This week, Republican party showed itself willing to snag defeat from the jaws of victory first by putting a “bipartisan” plan to bail out Joe Biden out of a jam and gave him cover for his immigration woes with a bad bill that allows close to 1.9 million illegals over the next year, which is more than what we do legally. Republicans not only committed bad politics but bad policies that will give cover to Biden while in the long run do nothing to stem the illegal immigration.
RNC is disarray with ten months left until the election and so far the Republicans are being outraised by the Democrats, and Democrats outstrip the GOP with money on hand but then GOP had a choice last year to change direction at the RNC but chose to stand pat and one person who supported RNC pat was Donald Trump who now wants McDaniel out. There are state party organization like Arizona and Michigan in disarray, which will impact GOTV.
Meanwhile, one of the worst Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, who simply decided not to enforce immigration laws, was not impeached by Congress and three Republicans supported Mayorkas.
Makes you wonder sometimes why have Republicans?
The GOP descent began with the removal of Kevin McCarthy and Thomas Massie noted, “Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster. All work on separate spending bills has ceased. Spending reductions have been traded for spending increases. Warrantless spying has been temporarily extended. Our majority has shrunk.”
Ronna McDaniel will step down after the South Carolina primary and Trump will attempt to get one of his guys or gals to run the party. (Trump did endorse McDaniel ) Ronna had the longest reign as the chief since Mark Hanna who reigned from 1896 to 1904 and might add the RNC won three straight Presidential election. As for Ronna, the GOP had 52 Senators, 246 Representatives and 4,205 state legislatives for 57 percent of the seats. Now there are 49 Senators, 219 House representatives and 4022 state legislators for 54% of the seats. And Republicans go into the 2024 election cycles with just eight million dollars available.
Jim Geraghty stated, “A major factor in all this is that House Speaker Mike Johnson is attempting to placate the erratic political desires of one guy down in Mar-a-Lago, instead of living with the reality of the extremely limited consensus among the 218 other guys in his caucus. This is what happens when the primary criterion for leadership within the Republican Party is public loyalty to Donald Trump, rather than competence, discipline, judgment, or strategic thinking.” It is more than just loyalty to Donald Trump since even Andrew McCarthy, who is not a Trump supporter, viewed the border immigration bill as bad and should be rejected. It goes beyond loyalty to Trump but Republicans simply don’t know what kind of Party they want to be.
As one pundit noted, The House counter to Biden on the border should be simple. Could almost do it in a one sentence bill. “Give the president Title 42-style authority to shut the border without triggers or limits. Take it or leave it.” Steven Hayward added, “House Republicans already passed an immigration control bill last year, the Secure the Border Act of 2023. It calls for building a border wall, scaling back the grounds for asylum, and instituting employment verification measures. The Senate has not voted on it. Maybe the media should be asking why.”
Speaker Johnson simply should send to the Senate the Secure the Border Act of 2023 back to the Senate and tell them, border security of our southern border take priority.
From this point, the Republican in Congress should worry less about reaching across the aisle and simply design a plan to win the election and govern afterwards.
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