Posted on 11/28/2018 2:58:48 PM PST by sailor76
TRUMP'S GREAT WALL BECOMES TRUMP'S GREAT STALL
November 28, 2018
For those of us who were ecstatic the night Donald Trump was elected president, who watch election night videos over and over again, it used to be easy to defend him against the charge that he is just a BS-ing con man who would say anything to get elected.
It's getting harder.
Trump was our last chance. But he's spent two years not building the wall, not deporting illegals -- "INCREDIBLE KIDS!" -- and not ending the anchor baby scam.
Within 10 seconds of Trump's leaving office, there will be no evidence that he was ever president. Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed.
Trump will leave no legacy at all. Only a wall is forever.
We had no choice. No one else was promising to save America.
"On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. We will use the best technology, including above- and below-ground sensors, that's the tunnels. Remember that: above and below. Towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels ..." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
But then he signed a spending bill expressly prohibiting him from building any part of the wall.
"I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not going to do it again." -- President Trump, after signing a spending bill that blocked any funding for a wall.
Today, eight months later, Trump is about to sign another spending bill that will give him no money for the wall.
Anyone want to bet me that he won't?
So much for the world's greatest negotiator.
Donald Trump is the commander in chief. He doesn't need Congress' approval to defend the nation's borders.
But as long as his excuse for not building the wall is that Congress hasn't appropriated money for it, why on earth would he sign a spending bill that doesn't give it to him?
There is no tomorrow on this. Republicans are about to lose the House. It's now or never.
We didn't need someone to tell us how hard it is to get anything done in Washington. We knew that.
That's why we hired a builder. We didn't care what Trump's position on the lira was. We didn't care about Syria. We were just looking for the best contractor we could find so we would finally get a wall.
If we were talking about a golf course in Scotland, I think Trump could figure out how to get it done.
But instead of winning, we're getting whining. We're told it's Congress' fault for not giving Trump money to build the wall! The ACLU will sue! A judge will stop him! Blame Paul Ryan! (Possible Trump epitaph: Chuck wouldn't let me!)
President Reagan bombed Libya in retaliation for two U.S. serviceman being killed by a bomb in a West Berlin discotheque -- TWO!
But Trump thinks he needs the preapproval of Congress, the ACLU and a district court judge in Hawaii to do something about tens of thousands of Americans being killed every year by illegal alien heroin dealers, drunk drivers and straight-up murderers.
Reagan invaded Grenada because the country was becoming a Soviet client state. No Grenadian threatened to touch a hair on any American's head. One wonders what Reagan's reaction would have been to someone telling him, YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THE ACLU WILL SUE!
If Reagan had Trump's advisers, we'd be speaking Russian.
The ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the other anti-American groups opposing Trump on immigration were the very same groups that opposed Reagan. They would have been happy if the U.S.S.R. had nuked this country.
Sadly for them, Reagan kept his promises, and we won the Cold War. So now the back-up plan is to destroy our country by flooding it with the Third World.
We needed Reagan and got P.T. Barnum instead.
Evidently, Trump knew he could bomb an innocent country based on false information about the Syrian government using nerve gas in April 2018. (Actual reason: Ivanka cried.) No less than the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons spent months testing the bodies allegedly killed by nerve gas. Conclusion: No nerve gas.
But we're supposed to believe that Trump doesn't realize that he's also allowed to defend the citizens of this country. Does he know he's president?
Even if noted constitutional law scholar Jared Kushner has convinced Trump that he needs congressional approval before he's allowed to repel invaders at our border -- but doesn't need Congress to bomb an innocent country because Ivanka cried -- the president could order the troops to invade Mexico and build the wall 10 yards in.
But all we get are bombastic tweets and useless half-measures. The conservative media have been excitedly reporting that Obama put illegal alien kids in cages too! Obama used tear gas on the invaders too!
Yes, exactly -- and none of that worked. That's why we voted for the guy who promised to build a wall.
Unlike the president, we knew that the deluge of poor people flooding our country would never stop until we had an impenetrable border.
And whatever happened to that executive order on anchor babies? Is Trump "trying" to sign that, too? Maybe he got writer's cramp.
Trump also promised to deport illegals -- even the ones Democrats have given cute names to.
"We're always talking about 'Dreamers' for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. They're not dreaming right now." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
"The executive order (on "Dreamers") gets rescinded." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
Is it Paul Ryan's fault that Trump did a 180 on "Dreamers," called them "INCREDIBLE KIDS" and tried to give them amnesty?
Every day that Trump does not keep his promises on immigration, thousands of immigrants turn 18 and start block voting for the Democrats, while thousands of traditional Americans die off.
Florida and Texas are about five years away from turning solid blue. Trump was our last chance. After this, the country is never going to elect a Republican president again.
So the next time you watch one of those election night videos, remember: If Trump doesn't keep his immigration promises, Hillary might as well have won.
Trump will leave no legacy whatsoever. Without a wall, he will only be remembered as a small cartoon figure who briefly inflamed and amused the rabble.
Once again, Coulter is right on the money.
We’re going to be flooded by illegals and that’ll be the end of that. Democrat or Republican, just can’t trust them.
If she thinks democrats won’t undermine a wall she’s crazy.
Coulter is a one trick pony. Trump has accomplished more than any president in the last 100 years to turn back the swamp. He has come through on almost all his promises. But on the wall, he cant print the money to build it. He needs Congress. Coulter is putting the blame on the wrong guy.
Ann...unless we’re talking about Abraham Lincoln the President can’t appropriate funds. You know that, so stop being bombastic.
As for “not being able to tell that Trump was ever here”, what Trump is doing in judicial appointments belies that claim.
Trump has been keeping his promises, but he cannot do everything when you have RINOs in Congress. I was listening to Rush today, and a female caller was saying if the wall does not get built, then conservatives will not vote for Trump. So who in the heck are they going to vote for?
The only thing she is right about is “We had no choice. No one else was promising to save America.”. Other then that, she is just pms’n. Trump is not a god, he has been doing everything he reasonably can, entirely on his own mind you, to get the wall in place. He has actual built some of it and is fighting for more funding even as we type. It took the democrats decades to put the corruption in place. It is not reasonable to expect Trump to be able to reverse all that in two years.
It is as if she has no clue how government operates.
Coulter is all about Colter.
Selling books, getting her face on TV.
She has the “See me, mommy” complex and really bad.
“It is as if she has no clue how government operates.”
I agree. I think Coulter needs to take her medicines.
He keeps signing spending bills that have no wall money. One bill he signed even forbade him from building the wall
He could try a showdown with Congress, but instead he automatically accepts what they send him
We needed Reagan and got P.T. Barnum instead.
Ouch.
She’s on the “something” alright.
Doesn’t m(Ann) ever SHUT THE #### UP!?!?
Didn’t she have a hard on for Christie at one point?
Who here remembers when Christie WAS AN OBVIOUS CONSERVATIVE????
Me neither.
Don’t go away mad, ann, just go away.
Excuse me, Trump can’t build the wall without congress approving funding.
For 2 years republicans had majority in congress, why did they oppose funding the wall? I know why, because it was Trump’s top campaign issue, and the GOP elites do not want the wall.
Yes, she was palpitating for Christy and then Romney.
Coulter shows her fickle self yet again.
So now we only need TWO WORDS to refute any garbage she spews.
Rudy isn’t a conservative but at least he’s a patriot and loyal to Trump.
Romney...spit.
Christie could be good in a Luca Brasi kind of role when needed to be used by the POTUS.
I heard a lot of noise awhile back about taking the money from defense money - it IS a national security/defense issue. What was all that about? If it couldn’t be done, nobody should have been putting it out there. If it CAN be funded through the miliary, it should already be well underway. So many conflicting stories. The only thing I truly believe is that if it was only up to the president, the wall would be near completion.
“how government operates”
The constitution gives the president leverage. He hasn’t used it. He’s signed every spending bill they’ve sent him. Trouble is, he surrounded himself with GOPe operatives who’ve kept him from fighting for the wall
Ann, you’re pretty good with the pen.
Why do you never direct some vitriol to the real culprits, namely, the RNC and the party bosses in general?
Have you not noticed that they have run interference in every election that would have given us true conservatives? How many good Republicans got sandbagged by the likes of Karl Rove (remember how irate he was that Christine O’Donnell wone the primary?) and Ronna Romney?
Not saying you’re wrong here Ann, but I’m a little tired of the GOPe getting off scott free. Hannity, Rush, et al, also fail to point this out, so you’re not alone.
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