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Posted on 04/08/2022 4:35:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Joe Biden’s approval ratings are radioactive waste. It’s starting to contaminate his party down-ticket. The GOP is heavily favored to retake the House. We have an inflation crisis. We have an emerging energy crisis. We have a war in Ukraine. We have a supply chain crisis, and the southern border is beyond catastrophic. The political winds are at hurricane force level right now and it’s all to the back of the Republican Party. They’re cruising to a red tsunami come November. Democrats by the dozens are retiring, so how does the GOP take advantage of all these political winds? They’re going to hold talks with Democrats…on immigration reform.
Are you kidding me? What the hell is going on, and what the hell do they think will come out of these talks. It’s a trap. First, of course, Democrats want to have a bipartisan meeting with the Republicans. They’re going to put forward proposals that simply will not fly with our side, and then plaster the airwaves about the GOP's willingness to hash out a deal to depress GOP turnout and infuriate the conservative base. They’ll tease that they’re close to some agreement only to pour more salt into the wound. Then, the news breaks about the inevitable collapse of the talks which by then will have done its job by casting doubt and righteous fury among those the GOP base.
If there is one issue that will cause Republican voters to stay at home, it’s a deal on immigration reform. We all know Democrats want an ‘open borders/every illegal gets citizenship’ bill. They’re going to play on the Republicans’ affinity for regular order, tradition, and all-around naivete to slowly push for this. Will it work? No, but the point now is to make this a 2022 strategy if they can. The Select Committee on January 6 was their original ploy, but that’s dead. Too many domestic crises and no one cares about January 6 anymore. Playing ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ with a bill that everyone knows is dead but seems alive to depress GOP turnout is a hail Mary, but that’s all Democrats have. Wait, Republicans aren’t that dumb, right? Folks, they’re dabbling with this nonsense when they don’t need to, and for what? For what? The Democratic Party has only become more extreme. They can’t do anything on immigration that’s rational because AOC and the pro-illegal alien folks will break out the torches and pitchforks. We all know the ending here, so why even bother (via The Hill):
A bipartisan group of senators want to start formally convening meetings to try to restart immigration reform efforts after the Senate returns to Washington, D.C., from an April break.A bipartisan immigration deal appears to be congressional Democrats’ best hope of making good on their pledge to reform immigration, after Democrats’ attempts to go it alone as part of a sweeping bill unraveled last year. They would face a significant uphill climb getting such a reform deal heading into the November election, where Republicans plan to make the issue a key line of attack.
But Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told The Hill that they want to bring together a group of senators interested in trying to revive immigration discussions — a perennial policy white whale for Congress —
after a two-week recess.
“Yes … we want to sit at a table and ask members who have immigration, bipartisan immigration bills, to come and propose those bills to us and see if we can build a 60-vote plus margin for a group of bills. It may not be possible, but I think it is,” Durbin said when asked about holding meetings after the recess.
Tillis, asked by The Hill about the talks, added that after the recess he wanted to “start some working groups leading up to whenever we can have a [committee] mark up.”
[…]
Durbin confirmed to The Hill that meetings after the break would be the first time they’ve formally met and sat down with their colleagues to try to start sketching out a possible path forward. In addition to Tillis, Durbin noted that he had mentioned trying to revive immigration talks “with several people” in the Senate.
If a pathway to citizenship is mentioned, walk away. If amnesty is mentioned, walk away. Since there is a 2,000% chance that such things will be brought up by Democrats, coupled with the total circus at the southern border right now, it’ll be prudent for the GOP to abort these talks before they ever begin. They’re going to embarrass themselves. We all know what the ending of this horror movie will be.
The GOP is useless at the federal level….
Who elected them? Who keep re-electing them?
Yeah, we the people.
Gov't did not fail us, we failed ourselves.
We The People were given a Republic and were unable to keep it.
We have RINOs. The other side doesn’t really have DINOs. Need to do the precinct strategy thing and take over from the inside - bottom up until we can oust Mittens’ niece and all others at the top who then should oust the likes of Murkowski, Mittens, Collins or make them adhere to the platform. There is still a platform isn’t there?
The GOP seems to have no problem with any repub going as far left as they want.
Simple. Don't vote for them. Here's a hypothetical for you. If Liz Cheney was the only Republican choice for you this November, would you vote for her, or walk away?
“the GOP leadership has absolutely no desire to control Congress nor actually implement the policies that they have campaigned on for 50 years or more.”
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The only people the party bigwigs care about are the woke megacorps - giving them favors and breaks while in office and feathering their nest with corporate $$$ when out of office.
this is the same gop that is angry at Trump because he isn’t turning over the $110 MILLION he’s raised to help them fund Liz Cheney, and a host of other RINOs, and surrender monkeys.
I agree.
We are on the bring of extinction.
The greedbags at the Chamber of Commerce, of all people, should not be the ones setting policy right now.
Hahaha! You should go into comedy.
So, the only people allowed to vote in your shiny, new utopian party must think a certain way so they vote a certain way?
How do you intend to ensure every party member is "right thinking" according to you?
Let me ask again.
Here's a hypothetical for you. If Liz Cheney was the only Republican choice for you this November, would you vote for her, or walk away?
Never underestimate the GOPs intention to screw things up.
But the stupid GOP will trust him.Every damn year we are faced with having to accept that the GOP will either screw us or screw up.
Remember, Trump only got the wall, because he vetoed a resolution that 12 Republicans including Marco Rubio voted for to prevent Trump from using the National Emergency Act for the wall.
Yep
THIS
Re-electing Amnesty Senators Hoeven and Rubio is national suicide.
How many times must it be repeated:
The Democrats are the Evil Party, and the Republicans are the Stupid Party.
That one statement explains 90% of what happens in politics in this country.
Cincinnati Redskins or Buffalo Bills works better for your loser analogy. Don’t fall prey to recent-cy bias
The Redskins actually won 3 Super Bowls (one against the then-hapless Denver Broncos, another against the even-more-hapless Buffalo Bills, including 2 in strike years — but those are still Lombardi trophies)
None of this makes any difference. Conservatives could always win on policies. But, if they don’t keep the election from being corrupted, it will never matter.
The importance of the mid-terms is that if the commie trash manage to keep mailin voting and harvesting in place; they will remain in power forever. Forever.
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