The Crises-R-Us Party

The English word crisis is a latinization of the Greek krisis, which means the "turning point in a disease." When adopted by the English language in the 15th century, the word transmuted to mean a "point at which change must come, for better or worse."

Thus the linguistic use of crisis is a lexical impeccability when referring to a situation confronted by the Republican Party. For "crisis" describes the primordial, diseased point at which a problem, in GOP minds, takes a joyous turn for the better, never the worse. Amirite?

The contemporary state of America's southern border is one such crisis point, a pathological predicament regarded by Republicans as having commenced on 21 January 2021. Under President Biden's Republican predecessor, the border was of course free of migrants illegally entering the U.S. (Pay no attention to headlines such as the Cato Institute's of 2021: "Trump Reduced Legal Immigration. He Did NOT Reduce Illegal Immigration." Fake news.)

So Republicans in Congress decided to take control of the situational problem after an open-border Democrat, as they called him, settled into the White House. How did they execute this control? What actions did they take? 

First, as The Times recalls, they "largely ignored Mr. Biden’s entreaties to come to the negotiating table to help fix the immigration system." Then they "refused to provide resources" to the administration so that it could take effective actions. In addition, they "blocked efforts to update laws" and they "openly defied federal officials charged with maintaining security and order along the 2,000-mile border."

Now, virtually every American knows Republicans are infinitely better than Democrats at thwarting illegal immigration. You know, like Trump and his allies in Congress did such a thorough job of, and everyone was so happy with. Yet the outcome of their superior management — demonstrated by defying Biden's inferior muddle — has been "a growing humanitarian crisis at the border and in major cities around the country."

How could this be? Republicans gave it their all, this crisis at the border. We know they gave it their all because they've been screaming fiercely — and sincerely — about the border since that incompetent Democrat took office. They really wanted this problem fixed, now! And as we noted at the top, a crisis is a problem that always takes a joyous turn when pondered by GOP minds. 

Still, though they failed, it is they who are coming out on top when it comes to the electoral side of this mess. "Many voters now say immigration is their top concern." But the best part? The part that will make you ... I don't know what? Quote: They do not have confidence that Mr. Biden is addressing it.