The What Crisis At the Where Now?

NOTE: Yes, the Super Bowl was yesterday. And I did watch it. I will write about it in a "This (Non) Sporting Life" post on Wednesday.

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Boy do Republicans love to bitch, moan and complain about the so called "crisis at the southern border".  

One might think the border between the United States and Mexico is like a scene from World War Z where veritable swarms of zombies are crawling over walls and shit.  

To be fair, there are problems at the southern border with an increase in the numbers of people looking to escape poverty, murder, rape, torture and all in all just unrelenting despair in their shit hole countries.  This large number of migrants is causing a lot of pressure on the resources of border agents.  

Republicans in the House of Representatives pushed forth a measure to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for just not plain doing his job. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her irksome ilk want you to think that while THIS is going on at the border with Mexico...

Mayorkas is sitting in his office playing Minesweeper all day.

(Is Minesweeper still a thing? I haven't played Minesweeper in years!) 

Except there is no evidence that Mayorkas is NOT doing his job. It appears that the dude is doing what he can with what he has and he could use more. 

Which he won't get. 

Because...

OK, a few weeks back, both houses of Congress seemed to be on the precipice of working out the first real comprehensive border legislation in decades!  

There was a lot of stuff that Republicans said they wanted such as restrictions on the number of people who can come in and even set a level where if numbers hit a certain amount, the border could be shut down. 

There was NO mention of any kind of amnesty or paths to citizenship. 

After bitching, moaning and complaining about the "crisis at the southern border", here was some bi-partisan legislation to do something about it.

President Joe Biden said he would sign the legislation and even promised to immediately use the powers provided by this legislation to shut down the border until we could get a handle on the numbers down there.

Republicans were getting what they wanted.

So what happened?

The Republicans' Cheeto Jesus intervened. 

Donald Trump didn't want the bill to pass NOW because it would give Biden and the Democrats a win. 

Trump wants the "crisis at the southern border" to remain a crisis so he can run against it.  

Li'l Donnie declared the legislation a "bad bill" before the details of what was in the damn thing had been released. 

And sure enough Republicans began backing off their plans to vote for the bill. Since the bill was giving them exactly what they claimed they wanted, some of them used the excuse that the bill included amnesty for illegal immigrants. 

Which is a complete lie. 

Basically, Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud which is the "crisis at the southern border" is more important as a political hot potato to enrage their voters and get votes than it as an actual problem there were elected to solve.

"Crisis at the southern border"? More like "what crisis at the where now?" 

It is the most tacit admission ever that the Republican Party sees their supporters as suckers. 

And they are suckers. Trump's poll numbers keep improving.

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Tomorrow: The Tuesday TV Touchbase looks at the season premiere of Abbott Elementary.

Wednesday: This (Non) Sporting Life recounts my time watching this year's Super Bowl.