Posted on 08/23/2015 3:55:01 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
With his popularity soaring after a weekend rally that drew more than 30,000 supporters, Donald Trump on Sunday took aim at President Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and his own party rivals as he continued his unlikely ride atop the Republican presidential field.
The real estate mogul’s rise has left other Republican presidential candidates on the defensive on immigration and other issues, and some contenders are even publicly floating the notion of serving as Mr. Trump’s vice presidential candidate.
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program Sunday, Mr. Trump defended his plan to build an impenetrable wall separating the U.S. and Mexico, saying the Obama administration is unable to address the problem because of sheer incompetence.
“I’m going to get great people that know what they’re doing, not a bunch of political hacks that have no idea what they’re doing, appointed by President Obama, that doesn’t have a clue. I mean that man doesn’t have a clue,” Mr. Trump said. “People are walking across the border right now, right in front of these great people that we have. We have wonderful Border Patrol people. They can do their job, but they’re not allowed to do the job.”
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Still a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong wait until February.
Bill O’Gasbag and Megyn Kelly!
“I have seen reports of from 12,000 to 34,000.
SInce there was no official count, anyone can say anything.”
City of Mobile reported 30,000! I guess when it’s your stadium you kinda know by looking at it just how many are there.
True.. WHo has asked what up with this guy(Trump).?.
They take him at his word very Hitleresques in that sense..
No thought of what is he gonna do with Congress and the Supremes..
IGNORE THEM like OBAMA.?.... BINGO.!.....
http://www.ontheissues.org/donald_trump.htm#Tax_Reform
Donald Trump on Tax Reform
Click here for 10 full quotes on Tax Reform OR other candidates on Tax Reform OR background on Tax Reform.
One-time 14% tax on wealthy to pay down national debt. (Jun 2015)
4 brackets; 1-5-10-15%; kill death tax & corporate tax. (Dec 2011)
Cutting tax rates incentivizes a strong national work ethic. (Dec 2011)
Previously supported wealth tax; now supports Bush tax cuts. (Apr 2011)
Repeal the inheritance tax to offset one-time wealth tax. (Jul 2000)
Simplify tax code; end marriage penalty & other hidden taxes. (Jul 2000)
Opposes flat tax; benefits wealthy too much. (Jul 2000)
Personally avoids sales tax, but knows many people like it. (Dec 1999)
One-time 14.25% tax on wealth, to erase national debt. (Nov 1999)
Tax assets over $10 million, paid over 10 years. (Nov 1999)
Donald Trump says he considers fellow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a good friend and a "terrific woman," but that doesn't mean he's going to ask her to join him as his running mate or that she's even interested.
"George Stephanopoulos interviewed me and he said, 'would you take Oprah?'" Trump said Wednesday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "I said of course I would."
But Trump, who held his huge presidential campaign announcement in New York City on Tuesday, said the question was posed jokingly in reference to an interview he gave years ago to CNN talk show host Larry King, and that the media have taken off with the latest "news."
"Give me a break; she's a friend of mine," he told Fox News. "She had me on her last show. She had myself and all of my children on the show. She's a terrific woman. He said that as a joke. Would you do it? I said of course, she's great. All of a sudden, people make a big deal."
I like pretty much all of it except for the Veep. Sessions is getting a little long in the tooth. I think Cruz should be Veep, and ready to step up when Donnie steps down.
I’m also an ASA Vet. 1957 - 1961.
Arabs Apply Another Israeli Solution
August 22, 2015: Tunisia has a growing problem with Islamic terrorists from (currently) lawless Libya getting in and causing problems. Not surprisingly Tunisia has decided to follow the Israeli example and build a high tech security fence along 160 kilometers of its border with Libya. This decision is based on the success of a fence design pioneered by Israel and successfully copied by India and Saudi Arabia and a growing number of other nations. But as the Saudis learned the hard way, you have to follow the Israeli formula carefully or this solution will not work.
For a long time, it was conventional wisdom that you could not prevent irregulars (terrorists, guerillas, bandits, smugglers), from getting across a long frontier. Apparently the conventional wisdom is wrong. Both Israel and India have been able to build security fences that have succeeded in keeping terrorists out. The Israeli security fence with the West Bank will eventually be 760 kilometers long. But even when it was half finished it was blocking the most easily used terrorist crossings and that caused the Palestinian terror campaign to collapse. India, using some of the Israeli sensor technology, erected a 580 kilometer electrified fence along the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir. In 2004, India bought more radars, and special jamming equipment (to shut down radios used by Islamic radicals trying to cross the border) for use in Kashmir and along the LOC. The use of ground radars, thermal imaging and other electronic gear along the LOC, greatly reduced illegal movements into Indian controlled Kashmir.
In 2006 Saudi Arabia decided to build a high-tech security fence along its 900 kilometer border with Iraq to deal with Islamic terrorists moving in and out of the kingdom. Senior officials then decided the original design (based on the Israeli concept) was too expensive and eventually built a cheaper and less capable fence. This would take less than a year to build and would put plenty of people to work setting up 1,800 kilometers of fencing and installing the electronic devices. This new design was believed capable enough to do the job as well as the original 2006 security fence, cost a lot less, and employ lots of Saudis. While completed, the cheap fence lacked many of the sensors (or used ones that were not reliable) and was easy to get through. When these flaws became obvious enough to a lot of people there were calls for a return to the original design and in 2014 it was agreed to “upgrade” the border fence to standards first proposed in 2006.
The Saudi implantation of the original Israeli design used lots of sensors, supported by 1,450 kilometers of fiber optic cables. The high-speed fiber optic lines allowed for real time monitoring of fifty radars (able to detect vehicles, pack animals and individual people) along with 78 monitoring towers equipped with optical day and night sensors (digital cameras) with zoom. The monitoring was done from eight command centers. From these centers sensor operators could quickly determine if someone was attempting to breach the border barrier and where. They could then order armed men to the trouble spot from 32 rapid response centers. There are ten vehicles equipped with surveillance equipment that can be sent to areas where trouble is expected, to make sure the trouble, if it shows up, is spotted and identified sooner.
Legal traffic goes through 38 crossings, which are heavily guarded and monitored. The foreign consultants that helped design the barrier warned the Saudis that the more effective the new border barrier was the more likely the personnel operating the system would be bribed. So the software used to run the monitoring and control system has safeguards and monitoring routines built in to detect and quickly report possible staff misbehavior. A similar barrier is being built along the Yemen border and all 5,000 kilometers of land borders will eventually have upgraded border security, now with some kind of fence and sensors.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20150822.aspx
Shoot to kill anyone that tries to climb over the wall.
Easy there, onyx, the anti-Trumpers are out of ammunition.
They’re reduced to scooping $hit from the floor.
Trump on Ryan Budget"
Very true! The following comments very recent comments were interesting, too (brief, very little reading required). And many more like those!
http://freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3328274/posts?page=52#52
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3325481/posts?page=6#6
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3325481/posts?page=15#15
The President doesn’t decide the Senate Majority leader. It is decided by a vote of the members of the majority party. Barring the Republicans losing the Senate and/or McConnell being indicted and removed from his seat, you aren’t going to budge him from his hold on the office.
the site where I was watching it live had 12,000+ viewers in live time. That’s just one site, there were many. These people were “there” just as surely as the people who showed up in person.
Wow! People are twisting themselves into pretzels for this guy. Apparently the democrats had no hand in the crash of 2008... Wow again!
LOL.
That’ll never happen!
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