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DACA is not a bargaining chip, it's a wedge.
Don Surber blog ^ | January 23, 2018 | Don Surber

Posted on 01/23/2018 6:49:53 AM PST by mairdie

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"On The Right Side of History" did not get Trump wrong. That is why he calls himself "On The Right Side of History" because he is...

In a string of 30 tweets, he laid it out.

1. For a couple weeks now, I've been saying that DACA is not a bargaining chip, it's a bait. In fact, you just saw who Trump used it to bait the Dems into a Banzai Charge on his most heavily fortified position.

2. Having been humiliated by Trump, the smarter Dems in congress, especially in the Senate are going to be hella wary of doing that again.

3. It's not just that Trump humiliated them, it's also that the thought DACA was a certain winner politically, because all of their slanted Big Media polls have been telling them that for years. But when it came time to actually act, the public melted their phones with anger.

4. So, now what? Now, DACA is not a bargaining chip, it's a wedge.

5. Again, DACA is not a bargaining chip, it's now a wedge. And Dr. President Trump is going to put it on the fault line between sensible Congressional Dems and their bitter, idiotic, lunatic voters and hit it as many times as he can with a sledgehammer.

6. Trump is going to use DACA to split Dems from their hardest-of-hardcore base: the ethnic agitators, the SJWs, the cat ladies, and the whole rest of that ranting crew.

7. Trump is going to do this by making the terms of any potential DACA deal so hard for Dems to swallow that they're either be a) forced to abandon the Dreamers, or give Trump so much of what he wants that the Dem base will have an epic meltdown.

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(Excerpt) Read more at donsurber.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: budget; buildthefence; daca; dreamact; dreamers; shutdown; trump
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21 posted on 01/23/2018 10:11:26 AM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: mairdie
IMHO, the formula is there for all to see:

Red Democrats (and the states they have turned Red) use immigration as a tool.

Diversity = Dilution

Dilution offers a path to world government.

22 posted on 01/23/2018 10:37:22 AM PST by frog in a pot
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To: mairdie
I'm not quite as kind when I address the trolls directly....;-}

Never tell me I'm clever - it goes to my head......Thanks though....

23 posted on 01/23/2018 11:13:59 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
It's Schumer and Pelosi versus the earlier Schumer and Pelosi.
Read these quotes:
24 posted on 01/23/2018 11:18:12 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: trebb

I enjoy it when you’re clever. Language can be such fun when used by one with wit. Too many go for the cheap jokes or the quick, and endlessly repeated, one liners. Just know that your effort is never wasted.


25 posted on 01/23/2018 12:49:24 PM PST by mairdie
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To: Nifster

Deport All Criminal Aliens


26 posted on 01/23/2018 12:50:46 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mairdie

This was a great read........should be required for those who get their pants in a knot when things appear other than what they want to see and hear.....

Also reveals how Trump operates...sort of...at least in this venue. He’s a true wonder to watch! I love it!

Thanks for posting that and the entire thread is a good read.....kudos to you!


27 posted on 01/23/2018 1:02:13 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

Kudos taken for the article writer, and then for our great thread writers. Many clever people in FR whose comments are whipped away in the wind of arguments but, hopefully, never forgotten.


28 posted on 01/23/2018 1:27:11 PM PST by mairdie
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To: ADemocratNoMore

PING


29 posted on 01/23/2018 1:34:52 PM PST by mairdie
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To: NorthMountain

Works for me


30 posted on 01/23/2018 2:43:46 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mairdie

Thanks so much - I got my ironic/wry sense of humor from my Dad - he also taught me that one of the best assets one can have is the ability to laugh at yourself. He was wont to say, “If you can’t laugh at yourself, I’ll laugh at you until you can.”.


31 posted on 01/24/2018 2:23:18 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: trebb

Your father was a brilliant and natural philosopher. Sounds like a good man.


32 posted on 01/24/2018 4:20:12 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

He was - not a saint (way too ....interesting....for sainthood) but a good man.


33 posted on 01/24/2018 4:29:08 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: trebb

Then you were exceptionally lucky.

Mother left father when I was 6 weeks old because he was an alcoholic, and she worried what would happen to my brother and me if she got sick. I was raised by her and grandparents that I adored. And while grandfather was a wonderful male role model, I so wished for that mercurial, brilliant soldier/poet who died in my childhood.

You had an interesting father. I’m green with envy, and so happy for you.


34 posted on 01/24/2018 4:43:54 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
Adversity can make us better and stronger - sounds like that happened with you, your Mom and your Grandparents.

Lost my first wife due to my own drinking and it took a long time to be able to do much more for my children than to keep up support payments 9paid a lot more than I was legally bound to do as I got sober shortly after the wife left with them).

Turns out their mother hooked up with some men that made me look like a Boy Scout and God must have helped keep it from me because I think I would have committed a very serious sin if I had known. My kids ended up transitioning through my home as young adults and are both doing good now - they call my current wife "Mom" and have nothing to do with their mother.

Been sober for over 29 years and I think I am probably a better person for having gone through my earlier transgressions and developing a new love for what life can be.

Sorry you missed out on your Dad's company - my ex grew up without a Father because her mother left her Dad when she was very young and she ended up very bitter and had some serious issues that I was unaware of when we got married - it sounds like you were very fortunate to have a loving home vs. a bitter one.

My own Dad had his bouts of drinking and it caused strife in our home when I was younger and we were estranged for some of my early adulthood (he was a good father when I was very young and he taught me many useful skills but the friction between him and Mom kept thing tense, especially as I got older and fell into the same alcohol trap he had been mired in) - he got his act straight, I got my own act straight, and we became very close for the last 15 years of his life. Goes to show that adversity can have an upside if God is involved.

God Bless

35 posted on 01/24/2018 6:14:08 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: trebb

Adversity does fire character and turn it to steel. You prove that.

Missing a father was not adversity to me - just a hole in my life that I’ve spent decades trying to fill. If I’m strong, then grandmother should be smiling. She was too strong for my mother, as father was. Mother was intellect. Grandmother and father were pure emotion. I’m the mix. Father placed mother on a pedestal where mother never wanted to be. She was his muse when all she wanted was a loaf of bread from the grocery. In one of his letters begging her to come back he wrote that he didn’t understand little girls - he taught rifle to boys and young men - but he hoped I’d understand. And I do, in a way mother never could have.

As for the alcohol, that was the intellectual part of me. Mother explained that I had the extremism of my father and that if I ever touched alcohol I would become an alcoholic. The risk was too great so I’ve never touched alcohol. Since I get high with the joy of life, that was never something I missed.

I’m with my second spouse, too, but had a much easier time of it than you did. Bruce brought me flowers the day of the divorce and I split the debts with him 50/50. And that Christmas I filled his freezer with steaks. I still love him to this day. We were better friends than spice.

I’m so glad you have children. There’s a part of you that will be living down through the ages and many of those descendants will make a mark that you would be proud to know. And you show them the character of strength and love and protectiveness that will enrich their lives. That’s a wonderful heritage.

Without children, I can only leave my research and my writing. And my music video art. But I write! I’ve got close to 30,000 web pages up and everything I learn I push out to everyone. Mother was brilliant and I’m a pale imitation. But she used that incredible mind to play mental games, not leave anything behind. As she was dying, she asked how everything she knew could disappear. That is where I put my effort. Everything I know WON’T disappear if the computer archives are up to it.

So one of the things I have up are the love letters from father to mother, as well as his marvelous poetry. I put them up on the web over 20 years ago. A gentleman wrote back then and asked to bring them to his fathers’ support group because they express so well what divorced fathers feel.

http://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/letters.htm

And you don’t need blessing. You’re doing a brilliant job of living your life. Keep inspiring your children!


36 posted on 01/24/2018 7:13:33 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
I read a couple of the letters and find them fascinating - both for the content and for the poetic "old-timey" nature. From the mind/heart of a philosopher-poet and I felt a kinship with the frustrated suffering so well expressed. Have bookmarked for future reading.

I'm so glad we had this conversation.

37 posted on 01/24/2018 7:27:28 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: trebb

All my heart and caring.


38 posted on 01/24/2018 7:31:27 AM PST by mairdie
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