Senate GOP Is a Trainwreck...Because It's Still Loaded With Spineless Trash
Senate Republicans need to grow up. They’re
leaving town, not returning until June, which kills the deadline to pass
the reconciliation bill aimed at funding the Department of Homeland
Security. The agency has been shut down due to Democratic Party antics
since Presidents’ Day weekend. Yet, that’s the least of it. There’s
obvious heartburn that President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton over Sen.
John Cornyn in the Texas Senate runoff, and Sen. David Cassidy (R-LA)
lost his primary last weekend—he voted to impeach Trump; he had to go.
Yet, the reconciliation bill, the ballroom renovation, and finally
the Justice Department’s anti-weaponization fund, which would provide
compensation to those found to be unfairly targeted by the government,
proved to be too much for these people to handle. They ran away. And
yes, January 6 was an issue regarding the fund (via Semafor):
The
most urgent reason for the delay is boiling anger among Senate
Republicans at the president’s $1.8 billion fund of taxpayer money for
people who allege they’ve been targeted by the government. That
includes, potentially, rioters who participated in the 2021 Capitol
attack.
But the bill is slowing down for other reasons, none of
them related to immigration: Trump is unsuccessfully pushing for
security funding for his White House ballroom renovation, and his
goodwill with GOP senators is at a second-term low as he seeks to defeat
his second Republican incumbent in as many weeks. Republicans had
little appetite for giving Trump what he wanted this week, according to
senators and aides.
Broadly speaking, Trump’s sway over the Senate
GOP is lower than it’s been at any point in his second term, those
Republican sources said — even as his influence in party primaries
peaks.
The White House had indicated to Senate Republicans this
week that Trump could veto any party-line immigration bill that didn’t
contain his unrelated priorities, including the East Wing money and
unrestricted use of his “anti-weaponization” fund, according to four
people familiar with the matter. A White House official denied to
Semafor that such a message was sent.
That bold talk of vetoing a
top priority came after Trump helped oust Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., in
his primary before endorsing scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who’s beloved among his GOP
colleagues. The president also attacked the nonpartisan Senate
parliamentarian for ruling that the East Wing security funding could be
filibustered, a broadside that many senators viewed as a low blow.
[…]
Republicans
“were upset going into the meeting and probably were no less upset
coming out of the committee, because there was no remedy. There was some
frustration,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. Politically speaking, he
added, the fund is “unexplainable. That’s the problem.”
Sen. Thom
Tillis, R-N.C., upbraided Blanche over the fund in the meeting, and
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told Blanche firmly that
the administration needs to consult more closely with Congress ahead of
decisions, according to people familiar with the meeting.
“So the
nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay
people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong; take your pick,”
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement.
The meeting was described as an “absolute sh*tshow” by two people briefed on it.
[…]
Senate
Republicans clearly need a breather after this week, and they may be
able to reassemble the immigration bill. They may even find a way to get
back in sync with Trump, who has a unique ability to get his way even
when it seems impossible.
On the other hand, Trump is getting deep
into his second term with low approval ratings and more focus on
foreign policy than on domestic issues. Republicans may be realizing
that they need a path to success — at legislating and campaigning — in a
post-Trump party.
It could be a rough 2026 as they figure that out.
That’s a lot of whining. All talk, no action. This upper chamber is
full of the spineless and the cowardly. I understand we don’t have a
true majority, since we have four to five members in the agitator
caucus, but this is a lot of complaining for a body that has done
nothing. That indulged Senate Democrats on DHS funding, only to get
played like a fiddle. I can see why Trump views them as eunuchs. They’re
completely worthless, and they proved it again this week.
Pretty
neat how the GOP eunuchs have no problem handing out money to every
leftist program known to man but the prospect of maybe helping some of
their most dedicated voters a little bit even once is where they draw
the line. https://t.co/YCBkvbrVnA
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