Border crisis is one grievance Republicans prefer to any solution

[marmar]

Border crisis is one grievance Republicans prefer to any solution
MICHAEL LEPPERT


“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” is an adage that is widely attributed to Winston Churchill as the one who said it first. Crediting him with quotes like this is easy to do and difficult to disprove. It sounds like something he would say, right?

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Of course! Why shouldn’t Texas be able to defend itself when the federal government won’t? There’s language in the U.S. Constitution that specifically allows that, after all.

The answer: That’s not what the dispute is about.

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Performative press conferences, like the one on Jan. 9, where Sen. Mike Braun claims the crisis has been “orchestrated” by the Biden administration, show the same sentiment. Braun is opposing “political maneuvering” to address the problem. His answer to the crisis can be summed up in one word: Trump. ................(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/02/01/border-crisis-is-one-grievance-republicans-prefer-to-any-solution/

[brewens]

1. I'm in Idaho and have never had any problem with any migrant documented or not. That tells me neither have

most if not all of my Trumper friends.

The only incident I remember was a migrant tree planter got in a brawl at a bar in a logging community about 70 miles away decades ago. The only problem that really cause was several of their tree planters ran off because they were afraid of some kind of trouble from law enforcement or yokels.

[usonian]

2. They could really soil their pants by opposing a border bill.

Yes we want it. No we don't.
Actually, we're just against everything.

Worthless dingleberries.

[mike_c]

3. today's Republicans are a multi-generational lost generation

They will never stop seeing the world through the lens of their grievances.