to talk about tax cuts. Instead, they’re talking about kids in cages.
Rather than touting lower taxes and a steady job market, House and Senate Republicans are being forced to answer for President Donald Trump’s contentious immigration policies — whether it’s separating migrant kids from their parents, removing DACA protections or building a border wall. And that’s likely bad news heading into November.
“The whole thing is a hot mess,†said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who opposes splitting up families at the border but otherwise supports the administration’s stepped-up enforcement policies.
Even as the White House blames Congress for the crisis at the border, GOP lawmakers are struggling to craft a proposal that unites their own party, let alone one that can win bipartisan support and become law. And with no congressional solution in sight, Hill Republicans worry that Trump’s immigration crackdown could swamp their success on the economy and overshadow all the things they want to run on in the midterm elections.
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The Gutless Old Party is afraid of their own shadow.
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If Trump and the rest of the Party react stupidly as Bush did, then yeah, they're screwed. :shrug:
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The Gutless Old Party is afraid of their own shadow.
Of course they are.
(https://swordattheready.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/gop-fraidycats.jpg)
Not to mention they want illegals made voters as badly as the Democrats do.
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dfw wrote:
"The Gutless Old Party is afraid of their own shadow"
With a very few exceptions amongst them, they always have been!
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The Gutless Old Party is afraid of their own shadow.
Yeah, but they may not be as scared in this case as Politico wants to depict them. Heck, Trump's toughness on immigration is a winner for the GOP. And a lot of squishy fence-sitters will eventually discover that the enforcement policy is set by laws passed years ago. Obama did nothing about the problem with the kids, and the libs recently got exposed for going viral with photos of cages that were taken during the Obama administration.
The GOP can and should push back. They should turn this thing into a huge storm.
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The GOP can and should push back. They should turn this thing into a huge storm.
They are not going to, as evidenced just this afternoon by the actions and statements of Mitch McConnell and even Ted Cruz.
They are already placating the Left and telling everyone to 'shhhhhhhh' because they are going to 'fix' the optics of illegals being split up.
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Why does this feel scripted
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Why does this feel scripted
Uhhh, because it is.
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Why does this feel scripted
Uhhh, because it is.
'Firmtive.
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"Katrina" was a manufactured crisis, just like this one. In a better time, the public would have blamed the shiftless New Orleans residents for ignoring evacuation orders. I remember the apocalyptic language the NWS published in advance ... mass flooding, high rise structural failures, etc. That should have convinced any sane person to leave, but many did not value their own lives enough to make an effort.
The media are shameless. They exploit universal suffrage in the most cynical ways, by playing to the base emotions of the uniformed and hysterical. I wish they would just go to hell, and leave the rest of us alone.