As senators work on a compromise deal to address border security and immigration, at least one Republican is suggesting politics is a key motivator for him.
“Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. “I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man’s dismal approval ratings. I’m not going to do it. Why would I?”
Nehls indicated he’d accept only a proposal similar to HR 2, a hardline immigration bill that got zero Democratic votes when it passed the House last year.
“Party over country.” That’s their stance.
And yet people vote for them. They are just admitting they aren’t interested in helping people and the country and they still get voted for.
Has been since Nixon.
Trump over donors, donors over religion, religion over party, party over family, family over so-called conservative principles (oxymoron)and country several steps lower than that.
I never thought I would, but I kinda miss the time when Republicans would lie about their motivations for being awful.
This whole “mask off but still no consequences” bullshit is even more frustrating than when everyone knew but most people refused to acknowledge it 😮💨
You mean to tell me that Republicans are operating in bad faith, and that Democrats fell for it?
Democrats fell for what exactly, doing their job in a lame duck government so people can see what Republicans are really about yet still somehow being blamed by fake Democrats?
Unhung traitors kill republics.
I like this quote
If it improves the President’s approval rating, doesn’t that suggest that it’s something Americans need or want?
“[…] I’m not going to do it. Why would I?”
Indeed. Why help the American people, Congressman?
i mean that’s pretty much the same story about immigration for the last 40 years and it’s why nothing has gotten done. they’d rather use immigrants as wedge issues then do something about the problem.
They also like to use them as cheap labor. The American system can’t function without them. But hush, hush, we don’t like to talk about that part.
“We will not do the things our constituents ask unless we get all of the credit.”
Nah they won’t do it even if they do get the credit
If it’s such a big deal, how come when Trump was in the White House and they held both chambers of Congress (~2017–2019), why didn’t they solve the issue then?
They were busy with healthcare and infrastructure, obviously.
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You’ll feel bad when they unveil it and it’s the most perfect plan ever.
I showed my plan to smart people and they were blown away by the plan. So blown away. My daughter, the one with the nice rack, has knowledge of medicine and she thinks its the most amazing plan.
She does have experience with surgery so I’d trust her.
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“healthcare” i.e. repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with ‘Thoughts and Prayers’.
It is high time we treat the republican traitor swine with the same contempt that they show the American people.
these people need to be removed from office. you’re there to help your constituents. period.
Wrong, they’re there to represent their constituents, who seem quite content with all the fuckery the GOP has been pulling.
right. like ANYONE in congress “REPRESENTS” their constituents. come on, get real.
This is standard, decades-long GOP mantra, championed by Mitch McConnell. It’s also quite effective. Give a man a boogeyman to blame for all of his problems, and he’ll follow you anywhere.
It’s worse than that now. Democrats rolled their eyes, started setting up a deal to address their boogeyman, and now there’s Republicans saying they refuse because it might help the other side.
The GOP has nothing useful to say or do.
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Enact policies that create pain in your own supporters.
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Create an “enemy.”
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Blame the pain on the “enemies.”
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Present themselves as strongmen who can defeat the “enemies.”
And anyways that’s why I might not get to grow old. Fun stuff.
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If he’s an idiot who believes that there’s a boogeyman to blame for all his problems, anyway.
They’re going to blame a government shut down, due to their inability to govern, on the “border crisis”.
So, it’s not about what’s best for America you say? Gotcha.
Oops, said the quiet part out loud again.
Plus Russians convinced the GOP to leave Ukraine to them
