McConnell’s Border Giveaway Sparks Mutiny by GOP Senators

Breitbart ^ | 01/25/2024 | NEIL MUNRO

[ChicagoConservative27]

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly backing away from his pro-migration border bill amid a mutiny by multiple GOP Senators.

“MCCONNELL told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans Wed[nesday afternoon] that the politics of the border has flipped for R[epublicans]s and cast doubt on linking Ukraine and border,” Punchbowl News reported early Wednesday evening.

The report added:

McConnell referred to [Donald] Trump as “the nominee” and noted the former president wants to run his 2024 campaign centered on immigration. And the GOP leader said, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

This bill is demented. McConnell needs to retire.

[Lurker]

“And the GOP leader said, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.”

That’s a laugh.

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[alternatives?]

He had to be making what he thought was an inside joke.

[brownsfan]

McConnell the Chinese agent, is doing what he can to screw things up before a potential re-elected President Trump.

[Tench_Coxe]

Beat me by 30 seconds. The US is facing an existential threat, and McConnell and others seek to line their own pockets. Using OUR (taxpayers) money.

The word treason needs to come back into vogue.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody needs to tell these dumb bass turds up in The House On The Hill that opening the borders and allowing every azho on the planet to come into America to live off the U.S. taxpayers and giving them “amnesty” IS NOT HOW TO END THE INVASION OF ILLEGAL ALIEN FOREIGNERS INTO AMERICA. Only drug addicts would think that it was.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“… and McConnell and others seek to line their own pockets”

Well, you have cut him some slack, that is, literally, the only thing he knows how to do.

[Tench_Coxe]

Bears repeating:

"McConnell’s focus on Ukraine excludes GOP senators who are concerned about the border, the Senators said.

“Without consulting the [GOP Senators], took away most of our leverage by saying that we would not even ask to tie Ukraine funding to actually securing the [U.S.] border,” said Johnson.

“We should all have the opportunity to engage” in drafting the bill, said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), adding:

We talked about in [a GOP private] conference. Wwe said we want something that Biden has to do because we know he’s lawless. The only thing we could come up with was to release monthly Ukraine aid if the number of people coming across the border goes down. Leader McConnell said no way."

[eyeamok]

Perfectly understandable, there's a whole lot of money to be spread around by the Cartels CIA.

[Kazan]

McConnell referred to [Donald] Trump as “the nominee” and noted the former president wants to run his 2024 campaign centered on immigration. And the GOP leader said, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.”

This after McConnell spent four years undermining Trump and blocked a measly $3.5 billion for the border war.

McConnell is a liar, has always been a liar and will always be a liar.

[Sacajaweau]

You don’t even know what’s in the bill. McConnell is doing just fine on this.

[Gaffer]

I think McConnell is enriching his state (likely himself, too) by avidly serving as the second-tier power in the Senate. I remember one term a few years ago Democrats deigned to give Kentucky (for his fealty) about $4 Billion of target funding. I bet that he’s been doing that all along.

IMO, he’s a two-bit coward when it comes to standing up to Democrats and serving conservatives and nothing but a bully to conservatives when it comes to their opposition to him and the Democrats. Stinking Turtle.

[conservativehistorian]

How can we replace McConnell as R minority leader or encourage him to retire?

[SJackson]

This isn’t a bill funding the State or Defense Department.
Legislation like this should be introduced as separate bills. Border security, aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel. All unrelated. Let both chambers express themselves on each issue.

[circlecity]

I don’t think Turtle intends to run for re-election. That’s why he feels free to screw us every turn.

[MayflowerMadam]

He doesn’t want to undermine Trump. LOL! I wonder when he had THAT come-to-Jesus moment.

[conservativehistorian]

When is the next time the Republican senators are able to vote for their leader?
Or can they ask for a vote of no confidence?
If my memory is correct, McConnell does not have to run for re-election until 2028.

[Regulator]

“McConnell does not have to run for re-election until 2028”

He’ll be catatonic by then.

Maybe they can put him in a glass box like Lenin and run that. In Kentucky, apparently they’ll vote for it.

[fireman15]

Last July he had what appeared to be a transient ischemic attack (TIA) aka mini-stroke while he was conducting a “news conference”. He froze and appeared completely disoriented before his staff led him away in a dazed state. In August while speaking with reporters it happened again only it took his staff even longer to intervene because they were not watching him as closely since he wasn't standing behind a podium.

He is a befuddled old man whose deep state legacy is being destroyed by the incomprehensible actions of his puppet masters. He seems to be as bad off as Biden. I wouldn't trust him to change cat litter or walk a poodle. He has no business acting as the Republican party's leader in the Senate. It is a farce.

Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again at a Kentucky event

[fireman15]

Last July he had what appeared to be a transient ischemic attack (TIA) aka mini-stroke while he was conducting a “news conference”. He froze and appeared completely disoriented before his staff led him away in a dazed state. In August while speaking with reporters it happened again only it took his staff even longer to intervene because they were not watching him as closely since he wasn't standing behind a podium.

He is a befuddled old man whose deep state legacy is being destroyed by the incomprehensible actions of his puppet masters. He seems to be as bad off as Biden. I wouldn't trust him to change cat litter or walk a poodle. He has no business acting as the Republican party's leader in the Senate. It is a farce.

Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again at a Kentucky event