The Republican failure to pass their own bill to address the border crisis shows GOP dysfunction at its worst.
The big news yesterday, along with the three-day cease fire in Gaza, had to be the House GOP’s failure to pass their own bill to try and address the crisis of unaccompanied children from Central America pouring into the US along our southern border.
What went wrong? Basically John Boehner and the House leadership wrote the most conservative bill he could which meant it would receive no Democratic votes, but this was still rejected by many House Republicans because it wasn’t “conservative” enough. And as a result Boehner pulled the bill from the floor but will apparently try again at some point in the future, although Congress typically goes home in August, meaning it’s quite possible that nothing will get passed and everyone will just go home on vacation. Meanwhile other Republicans called on the President to take unilateral steps to deal with the crisis.
Jennifer Bendery pointed out on Twitter the absurdity on display here, “In last 24 hrs, House GOP 1) sued Obama for using exec authority and 2) said it’s up to Obama to use exec authority on border crisis. Ok!”
So where do we go from here? Beats me. I guess we just go back to blaming everything on President Obama and doing absolutely nothing. Which is sad, because there really is a big problem here. But that’s basically been the game plan for the House since 2011, I guess we just get more of the same.
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