Discussion: Trump An Island On Nielsen Ouster; Only Dems Fully Support Her Exit

“Congress also has a responsibility here to act. This is where legislation has to be passed,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Politico. “What the President is doing is seeing the crisis and trying to solve the problem. He’s trying to get the right people in the right positions.”

A) Then why hasn’t he proposed legislation for you to take on? And why didn’t he do it while his party controlled the votes in congress?

B) Dude - you’re such a transparent suck-up. Worse than Ryan was. This isn’t “trying to solve the problem” - this was creating havoc as a result of throwing a series of tantrums with an increasingly frenetic and unhinged bend.

Your deep political impotence is showing, mr Minority leader.

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“Congress also has a responsibility here to act. This is where legislation has to be passed…"

For a moment I thought that someone had found a spine, but then I read the rest of the quote and realized it was McCarthy and he probably wants a bill giving Trump the power to do anything and everything he wants to do. If Trump is on an island here, then the GOP needs to support efforts to conduct constitutional oversight. Otherwise, it’s just sound and fury.

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Remember when Hitler had Goering arrested for proclaiming himself FĂĽhrer and trying to take over the Third Reich? Good times just before das Untergang.

What McCarthy seems to be suggesting is that Congress should give Trump full authority to do whatever he wants without congressional or judicial oversight. They could call it the Enabling Act.

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Trump on an island. Alcatraz needs renovations but does have some remarkable views, I’ve heard.

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“Congress also has a responsibility here to act. This is where legislation has to be passed,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Politico.

If the history of immigration in Congress since the Bush Junior admin tells us anything, it tells us the Republicans are incapable of immigration reform. They are too conflicted and divided on the matter. Besides, Kevin, didn’t you just have two full years of control of both houses? Yeah, you did. Fuck off, Kevin.

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Who could have predicted? Who knew saying the quiet part not just out loud, but through a megaphone, might have some negative downstream externalities? Who knew administrative white nationalism could be so complicated?

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Only a Trump toady like McCarthy could turn this brain-dead move by Trump (actually infantile) into a criticism of Congress.

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McCarthy strikes me as having all of the cravenness of Paul Ryan and more of the stupidity.

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The current immigration mess is what happens when instead of fixing problems political parties fund raise off them. Here is the deal, the Oligarchs running the Republican party like immigration just the way it is. The politicians in the Republican party want to keep the Oligarchs happy but they know that the rank and file are fearful of immigrants. They want to close the borders. Trump wants to play to those fears in spades. I am not sure he doesn’t actually believe what he is pushing.

The Democrats have pushed hard over the years to fix immigration but they have run into headwinds from their donors too. Remember the donor/oligarch class likes immigration just fine. They get illegal, cheap workers they can abuse and deport. The politicians get to use immigration as an issue to whip the rank and file of the respective parties. Notice that right now the Democratic politicians are trying to whip brown people to vote for them. Democrats love the problem not solving it.

Doing nothing suits the money class just fine, and the politicians get to rail against doing nothing. In the end the problem is never solved. It is just another issue that people like Trump get to whip their supporters with and blame the other party for not solving.

McCarthy’s response is in the finest tradition of modern GOP politics.

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“…many wonder how she could have done a better job…”

Not putting children in cages would have been a start.

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From my standpoint, at a university and involved with economic development, we need more immigration. The university gets harmed by not getting international students, and it runs down programs and skips pay raises. What international students we do have get harmed by not having job opportunities at the end of their degree, and they go back “home” and work for less money and undercut American wages, which in turn harms American workers. Employers get harmed by not being able to fill positions, and they offshore their operations to where they can get people. The country gets harmed by not having jobs from the new business startups that qualified immigrants produce a disproportionately high share of, but it has no “escape valve”, so all Americans suffer in the end.

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People don’t understand your valid point. It is very difficult to find highly educated/skilled Americans to fill important high paying jobs because our public education system generally sucks. My company has resisted off shoring but we have found ourselves hiring highly skilled immigrants. They have been in short supply since Trump’s election.

I think the policy makers in America have lost their way. Our country is spinning around the drain because we aren’t doing basic things right starting with educating our young people from the ground up. But boy do we know how to fund raise off education issues.

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Their only tools are destructive. They can undermine. They can cut. They can burn. They can tear down. That is all.

They cannot build.

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Gold window and door bars, piped in audio applause, and he’d be thrilled…

“What the President is doing is seeing the crisis and trying to solve the problem. He’s trying to get the right people in the right positions.”

Um, Kev? He’s putting people in “Acting” positions. Which could otherwise be characterized as precarious and temporary. This is all a game of Apprentice, while he tries to sneak in some real assholes without Congressional scrutiny. Ain’t nuthin’ right about any of this.

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That’s why I am losing my patience with the Democrats at the moment. Just this morning I’ve received another half dozen or so fundraising emails about the upcoming fights. Yet, how many subpoenas have been sent since they’ve taken over the house? So far the hardest they’ve grilled anyone was Michael Cohen - and that’s the lowest hanging fruit you can go after. And what came out of that hearing? Where are all these follow-up hearings that Cummings talked about. Its time to act with some urgency.

Gitmo is also on an island. Maybe Chiselin’ Trump could spend some time there.