>They generally have their heads up their asses out there, but this is one of the dumbest things the GOP ever negotiated. It is political suicide.<
All the people living in flyover country (like me) had to do was watch or listen to the news on a Conservative station like RAV, to know it was Serpent Schumer who was holding a gun to the heads of the GOP members.
The Congressional Republicans see Schumer in action every day. They should have known better.
I think most of them have such contempt for us they don’t care how much they spend. But we got wind of what was in this bill and hammered them, and they saw the writing on the wall: If they were in favor of this monstrosity of a bill, they’d lose their next election.
What gun did Schumer have? This bill is so ridiculous. It basically enshrines Biden’s disastrous border policies into law. It gives Biden and the Dems political cover for their horrible mistakes, shifting the blame away from Biden and onto the GOP. Why would the GOP even think of doing that?
Border security is the #1 issue among conservatives and independents alike. Let Biden and the Dems eat their own turd sandwich. There is no political sense to this at all. I can see where reasonable people (not saying these are reasonable people) might have disagreements with Ukraine aid etc. But there is no reason to jam that into a border bill. And this border bill is so stupid it should never have made it out of the staff meeting rooms let alone onto paper.
Speaker Johnson has it right. No more of these omnibus packages. Every issue gets its own up or down vote.