After months of bickering Congress remains completely unable to agree on any legislation on border security or aid to Israel and Ukraine — all priorities that a majority of lawmakers agree are needed.
After months of bickering Congress remains completely unable to agree on any legislation on border security or aid to Israel and Ukraine — all priorities that a majority of lawmakers agree are needed.
Frankly, it’s not Congress - it’s the House Republicans. They got what they said they wanted. They didn’t have a plan for if they got what they said they wanted. But they don’t want to “give Biden a win”, so they’re going to throw away the deal that gives them what they said they wanted. That’s gonna play real fuckin bad with their base come November.
The republicans that I know don’t give a shit. They don’t pay any attention to what their politicians do, and they don’t want to hear about it, either. If they do somehow learn that republicans aren’t supporting the very thing they asked for, all it’ll take to convince them that’s a good thing is someone on fox news saying it somehow wasn’t really going to do what they wanted, and they’ll accept it without any further elaboration. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie - they’ll never know or care.
I get different answers.
“It’s too late now”.
“They’re (Dems) are just trying to save face.”.
“That bill is so packed with other things… You can’t trust it.”.
They will just always give their party the benefit of the doubt.
I think you’re giving the base too much credit…
Even if the base were swayed by this (they aren’t), they will literally never hear about this. They live in a completely different reality. Right wing media has totally insulated these people from the real world.
And even if you could somehow break the magical Hogwarts spell that is right wing media, the idea that someone would change their position based on new information is inherently bad to conservatives.
Which is odd. They’re dealing with Democrats here, so they should have anticipated total capitulation.
The GOP base won’t hear, or if they do, they’ll hear a spin.
I’m disgusted having to vote strait D when those cowards won’t fight back. This situation should be all over broadcast TV and radio. The Democrats should flood social media with this.
Every Republican I know thinks it’s the Democrats fault because they think they tried to make a bunch of concessions.