Republican Sen. James Lankford, who spent months negotiating the border provisions the GOP demanded, said he may vote against his own bill this week.
Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.
With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.
The gain is not losing anything. It doesn’t matter what the Dems conceded; if the bill doesn’t pass then their concessions are irrelevant.
But it’s worse for the GOP. They got lots of what they demanded, but aren’t going to get those things because they won’t support the bill. So not only do they not get what they want, but talking point of “The GOP denounced a bill for border security hours after supporting it, and after months of complaining about the border. Do they really want to fix it?” is so stupidly simple to understand.
The Right doesn’t care about talking points, that’s a Dem notion. The Right’s base is compliant, and only seeks information from biased sources, who will never give an objective account. If they haven’t seen the hypocrisy by now, they never will.
The 30% deplorables, yes. But for better or worse, there’s a group of voters who flip-flop every election for whatever reason- memory too short to remember what the GOP is like, or dissatisfaction with gas prices or food prices or whatever. That’s the group that these political games are aimed at. They’re too stupid to be against the GOP, but not so stupid you can’t convince them to support the Dems long enough to sway an election.
Oh you sweet summer child…