Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-in-command for the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, thought it would be a good idea to bring the kids trapped in a cave in Thailand into a political argument about families being separated at the border.
Democrat Senator Dick Durbin tries to attack the Trump administration by using the kids who were trapped in the Thailand cave and comparing them to kids separated from their parents at the U.S. border. pic.twitter.com/TKyGuESKya
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 8, 2018
What exactly is a “bureaucratic cave”?
The cave is in our hearts https://t.co/PywA6ToGyw
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 8, 2018
It wasn’t as if he made an error in his statement. This was a planned tangent he chose to take that had nothing to do with the question asked by Chuck Todd.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1016004104496312325
If Durbin is going to attempt to score political points, why not just deliver a statement and let it stand alone? The need to incorporate those trapped in Thailand is very awkward and extremely insensitive.
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Why are you all so crazy? #Democrats https://t.co/OaTtMcOYOd
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 8, 2018
Perhaps we have underestimated how desperate Democrats are for attention four months before the midterm elections.
Rep. Maxine Waters’ recent rhetoric is unjustifiable but somewhat understandable given her history of making commentary and her position. Durbin, however, is the Senate Minority Whip, which means he is one of the four most powerful Democrats in the nation. To make such an irresponsible comparison is not going to help his party’s cause at all.