The congressman should be shamed out of politics at the very least, or treated like a domestic threat to national security and dragged off by the ear. The GOP is more dramatic than a teen Disney TV show, I'm embarrassed for them. They must think they are being edgy and it plays well to the rest of the Neanderthals but it is so irresponsible as history has proven.
They aren't embarrassed, they have no sense of shame, no moral compass either.
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Because he knows that victory (an actual victory too) and the strategic defeat of Russia would be very good for Biden in an election year, spring and summer would be an excellent time for Ukraine to kick the shit out of the Russians and drive them from Ukraine. Even if Trump were to win the election, Russia would be fucked and Trump's master in Moscow dead. Joe would have accomplished on a shoestring what previous presidents could only dream of the removal of the Russian threat to Europe and even America. If Joe wins in November and has a democratic congress behind him Vlad is really screwed, if he's still alive by then, Russia might lose its security council seat too.Why not send a note to Russia they have at least another month to hammer Ukrainians.
Lee urges Senate GOP colleagues to slow down Ukraine-border deal
Senate Steering Committee Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he will ask Senate Republican colleagues on Wednesday to adopt a resolution pledging to block any package to fund Ukraine and reform asylum policies unless they are given adequate time to review the complicated legislation and have a chance to amend it.
At a closed-door lunch meeting Tuesday, Lee voiced his concerns about Senate Republican leaders trying to speed a deal to fund Ukraine and address the border crisis through the Senate without adequate debate.
He argued that Senate GOP colleagues should have at least three weeks to review the legislation, citing the complexity of immigration law.
To push back against his leadership, Lee is trying to muster 41 Republicans to sign onto a pledge to block any Ukraine and border bill from moving quickly through the Senate without an opportunity to amend it.
Lee, who presides over the weekly Steering Committee lunch, will offer a motion at Wednesday’s meeting stating, “the Senate Republican conference will oppose cloture on any supplemental spending bill containing border provisions without adequate time to review and offer and vote on floor amendments.”
The Utah senator said he didn’t get any pushback from GOP colleagues when he floated the idea Tuesday.
“I said, if you object to that, please acknowledge now. At the time, nobody flinched. I even asked, ‘Raise your hand if you think that’s unreasonable,’” Lee recounted.
A Republican senator who spoke to The Hill on condition of anonymity, however, said that Lee’s request to hold the bill up for three weeks on the Senate floor is unreasonable and would threaten to derail the delicate compromise.
Lee urges Senate GOP colleagues to slow down Ukraine-border deal
Senate Steering Committee Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he will ask Senate Republican colleagues on Wednesday to adopt a resolution pledging to block any package to fund Ukraine and reform asylum policies…
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The press really needs to stop minimizing the fascist coup faction as “conservatives”.Romney: ‘Appalling’ Trump wants to kill border bill so he can ‘blame Biden’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday took aim at former President Trump for pushing Republican lawmakers to oppose a border deal so that he could use the issue to campaign against President Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
Romney told CNN’s Manu Raju he thought it was “really appalling” that Trump would try to prevent progress on addressing the surge in migration at the southern border.
“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump,” Romney said. “And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.”
“But the reality is that we have a crisis at the border, the American people are suffering as a result of what’s happening at the border, and someone running for president ought to try to get the problem solved as opposed to saying, ‘Hey, save that problem. Don’t solve it. Let me take credit for solving it later,’” Romney continued.
Romney’s remarks come after weeks of negotiations on a potential legislative package that addresses border security and provides funding for Ukraine and other allies. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his allies have warned that Republicans are unlikely to get a similar deal at any other moment, even if Trump wins reelection.
But Trump’s influence looms large over the party, especially among House conservatives, and the prospects for getting the deal through Congress with sufficient GOP support looks increasingly unlikely.
Last week, Trump made his position clear on social media, when he wrote, “I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people.”
McConnell on Wednesday floated the possibility of splitting the national security package, noting border security reforms now increasingly look unlikely to pass.
A source told The Hill on Wednesday that Senate Republicans who support the bill think the concessions extracted from Democrats would be “huge wins,” but that it’s becoming clear Trump opposes the package, which could prevent its passage in the GOP-controlled House.
“The Trump people want to kill it and run on the issue,” the Senate source familiar with internal GOP talks told The Hill Wednesday.
Romney: ‘Appalling’ Trump wants to kill border bill so he can ‘blame Biden’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday took aim at former President Trump for pushing Republican lawmakers to oppose a border deal so that he could use the issue to campaign against President Biden …
They on occasion have articles that are skewed right. Whether to seem unbiased?
They’re part of the distressing trend by the media bigs outside the Murdoch cartel to call right-radicals “the conservative faction of the GOP”. It’s not just The Hill.
What he says about conservatives and fascists is true and they devoured the GOP, for now. That might change if Donald goes to prison, and they get their asses kicked in November. Trump's shit stain will remain on the GOP for a long time though and it will remain the political home of America's racists, bigots, lunatics and morons for a long time, without them the party would nearly evaporate into thin air. Without foxnews spewing bullshit and culture wars for the republicans for decades, where would they be?
What surprises me is him calling Hakeem and the progressive caucus the Loony or Hard Left. They’re social democrats of such a mild form that in much of Europe (at least twenty years ago) they’d be part of the center.
Steve is one of those conservatives who is actually a liberal democrat, the party left him when Donald arrived. I don't agree with him ideologically, but he is the kind of conservative I respect and can live with in politics. I would consider him an ally in the fight for liberal democracy, he understands the fundamentals and is a man of conviction and principals, an American patriot first, a conservative second.
