GOP fears midterms backlash from breaking up families at the border

[workinclasszero]

"The images are devastating" for the GOP, said one Republican operative, referring to children and their families being separated.
by Leigh Ann Caldwell / Jun.16.2018 / 2:35 PM ET / Updated Jun.16.2018 / 7:54 PM ET

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's policy of taking immigrant children from their parents at the southern border may have been designed to push Democrats to the negotiating table in Congress — but it could end up costing Republican lawmakers.

The issue will "absolutely" be a factor in the midterm elections this fall, said a GOP operative working to elect Republicans to Congress, adding that "the images are devastating" for the GOP.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California called Trump's tactics "shameful."

"He's using children, whether they're Dreamers or whether they're little children at the border now, for a political purpose," Pelosi said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-fears-midterms-backlash-breaking-families-border-n883706

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Republicans should be haunted by this for the rest of their lives. Period.

[sunonmars]

2. Yet will continue to sit there and prostitute themselves for Trump.

[workinclasszero]

3. And call themselves Christian, pro-life, morally upright and pro family values

SPIT

[sunonmars]

4. When anybody claims they are morally better than someone else, I know they are not good people.

[GaYellowDawg]

5. Sometimes I get impatient with Rep. Pelosi

Because I wish she was a little more of a fire-breather. But she beautifully and concisely hit the nail on the head with this quote:

"He's using children, whether they're Dreamers or whether they're little children at the border now, for a political purpose," Pelosi said.

I don't know how anyone could put it any better. I owe her gratitude for that.

[thucythucy]

6. So they're upset with the policy only because

they fear "midterm backlash."

Otherwise, no doubt, they'd be cool with it.

Nauseating.

[workinclasszero]

7. Right

They don't give a damn about the poor kids being terrorized, just how it makes them look!