Heated exchanges
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1007343956550733824
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders engaged in heated exchanges with multiple reporters on Thursday over the administration’s controversial policy of separating migrant families at the border.
“Don’t you have any empathy?” Brian Karem, the White House reporter for Playboy, asked at the press briefing Thursday afternoon. “You’re a parent of young children.”
Sanders blamed the practice on Democrats, saying the party refuses to “come to the table” and find a larger immigration solution.
As Walter Shaub points out, that makes no sense: the Democrats are in the minority.
CNN reporter Jim Acosta also pressed Sanders on the family separation policy, which has increasingly garnered national attention with critics calling it cruel to immigrants, many of whom are seeking asylum.
“It’s a policy to take children away from their parents,” Acosta said. “Can you imagine the horror these children must be going to, when they come across the border, they’re with their parents and suddenly they’re pulled away from their parents? Why is government doing this?”
“Because it’s the law,” Sanders said. “It doesn’t have to be the law. The president has called on Democrats in Congress to fix those loopholes. The Democrats have failed to come to the table, failed to help this president close these loopholes and fix this problem. We don’t want this to be a problem. The president has tried to address it on a number of occasions, we’ve laid out a proposal and Democrats simply refuse to do their job.”
But it’s the Republicans who are in the majority in both houses.
She lies like a rug.
I keep thinking that I can’t despise these people any more, and then…
http://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2018/06/liars.html
“But it’s the Republicans who are in the majority in both houses.”
So shouldn’t that be the lead headline on every responsible newscast, newspaper, and website, every day?
Shouldn’t every lead question to any Republican elected official or member of staff be “isn’t the Republican Party in charge of every seat of Government?”
kh – not to mention most of the sitting judges were appointed by Republicans, because the majority of Clinton and Obama nominations were stalled and held up in the approval process.
https://politics.theonion.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-strongly-rebukes-implication-she-1826869344
iknklast –
For sure, SCOTUS is a major issue, but we should consider that:
A) most Tumpeteers don’t care about it (as long as they’re getting “their” choice)
B) the Trumpeteers that do understand it only see it as a political tool denying them the rights that they have been blessed with by their imaginary friend.
C) all Trumpeteers “think” that SCOTUS is an evil creation of the “left” so they are incapable of paying it any attention
so it may be politicallt more expedient to focus on the “elected” rather than the “appointed”.