You can have my crisis when pried from my dead hands
By Sid Schwab / Hearld Columnist
Immigration! The border! Solutions have eluded presidents and congresses of both parties for decades.
If producing effective policy is confounding, though, one aspect is self-evident: Republicans do not want resolution. They want only to rail and derail. Lacking positive accomplishments on which to run, stuck defending a man found liable for sexual assault and facing 91 felony charges and likely huge penalties for fraudulent business practices, they have nothing but lying about Biden’s border policies; declaiming a lack of action while making sure none happens.
Don’t take my word for it. After President Biden facilitated a bipartisan agreement in the Senate, Donald Trump, who hopes to ride immigration into November (British Library:tinyurl.com/ride2nov), has been pressing congressional Republicans to block it (Yahoo!News: tinyurl.com/DJTsaysNO). Said election-denying Troy Nehls, R-Teax, about any border deal, “I’m not willing to help Joe Biden’s approval rating. … I’m not going to do it.” He speaks for them all. Milder, though, than Speaker-from-God Mike Johnson, who holds photo-ops at the border while accusing President Biden of treason, and, later, promising that the Senate agreement is DOA.
Could anything be more cynical? From House Republicans? Sure: newly-hatched articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alehandro Mayorkas for “doing nothing” about immigration after they’ve blocked all of Biden’s and Democrats’ efforts to address it. How Trumpified are Republicans? The Oklahoma GOP censured their Sen. James Lankford for participating in that bipartisan border agreement. This is a party interested only in retrogressive performance.
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