The GOP's Wasted Winter

[Crabtownboy]

If they cannot agree with each other they cannot govern.

House Republicans abandoned their futile effort to tie funding for the Department of Homeland Security to the rollback of Obama's immigration policies on Tuesday, approving its budget for the full year. Speaker John Boehner, having exhausted his options, broke the news to his caucus in a private meeting, and the House followed through with a bipartisan vote a few hours later. It was a complete, and ignominious, capitulation. But the real cost to the GOP is best measured in squandered opportunities, as it wasted the first two months of its broadest congressional majority in decades by picking a fight it could not win.

As the conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal wrote on Monday, "the immigration fiasco raises the larger question of whether House Republicans can even function as a majority."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/the-gops-wasteful-winter/386692/

 

[church mouse guy]

What's the waste? It proved that the Business Round Table and the US Chamber of Commerce owns John Boehner and many other Republicans.

Secondly, it got the Democrats the Mexican votes that they need to win future elections.

Thirdly, it got everyone a lot of cheap labor.