Timothy Birdnow

John Thune's gone and done it. He caved to the Democrats, cutting a deal that would fund all of DHS BUT ICE.

Damned his weaselly hide anyway! The Democrats were taking a beating on this and would have had to cave eventually - especially after Trump said he was going to pay the TSA by using emergency executive orders. But Thune wanted to go home and enjoy himself so he caved - no talking filibuster, no rule change to end the filibuster, no nothing. This was a pure surrender, plain and simple.

This will probably cost the GOP the election in November. It is this kind of sheer cowardice that has long dispirited the GOP base and led to Democrat victories. Schumer and his buddies are probably popping champagne corks now, knowing they won.

Saul Alinsky admonished his disciples "if you push a negative long and hard enough it can break through and become a positive" and this is exactly what that traitorous creep Chuck Schumer did - and Thune went right along with the script.

Why is it the GOP never stands firm and wins? Because our champions are not there to accomplish anything but rather to feather their own nests and enjoy the trappings of money and power. It's like Michael Corleone says in Godfather II "all of our people are businessmen. When loyalty is based on that anything is possible". This was in a discussion about who betrayed him. That is the GOP.

Trump endorsed Thune for Senate Majority Leader - Trump really screwed the pooch on that one.

This was a crust defense of the Senate majority, nay, the whole Republican Congressional majority; one break in the line and the barbarians come pouring in. Thune just turned tail and ran and now the Democrat horde is inside the city walls. We may well lose both houses of Congress.

After a voice vote the Senate recessed for Spring Break, and I suspect a lot of them are going to Cancun to enjoy the beaches and meet with their future constituents.

No, the Democrats didn't get their other demands; bench warrants, no masking, etc. And ICE is currently funded so enforcement won't ed immediately. No doubt Thune is patting himself on the back for being snookered by Schumer because to him it appears he won - or he thinks he can make the public think he won. But what happens when the funding runs out for ICE?

There was nothing done about the SAVE America Act either, the one thing that would have seriously damaged Democrats in the upcoming election.

The House still needs to pass this bill and President Trump needs to sign it. Of course, with the Senate on Fiesta that means if the House refuses to accept the bill as is it will have to wait until after Easter, or at least until the tequila runs out down in Acapulco.

While this is not a final victory it means yet another battle and another government shutdown when ICE funding runs out again when we had them on the ropes. But Thune wanted it finished "time is running out". What time was running out where? Time for him to lay in the tropical sun and sip strawberry margueritas maybe. Lazy bastard.

With these people as our champions we are doomed.

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