Gary Sargent in The Plum Line missed the best response to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement concerning the loss of funding for his home state’s military base Fort Campbell’s middle school expansion:
McConnell himself had previously boasted of funding he had secured for Fort Campbell families. Yet subsequently, McConnell voted to uphold Trump’s national emergency, which will now take funding away.
So how does a McConnell spokesman justify this? By saying: “We would not be in this situation if Democrats were serious about protecting our homeland and worked with us to provide the funding needed to secure our borders during the appropriations process.”
And Sargent goes with this:
That’s a stunning statement, once you unpack it. Democrats are to blame for the emergency taking funding away from people, because Trump responded to their refusal to fund his wall by going around Congress!
To be as clear as possible, an elected member of that body is claiming other lawmakers in that body are at fault for Trump’s corrupt circumventing of them, because they represented their own constituents’ will, rather than give Trump what he demanded, to fund something Trump himself has privately admitted is all about giving his supporters something to chant about before reelection.
For me, there’s one simple fact: the Republicans held the entire Federal legislature for the first two years of Trump’s term. They failed to fund Trump’s wall.
Own it, McConnell. Stop being a child about the entire situation. Trump’s wall could have easily been funded, the Democrats couldn’t have done a thing about it. If you or former Speaker Ryan had a problem with it, then speak up. Explain yourself. Give up the whole political animal thing, because no one’s impressed with it.
The entire team politics excuse doesn’t work with the American people. How do we know this? I thought this Morning Consult poll to be quite interesting:
That’s an immense red disapproval line, and the Morning Consult verbiage seems to imply the data comes from Kentucky voters, not nation-wide.
