Posted on 02/05/2024 3:52:55 PM PST by Libloather
The bipartisan border deal that is dividing congressional Republicans is already leading to angry calls to shake up the Senate leadership and furious claims by Donald Trump that it represents a 'death wish' for the party in 2024.
The fury came in the hours since negotiators put out details on their new bipartisan deal to provide new authority for the administration to 'close' the border when crossings spike, while sending billions to support allies Ukraine and Israel.
Among those to heap the most scorn on the agreement was Utah Sen. Mike Lee – who even appeared to demand a change in his party's leadership after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell helped oversee the deal with Majority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer. McConnell, the longest serving Republican leader in Senate history, survived a leadership challenge in November 2022 on a 37-10 vote.
'This feels like an elaborate practical joke. But it’s not funny. Not one bit. I cannot understand how any Republican would think this was a good idea—or anything other than an unmitigated disaster. WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP — NOW,' he wrote on X.
'Senate leadership screwed this up — and screwed us,' he wrote in another post. Even while refusing to let us see the bill they claimed to be negotiating on our behalf — for MONTHS — they were never in doubt, insisting we’d be dumb and even unpatriotic NOT to support it. This is a disqualifying betrayal.'
Former President Donald Trump, who has already been publicly seeking to tank the deal, blasted it after negotiators announced the details.
Trump called it a 'ridiculous' border bill, and said it was 'nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for...
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Send “Team Mitch” to the showers tonight. Back bench him. NOW!
The bill is DOA in the House making this all beltway theater. This is probably just the Senate GOP throwing a bone to their open borders corporate donors.
Kick the sonofabitch they whole way out of the gop!
He DID BETRAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
KICK HIM OUT !!!
The reason Mitch put Lankford in charge of giving the Democrats everything they wanted on this bill was Lankford was elected in 2022 and won’t have to face the voters in Oklahoma for another 4 years and thus he figures Oklahomans will have forgotten his treachery. If I were an Oklahoman I would not forget and would hope he gets primaried come 2026
In March 1967, shortly before the expiration of his educational draft deferment upon graduation from law school, McConnell enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve as a private at Louisville, Kentucky.... This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War....His first day of training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, was July 9, 1967, two days after taking the bar exam, and his last day was August 15, 1967....Shortly after his arrival he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and deemed medically unfit for military service, and was honorably discharged...His brief time in service has repeatedly been put at issue by his political opponents during his electoral campaigns.
This Veteran, from the same era, suspects that somehow there might be draft dodging weasels and then it's just possible that there are especially artful dodgers.
Mitch walked all over Trump, and he had Trump put her into his Admin. Reagan and Bush also hired the ccp spy as well.
Beyond Mike Lee, which R senators oppose this bill and want to replace McConnell?
“...Reduce congressional staffing to two employees each...”
and limit bills to 20 pages. How many people worked on a 350+ page bill? Thank goodness that enough people actually read this one.
Below is the full list of these senators who are publicly committing to oppose the bill:
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Did I miss Senator Linda Graham?
I hope that the RINOS are waking up from their long lost NAP!!!!! Maybe they see the handwriting on the wall?????
Ditch the Donk B!tch.
Kick that MFer to the curb!!!!!! PLEASE!
I shoulda added he’s a scumbag traitor on this!
Mumbai Mike Lee is against a bill that provides EAD to aging-out children of H1Bs. That says something after his S386 unanimous consent nonsense.
Good point.
Thank you for educating / reminding everyone about this. Mike Lee is a snake.
Ahahahahaha! the “Turdle”!
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