Posted on 01/05/2019 2:35:07 PM PST by Bratch
it’s a hundred miles of wall and not all of it is in a populated area.
Border Patrol Agents agree across the board that walls work. They are effective. Very few will get through and those few will have the Border Patrol in pursuit.
Most of the GOP Senators are Cheap Labor Express stooges.
They MUST be replaced if we want to keep our country.
They will never give us the enforcement we need.
And why has mcconnel not put the senate in full recess? For the life on me I can’t figure out why no one is making a bigger deal out of that.
This one may be a true exception. Any Senate Majority Leader has to attempt to appear impartial.
When Scalia died (murdered), Obama appointed Merrick Garland to fill Scalia’s seat. McConnell insisted that a new appointment should wait until after the election to allow a new President to appoint the new justice. This was the correct and only reasonable decision because Obama appeared to be in pursuit of packing the court on the heels of a suspicious death of a Supreme Court Justice.
Obama’s minions threatened to recess appoint Garland but McConnell blocked it by refusing to adjourn the Senate. If he adjourns the Senate now. he will be exposed to being labeled as untrustworthy, as hypocritical, as impartial.
McConnell has carved his reputation as a Senate leader who disallows recess appointments. Fine, but on other matters, he can act in support of the President but refuses to do so. For example, he could have brought forward the bill to fund the Wall as a budgetary bill requiring only a simple majority. He refused to do so because his biggest backers are pushing to kill the wall as they are globalists and open borders for their special business interests.
Judicial appointments do proceed normally during normal sessions only because Grassley is in control there. McConnell cannot block appointments during normal sessions. He can cause a delay but he can’t block. He can only block recess appointments. Grassley can do nothing about that.
+1
“McConnell took reconciliation off the table for one important reason: It enabled him to hide the embarrassing reality that he didn’t even have 50 votes for the House bill — let alone 60.”
That makes sense, unfortunately. Trump should have insisted anyway, letting the chips fall where they may. Get the traitors on record.
But I get it. McConnell protects the Senate. No matter what. He would have penalized Trump later, in a backstabbing move. It’s what he does.
A$$hat.
He’s up for election again in 2020. Maybe...
Yup. The TEA Party was a sponteneous grass roots movement, and both parties were scared shiiteless. And did everything they could to kill it. And pretty much succeeded. But we never changed our minds, just stewed until Trump came along. We never had a leader, who “got it.”
Then came Trump. And they know a grassroots movement needs a great leader, or their combined efforts to kill it will succeed.
“The Turtle.
Great on the judiciary.
A nightmare on immigration.”
Yup. The COC is OK with the judges. But they are globalists, and get rich via offshoring and cheap labor.
I’m guessing Trump is every bit as aware as the author of this piece....probably more aware.
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