A confounding news story broke Wednesday night purporting that Mitch McConnell hit a dead end on negotiating legislation to help secure the southern border and, sadly, Donald Trump was the reason for the failure.
If that makes absolutely zero sense, don’t be alarmed. You’re not having a stroke. That’s the ridiculous narrative pushed in earnest by the national media at the very obvious behest of McConnell’s team.
What actually happened is this: Without ever publicly revealing the details of a supposedly gangbusters border security bill, Senate Republican leadership told their colleagues in both houses of Congress that they definitely needed to get on board, that such a lucky star only shows itself once in a lifetime and that the window to pounce was never or now.
To great relief, some Republicans were smart enough to pass on that golden opportunity.
You mean we get the absolute pleasure of signing onto a bill we’ve never seen and which our constituents know nothing about on the biggest crisis our country has faced in more than 20 years? Tell me more!
Even Terri Schiavo would have sat up to say, “Hold on, something ain’t right here.”
But the media, goaded by McConnell’s team, tried in earnest to make it seem that Trump was the reason for the collapse of what would have been an immaculate deal to solve the catastrophic problems at the border, all of which were either created or exacerbated by Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats.
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