Under no circumstances should the House vote for a McConnell-only bill w/ no negotiation with Democrats. Hell no. That’s an abdication of power we should refuse to accept. They will keep hurting kids if we do.
His Senate bill is a militarization bill. McConnell killed the House Bill & dropped this one right before recess to force passage.
Well, too bad. This is our job. Cancel vacation, fly the Senate in. Pass a clean humanitarian bill & stop trying to squeeze crises for more pain.
Is this the way she's going to characterize, as her stint in the House goes forward, every situation in which those with whom she's supposed to be allied, hammer out legislation that comes as close as is politically possible, given the realities of the moment?
And are we going to be subjected to years and years of this level of hyperbole ("keep hurting kids" . . . "militarization bill")?
Guy Benson at Townhall debunks her throbbingly outlandish assertions:
(1) This "McConnell only" bill was co-written by Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Pat Leahy (D-VT). It won 84 percent of Senators' votes.
(2) The "no negotiation with Democrats" is patently false, as evidenced by Leahy's co-sponsorship and explicit endorsement, as well as the support of more than half of the Senate Democratic caucus -- including Chuck Schumer.
(3) McConnell "killed" the House bill by bringing it up for a vote. It failed to attract even 40 Senators' support. And guess who voted against that very same House bill? That's right: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
(4) As for "hurting kids," AOC is on the record opposing all proposed legislative solutions to the border crisis. She voted against each bill put forward -- and as I just mentioned, was one of just four Democrats (along with her radical pals Omar and Tlaib) to break with Pelosi on the House bill whose Senate demise she's now cynically lamenting. She has encouraged boycotts and collective action against a private company fulfilling a government contractor's order to provide more beds to children she claims to want to help. Relatedly, she'd absolutely fume and fulminate over images of those same kids sleeping on floors, having agitated against beds for them. Will she also rail against the food service providers feeding these children? After all, they're also "complicit" under her twisted rationale.
(5) Would Ms. Ocasio-Cortez care to offer a workable solution under which the US government treats these children humanely, while also (a) respecting existing legal requirements regarding the detainment of unlawful immigrants, (b) allowing for proper vetting of adult asylum seekers (without separating real and claimed families), and (c) not actively encouraging more illegal entries? I'll wait. Meanwhile, she also quadrupled down on her "concentration camps" smear and supporting lies, defying rebukes from Holocaust historians and survivors. It's almost as if she's a reckless blowhard.Her favorability and trustworthiness numbers in her own district are underwater big-time, and a majority of folks there are ready to vote against her. The best outcome, then, for those Democrats and for the nation as a whole, would be to send her back to the taco bar.
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