The GOP Dog Caught The Car....Again. This Time It's Border Protection.

[Thanos]

Leave it to Catherine Rumpell with the Washington Post to keep it real regarding the current border protection bill. --

Welp, the dog caught the car again. After months — decades? — of running on tightening the border, House Republicans are suddenly paralyzed when offered the chance to do so.

A hard-won, bipartisan Senate deal dropped Sunday evening, with tons of items on conservatives’ border-policy bucket list, including many that former president Donald Trump had begged for. These include:

• beefing up border security as a condition for giving any more aid to Ukraine (check!)
• a tougher and faster asylum-processing system so that those who don’t meet asylum criteria cannot stay and work for years while their cases crawl through the courts (check!)
• hiring more personnel for Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (1,500 and 1,200, respectively — so, check, check!)
• huge investments in fentanyl detection technologies and other anti-trafficking enforcement (check!)
• reviving something like Title 42 restrictions, wherein the president can “shut down” most of the asylum system (though this version doesn’t require a public health pretext and has more severe consequences for border-crossers — so, check-plus, perhaps).

House Republicans should have been pinching themselves in disbelief. Yet within hours of this 370-page bill dropping, House GOP leaders ruled out letting their chamber vote on any of it.

Maybe GOP lawmakers genuinely think they should hold out for the more draconian bill they put forward last year, known as H.R. 2. There are two major problems with this strategy: First, H.R. 2 would not supply funding for pretty much anything that could stop border crossings.

Second, it would almost certainly never become law — even if Republicans were to gain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) himself has pointed this out. (For procedural reasons, the bill would need 60 votes, which it could not get.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/05/border-security-deal-immigration-johnson-obamacare/

 

[Oddball]

 

[1srelluc]

Don't even try it Bub.

Nobody is going to forget the 8M+ illegals FJB has allowed into our country in nine months till the election, especially with reports of their ever more numerous crimes being joyfully reported in the blue cities.....You even lost the press in that regard.

 

[Oddball]

Trump handing a tissue to you after he jizzed all over your racist troll ass again???

You've got no facts, no game, and no intellect.

Cheeto Jesus didn't do anything, cryass bitch.

The text of the bill got out, and nobody wants to commit career suicide by supporting that shit heap.

Cry some more, Karen.

 

[Mac-7]

Leave it to Catherine Rumpell with the Washington Post to keep it real regarding the current border protection bill. --

Welp, the dog caught the car again. After months — decades? — of running on tightening the border, House Republicans are suddenly paralyzed when offered the chance to do so.
A hard-won, bipartisan Senate deal dropped Sunday evening, with tons of items on conservatives’ border-policy bucket list, including many that former president Donald Trump had begged for. These include:

• beefing up border security as a condition for giving any more aid to Ukraine (check!)
• a tougher and faster asylum-processing system so that those who don’t meet asylum criteria cannot stay and work for years while their cases crawl through the courts (check!)
• hiring more personnel for Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (1,500 and 1,200, respectively — so, check, check!)
• huge investments in fentanyl detection technologies and other anti-trafficking enforcement (check!)
• reviving something like Title 42 restrictions, wherein the president can “shut down” most of the asylum system (though this version doesn’t require a public health pretext and has more severe consequences for border-crossers — so, check-plus, perhaps).

House Republicans should have been pinching themselves in disbelief. Yet within hours of this 370-page bill dropping, House GOP leaders ruled out letting their chamber vote on any of it.

Maybe GOP lawmakers genuinely think they should hold out for the more draconian bill they put forward last year, known as H.R. 2. There are two major problems with this strategy: First, H.R. 2 would not supply funding for pretty much anything that could stop border crossings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/05/border-security-deal-immigration-johnson-obamacare/

The biden-senate bill is not serious border protection

The House bill is much better

Bill Analysis: The Secure the Border Act of 2023

This bill analysis includes key takeaways from the Secure the Border Act of 2023.

immigrationforum.org

 

[Thanos]

The biden-senate bill is not serious border protection

The House bill is much better

Bill Analysis: The Secure the Border Act of 2023

This bill analysis includes key takeaways from the Secure the Border Act of 2023.

immigrationforum.org

It helps if you learn to read. --

Maybe GOP lawmakers genuinely think they should hold out for the more draconian bill they put forward last year, known as H.R. 2. There are two major problems with this strategy: First, H.R. 2 would not supply funding for pretty much anything that could stop border crossings.

Second, it would almost certainly never become law — even if Republicans were to gain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) himself has pointed this out. (For procedural reasons, the bill would need 60 votes, which it could not get.)

 

[Blisterfinger]

Yeah, the truth is annoying, isn't it??

This bill has everything you MAGA traitor fucks wanted...and then some.

You're too busy sucking Trump's dick all the time to realize how PATHETIC you people are.

Yeah it's the "then some" that's the problem LOL you fucking useful idiot.

 

[Mac-7]

Maybe GOP lawmakers genuinely think they should hold out for the more draconian bill they put forward last year, known as H.R. 2.

Yes we do want a bill that drastically reduces the illegal alien invasion

Not the half ass senate bill that biden wants

 

[odanny]

So there is a bi-partisan Senate deal that would lock down the border and the Emperor gave a thumbs down.

The Plebians must do so as well.

 

[Oddball]

Haven't seen this much shitlib weeping and wailing since....

 

[Oddball]

So there is a bi-partisan Senate deal that would lock down the border and the Emperor gave a thumbs down.

The Plebians must do so as well.

You dweebs draw "bipartisan" like it's a silver cross waved in the face of Dracula.

The bill sucks donkey balls, and you know it.

 

[konradv]

Yes we do want a bill that drastically reduces the illegal alien invasion

Not the half ass senate bill that biden wants

Half a loaf is better than none and new legislation can always be crafted in the future. It’s not like this is some sort of last chance.

 

[odanny]

You dweebs draw "bipartisan" like it's a silver cross waved in the face of Dracula.

The bill sucks donkey balls, and you know it.

The bill came too late and Biden ignored the border crisis for 3 years, so I can't say I blame the GOP for not jumpiing on board in an election year. I don't blame Trump, either, because it's a purely political move.

 

[Thanos]

Yes we do want a bill that drastically reduces the illegal alien invasion

Not the half ass senate bill that biden wants

There is no funding for your HR 2 bill, dumb ass. As I already explained to you.

In the real world, people have to COMPROMISE to pass legislation. But you live in your fantasy MAGA Trump dick-licker world.

 

[konradv]

Clintoon?...You fuckwads have to go back to the '90s to relive your glory days?

ROFLMFAO!

No, just commenting on how long the Republicans have been fucking up.

 

[Thanos]

The bill came too late and Biden ignored the border crisis for 3 years, so I can't say I blame the GOP for not jumpiing on board in an election year. I don't blame Trump, either, because it's a purely political move.

You should blame the GOP. They constantly whined about a border "crisis".

I guess it's not a "crisis" after all. You MAGA fucks are so full of shit.

 

[Oddball]

The bill came too late and Biden ignored the border crisis for 3 years, so I can't say I blame the GOP for not jumpiing on board in an election year. I don't blame Trump, either, because it's a purely political move.

The bill was an abortion from the jump.

You poor saps sucked in a gullible GOP goofball with nothing to lose, and still fell flat on your fucking faces.

 

[Oldestyle]

So there is a bi-partisan Senate deal that would lock down the border and the Emperor gave a thumbs down.

The Plebians must do so as well.

In what way does that bill "lock down the border", Odanny? It doesn't. Not even close.

The fact of the matter is that Joe Biden TODAY has both the ability and the authorization to secure the border! He doesn't need a single GOP vote to do so. He's ALWAYS had that ability just as he had the ability to open the border up! He could do it all with Executive Orders. So why doesn't he?

 

[BluesLegend]

Leave it to Catherine Rumpell with the Washington Post to keep it real regarding the current border protection bill.

 

[candycorn]

Leave it to Catherine Rumpell with the Washington Post to keep it real regarding the current border protection bill. --

Welp, the dog caught the car again. After months — decades? — of running on tightening the border, House Republicans are suddenly paralyzed when offered the chance to do so.

A hard-won, bipartisan Senate deal dropped Sunday evening, with tons of items on conservatives’ border-policy bucket list, including many that former president Donald Trump had begged for. These include:

• beefing up border security as a condition for giving any more aid to Ukraine (check!)
• a tougher and faster asylum-processing system so that those who don’t meet asylum criteria cannot stay and work for years while their cases crawl through the courts (check!)
• hiring more personnel for Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (1,500 and 1,200, respectively — so, check, check!)
• huge investments in fentanyl detection technologies and other anti-trafficking enforcement (check!)
• reviving something like Title 42 restrictions, wherein the president can “shut down” most of the asylum system (though this version doesn’t require a public health pretext and has more severe consequences for border-crossers — so, check-plus, perhaps).

House Republicans should have been pinching themselves in disbelief. Yet within hours of this 370-page bill dropping, House GOP leaders ruled out letting their chamber vote on any of it.

Maybe GOP lawmakers genuinely think they should hold out for the more draconian bill they put forward last year, known as H.R. 2. There are two major problems with this strategy: First, H.R. 2 would not supply funding for pretty much anything that could stop border crossings.

Second, it would almost certainly never become law — even if Republicans were to gain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) himself has pointed this out. (For procedural reasons, the bill would need 60 votes, which it could not get.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/05/border-security-deal-immigration-johnson-obamacare/

Its election year strategy by the Democrats. If you examine the 2020 overnight capitulation of Mayor Pete and Amy (her last name escapes me at the moment) in the primaries and their support of Biden, the 2022 support for the most extreme GOP candidates who were easily defeated, and some other moves the election wing of he DNC did, you’ll see the pattern emerging. This bill makes the GOP look ridiculous. Of course it helps that House Republicans are the most ridiculous group in government and have been for decades--matched only briefly by Democrats in the House from time to time.

Political hardball at it’s best.