I & I Editorial Board“That’s the leverage that we have.” – Rep. Shri Thandar, D-Mich.
As the FBI scrambles to find Nancy Guthrie’s abductors, Democrats in Congress are preparing their own kind of kidnapping. Except, instead of one victim, they want to hold the entire country hostage.
After shutting the government down for a record 43 days last fall in the vain hope of keeping “temporary” Obamacare subsidies in place, the once respectable political party has now decided on an even more bizarre and disturbing kidnapping scheme.
It plans to hold funding for the Department of Homeland Security hostage if it can’t convince Republicans to agree to ICE “reforms.”
Except that, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement is housed in the DHS, Republicans secured funding for ICE as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. So, the shutdown won’t have any effect on deportations.
What it will have an effect on are things such as:
- Protecting the American people from terrorist threats
- Safeguarding cyberspace
- Running airport security
- Operating the Coast Guard
- Handling responses to natural disasters
Oh, and shutting down DHS will also harm the processing of applications for work permits, green cards, naturalization, and asylum for legal immigrants.
Pressed on these points by the Daily Signal, Democrats brushed off the concerns.
When The Daily Signal asked about the impact a shutdown would have on FEMA and TSA specifically, Democrats did not seem concerned.
Rep. Shri Thandar, D-Mich., who serves on the committee alongside Guest and Pfluger, said he is actually willing to leverage FEMA funding for Republicans to meet their demands. ‘That’s the leverage that we have,’ he told the Daily Signal.
‘I would like Democratic leaders to stay firm and get some concessions that are meaningful … We should use every leverage that we have,’ Thandar concluded.
Thandar was echoing what Democrats said during the last shutdown they forced, in which they celebrated the pain and suffering it caused because it provided them “leverage.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer bragged at the time that “every day gets better for us,” and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark said that while “shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer, it is one of the few leverage times we have.”
We’re sure that there are kidnappers out there who’ve used the same sort of language in their ransom demands.
So, in short, Democrats are willing to hold the entire nation, not just one elderly woman, hostage, and put every U.S. citizen at risk. All to protect non-U.S. citizens who are in the country illegally!?!?!? At least Guthrie’s (apparent) kidnappers were demanding something reasonable, like Bitcoin.
And Democrats have the gall to say that Trump poses a threat to the country?
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
This was a really tactless way to make your point, and it’s not even that great of a metaphor.
It should come not as a surprise that Democrats will cut off the nose of the people they represent in order to get what they want-which is more illegal immigrants that will lead to more Democratic votes, especially so long as there are no IDs permitted and mail voting is allowed.
It amazes me why Republicans don’t describe the “no ID’s should be necessary at the ballot box” (so we know that only citizens are voting) that Democrats want as impeding voter rights of legitimate citizens.
This-in my opinion-should be a civil rights issue; however, for some reason it isn’t.
Specifically, NOT allowing IDs is impeding the voter rights of those who are legitimate citizens. Their voices are being chocked off by voters who are illegitimate.
Once this was called JIm Crow (ignoring the rights of African-Americans); now it’s called by the Democrats as Jim Crow 2.0-when it seems to me that it is the Democrats who are pushing Jim Crow 2.0.
Let me give another example of how the Democratic Party is nothing but a speeding truck that cares little who is hurt by its policies and politics.
If the government is shut down then places like California and people like Californians, a majority of whom are Democrats, will not get any help from FEMA (as they needed last year during the wildfires). This does not seem to bother the rabid passel of Democrats that now walk the halls of Congress.
It is infuriating that Democrats are never held accountable by the voting public-as seen in Chicago and California.
What is even more infuriating is that the Republican Party lets them get away with their imbecilic, counter-intuitive arguments.
I’ve heard (trekking back to I&I’s column) that the kidnappers of Mrs Guthrie are actually cartel members. I have no idea is this is true, but if it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them hadn’t voted in our elections.
Why do I get the feeling that Democrats are nuts?
They are now the criminal party and, as Obama promised, to fundamentally change this country. He wasn’t kidding. This country was built to now be the greatest country on Earth and is now a magnet for people from every s hole on the planet. Like the line in “Field of Dreams, build it, and they will come”. And they have, by the millions, legal and illegal.
There was a House hearing on the incompatibility of Sharia law and fundamental Islam with Western values and the U.S. Constitution; yesterday I think. Robert Spencer described Islam as “…inherently political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent…”.
It wouldn’t take much exaggeration to describe the Democratic party in similar terms.
I hope I am wrong, but I believe that Nancy may no longer be alive. I don’t think the kidnappers murdered her, I think she died from the stress of the kidnapping. She had heart problems and she did not have her medications. This is why the kidnappers have not provided proof of life and now they have a dead person on their hands and they are stalling because they don’t know what to do next to get the ransom money.
Slimy DemocRATS will lie, cheat, murder and anything else they have to in order to say in power. The are a greater threat to this nation that China, Russia or any thing else on the planet.
Just a distraction from the Epstein Files, Trump in them over 38 Thousand times, accused of horrible actions by victims. The Left vs. Right is how they control you, just stop.
Think the media is using the Guthrie crime as a means to not speak to the blatant massive tens of billions of dollars of federal monetay fraud in Minnesota, that the govenor and attorney general were not only complicit in, but profitied by it, we now know whistleblowers were ignored and that the rioters in Minnesota were financed and organized and led by the states LT attorney general, Flannigan
What do DemocRATs and the Guthrie kidnappers have in common? They are both slimy bastards.