Yesterday, several GOP Senators held a press conference about POTATUS’s (useless) EO on the border crisis. There were a couple of stand-out lines. The first came from Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.
“Okay, I want you to listen up. Here’s the drill. President Biden is in trouble politically. He’s polling right up there with fungal infections. Part of the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon wing of his party and he dissolved the Southern border.”
Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it, hence this executive order. And he expects you to report this epiphany that he has had, take what the White House is telling you, balance it on your noses like trained seals, and report it uncritically.
For three years, we have watched President Biden push on a door that has been clearly marked ‘pull.’ He’s mismanaged Congress, COVID, the national debt, the economy, inflation, crime, Afghanistan, Iran, the war in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and now of course the border.
And every time I think the president has hit rock bottom, he has managed to find a shovel and continue to dig, hence, this executive order. And I think that’s what the American people see.
The first question I would ask President Biden is this: ‘It’s a little late, isn’t it, Mr. President?’ It’s a little late.
You can’t make this cat walk backwards. The president’s border policies have allowed eight million people to come into our country illegally. If you try to come into our country today legally, you are a sucker, you are a sucker. All that you have to do is present yourself at the Southern border.
Now, for three years, President Biden told us all there is no crisis at the Southern border for reasons clearly stated on the teleprompter. And his plan to deal with the crisis at the border was to pretend that there wasn’t a crisis at the border. Some of you reported that; some of you didn’t.
Well, when the American people figured it out, because they may be poorer under President Biden but they’re not stupid, the Biden administration shifted strategy. It then said, well we know there’s a crisis at the border but we don’t have any authority to fix it. That didn’t work either, because the American people aren’t cell-deep stupid.”
Fungal infections. Kennedy can really turn a phrase.
And Kennedy wasn’t the only one with a great line at this presser. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa may have come up with the new rallying cry for the Republicans. She was caught on a hot mic saying Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.
It would be criminal if someone at the national level didn’t pick this up and run with it.