Posted on 07/30/2018 10:06:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Immigration continues to stay at the forefront of political debates. The left is relying heavily on illegal aliens obtaining amnesty. Illegals aren’t people to leftists. They are an opportunity to legalize new voters that will replace the lost voters since the 2016 election. President Trump knows this. He tweeted Sunday that shutting down the government is an option if the Democratic Party continues to obstruct his agenda. Trump has been ahead of political opposition since he announced he’s running for president, so there is no need to panic on the right.
No, it is not ideal to shut down the government, especially before a midterm election. However, Democrats are not the only ones who may force this. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is much to blame. On Friday, while speaking on a Kentucky radio show, he said that additional funding for the wall is getting pushed back until after the midterm elections.
Politically, McConnell is skittish. The border wall was Trump’s number one issue he ran on during the Republican primary that he handily won; and it’s still important. He went onto easily defeat Hillary Clinton much to her and the Democratic Party’s chagrin. Nothing has changed about the power of chanting “build the wall!”
It is no secret that McConnell is not Trump’s biggest fan. The swamp still exists, and McConnell is part of it. One must wonder if he is trying to quietly take away a winning issue for the candidates the president has endorsed nationally.
Even if McConnell is playing games in the background, Trump should cast all the blame on Democrats.
The wall is an essential part of national security. McConnell should come out and explain why he doesn’t want to fund the wall before the midterms. Otherwise, Trump needs to blast the Senate leader. It looks like McConnell is playing obstructionist with the president. There are millions of Americans who live on the border and understand the importance of this issue.
Trump understands what he is doing. It is evident that one doesn’t need to be a “swamp creature” to make Washington D.C. work. The president has surrounded himself with great advisors as well, or he would not have succeeded in so a quick time.
Shutting down the government would not be a major crisis, even though it will get portrayed that way. Only non-essential agencies close down, and those people eventually get paid. Over half of the IRS will close down, which is a reason for a shutdown in itself.
The media will have a field day. Trump will be at complete fault, even though he doesn’t pull the purse strings. The media will spin it as “Trump’s Republican Congress doesn’t agree with him, or the Republicans are in disarray.” This is where Trump would need to get his message out to combat the media.
The American people who already stand behind Trump won’t leave his side. Those who are on the fence must get the message of how vital the wall is to security. The president should stress that Democrats are playing politics with the safety of American citizens.
Historically, government shutdowns aren’t uncommon. The longest was 21 days under President Clinton, and the shortest was nine hours under Trump. The world didn’t end.
Trump’s base will be elated if he shuts the government down to fund the wall. It’s a no-brainer.
If they don’t do it before the midterms, then people will stay home.
They should show this, all the people in the USA who die every day from the poison coming over the border, but they won’t show it because we must all listen to liberals.
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I’m just posting this because this stuff is NEVER EVER EVER EVER publicized! 65,000 people a year, a lot of them kids dying from heroin laced with fentanyl that comes DIRECTLY from Mexico
BUILD THE WALL ALREADY!!!
Make Schmuckie & Nutzi cry ...
You know who cares about government shut downs? Federal workers. Most of them vote D anyway, and those who don’t work in military and law enforcement and they vote overwhelmingly R.
Take away, it makes no difference to anyone.
Shut’er down!!!
In a way Mexico is already paying for the wall. Look at the trade deficit numbers.
The truth is BOTH parties want the borders open and the laws unenforced.
We would not have needed Trump to save US if the GOP were on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
We will not get legislation favorable to the citizens until we replace the Bush League Republicans.
I know I feel safer when the feds are on furlough.
That's because neither one has the guts to reverse the burdens they've placed on small business that have made those businesses insolvent without a "cheat."
Even the illegals already here should want a wall.
Un puesto de trabajo, cinco hombres -> pobreza por quatro hombres
NEVER!!!
NEVER!!!
They’ll see the GOP won’t fund the wall.
dude found dead with his head in the toilet...yea glad i never got beyond weed.
Very sad website.
65,000 people a year are now dying from that crap. It use to be 15,000 pre Obama and most of them are young adults, teens. I live on Long Island New York whichnis having a huge problem with heroin and surprise surprise we also have a huge number of illegals and MS-13 gang members. It’s so bad here cops have resorted to putting up reward signs offering $5000 for anyone who turns in a heroin dealer. All the time you read about someones kid dying of this crap, I don’t know what it is, somehow the kids get hold of this stuff then they are hooked and they die. I talked to one of them on Facebook last year and he was freakin out because he couldn’t stop, he’s probably dead now as well. And Democrats want open borders? F them! You see the photos of the families on that website? You have to go down more, there’s a lot more photos further down, I cant even imagine the hell of that watching your kid slowly die. THIS is what Republicans should be shoving down the publics throat 24/7, instead they do nothing. They continue to allow democrats to push this fake Russia collusion hoax meanwhile all these kids continue to die
I believe narco dollars influence our politics more than we'll ever know.
I would not doubt that at all, at all. If we had a real attorney general who would order investigations into these bums I bet half would end up in prison, and they probably use themselves. I had a drug conselor tell me years ago Pelosi routinely displays all the symptoms of being high on cocaine, I believe it seeing her bizarre tics
The mom in absolute grief laying on the bed next to her brain dead son...
My 20 yr old niece, the daughter of my insane, addicted to EVERYTHING and anything that gets you high sister has been in a long term rehab place on Cape Cod for the past few months.
Like a lot of these people something kicked in when she hit around 16-17 years old.
The story is alcohol and i haven’t been asking questions but i think it’s a little more than just the booze.
While meth is huge in most of the country here in the NE it’s heroin.
The young brunette girl in the pics looks a lot like her.
I’m going to have to visit her soon
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