Opinion | Let’s just say it: The Republican problem is metastasizing - The Washington Post

"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics," they wrote. "It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/11/republicans-trump-congress-lankford/

GOP’s Lankford raises eyebrows with talk of conservative media threat

'If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you, because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election.'" 

Highlighting the quote, historian Heather Cox Richardson added, "It is not a normal part of our political system to have members of Congress deciding what laws to support on the basis of threats."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-lankford-raises-eyebrows-talk-conservative-media-threat-rcna137879

GOP senator reveals threat he received working on border bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOV2iCGp7Ss

Joe: Johnson lying through his teeth about a bill he hasn't even read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-b-idr2dz0

Lankford goes at critics of immigration deal - The Washington Post

"It is interesting: Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy," Lankford said on CNN. 

He added: "And now, it's interesting, a few months later, when we're finally getting to the end, they're like, 'Oh, just kidding, I actually don't want a change in law because it's a presidential election year.'"…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/senator-lankford-paints-stark-portrait-gop-border-deal-critics/

Leading GOP conservative faces political storm over border bill | The Hill

"…It's been frustrating. This 5,000 piece has been the most misunderstood of all the areas to be able to discuss, and it's sucked up the oxygen on how many other good things are in the bill," Lankford said, referring to changes in asylum standards and other items. "All that gets sucked up with everybody saying, 'This is going to let 5,000 people in.' I'm like, 'No, no – it doesn't.' It actually turns people around, not turning people in." 

"It's literally a 180 of what everyone's describing. There's this perception that somebody's standing at the border with a clicker counting 5,000 [migrants] in every day. Could not be any further from the truth," he continued…

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4445520-lankford-gop-conservative-border-bill/

Republican explains why border deal is good and should be passed

…contrary to Trump…

https://youtu.be/0594toSRcYo?si=AmtXqu7qcEzIz70O&t=244

GOP Senator: Conservatives Might Scuttle Ukraine Deal to Stick It to Biden

" There are some that are saying, 'Hey, we don't want Biden to actually get credit for doing anything on the border," Sen. James Lankford…

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-conservatives-might-scuttle-bipartisan-immigration-ukraine-deal-2024-1

These 4 GOP Senators Are Shocked that the National Science Foundation Encourages Science Education - Mother Jones

Four Republican senators described the National Science Foundation as a political rather than scientific organization because of its study of climate change and have called for an investigation into the group by the agency's inspector general's office. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/06/cruz-inhofe-national-science-foundation-investigation/

Republican senator praises FBI's 'amazing work' amid GOP scrutiny of agency -- The Hill

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Saturday offered praise for the FBI and intelligence community after federal authorities thwarted a planned Christmas Day terrorist attack in San Francisco. ....
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366309-republican-praises-fbis-amazing-work-amid-gop-scrutiny-of-agency