Posted on 02/12/2024 7:04:24 AM PST by bitt
This weekend, Senate Democrats (joined by a few Republicans, including most Republican leadership) forced through a “security supplemental” that spends close to $100 billion, most of it on Ukraine. It was the culmination of months of secretive negotiations on border security. Those negotiations produced a border security product unacceptable to most Republicans, so then Republicans voted it down, and then an hour later we were debating a security supplemental with border security stripped out.
The quick pivot, refusal to negotiate another round on border security, and immediate shift to blame Trump confirmed one thing: Republican leadership wasn’t serious about border security. They cared most about Ukraine funding and saw the border negotiations as a distraction. This extinguished any hope of real border security before the negotiation began.
The story our leadership tells is that the “politics of border security” had changed because of Donald Trump. James Lankford dutifully negotiated a bipartisan border product. Conservative Republicans encouraged this negotiation. When the product took shape, Donald Trump demanded conservatives walk. Trump argued that Joe Biden didn’t need a border security package—which was true—so Republicans should ask simply that Joe Biden do his job. This intervention allegedly killed a great piece of border policy.
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I just reread that sentence. IF that was what he was trying to convey and even after my last post, after careful consideration, he worded it terribly. To get that point across, he should have said it this way...
This intervention killed an “allegedly” great piece of border policy.
It’s always sad to see an accomplished individual pining away about a club that doesn’t want him.
The time is long past for Trump to abandon the farce of turning the GOP into any sort of government. The GOP will burn the country down before they allow what must be done.
It is, and always has been about Ukraine...stupid. (not you).
The deep state owns half the Republicans in the Senate and 2/3s of the Democrats.
And at least half the House.
And they are pulling out all the stops to fight their war.
Because the deep state owns their ass, via gifts and/or blackmail.
if this thing be “to railroad trump”, then shall it “railroad” the presidents, thereafter?
As has been well expressed on this thread so far, we are in the terminal phase of being a sovereign nation. The path to stop that slide and turn things around is not clear but Divine interference would prove helpful❗🤔🌪 --- 😇
“...JD used the word “allegedly” before “great piece of border policy.”
Actually it was before killed, “allegedly killed”, so I stand pat.
Agree to disagree, FRiend.
OOOOPS! —> 🙏🙏🙏🙏
"This weekend, Senate Democrats (joined by a few Republicans, including most Republican leadership) forced through a “security supplemental” that spends close to $100 billion, most of it on Ukraine. It was the culmination of months of secretive negotiations on border security. Those negotiations produced a border security product unacceptable to most Republicans, so then Republicans voted it down, and then an hour later we were debating a security supplemental with border security stripped out.The quick pivot, refusal to negotiate another round on border security, and immediate shift to blame Trump confirmed one thing: Republican leadership wasn’t serious about border security. They cared most about Ukraine funding and saw the border negotiations as a distraction. This extinguished any hope of real border security before the negotiation began."
JHC. This guy is a published author? Passive voice, uncertain narrative, weird timeline shifts, a completely blown lead graf, a second graf with el bizarro tense issues -- this mutant hillbilly should not be a spokesman for MAGA.
Here is hoping someone Trump trusts has the come-to-Jesus meeting about Vance's odoriferousness of 'look-at-me-loserdom' -- egged on by JD's Manhattanite publishers oy gevalt -- sooner than later, and tosses this tosser aside.
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