Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

"GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html

Originally Posted by James Brown

Economic optimism is coming back though - and that will be everything Biden needs.

True but by then Ukraine will be lost. It's barely holding on now by its fingertips and it's only a matter of time before it's torn to pieces without US aid...

The border deal that could be:

"Key senators cut deal to give US new power to clamp down on border crossings"

"Senate negotiators have agreed to empower the US to significantly restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move aimed at ending the migrant surge that has overrun federal authorities over the past several months."

"Under the soon-to-be-released package, the Department of Homeland Security would be granted new emergency authority to shut down the border if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span. If migrant crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants crossing illegally not entering at ports of entry. Certain migrants would be allowed to stay if they prove to be fleeing torture or persecution in their countries."

"Moreover, if crossings exceed 8,500 in a single day, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants illegally crossing the border. Under the proposal, any migrant who tries to cross the border twice while it is closed would be banned from entering the US for one year."


https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/politics/senate-deal-shutdown-border/index.html

Of course, we all "know" Trump could do better...

If this doesn't take the cake:

"The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution on Saturday condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his role as a chief negotiator in the Senate border security talks between Democrats and Republicans."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4434317-oklahoma-gop-votes-to-censure-lankford-over-senate-border-talks/

Can the GOP be any more warped than this?

The MAGA extremists, lead by Trump, are trying to sink a border deal that has support from the GOP in the senate, a rarity in itself:

"Republican senators think that Trump wants to deny President Biden a policy victory 10 months before the 2024 election — a victory on Trump’s signature issue of border security, no less."

"But they think it would be a major policy and political mistake to miss an opportunity to reform the nation’s asylum laws and give the president greater expulsion authority to deter the flow of migrants from Central America."


"They also warn that it would be a strategic disaster to abandon Ukraine in its war against Russia. They worry if Russian President Vladimir Putin wins in Ukraine, it will pose a serious threat to U.S. allies and economic interests in Europe. "

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4416909-trump-takes-on-mcconnell-senate-gop-on-border-package/

Classic Trump for sure: last week he was hoping the American economy crashes and now this, all to gain personal political advantage at the risk to greater peril to American financial and national and international security interests. That's Rich Davis' choice for the WH...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Defend what??  I didn't even open the link.  Why would I care what a fool like yourself thinks of Trump supporters?   LOL!!  

You voted for the dumbest politician and the most corrupt, and put him into the Presidency, abd so then I'm supposed to have even the slightest modicum of respect for your thoughts on Politics?

Man, you really need a wake up call.  

Leave to dodgeball Davis to dodge the topic of the thread.
As for the usual and baseless GOP claim of corruption, things have not changed since this:

"GOP lawmaker who backed impeachment inquiry admits he’s seen no evidence of ‘high crime or misdemeanor’"
In fact they can't even identify the crime: "“And as a former prosecutor, what exactly is the high crime or misdemeanor that’s being investigated?” Abrams asked Joyce.
“Well, yeah, that’s a good point. And I haven’t seen any of that today,"
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4360176-gop-lawmaker-who-backed-impeachment-inquiry-admits-hes-seen-no-evidence-of-high-crime-or-misdemeanor/

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

LOL!!!   

Oh man, hilarious.  You put forth the leftist DNC rag "the Hill" as your always and only source, and they find 1 obscure, completely unknown Republican, and apparently this guy named Dave Joyce, whom not one person outside of his home district in Ohio ever heard of, is THE authority on whether or not there is evidence??  

Is that right?  

Thanks for the hilarity as I'm ending my day.

You must have missed the part where it's noted Joyce is a former prosecutor and therefore knows a thing or two about the law, unlike you. So once again, your reading comprehension skills are suspect and the only "hilarity" here is your own response...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Former prosecutor???  LOL.

I guess you didn't look him up.  He was a bleeding heart defense atty for over 10 years, then became a Prosecutor for about a year.  

Give me his credentials please that makes him worth listening to.  

It does make him worth listening to since he's seen and practiced both sides of equation. You, on the other hand...

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

And it never stops.  From New Hampshire, more words of wisdom regarding presidential immunity from the stable genius:

Trump: But it's a little bit like the police. So you have a rogue cop. You know what a rogue cop is? Very seldom. But you have bad people. You have people. No matter where, no matter what. In the church, you have some people that aren't so good, right? But you have a rogue cop or a bad apple or whatever. And what they do is they make it so that you catch so that it can't happen and therefore everyone else is allowed to commit crimes, murders like at levels that we've never seen before. No, we're going to have to do this immunity for the president. If you have a president that doesn't have immunity, he's never going to be free to do anything because the opposing party will always indict him as soon as he leaves the White House. And you can't let that happen. You can't. Then you can't let that happen. You can't you take away all of the power of the presidency. It'll be a different country.

I find it mind boggling that there are people out there who think he's fit to run a country.

"I find it mind boggling that there are people out there who think he's fit to run a country."

They're out there for hours, standing in line in freezing temperatures in order to listen to his gibberish and then applaud his every inane word that comes out of his mouth...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"I find it mind boggling that there are people out there who think he's fit to run a country."

They're out there for hours, standing in line in freezing temperatures in order to listen to his gibberish and then applaud his every inane word that comes out of his mouth...

This might have something to do with it, too:

 As per New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R):

" Trump has no energy — the guy can barely read a teleprompter right now."

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4422785-sununu-says-trump-has-no-energy-he-can-barely-read-a-teleprompter/