House Republicans Flee D.C. Early Amid National Security 'crisis'

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Facing multiple national security threats and another two possible federal government shutdowns of their own creation, House Republicans, who still control the majority, announced on Wednesday they are leaving Washington, D.C. early for their winter vacation.

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Cut and run is the GQP motto.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-02-15 03:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From the cited OpEd ...

... On Tuesday Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters, "national security begins with border security." House Republicans have been calling the border a "crisis," but have killed bipartisan legislation to fix it. ...

[emphasis mine]

Why don't House Republicans want to solve the border security problem?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 05:43 PM | Reply

Lazy -----.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-15 05:50 PM | Reply

@#3

imo, not lazy.

But wimps, afraid to face the hard decisions they were elected to face.

Running home with their tail between their legs.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 06:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They think they can hide at home after they set off bombs in Washington on Foreign Aid and the Border and an un-Constitutional Impeachment.

They can run, but they can't hide.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-15 06:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

During an election year, no less. The Republican Party exists simply to lose elections, especially winnable ones.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-02-15 06:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

@#5 ... They think they can hide at home after they set off bombs in Washington on Foreign Aid and the Border and an un-Constitutional Impeachment....

The Impeachment was especially eye-opening.

I saw Rep Scalise saying the Impeachment of Sec Mayorkas was justified because ~he is doing a bad job.~

Well, that is not the level the Constitution requires for impeachment. But let's go with Rep Scalise for the nonce.

Should we also impeach Skpr Johnson because he is doing a bad job? What about Rep Comer for his bogus investigations? Or Rep Jordan for his even more bogus investigations?

With the unconstitutional impeachment of Sec Mayorkas, the House Republicans have lowered the bar for future impeachments.

Now it is apparently OK to impeach someone merely for doing a bad job, in spite of the higher bar the Constitution sets.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-15 07:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why don't House Republicans want to solve the border security problem?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter
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They were all for it till Trump decided he needed a policy to run on. His revenge and witch hunt platitudes are only working for the choir. He needs more than that to actually win an election. He needs the swing voters, the independents, and the undecided to vote for him. Revenge and witch hunt claims won't help him there. He has little to proclaim he'll change and do better if re-elected. He's hoping the migration issue will outweigh the Roe vs Wade issue, which is a millstone around the GOP's popularity.

Personally, when I saw the republicans backing away from what they claimed they wanted in a migration package, then got it, and couldn't bring themselves to say yes to it, it told me all I wanted to know about their real aims. They are more scared of upsetting Trump or giving the Democrats an advantage during election season, that they can't even accept what they moaned and groaned about not getting. This is not about what is good for the nation, this is about political theater and their real intentions on migration comes to the forefront, not in what they say but in what they do.

They are running because it is Congress that is responsible for migration laws and as a party they are nonfunctional and unable to govern.

#8 | Posted by BBQ at 2024-02-15 08:52 PM | Reply

I saw Rep Scalise saying the Impeachment of Sec Mayorkas was justified because ~he is doing a bad job.~
#7 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

By that measure then every member of the House GOP caucus should be impeached due to this being the least effective congress in the history of the country.

#9 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-02-16 01:25 AM | Reply

@#9 ... By that measure then every member of the House GOP caucus should be impeached due to this being the least effective congress in the history of the country. ...

So, I'm not the only one who thought about that ramification of Rep Scalise's comment.

My guess is Rep Scalise may be asked, let's say, questions, by his fellow House members.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-16 01:33 AM | Reply

@#8 ... They are running because it is Congress that is responsible for migration laws and as a party they are nonfunctional and unable to govern. ...

Yup.

And I also agree with the astute analysis of your comment, but with one comment.

You said...

... They were all for it till Trump decided he needed a policy to run on. ...

Fmr Pres Trump's opposition to fixing the immigration laws dates back further than that.

In June 2018, he opposed the Four Pillars bill negotiated with Congress by his own Stephen Miller.

Back then I asked why did [then] Pres Trump seem to want to keep immigration as an issue rather than solving it.

imo, we are all now starting to see the reason why...

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-16 01:42 AM | Reply

At this point I think we can only hope that they get
tossed out of Congress and back onto the streets of the
redneck districts they came from come the next round of
elections. One of the sorriest cadres of Congressmen I've
ever had the displeasure of viewing in my 55+ years.

Spineless wimps, one and all...

#12 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-02-16 06:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

At least there's one positive in there: "ICE is now being forced to plan to release thousands of immigrants into the U.S."

I'd call that a win. Sure, it's not the open border with Mexico that we should have, but it's better than nothing.

#13 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-02-16 10:42 AM | Reply

I don't have a PhD in recognizing bulls-- when I see it, but these are not portraits of courage.

#14 | Posted by Jaspar at 2024-02-16 11:40 AM | Reply

So...the GOP Congressfolk would rather not do their jobs and risk losing them than to do their jobs and risk losing the faint, phony approbation of their corpulent orange deity. This is a demonstration of gerrymandering at its worst, when elected officials shirk their jobs yet keep them, because, well no one back home is going to vote Dem...

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2024-02-16 02:02 PM | Reply