The Biden Administration and All Things Politics
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Douchebag K
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do tell brother. You're so desperate to not admit Biden is a wet lettuce leaf you're now lying or just woefully misinformed.
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That was embarrassing. How the **** are we running it back this year. Good hell.
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Greene, a conspiracy theorist who spoke at a white nationalist event in 2022, went on a lengthy rant on everything from crime in the nation’s capital to gun rights to Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter and beyond.
“That was a lot,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said when she was done, then pointed out what he found “ironic” about Greene talking about crime in Washington, D.C.
“She literally supported an insurrection and attack on the Capitol,” Garcia said.
He said Greene “coddled” the insurrectionists when she visited them last year in jail, where she offered them handshakes and pats on the back and said they were “political prisoners.”
“They actually tried to overthrow our government,” Garcia reminded her.
That caused Greene ― who last month called Hunter Biden a “coward” for leaving a hearing when she was speaking about him ― to walk out of the hearing.
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She's trying so hard to be Trump's mini-me it's hilariously pathetic. Other than Trump she is the single most embarrassing political figure we've ever had. And that's even including things like Weiner's weiner and "it depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
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Behind the border mess: Open GOP rebellion against McConnell
The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics "had their shot" already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.
He (MCconnell) is under open attack from the right for even trying to work with Democrats on the border.
The Senate GOP leader is facing internal resistance not seen in more than a year as Republicans descend into discord over two issues they once demanded be linked: border security and the war in Ukraine.
“I’ve had a small group of persistent critics the whole time I’ve been in this job."
“The reason we’ve been talking about the border is because they wanted to, the persistent critics,” he added. “You can’t pass a bill without dealing with a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate.”
The former president (trump) played a leading role in killing the border deal.
More and more of Senate Republicans' internal strife is seeping out into public view, exposing years-old beefs that are still simmering. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) posted a fundraising link asking donors to “kill this border bill” in the middle of a closed-door GOP meeting on Monday (Mike Lee is a trump bootlicker and koolaid drinker)
Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson helped squash the border bill’s prospects in the House while Ron Johnson, Lee, Cruz, Vance and Scott pummeled it on TV and social media. The intensity of that assault turned many GOP senators sour on a border security deal that would have amounted to the most conservative immigration bill backed by a Democratic president in a generation.
Though McConnell touted the work of Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and the bill’s endorsement by the Border Patrol union, he conceded what was obvious by Monday night: This legislation is dead.
At Tuesday’s party meeting, Cruz told McConnell that the border deal was indefensible, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) questioned why the GOP would walk away from it, according to two people familiar with the meeting. That followed a Monday evening private meeting where Johnson got into a near-shouting match with Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), one of several senators who has tried to rebut Trump’s influence on the party.
McConnell was OK with just approving foreign aid back in the fall, but agreed to link it to border security after rank-and-file Republicans grew eager to extract concessions from Democrats in order to get Ukraine money.
The historical record holds plenty of quotes from McConnell’s current critics asking for stronger border policy during the Trump administration. Many of them now have since changed their tune to say Biden doesn’t need new laws at all to enforce border security.
“We all wanted to see border security. And I think a lot of our members were demanding that in exchange for the rest of the funding. That’s an issue our conference needs to be aware of,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the No. 4 leader. “The conference wanted border security.”
“For three months it’s been nothing but border and Ukraine, border and Ukraine, border and Ukraine. I don’t know how many speeches I've heard … and now all of a sudden, it’s: ‘We’re not going to do that,'” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), another of the McConnell critics. “It just seems like total chaos to me.”
Now the reality is that Trump, the likely nominee, doesn’t want a deal that Republicans set out to secure four months ago. Deal-making without Trump’s blessing appears impossible.
Trump owns the GOP
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From the comments section of the above article:
The far right demanded something they never expected to get in an attempt to use it in their campaigns. Then they got it, and were so shocked that they didn't know what to do. We all know that if Trump was the president right now, they'd pass it without thinking. But because it might make Biden look good, they're as against it as they can be. And Democrats will drive this home repeatedly in the current campaign.
Well, back in November Chip Roy lamented on the House floor that Repbulicans had NOTHING they could run on, not one blessed accomplishment.
Without the border, they really do have nothing. They won on abortion, but campaigning on that would kill them. Their budget ideas are to basically shut down the government.
The deal was the best anyone could have hoped for, and was supported by the U.S. Border Patrol. It was bi-partisan, and would have passed with ease hadn't Trump told his minions to vote against it purely for his political gain.
Remember this in November. Republicans screamed, "Close the border". Their own party helped craft this bill. Trump screams "no deal" and the whole thing goes up in smoke. Seriously, are you going along with this? Suddenly, the closing of the border is not the big priority that it was just 3 days ago! It's like the Republicans have A.D.D. and can't concentrate on anything.
The far right demanded something they never expected to get in an attempt to use it in their campaigns. Then they got it, and were so shocked that they didn't know what to do. We all know that if Trump was the president right now, they'd pass it without thinking. But because it might make Biden look good, they're as against it as they can be. And Democrats will drive this home repeatedly in the current campaign.
Well, back in November Chip Roy lamented on the House floor that Repbulicans had NOTHING they could run on, not one blessed accomplishment.
Without the border, they really do have nothing. They won on abortion, but campaigning on that would kill them. Their budget ideas are to basically shut down the government.
The deal was the best anyone could have hoped for, and was supported by the U.S. Border Patrol. It was bi-partisan, and would have passed with ease hadn't Trump told his minions to vote against it purely for his political gain.
Remember this in November. Republicans screamed, "Close the border". Their own party helped craft this bill. Trump screams "no deal" and the whole thing goes up in smoke. Seriously, are you going along with this? Suddenly, the closing of the border is not the big priority that it was just 3 days ago! It's like the Republicans have A.D.D. and can't concentrate on anything.
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Now it's the TOP... Trump's Own Party. Amazing how quickly a demagogue took over that wing of American politics. Tells you our ongoing discord has made us rife for a dictator. Unbelievable. All we need is Trump learning to fiddle and the Roman analogy will be complete.
Behind the border mess: Open GOP rebellion against McConnell
The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics "had their shot" already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.www.yahoo.com
He (MCconnell) is under open attack from the right for even trying to work with Democrats on the border.
The Senate GOP leader is facing internal resistance not seen in more than a year as Republicans descend into discord over two issues they once demanded be linked: border security and the war in Ukraine.
“I’ve had a small group of persistent critics the whole time I’ve been in this job."
“The reason we’ve been talking about the border is because they wanted to, the persistent critics,” he added. “You can’t pass a bill without dealing with a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate.”
The former president (trump) played a leading role in killing the border deal.
More and more of Senate Republicans' internal strife is seeping out into public view, exposing years-old beefs that are still simmering. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) posted a fundraising link asking donors to “kill this border bill” in the middle of a closed-door GOP meeting on Monday (Mike Lee is a trump bootlicker and koolaid drinker)
Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson helped squash the border bill’s prospects in the House while Ron Johnson, Lee, Cruz, Vance and Scott pummeled it on TV and social media. The intensity of that assault turned many GOP senators sour on a border security deal that would have amounted to the most conservative immigration bill backed by a Democratic president in a generation.
Though McConnell touted the work of Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and the bill’s endorsement by the Border Patrol union, he conceded what was obvious by Monday night: This legislation is dead.
At Tuesday’s party meeting, Cruz told McConnell that the border deal was indefensible, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) questioned why the GOP would walk away from it, according to two people familiar with the meeting. That followed a Monday evening private meeting where Johnson got into a near-shouting match with Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), one of several senators who has tried to rebut Trump’s influence on the party.
McConnell was OK with just approving foreign aid back in the fall, but agreed to link it to border security after rank-and-file Republicans grew eager to extract concessions from Democrats in order to get Ukraine money.
The historical record holds plenty of quotes from McConnell’s current critics asking for stronger border policy during the Trump administration. Many of them now have since changed their tune to say Biden doesn’t need new laws at all to enforce border security.
“We all wanted to see border security. And I think a lot of our members were demanding that in exchange for the rest of the funding. That’s an issue our conference needs to be aware of,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the No. 4 leader. “The conference wanted border security.”
“For three months it’s been nothing but border and Ukraine, border and Ukraine, border and Ukraine. I don’t know how many speeches I've heard … and now all of a sudden, it’s: ‘We’re not going to do that,'” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), another of the McConnell critics. “It just seems like total chaos to me.”
Now the reality is that Trump, the likely nominee, doesn’t want a deal that Republicans set out to secure four months ago. Deal-making without Trump’s blessing appears impossible.
Trump owns the GOP
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another article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/dysfunction-reigns-congress-gop-defeats-124451579.html
Republicans in Congress suffered a humiliating series of setbacks Tuesday on critical elements of their agenda, turning the Capitol into a den of dysfunction that has left several major issues, including U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Israel, in limbo amid political feuding.
As Republicans in the Senate torpedoed a border deal they had demanded, the bid by their counterparts in the House to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, collapsed amid Republican defections.
Then came one last bruising blow. Minutes after Republicans fell one vote short of impeaching Mayorkas — a punishment the party has promised its base ever since winning the majority — the House defeated legislation they put forward to send $17.6 billion in military assistance to Israel. The measure fell to opposition from Democrats who called it a cynical political ploy to undermine efforts to pass a broader foreign military aid bill including Ukraine. They were joined by a clutch of hard-right Republicans, who opposed the measure because the money was not paired with spending cuts.
Taken together, the events that unfolded on Capitol Hill on Tuesday offered a vivid portrait of congressional disarray instigated by Republicans, who are bent on opposing President Joe Biden at every turn but lack a large enough majority or the unity to work their will.
They have sought to kill bipartisan efforts to send more military aid to Ukraine and to forge a compromise to secure the border against an influx of migrants, proposing instead to help only Israel and to push for the removal of Biden’s top immigration official. The back-to-back defeats Tuesday showed that while they are adept at thwarting action on critical issues, they are hard-pressed to address any.
And it amounted to a disastrous day for Speaker Mike Johnson roughly 100 days into his speakership, highlighting his razor-thin majority and the unwieldiness of his conference.
But he left the Capitol without addressing what appeared to be a calamitous miscalculation on the impeachment vote, which had been little more than a political exercise given that the Democratic-led Senate would be all but certain to acquit Mayorkas.
Instead of a show of Republican unity for impeaching Biden’s top immigration official, the vote devolved into an extraordinary scene of chaos on the House floor that highlighted GOP disarray, as leaders scrounged for the support to push through the charges against Mayorkas but were thwarted by their tiny majority.
The dysfunction is set to continue Wednesday in the Senate when Republicans are expected to block a bill tying a border compromise to aid for Israel and Ukraine, after most of their members — even those who led the charge to negotiate it — turned against the package that House Republicans refused to consider amid opposition from former President Donald Trump.
Republicans in Congress suffered a humiliating series of setbacks Tuesday on critical elements of their agenda, turning the Capitol into a den of dysfunction that has left several major issues, including U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Israel, in limbo amid political feuding.
As Republicans in the Senate torpedoed a border deal they had demanded, the bid by their counterparts in the House to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, collapsed amid Republican defections.
Then came one last bruising blow. Minutes after Republicans fell one vote short of impeaching Mayorkas — a punishment the party has promised its base ever since winning the majority — the House defeated legislation they put forward to send $17.6 billion in military assistance to Israel. The measure fell to opposition from Democrats who called it a cynical political ploy to undermine efforts to pass a broader foreign military aid bill including Ukraine. They were joined by a clutch of hard-right Republicans, who opposed the measure because the money was not paired with spending cuts.
Taken together, the events that unfolded on Capitol Hill on Tuesday offered a vivid portrait of congressional disarray instigated by Republicans, who are bent on opposing President Joe Biden at every turn but lack a large enough majority or the unity to work their will.
They have sought to kill bipartisan efforts to send more military aid to Ukraine and to forge a compromise to secure the border against an influx of migrants, proposing instead to help only Israel and to push for the removal of Biden’s top immigration official. The back-to-back defeats Tuesday showed that while they are adept at thwarting action on critical issues, they are hard-pressed to address any.
And it amounted to a disastrous day for Speaker Mike Johnson roughly 100 days into his speakership, highlighting his razor-thin majority and the unwieldiness of his conference.
But he left the Capitol without addressing what appeared to be a calamitous miscalculation on the impeachment vote, which had been little more than a political exercise given that the Democratic-led Senate would be all but certain to acquit Mayorkas.
Instead of a show of Republican unity for impeaching Biden’s top immigration official, the vote devolved into an extraordinary scene of chaos on the House floor that highlighted GOP disarray, as leaders scrounged for the support to push through the charges against Mayorkas but were thwarted by their tiny majority.
The dysfunction is set to continue Wednesday in the Senate when Republicans are expected to block a bill tying a border compromise to aid for Israel and Ukraine, after most of their members — even those who led the charge to negotiate it — turned against the package that House Republicans refused to consider amid opposition from former President Donald Trump.
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Ya think?
View: https://twitter.com/alanfriedmanit/status/1754873413045199278
www.bloomberg.com
By my lights, however, the most unfortunate lapse — one that Weissmann substantiates — is Mueller’s inexplicable failure to follow the money trail. There is abundant and damning evidence of the Trump camp’s coziness with Russia before, during and after the 2016 campaign. That coziness continues to this day. But we still lack a complete understanding of what incentives Trump has had for persistently kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
View: https://twitter.com/alanfriedmanit/status/1754873413045199278
Mueller Failed to Follow Trump’s Money Trail
It was the best way to discern the president’s ties to Russia — a job that may yet be done by the Manhattan district attorney.
www.bloomberg.com
I was misinformed. I saw a headline attributing the error to Trump, but didn't read the article. My apologies.
Al-O-Meter
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What I think is that Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat Senator Alex Padilla, and Democrat Senator Ed Markey were not following orders from Trump when they all voted to tank the bill. The Democrats do not have enough Democrats supporting this bill, and the pointing of fingers at Trump is nothing but misdirection.
That's 5. The Republicans can't muster 5 votes for a bill they worked so hard on?
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It wasn't a "they" on the GOP side doing the negotiations. It was one guy. The GOP who were not consulted think their one guy did a crap job and I can't disagree. The bill is awful to the point of being radioactive.
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It can be true that the Democrats don't have enough democrats supporting the bill AND also true that not having enough democrats supporting it wouldn't matter if trump was not pressuring Republicans to not support it because some Republicans might support it making those Democrats who don't support it obsolete.
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Biden totally caved to the GOP and gave them what they wanted on the border.
Trump realizes that this is a trap to remove an election issue that Trump is otherwise poised to win.
Trump calls his congressional minions and commands that they kill the bill.
The GOP will never get another law as good as this, especially as Trump again destroys the down ballot due to his unpopularity and support for extremist & incompetent GOP candidates. Trump probably loses the house.
Now Biden has a credible reason to spread blame for the border fiasco to MAGA/ Trump, a political tool he otherwise did not possess.
Is MAGA getting outsmarted by an 82 year old with dementia?
Trump realizes that this is a trap to remove an election issue that Trump is otherwise poised to win.
Trump calls his congressional minions and commands that they kill the bill.
The GOP will never get another law as good as this, especially as Trump again destroys the down ballot due to his unpopularity and support for extremist & incompetent GOP candidates. Trump probably loses the house.
Now Biden has a credible reason to spread blame for the border fiasco to MAGA/ Trump, a political tool he otherwise did not possess.
Is MAGA getting outsmarted by an 82 year old with dementia?
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MAGA (trump) is pretty dumb so the answer to your last question is likely yes
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This is what I think. The plan was to use this issue AGAINST Biden in the election but most intelligent voters as well as most independent voters are going to realize that the GOP, at the insistence of Trump, decided they didn't want to actually solve the problem but wanted it to be a problem so they could fool their fool *** base. It will trick Trumpers and no one else imho.
This will be an issue Biden can campaign on now. Had MAGA by the balls by giving them exactly what they asked for only for MAGA to turn it down. Now Biden he has a cudgel to beat MAGA with using their own issue.
One guy who didn't seek out any other Rs for their opinion/support during negotiations? Doubtful.