Cowardly GOP senators run home – Latest News
There is nothing more infuriating to a pissed off air traveler delayed for hours by the Democrat shutdown than to see senators strolling smugly by with VIP escorts.
The worst offender final week was Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who hightailed it out of DC on Friday morning, hours after stitching up a duplicitous 2 a.m. deal to finish the shutdown by caving to Democrat calls for to defund ICE and border enforcement, a minimum of for the time being.
Elements of the Department of Homeland Security had been funded within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act final 12 months, however Thune’s deal freezes out immigration enforcement and border security features which are all-important as we go to struggle in opposition to the world’s largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism. He knew this is able to be unacceptable to the Republican base.
In one fell swoop, Thune ceded the ethical high ground to Democrats who now can blame Republican intransigence for his or her shutdowns.
Breezing previous the queues at Reagan National Airport with a grin for the cameras Friday, the glib Marlboro man lookalike couldn’t have been more happy with himself.
He controls the Senate, and it was his modification that cut immigration enforcement funding within the lifeless of evening, whereas most of his convention was asleep.
“I don’t know what the House will do,” he claimed, earlier than jetting home to South Dakota for 2 weeks.
‘This is a joke’
It didn’t take long to search out out.
House Speaker Mike Johnson quickly held a livid press convention denouncing Thune’s deal with the satan.
“This gambit that was done last night is a joke,” he mentioned.
“I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill,” he mentioned. “House Republicans will have no part in reopening the border and stopping illegal immigration enforcement.”
One House Republican described Thune’s deal with the craftier Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as “unconditional surrender masquerading as a solution.”’
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Another known as his Senate stablemates “cowards [who] chickened out, because they wanted to go home for two weeks.”
As Johnson mentioned, Joe Biden’s open border was “the big issue in the 2024 election; 78 million Americans voted for President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party to come in and seal that border, [and] deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens. We have done that. The Democrats hate it . . . They want the border reopened and they want to protect dangerous criminal illegal aliens over American citizens. We can have no part of that.”
He’s lifeless proper, of course, and his dismay echoed throughout the MAGA base all weekend.
Just to drive home the madness of Republicans becoming a member of Democrats of their single-minded dedication to stop Trump deporting criminals with no proper to be on this nation, within the sanctuary metropolis of New York final week, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg supplied an absurdly lenient six-month plea deal to a transgender unlawful alien who raped a 14-year-old boy after following him into a toilet.
According to DHS, “Nicol Alexandra” Contreras-Suarez, 31, from Colombia, was “let into our country by the Biden administration and then again released from jail following his arrests for armed robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, and prostitution.”
This harmful pervert ought to by no means have been right here to commit such heinous crimes and but, like each different unlawful alien predator who has harm harmless Americans, he’s protected and coddled by Democrats.
Immigration needs to be a slam-dunk ethical and political benefit for Republicans on the poll box this November, and but they appear hellbent on shedding.
GOP in disarray
Between the Senate GOP’s sneaky 2 a.m. deal, its incapability to cross Trump’s pet SAVE America election integrity act and its refusal to even attempt to abolish the filibuster or one way or the other impose a price for Democrat obstruction, it’s important to assume there are Republican senators who’re content material for Democrats to win the midterms, impeach Trump and derail his agenda.
Just a few are genuinely Trump-deranged. Others labor beneath the old style conceit that discovering genteel common trigger with Democrats continues to be potential. These are the fossils who nonetheless consider their former Senate pal Joe Biden was trustworthy, a great dad and a reasonable.
Either method, it’s simpler for these GOP senators to be in opposition as a result of then they’ll faux to combat Democrats whereas doing nothing.
The Johnson-Thune showdown is only one signal of discord inside the Republican Party as we hurtle towards the midterms.
Former counterterrorism adviser Joe Kent’s decided marketing campaign to undermine the rationale for the Iran struggle since he stop the Trump administration is deepening the rift on the precise as Operation Epic Fury enters its fifth week.
Last week, Kent enraged Charlie Kirk’s associates at Turning Point USA by claiming the FBI had stopped him from pursuing potential overseas hyperlinks to Kirk’s alleged murderer Tyler Robinson, and expressing a willingness to testify for the protection if vital.
Meanwhile, influential podcasters Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are nonetheless going hammer and tongs with the likes of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin over Israel.
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And final week, the as soon as vaunted conservative convention CPAC was a washout, with no massive draw-cards, empty chairs so far as the attention might see and protracted allegations that the organizers are a bunch of grifters.
As per ordinary, Democrats stay united behind their insanely unpopular radical left insurance policies.
They show no indicators of ending their reckless sabotage which hurts authorities staff, inconveniences on a regular basis Americans and will even place us all at risk.
In truth, they’re gleeful.
After all, the shutdowns appear to work for them. Like the 2020 riots, they add to a common sense of chaos across the Trump administration, which finally damages Republicans. They gum up the routine work of authorities and place untold stresses and strains on the administration.
Isn’t that nICE
But in a single sense, the joke might finish up on the Democrats.
For one factor, the touring public is seeing firsthand that each vile slur Democrats and their Antifa allies have thrown at ICE brokers is a lie.
Flying out of LaGuardia on Sunday morning was a breeze, due to the pleasant, useful ICE brokers who had taken over virtually all TSA roles. They had been there to pleasantly examine your boarding cross and effectively help load your belongings into bins for the X-ray machine.
Up to 75% of ICE brokers are navy veterans or former law enforcement, so their service makes Democrat slander in opposition to all of them the more unforgivable. But it additionally means they’re supremely competent and skilled to deal with emergencies, to not point out face up to abuse with skilled grace for all to see. They are a credit to their uniforms.
Now White House border czar Tom Homan is speaking about conserving some ICE brokers on at airports to help the TSA, which is understaffed as a result of almost 500 unpaid brokers have stop after enduring their third Democrat shutdown in six months.
At a time of heightened security threats, Homan believes ICE offers an added layer of security to our airports. And there’s the added bonus that the Democrats’ favourite constituents, unlawful aliens, will endure the gentle inconvenience of having to keep away from flying for worry of being deported (or, in Democrat fiction, shot and despatched to a Florida gulag).
Disunity is death in politics, however so is the Democrat betrayal of America.
