It's not the first time Rep. Troy Nehls has seemed to say the quiet part of loud: In December he suggested impeachment was about giving "ammo" to Trump.

As senators work on a compromise deal to address border security and immigration, at least one Republican is suggesting politics is a key motivator for him.

“Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. “I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man’s dismal approval ratings. I’m not going to do it. Why would I?”

Nehls indicated he’d accept only a proposal similar to HR 2, a hardline immigration bill that got zero Democratic votes when it passed the House last year.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      69·
      10 months ago

      And yet people vote for them. They are just admitting they aren’t interested in helping people and the country and they still get voted for.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          30·
          10 months ago

          Maybe in their limited thinking catered by Fox News, but a lot of them are working class and they’re the ones getting hurt the most by Republicans. They don’t even know it.

          • Bonehead@kbin.social
            171·
            10 months ago

            If it owns the libs, then it’s good. If they suffer any consequences, it’s the libs fault for making Republicans do it. It’s simple circular logic, but you’ll find it’s quite unbreakable.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Our great challenge has been showing this to them, and it remains incredibly difficult. To highlight how much of a problem it is, you still have white collar knowledge workers who think that they’ll have to pay more money in taxes if they get a raise vs before. They don’t understand tax brackets.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      21·
      10 months ago

      Trump over donors, donors over religion, religion over party, party over family, family over so-called conservative principles (oxymoron)and country several steps lower than that.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    10 months ago

    You mean to tell me that Republicans are operating in bad faith, and that Democrats fell for it?

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    622·
    10 months ago

    I never thought I would, but I kinda miss the time when Republicans would lie about their motivations for being awful.

    This whole “mask off but still no consequences” bullshit is even more frustrating than when everyone knew but most people refused to acknowledge it 😮‍💨

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    441·
    10 months ago

    If it improves the President’s approval rating, doesn’t that suggest that it’s something Americans need or want?

    “[…] I’m not going to do it. Why would I?”

    Indeed. Why help the American people, Congressman?

  • tacosanonymous
    37·
    10 months ago

    “We will not do the things our constituents ask unless we get all of the credit.”

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    36·
    10 months ago

    i mean that’s pretty much the same story about immigration for the last 40 years and it’s why nothing has gotten done. they’d rather use immigrants as wedge issues then do something about the problem.

    • CodeName@infosec.pub
      6·
      10 months ago

      They also like to use them as cheap labor. The American system can’t function without them. But hush, hush, we don’t like to talk about that part.

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    It is high time we treat the republican traitor swine with the same contempt that they show the American people.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    10 months ago

    If it’s such a big deal, how come when Trump was in the White House and they held both chambers of Congress (~2017–2019), why didn’t they solve the issue then?

    • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
      42·
      10 months ago

      Wrong, they’re there to represent their constituents, who seem quite content with all the fuckery the GOP has been pulling.

      • dtc@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        We need to replace oaths on books with legally binding contracts. I want to be able to sue the fuckers who lie their way into places of power.

        • Signtist
          5·
          10 months ago

          Sure, why don’t you write to your representative to get that changed - oh, wait…

          • dtc@lemmy.world
            4·
            10 months ago

            Pfft, its way more efficient as an end user to just bribe a lobbyist. DUH

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    This is standard, decades-long GOP mantra, championed by Mitch McConnell. It’s also quite effective. Give a man a boogeyman to blame for all of his problems, and he’ll follow you anywhere.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      12·
      10 months ago

      It’s worse than that now. Democrats rolled their eyes, started setting up a deal to address their boogeyman, and now there’s Republicans saying they refuse because it might help the other side.

      The GOP has nothing useful to say or do.

    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      1. Enact policies that create pain in your own supporters.

      2. Create an “enemy.”

      3. Blame the pain on the “enemies.”

      4. Present themselves as strongmen who can defeat the “enemies.”

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      If he’s an idiot who believes that there’s a boogeyman to blame for all his problems, anyway.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    243·
    10 months ago

    They’re going to blame a government shut down, due to their inability to govern, on the “border crisis”.