McConnell Advises Republican Senators to Vote "No" on Amnesty Bill He Personally Negotiated

This party must be abandoned. We cannot continue like this, where we never even get to fight the Democrats -- we're constantly having to fight our own "leaders" to please, please, for once, take our side in a debate.

But they won't: The GOP Establishment loathes, detests, hates, despises its own voters. We are, in fact, Deplorables in their eyes.

Facing a torrent of criticism from conservatives, Senate Republicans on Monday resisted advancing on a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings, signaling a likely defeat in Congress that would leave leaders with no clear path to approve wartime aid for Ukraine.

In a dramatic turnaround, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell recommended to GOP senators in a closed-door meeting that they vote against the first procedural vote Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the meeting who were not authorized to talk publicly about it and spoke anonymously.

It came just hours after the Kentucky Republican had urged colleagues on the Senate floor that "it's now time for Congress to take action." But McConnell has struggled to marshal his conference to support the package of $118 billion package of border enforcement policy and funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.

Senate negotiators on Sunday night released the text of the bill, hoping that the details would win over skeptics. The carefully negotiated deal represented a rightward shift in Senate negotiations over border measures, yet the backlash was still intense from conservatives. They savaged the border policy proposal as insufficient, with former President Donald Trump leading the charge.

"This is a gift to the Democrats. And this sort of is a shifting of the worst border in history onto the shoulders of Republicans," Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, said Monday on "The Dan Bongino Show." "They want this for the presidential election so they can now blame the Republicans for the worst border in history."

Via Jazz Shaw at Hot Air, who adds:

Lankford is the missing piece of the puzzle here. As recently as yesterday, he went on Fox and Friends and continued to defend the bill, criticizing Republicans who were opposing it. He was generous enough to say that if conservatives were fighting against the idea of allowing 5,000 illegal aliens to be released into the country each day, "We can do 3,000." The backlash against his plan back in his home state led some members of the Oklahoma Republican Party to hold a meeting to discuss censuring him, though the measure was not officially passed. Others took to social media calling on Lankford to resign.

McConnell's determination to ram through yet another Comprehensive Amnesty will have several terrible aftereffects.

On the strictly political side, it gives Biden and Schumer what they actually wanted all along: A way to blame Republicans for the Democrats' border catastrophe. Democrats will claim the solution to the open border crisis was at hand, but Republicans rejected it for political reasons.

Indeed, turncoat "Republican" liberal James Lankford is going out on all the political talk shows making exactly that case.

On the policy side, Democrats will now insist that this weak "deal" establish the contours of any future "deal." In other words: The Republicans have announced that they seek only the tiniest breadcrumbs in exchange for mass amnesty; why would Democrats ever agree to offer more than breadcrumbs in any "deal"? McConnell has committed us, out to the medium future, to sharing the Democrats' Amnesty First, Security Last (or Never) agenda.

The "deal," by the way, contained a Very Special Betrayal for conservatives: The bill would make the ultra-liberal DC Circuit Court the only court empowered to decide questions about immigration and border enforcement. We've seen some good rulings coming out of the Fifth Circuit on the border; this "deal" would take all cases away from any conservative-tilted court and give them all to the leftwing DC circuit.

This is a "deal." You guys are excited by this "deal," right?

Sean Davis on McConnell's walkback:

Sean Davis @seanmdav

Let this be a lesson to any Republican stupid enough to go out on a limb to do McConnnell's dirty work: he will leave you out to dry, then cut off the limb you're standing on to save his own behind.

Make no mistake: McConnell picked Lankford for this kamikaze mission because 1) Lankford isn't up for re-election until 2028, and 2) Lankford didn't have the experience or wits to accomplish anything substantive against Schumer and Biden, whose goals on immigration and Ukraine perfectly align with McConnell's.

It was vintage Mitch McConnell: work feverishly behind the scenes on behalf of his donors and the Uniparty to fleece taxpayers, pick an unsuspecting dupe to bear the public burden of carrying McConnell's slop bucket, then throw the poor dupe right under the bus when everything goes sideways.

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza

I hear @SenatorLankford used to be a Bible study leader. A worthy calling, but maybe we shouldn't be sending Bible study guys to negotiate with the mafia. That's like sending a dance instructor to negotiate with Xi Xinping. Is it any surprise Lankford got eaten alive?

I don't think that's it. This paints Lankford as some good-hearted innocent and naif. He's quite the opposite: He's a conniving, Gollum-like servitor of the Regime, dressing up his gonzo devotion to transnational progressivism and the WEF as "Christian" missionary work.

My thoughts exactly:

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC

James Lankford must be politically destroyed for this border bill. I don't just say that because of my extreme malice towards Senator Naked Ken Doll.

It's important for other GOP senators see the career of @jameslankford end because of this.

We must make an example of him.

Below: Lankford has long been committed to Amnesty First. That's why McConnell picked him.

Remember, Biden needs new laws (granting mass amnesty) in order to close the border.

Except... Greg Abbott is able to do so armed only with the will to close the border.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:05 PM

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