So how do Republicans KNOW that 10,200 migrants crossed the border in one day? Did they have observers all along the border with little click counters? No--they know because the border patrol CAUGHT those folks. Possibly one answer is to beef up the budgets of both the Border Patrol and the immigration courts, to find and process potential immigrants more quickly. But no--that would be government spending. WAY better to let one man decide what to do. Right?
The Asylum law has been in effect for 44 years. It follows the Geneva Convention on Refugees, which was agreed to in international law because of-....the horrors of the Holocaust. Those thinking that Netanyahu's approach to those horrors is the cats pajamas need to remember this.
"[H]elping Ukraine defend itself and secure its future as a sovereign, democratic, independent, and prosperous nation advances our national security interests."
Insert "Serbia" in place of "Ukraine" and Asquith and Poincaré might've said much the same thing in August 1914.
Instead of giving another umpteen billion to the Ukrainian kleptocracy perhaps it would better serve our national interest to hasten manufacture of the 400 Harpoon antiship missiles that our government promised, some three years ago, to provide to the government of Taiwan.
What the hell is happening here? Of course we should be supporting Ukraine in their epic struggle against Putin’s Russia! They are fighting on the front lines of democracy.
"At this point, if you honestly believe that Biden, while holding no elected office of any kind, was conducting an intricate influence-peddling operation geared to a payoff for his clients that would come only after he won an open presidential primary and then defeated an incumbent Republican, and that he was doing all this for payments that could not cover the cost of renting a studio apartment in Washington, D.C., then I don’t know what to tell you."
This is fantastic. In a perfect world, everyone who does honestly believe it would read that paragraph.
Hey Joe, I live in My Kevin's district, and that truck is typical of what is driven around here. (To be fair, this is a semi-rural area with a lot of equestrians, so we need trucks to haul our trusty steeds. Not sure what Hunter needed to haul...)
Republicans are in effect helping a hostile country against a friendly one. Peace talks? They will only come when Putin thinks he has no chance of winning. Not to mention, this is someone who has broken basic agreements twice for reasons only Russians and MTG don't snicker at. And that the "Russia's borders never stop" stuff doesn't bother the MAGAs in the slightest? They are the "intellectual" heirs of the isolationist goofballs in the early 1940s who essentially did their best to hand Europe over to either Hitler or Stalin - probably Stalin.
"There’s a misunderstanding on the part of Senator Schumer and some of our Democratic friends. This is not a traditional negotiation, where we expect to come up with a bipartisan compromise on the border. This is a price that has to be paid in order to get the supplemental."
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Sen Cornyn is showing his MAGA bona fides with this quote, and I'm reading it loud and clear. He has invoked the standard MAGAdroid stance on legislation: "my way or no way." "Compromise" is the absolute worst word in the bomb throwers' lexicon, and any Repub who considers this option is toast; they will be castigated and then primaried out of office at the hands of the cultist knuckle draggers (whose preferred nominee will lose resoundingly in the general election) who drank too much from the Kool-Aid punchbowl with a yuge orange turd floating in it.
Speaker Johnson isn't the only one who needs to spend some time at the front line. There are enough MAGAdroids in Congress holding necessary funds hostage to their desires that if all of them went with Johnson, and picked up a gun while there, they would make it possible to push the Ukrainian counteroffensive all the way to the Russian borders that were in place prior to 2014.
Memo to Speaker Johnson: there’s a clear strategy and a path to resolution in Ukraine. It’s called “we assist Ukraine until they win the war.” It’s not complicated, although at the same time, there’s no magic bullet that’s under American prerogatives... unless we just decide we want to let Putin carve off the eastern side of the country for himself and maybe not come back later for more if he’s in a good enough mood.
Johnson isn’t any more for Ukraine aid than he was before he took the gavel. He’s just finding a form of doublespeak that he thinks lets him get away with not passing it and then pretend it’s someone else’s fault.
So how do Republicans KNOW that 10,200 migrants crossed the border in one day? Did they have observers all along the border with little click counters? No--they know because the border patrol CAUGHT those folks. Possibly one answer is to beef up the budgets of both the Border Patrol and the immigration courts, to find and process potential immigrants more quickly. But no--that would be government spending. WAY better to let one man decide what to do. Right?
The Asylum law has been in effect for 44 years. It follows the Geneva Convention on Refugees, which was agreed to in international law because of-....the horrors of the Holocaust. Those thinking that Netanyahu's approach to those horrors is the cats pajamas need to remember this.
"[H]elping Ukraine defend itself and secure its future as a sovereign, democratic, independent, and prosperous nation advances our national security interests."
Insert "Serbia" in place of "Ukraine" and Asquith and Poincaré might've said much the same thing in August 1914.
Instead of giving another umpteen billion to the Ukrainian kleptocracy perhaps it would better serve our national interest to hasten manufacture of the 400 Harpoon antiship missiles that our government promised, some three years ago, to provide to the government of Taiwan.
What the hell is happening here? Of course we should be supporting Ukraine in their epic struggle against Putin’s Russia! They are fighting on the front lines of democracy.
FUND UKRAINE CONGRESS - DO YOUR JOBS!
Can you provide more information on what the Republicans want regarding border policy? What are the specifics?
No aid no jobs in your state senators. One imagines this could come up in your next election.
"At this point, if you honestly believe that Biden, while holding no elected office of any kind, was conducting an intricate influence-peddling operation geared to a payoff for his clients that would come only after he won an open presidential primary and then defeated an incumbent Republican, and that he was doing all this for payments that could not cover the cost of renting a studio apartment in Washington, D.C., then I don’t know what to tell you."
This is fantastic. In a perfect world, everyone who does honestly believe it would read that paragraph.
No kidding, Don. No kidding!!!!
Phantasmagoria - 😜🙄
What dangerous kool-aid to be drinking by these folks!
Hey Joe, I live in My Kevin's district, and that truck is typical of what is driven around here. (To be fair, this is a semi-rural area with a lot of equestrians, so we need trucks to haul our trusty steeds. Not sure what Hunter needed to haul...)
Democrats should be running ads nonstop made by the same people that make F150 ads.
Like a rock...
In a way, it helpful that Rep. Comer seems to be rather stupid and inept. He was not so feckless and clueless; he might do some damage.
The Ford F-150 Raptor is better known as "the Huntermobile".
Republicans are in effect helping a hostile country against a friendly one. Peace talks? They will only come when Putin thinks he has no chance of winning. Not to mention, this is someone who has broken basic agreements twice for reasons only Russians and MTG don't snicker at. And that the "Russia's borders never stop" stuff doesn't bother the MAGAs in the slightest? They are the "intellectual" heirs of the isolationist goofballs in the early 1940s who essentially did their best to hand Europe over to either Hitler or Stalin - probably Stalin.
"There’s a misunderstanding on the part of Senator Schumer and some of our Democratic friends. This is not a traditional negotiation, where we expect to come up with a bipartisan compromise on the border. This is a price that has to be paid in order to get the supplemental."
-----
Sen Cornyn is showing his MAGA bona fides with this quote, and I'm reading it loud and clear. He has invoked the standard MAGAdroid stance on legislation: "my way or no way." "Compromise" is the absolute worst word in the bomb throwers' lexicon, and any Repub who considers this option is toast; they will be castigated and then primaried out of office at the hands of the cultist knuckle draggers (whose preferred nominee will lose resoundingly in the general election) who drank too much from the Kool-Aid punchbowl with a yuge orange turd floating in it.
fnord
I have a grand idea! Let's send Mike Johnson to the
FRONT LINES in Ukraine, so
he can get a taste of what
holding up funding to fight
the Russians is really like.
Speaker Johnson isn't the only one who needs to spend some time at the front line. There are enough MAGAdroids in Congress holding necessary funds hostage to their desires that if all of them went with Johnson, and picked up a gun while there, they would make it possible to push the Ukrainian counteroffensive all the way to the Russian borders that were in place prior to 2014.
(Obviously exaggeration to make a point.)
fnord
F-150 Raptor.
There must be a fighter jet by that name.
Yeah, it is the F-22 Raptor.
Eff you republicans. When Ukraine falls and Putin invades a NATO country, your children and grandchildren are going over first to fight.
You stupid moronic monsters.
That’s why they want Trump back, to pull out of NATO. At this point Republicans are effectively a branch of Russia.
Totally agree. Which is why they must be crushed and then put out with the garbage.
Memo to Speaker Johnson: there’s a clear strategy and a path to resolution in Ukraine. It’s called “we assist Ukraine until they win the war.” It’s not complicated, although at the same time, there’s no magic bullet that’s under American prerogatives... unless we just decide we want to let Putin carve off the eastern side of the country for himself and maybe not come back later for more if he’s in a good enough mood.
Johnson isn’t any more for Ukraine aid than he was before he took the gavel. He’s just finding a form of doublespeak that he thinks lets him get away with not passing it and then pretend it’s someone else’s fault.