In less than 24 hours, congressional Republicans suffered a string of embarrassing mishaps: failing to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the implosion of an aid bill to Israel, and failed coordination on border policy. But instead of just reporting on what happened and the state of play on Capitol Hill, CNN’s Dana Bash decided to kick off Wednesday’s Inside Politics with a victory dance in the end zone.
“Today on Inside Politics: epic failure, dysfunction, humiliation, and inability to govern. And that's the most charitable way to describe the congressional Republicans right now, a stunning series of mind-boggling defeats and self-owns,” she boasted at the top of the show.
Bash was looking forward to the next shoe to drop: “And minutes from now, Senate Republicans will almost certainly torpedo the most conservative border bill before them in decades.”
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