With national pressure bearing down, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) lurched on Friday towards finding a way to declare victory on his latest border stunt.
abbot - whatâs that horrible odor coming from my wheels?
His legacy?
I always like the scene in Hannibal, when Dr. Lecter says to Cordell something like, âHey Cordell, push him into the pit. You can always tell them it was me.â
Just sayinâ ⌠well, Iâm not saying it, other people are saying it. Just disregard the fact that you can see directly above this ⌠that I did indeed say it.
Nothing to see behind the curtain, move along people.
Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, laid out the plan in clear terms on Fox News on Friday.
âThe governor has figured out we can stop trade along the border, slow it down, and it will create pressure on Mexico and some of their governors to work out a deal to help us with border security,â he said.
Call it what it is: an illegal blockcade that usurps federal government authority over international trade and diplomacy.
I know Biden has much more important things on his plate (see: Ukraine), but this needs to be confronted now. What Abbott is doing is both illegal and unconstitutional and, if we donât fight back now, Republicans will just do this again and again.
So, when does Abbott declare that he has the right to disregard federal law with which he disagrees?
You know, itâs a stateâs right.
There are calls for Biden to challenge Abbott on border inspections, etc.
Maybe that would work, although any sort of border news isnât usually good for Biden.
However, Abbott has done a great job of shooting himself in the foot among Texans. Local news there is not so favorable toward Abbott, from what Iâve read, and other Rethuglicans are criticizing him. So, thereâs that.
How about, âPeople are sayingâŚâ
It seemed to work for Donnie.
With national pressure bearing down, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) lurched on Friday towards finding a way to declare victory on his latest border stunt.
âIt was an ammunition explosion!â
[âfinding a way to declare victory on his latest border stunt.â]
Lots of savvy to do thisâŚhint hint hintâŚUkraine
I am not fond of Abbott at all, butâŚ
Youâre saying Governor Abbott should let his fleetâs flagship get sunk?
As Bugs Bunny once remarked, âWhat a maroon!â He must believe that he is really smartâŚnot like people say.
This and more: It doesnât matter what else the Biden administration is doing, they should be hammering Abbott for attempting to negotiate foreign treaties and arresting his âinspectorsâ for interference with international/interstate commerce.
As usual, GOP politicians make the calculated bet that they can precipitate a policy disaster and not be called to account for it. More so, they think they can shift the blame to Democrats and the tame media will go along.
Weâll see if this hurts Abbottâs reelection. Iâm not sure it will.
Leave it to Abbott to sh_t in his own mess kit!!
Desperate people do desperate things!!
I actually see the erosion of the democratic norms and the descend into wardlordism something much more important than Ukraine.
I donât think Abbot is acting out of desperation, he has a tremendous approval among the voters whose opinion that he cares about. And it is precisely this kind of lib owning stunts the reason they love him so much. Even if they donât admit it, conservatives hate liberals so much that hurting them is number one priority, way above everything else. That is he reason they loved Trump âpoliciesâ so much, it was all insulting and mostly meaningless actions that were seen as making libs upset.
Plus I donât think Biden increases his clout and stature by complaining when they do these things. I think many of us overestimate the salutary effect of yelling about stuff you canât control. Yelling is not fighting.
I dunno, I still think this is a bit too complicated for the 8 MAGAts in the Pennsyltucky diner to figure out. I mean, Hunter & Joe Biden still got that $4.8 Billion check from Mao Tse Tung, right ?
Um hmmmmâŚthis will be yet ANOTHER Texan sht show that is ALL BIDENâS FAULT for making him do it! He wouldnât have had to screw up food distribution for the entire country except for those pesky Democrats. I mean, he wasnât driven to it under TRUMP!!!