Republican members of Congress took the opportunity of a hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday to resurface by-now-very-familiar talking points about illegal immigration — talking points that tend to resurface around elections or whenever Democrats hold the White House in office.
For all the folks complaining about jumping on the Cuomo band wagon when it seemed to be mostly Republicans and possible false accusation. Meyer’s points out a lot of other Cuomo shit.
From it, Fred Armmissing he he he!
Feverish rants about immigrants
So pretty much SSDD except they have a podium today?
Funny, the GOP is to blame for most of this, yet they fail to see it.
Why is the committee chair allowing this abuse and badgering of a witness?
The problems are of our own making.
Sad, Higgins can’t even be original. Do you think that they memorize this script?
Wonder what Deb Haaland thinks about this spectacle?
Leaves me to thinking:
If this was such a crisis, why did the GQP delay the hearing for this guy? What’s he supposed to do when he isn’t in charge of anything because he hasn’t been confirmed yet?
Biden’s been president for two months and we still don’t have a full cabinet.
Wonder why it is no one is challenging the GQP on that?
It’s a good point, but I actually think Biden’s being pretty strategic about his ToDo list. He got the COVID legislation passed, he got Merrick Garland in place, now the checks are going out. I really hope the next thing is the voting rights legislation, since that’s an existential threat to the country and then I want to start seeing some arrests for all the evil that was done throughout the last term but along the way they do need to finish fleshing out the cabinet and get some “normal” going again, as well.
I once had a job for a couple of months cleaning out pigsties for a farmer in Greece in my long-haired hitchhiking days and what I see Biden and his team working on reminds me a lot of that time in my life…
Absolutely. Although as immature and childish as the Republican tantrums are, Mayorkas should have simply stood there silent until they realized it. Then pulled the Mom response. "Oh, are you finished? I didn’t want to interrupt you.
From the home folks
This came up in the DHS hearing?
Near the hearing’s start however, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) set the tone for the minority by screaming at Mayorkas about the crisis at the border, interrupting him before accusing the DHS secretary of failing to answer his questions.
Higgins began by calling the hearing “nauseating,” before launching into a conspiracy theory.
Republicans are into performance art and not much more. You hardly ever hear one ask relevant questions or propose a reasoned solution.
You make this seem as an oops and oversight versus deliberately misleading the public.
Yes.
Do you think it matters to their supporters? Apparently, it doesn’t because, if it did, they wouldn’t be consistently re-electing these people.
Yeah well I wish someone would ask him who his sources are - they might be the same people sending the kids up here.
Asking questions and then shouting down the answer … rings a bell somehow … can’t quite place it.