Republican slams Trump's refusal to sign funding bill: 'We weren't sent to Washington to burn the

[workinclasszero]

Republican slams Trump’s refusal to sign funding bill: ‘We weren’t sent to Washington to burn the place down’

BRENDAN SKWIRE 20 DEC 2018 AT 14:00 ET

Texas Republican congressman Will Hurd slammed President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign the continuing resolution funding the government because it didn’t include funding for his border wall, saying that despite frequent GOP rhetoric to the contrary, telling MSNBC on Thursday he wasn’t sent to Washington “to burn the place down.”

Asked by host Ali Velshi to offer his opinion on “where things stand,” Hurd laid down his burden.

“Where things stand is that the American people actually sent us up to Washington, D.C., to get things done, not burn the place down, so we should be able to fund the government,” Hurd said. He added that the House should vote anyway to see if they had enough vote to override a veto. But when he turned to the president’s insistence on a wall, the congressman let loose.

“This fallacy that a wall equals border security,” he said. “I spent a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA chasing bad guys. We are monitoring or keeping track of the wrong metric.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/republican-slams-trumps-refusal-sign-funding-bill-werent-sent-washington-burn-place/

[Iliyah]

1. I beg to differ . . . .

By the way GOPers - STFU

[workinclasszero]

5. No kidding

That's exactly why Trump was elected by Putin, the heretic evangelical right, the nazis, KKK, alt-right, freepers and the 1%!

They want to see the world burn!

[Bucky]

10. This. Amen

To be honest, it's the first paying gig Trump's had in his life.

[ffr]

13. All the RW'ers I know specifically voted to burn the place down.

And they're go to jail to do it if it means putting an open minded liberal thinker down.

Whatever it takes, in their minds.

Traitors all!

[reflection]

21. My dad used those exact words.

I finally let him have it the other day. It just came tumbling out. Told him "you wanted to 'burn it down.' Well you did. And you stone cold fucked me, my children, and this whole country. I hope you're happy. Enjoy your fucking Medicare dad."

Now I just swing between periods of guilt and periods of wanting to give him another dose of it. He had the nerve to take offense at the profanity. Told him "fuck that noise, this is the new normal. All standards are burned to the ground. Only low-energy losers are polite. Isn't it fucking great? Fuck fuck fuck! Yay, I'm just like the President! I'm so manly and bigly articulate!"

I wasn't even going to discuss politics until he shoehorned some derogatory crap about HRC into a conversation that wasn't relevant at all. I figured what the hell I'll just go trump on him. Sigh

[cstanleytech]

25. How did it end?

[reflection]

36. How did it end?

I guess it doesn't end until one of us dies. You can't unring a bell. Christmas will be fun, I'm sure.

[cstanleytech]

38. I meant was there any glimmer of hope for him or are his eyes still totally closed?

[reflection]

39. He's beyond hope, beyond reach.

It's horrible. A devout Southern Baptist who idolizes Trump. Go figure. I wish KFC would do its job already on Cheetolini. During the State of the Union would be good if the country can hang on that long.

[cstanleytech]

40. Sounds like my younger brother though in his defense he was born

with moderate intellectual disabilities which renders him more vulnerable to shysters like Trump.

[reflection]

41. Quite different indeed.

I'm dealing with a man who has a master's degree and thinks the earth is 6000 years old. It's bonkers.

[trc]

29. Thank you!

Older rethugs seem to feel that none of this is their fault but still support trumpleforeskin no matter what he has done. After all, black and brown people getting free shit blah blah blah...Worried about you saying "fuck" but not worried about stumpy bragging about sexual assault. My mom, in her 80's has received easily over a million dollars of medicare support (without which she would have died 15 years ago) for her three extensive bouts with cancer...and still supports the rethugs. Ugh, just done with the bullshit.

[localroger]

30. Good on ya.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. We don't get to pick our parents, and part of being an adult is taking charge of our own sense of ethics and morality. And if that means you realize your parents aren't up to it, it doesn't mean being a doormat when they're obnoxious about it.

[gratuitous]

2. Better check with your caucus about that, Mr. Hurd

Because your party is doing its level best to burn the place down, starting with your exalted leader the Emperor Trump.

[Achilleaze]

3. d'oh

shut up with your stupid republican excuses all the time. We know you republicans did it. You are guilty.

Deal with facts and truth for once, you lying cheating republican SINNERS.

[ffr]

14. +1

[BootinUp]

16. Perfect. Nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. you misspelled "traitors"

[cstanleytech]

26. 100% accurate. nt

[blugbox]

4. Dear Mr. Will Hurd

YES YOU DAMN WELL WERE.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. I want my wall!

I want it! I want it! I want it!

[mr_lebowski]

7. Huh ... wonder what the CIA will think about him blurting out he was a CIA Agent

working undercover for 10 years ...

Doesn't really SEEM like the kinda thing you're supposed to publicly state ... I could be wrong, but ... seems like a bad idea.

Also ... at least the dude is making some sense, generally. And doing it on MSNBC. So there's that.

[northoftheborder]

18. He wasn't a secret agent in the CIA. He's one of the sometimes moderate Republicans -

his district is along the Texas border and S. Texas

[mr_lebowski]

23. So ... this (from the OP) was bullshit then?

“This fallacy that a wall equals border security,” he said. “I spent a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA chasing bad guys. We are monitoring or keeping track of the wrong metric.”

[Volaris]

8. Well if he's telling the truth about that, and he said as much to 'the base',

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been elected in the first place.
So he either lied to his own people about his intentions, or he's lying about them now.

[sarge43]

32. He's a Repug. He's breathing; he's lying about something. QED. n/t

[Bucky]

9. Burning down the gov't is EXACTLY why Trump is there

Will Hurd has a thing or two to learn about his party's leader.

[BigmanPigman]

12. He knows this is their fault. He just is pretending he doesn't, hoping

his constituents are ignorant of the past two years which has seen the GOP constantly kissing the orange ass's ass.

[Racerdog1]

11. Really?

Grow a pair and do something about it asshole. Lip service is cheap.

[Hekate]

15. Rather naive of him to say that: since Gingrich, burning the place down has been Job 1 for the GOP

But nice that he feels he didn't sign on for that. Now change parties, sir -- despite some here pissing and moaning that we can't possibly accept new converts, I'm all for it.

[dlk]

19. Really? I Suggest a Chat w/Steve Bannon or the Tea Party

Burning everything to the ground is precisely the agenda. Who are they trying to kid?

[Scruffy1]

20. The last thing Texas wants is the wall.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/trade/2018/07/19/mexico-texas-largest-trading-partner-holds-firm-trumps-proposed-auto-import-tariffs
Billions in trad and maybe a million jobs. Piss off Mexico and that business is going to go to Asia and Europe. With moder container ships shipping is dirt cheap.

[volstork]

28. Then maybe they

should start voting Democratic.

[localroger]

31. They are moving in that direction at a pretty rapid clip

...considering where they were 30 years ago. It's one of the things that has the GOP terrified as the demographics pull their majorities out from under them.

[volstork]

35. It's why they have to cheat.

Demographics are killing them.

[red dog 1]

22. Kick for exposure

[TheBlackAdder]

24. You might not have been sent there to burn it down, but Putin sent Trump there for just that purpose

[C Moon]

27. No: the GOP was sent to Washington to line their own pockets until it burns to the ground.

[malaise]

33. Apparently this one missed the Turtle's famous comment

Our job is to make Obms a one term President and of course the inauguration night dinner on how to sabotage Obama.

Sorry ReTHUGs don' try this bullshit.. We know what you did- and the you spent two years investigating Hillary and gave the wealthy more and more and more.
Fuck you- the Con is yours, you self-serving nasty greedy traitors.

[DFW]

34. Well, now, THERE'S a novel Republican standpoint

Ever since Citizens United, all they HAVE been doing is burn the place down. Now that there's practically nothing combustible left, some of them are thinking maybe it wasn't their primary goal in life?

Who let them in on the big secret? Did some of them listen in on a Democratic caucus meeting or something?

[0rganism]

37. actually i think that's *exactly* why he was sent to Washington

“burn the place down” is kind of what Republicans do

[hatrack]

42. Bullshit - it's been a solid quarter century of "burn it to the ground" . . . .

The Gingrich stench is still thick in the Capitol, and Hurd and the rest of the clown car are still sitting in the shit's been piling up ever since.