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Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To
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Posted By: earlybird, 3/30/2026 7:57:48 PM

Just when you think the Senate GOP couldn’t get any more useless than it already is, its members find a way to prove you wrong. While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation. The entirely predictable scenario came about after Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats to pass a DHS package devoid of ICE and Border Patrol funding

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 3/30/2026 8:02:53 PM (No. 2086798)
How many people after enduring this once again just want to go to D.C. and crack some heads?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 3/30/2026 8:23:43 PM (No. 2086807)
I’m rethinking my heretofore, assumed, definition of “swamp.” To me, swamp is deep, murky, and dangerous; i.e., Republicans. Dems/communists are, at the very least, transparent. I hate Republicans. ALL of them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 3/30/2026 8:26:37 PM (No. 2086809)
The Republican party may be an alternative to the Democratic party, but that does not make them any better. Whether Democrat or Republican, just one question, why do you support them?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 3/30/2026 8:32:43 PM (No. 2086810)
Would be good to peel the onion a bit further and understand why and how this Save America Act has stalled. Just wondering who is benefitting among the pubbies so far? Turtle, not you? What is the real root core of the problem with passing this act, pubbies? Money? Power? Favors that are owed to the dims? Understand something again, senate. A majority of us want it passed. See? Not hard. Just explain your problem and deal with it. Then vote to pass the dam thing and deal with your little problem later.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 3/30/2026 8:53:23 PM (No. 2086822)
Thine is easily as big a weasel as McConnell.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: chance_232 3/30/2026 10:05:38 PM (No. 2086840)
Politicians Would Rather Cede Power To Their Opposition Than Their Own Voters. This isnt exactly a republican only problem, so i fixed the headline for ya.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: YorkieMom 3/30/2026 10:42:43 PM (No. 2086850)
The Dems are evil and liars. The Pubs are useless.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: stablemoney 3/30/2026 10:52:07 PM (No. 2086855)
Thune is pulling a Kevin McCarthy, thinking he can keep his job with all the Democrats and 4 or 5 Rino's. It is working so far.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 3/31/2026 4:26:13 AM (No. 2086883)
The only thing that makes sense to me is that more than a few Republican senators suffer from TDS. I blame the voters. Too lazy to vote, too lazy to research the issues, and too apathetic to put pressure on their senators when they vote against their constituents.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: PChristopher 3/31/2026 4:36:51 AM (No. 2086889)
McConnell taught Thune that there is more money to be made by being in the minority so you can sell your votes to Dems. You don't think they all got rich by being earnest servants of the people, do you?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DCGIRL 3/31/2026 7:11:29 AM (No. 2086933)
Thune needs to be removed.....NOW.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 3/31/2026 8:05:43 AM (No. 2086956)
Uniparty and deep state was something we knew nothing about 20 years ago. Even Rush was surprised by it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Venturer 3/31/2026 8:11:03 AM (No. 2086961)
Thune has got to go, but the real problem is that the Republicans in Congress are so cowardly and useless that there is no one else who will take the job of trying to herd cats.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bighambone 3/31/2026 11:11:29 AM (No. 2087029)
No doubt the Republican congressional conference is infested by enough RINOS and wimps to make them almost useless when it comes to passing important legislation and the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats know that! Imagine what would happen if the leftist Democrat dream of changing the Federal Immigration laws to abolish future deportation as a consequence for “undocumented” aliens found to be illegally in the USA; by abolishing the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and the US Border Patrol (CBP); and to grant all illegal aliens a Democrat designed so-called “comprehensive immigration reform amnesty” giving tens of millions of illegal aliens a legal immigration status and putting them on a “path to US citizenship” thus making it possible for all those new foreign born US citizens to be transitioned to future leftist Democrat constituencies of supporters and voters. Common sense will tell you that once the word gets around the wider world that the USA had essentially eliminated immigration law enforcement with future leftist Democrat amnesties a probability for future “undocumented” aliens found in the USA, that no doubt the USA would be “flooded” with untold millions of future “undocumented” aliens, most of them poor and uneducated from the so-called Third World, who the leftist Democrats would characterize as being members of minority groups, until those leftist Democrat supporting minorities eventually become the majority population of the future USA, that the leftist Democrats intend to transform into some sort of socialist utopia.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: weejun 4/1/2026 12:10:41 PM (No. 2087521)
I am begging the American people: please support congressional term limits! The States can call for a constitutional convention and make this happen.
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