Of course not. They need this to rile up the base now that they’ve caught the car on abortion.
This stands out to me as an example of how much he and his party’s leadership wants to avoid actually governing. He wants to hold other areas of governing such as foreign aid for areas in immediate need, hostage unless the more extreme positions of his party are met. He wants to impeach over administrators not carrying out his demands. But he’s unwilling to do the job of reaching a comprehensive approach to fixing what everyone recognizes is a badly defective process.
If we always wait to see if our faction gets more power later, we’ll never be ready to pass the laws we need or make the compromises that governing requires.
So getting this straight… GOP has been flipping their shit over immigration reform, and when the opportunity to actually fix it, they say not now?
Now is the time to complain about it, not do anything about it!
Then tell your party to STFU about it.
We’ve been saying this for 75 years. Our naturalization laws pre-date gay marriage, IVF and surrogacy so we use a creative interpretation of the WWII era War Brides Act to answer modern questions.
He’s right. Now is not the right time to do it. The right time to do it was 20 years ago.
It is this. Republicans don’t want the government to work. They want to complain about how the government doesn’t work.
Stop voting for Republicans.
Of course not. The time is either when a Republican is president instead and can get the credit, or never so they can continue to scream about it.
>“It’s a complex issue. I don’t think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform, because we know how complicated that is,” Johnson said.
If *only* there were some sort of deliberative body, one with access to subject matter experts, staff to assist them, and the ability to discuss and debate complex and complicated issues to come to some kind of solution or compromise. We could even get them all in a big building – a “house” if you will – to do their work.
The majority of mindless voters will think biden don’t want to fix the border when its the GOP 😞
After the dictatorship, then we’ll do immigration ‘reform’ so the base doesn’t notice that we’re rampantly importing cheap labor while causing huge distractions at the border.
The Biden administration is currently executing the law as it exists and Republicans are going hysterical claiming it’s insufficient. Per law the Asylum seekers Republican Governors are busing/flying around the Country are allowed to request Asylum. Those migrants aren’t violating any U.S. law. Yet Republicans are using them as political props and transporting around the country as human attack ads.
Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to have it both ways. Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to cry that Biden isn’t doing enough while simultaneously refusing to fix loopholes in the law or staff immigration related agencies. Biden cannot enforce laws that don’t exist and Congress is the body responsible for passing and amending the law.
He speaks like an Old Testament king. No rebuttal needed.
We need to use this as an issue to get elected so we couldn’t possibly solve it now
Folks we are the GOP and we are not done bitching and moaning about immigrants and immigration, we have to keep demonizing and stoking hatred so our MAGA base stays happy and keeps watching Fox News
“We dont was to look like racist shitbags right before an election”
Republicans saw what happened when they caught the car that is abortion. No chance they want to catch the one that is immigration reform.
GOP: “we need to secure the border!”
Also GOP: “Now is not the time for comprehensive immigration reform”
“If we can come up with a viable solution, what will we have to complain about during the election?”
Not the time for gun reform, not the time for immigration reform… so what time is it? When is good for you? Let’s go. We got shit to do here…
Immigration reform will require a lot of compromising and working through details.
The current GOP is almost entirely consumed by a group of lunatics that view compromising as a sin worse than murder. Johnson is a true believer and even he was vilified over working with Dems on the last spending bill.
So, maybe he’s just trying to signal to his own party that it’s not a fight they want to pursue? Then again, immigration reform in the news cycle would be quite poison pill for republicans… perhaps Johnson is just trying to protect republicans in tight races.
It’s never time for anything. After a mass shooting, it’s no time for gun reform. After a train derailment, it’s no time for regulation. After an insurrection, it’s no time for an impeachment.
“If we actually do something about immigration it’ll be harder to campaign on it.
Worse yet, it might make the Democrats look good.”
EDIT: This is literally the kind of reasoning Republicans use, and it showcases just how addicted they’ve become to being outraged.
A reasonable politician would push hard to reform immigration for the better, get publicity on it, and then when it passes advertise themselves as “the politician who helped address immigration.”
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Of course not. They need this to rile up the base now that they’ve caught the car on abortion.
This stands out to me as an example of how much he and his party’s leadership wants to avoid actually governing. He wants to hold other areas of governing such as foreign aid for areas in immediate need, hostage unless the more extreme positions of his party are met. He wants to impeach over administrators not carrying out his demands. But he’s unwilling to do the job of reaching a comprehensive approach to fixing what everyone recognizes is a badly defective process.
If we always wait to see if our faction gets more power later, we’ll never be ready to pass the laws we need or make the compromises that governing requires.
So getting this straight… GOP has been flipping their shit over immigration reform, and when the opportunity to actually fix it, they say not now?
Now is the time to complain about it, not do anything about it!
Then tell your party to STFU about it.
We’ve been saying this for 75 years. Our naturalization laws pre-date gay marriage, IVF and surrogacy so we use a creative interpretation of the WWII era War Brides Act to answer modern questions.
He’s right. Now is not the right time to do it. The right time to do it was 20 years ago.
It is this. Republicans don’t want the government to work. They want to complain about how the government doesn’t work.
Stop voting for Republicans.
Of course not. The time is either when a Republican is president instead and can get the credit, or never so they can continue to scream about it.
>“It’s a complex issue. I don’t think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform, because we know how complicated that is,” Johnson said.
If *only* there were some sort of deliberative body, one with access to subject matter experts, staff to assist them, and the ability to discuss and debate complex and complicated issues to come to some kind of solution or compromise. We could even get them all in a big building – a “house” if you will – to do their work.
The majority of mindless voters will think biden don’t want to fix the border when its the GOP 😞
After the dictatorship, then we’ll do immigration ‘reform’ so the base doesn’t notice that we’re rampantly importing cheap labor while causing huge distractions at the border.
The Biden administration is currently executing the law as it exists and Republicans are going hysterical claiming it’s insufficient. Per law the Asylum seekers Republican Governors are busing/flying around the Country are allowed to request Asylum. Those migrants aren’t violating any U.S. law. Yet Republicans are using them as political props and transporting around the country as human attack ads.
Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to have it both ways. Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to cry that Biden isn’t doing enough while simultaneously refusing to fix loopholes in the law or staff immigration related agencies. Biden cannot enforce laws that don’t exist and Congress is the body responsible for passing and amending the law.
He speaks like an Old Testament king. No rebuttal needed.
We need to use this as an issue to get elected so we couldn’t possibly solve it now
Folks we are the GOP and we are not done bitching and moaning about immigrants and immigration, we have to keep demonizing and stoking hatred so our MAGA base stays happy and keeps watching Fox News
“We dont was to look like racist shitbags right before an election”
Republicans saw what happened when they caught the car that is abortion. No chance they want to catch the one that is immigration reform.
GOP: “we need to secure the border!”
Also GOP: “Now is not the time for comprehensive immigration reform”
“If we can come up with a viable solution, what will we have to complain about during the election?”
Not the time for gun reform, not the time for immigration reform… so what time is it? When is good for you? Let’s go. We got shit to do here…
Immigration reform will require a lot of compromising and working through details.
The current GOP is almost entirely consumed by a group of lunatics that view compromising as a sin worse than murder. Johnson is a true believer and even he was vilified over working with Dems on the last spending bill.
So, maybe he’s just trying to signal to his own party that it’s not a fight they want to pursue? Then again, immigration reform in the news cycle would be quite poison pill for republicans… perhaps Johnson is just trying to protect republicans in tight races.
It’s never time for anything. After a mass shooting, it’s no time for gun reform. After a train derailment, it’s no time for regulation. After an insurrection, it’s no time for an impeachment.
“If we actually do something about immigration it’ll be harder to campaign on it.
Worse yet, it might make the Democrats look good.”
EDIT: This is literally the kind of reasoning Republicans use, and it showcases just how addicted they’ve become to being outraged.
A reasonable politician would push hard to reform immigration for the better, get publicity on it, and then when it passes advertise themselves as “the politician who helped address immigration.”