Posted on 12/22/2018 10:35:18 AM PST by Kaslin
By the time you read this, you'll know whether the federal government has been partially shut down for the holidays.
You'll also know whether Donald Trump had the political courage and brains to do what Republicans running Congress have failed to do for two years-- put their butts on the line to fund a stronger border wall on our southern border.
And you'll know whether the president's chances for getting reelected in 2020 have gone up or down.
Going into Friday, everything about a potential government shutdown over Trump's wall was still up in the air.
President Trump was threatening to not sign a "continuing resolution" that would temporarily fund the federal government until February because the House bill did not contain money for building a border wall.
Conservatives in Congress and in the media were urging Trump not to sign.
Democrats in Congress and the liberal media were spreading fear and hysteria about the dire effects of a government shutdown on innocent people, as they always do.
Republicans in the House scrambled to pass a bill that added $5 billion for wall funding to the bill the Senate has already passed.
Meanwhile, future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate soulmate Chuck Schumer were declaring that Democrats in Congress will never vote to fund a border wall - or a fence, or a moat, or whatever Trump wants to call it.
Late Thursday, they were on TV complaining that "Trump's Tantrum" was throwing the country into chaos.
If a fourth of the gigantic federal government is shut down temporarily by Trump by midnight Friday, it won't be his fault.
It won't be the Democrats' fault, either. It'll be the Republicans' fault - especially party leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan.
They're the chickenhearted ones in Congress who put President Trump behind the political eight ball.
Speaker Ryan never wanted the border wall, so he would never bring up a bill to fund it for a vote in the House. Trump forced his hand at the last minute.
It would have been much easier for Republicans, and the president, if Ryan had done the right thing and made House Democrats vote for or against funding the wall months ago.
The president recently said he'd be proud to take the blame for shutting down the government over the important issue of border security, but he really has no choice.
With Pelosi and her gang ready to take over the House for the next two years, this is Trump's last chance to get funding for his wall.
The Democrats in Washington and everywhere else don't want real border security, now or ever.
I've got a new governor here who wants open borders, who wants to turn California into a sanctuary state, who wants to give illegals free health care and who wants to pay homeowners like me to house homeless people in our backyards.
President Trump, who's in the White House because of the slogan "Build the wall," has already said he'd never sign another continuing resolution to fund the government if it didn't contain money for a strong border wall.
Now's his time to put up or shut up.
If he doesn't stand his ground now against Pelosi and Schumer, and if he doesn't get serious funding for the wall, his political base will say goodbye.
So will his supporters and defenders in the media, like Ann Coulter, who's already threatened to do as much.
For President Trump, and the Republican Party, the political stakes for this vote are as high as they can get.
Speaker Ryan and the House Republicans never found the courage to pass a bill to fund the wall. They repeatedly showed they had no balls.
What Trump decides to do on this latest continuing resolution bill will either win or lose him the election in 2020.
In my opinion, he can't lose in 2020 by not signing it. He can only lose by signing it.
He must shut down the federal government over the border wall. By Saturday, we'll learn if he had the balls to do it.
And HERE is Nancy's other home in downtown SF:
Clearly, he did have the balls to do it..
Read my lips .... I will build the wall.
“What Trump decides to do on this latest continuing resolution bill will either win or lose him the election in 2020.”
Read my lips .... I will build the wall.
“If he doesn’t stand his ground now against Pelosi and Schumer, and if he doesn’t get serious funding for the wall, his political base will say goodbye.”
That’s what conservatives were trying, successfully so far, to call to his attention.
It would be a shame to withdraw our support on this particular item after everything he’s done to win it, but this is a large issue at a precise time before change in House. One of his tweets I think mentioned he previously gave in to dems on their word to deliver later. Regan made this mistake. It’s not forgivable a 2nd time. Not with dems.
There! Fixed it.
Patriots, even though Mexico will ultimately pay for wall, this is taxation without representation.
Remember in November 2020!
I’m sorry but what a toad this writer is. President Trump’s LAST CHANCE. No IDTS. Neither the President nor the American people are going to stand for open borders. We are going to have a border wall.
“his political base will say goodbye”
I regard asylum law elimination more important than wall construction.
U.S. Code Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part I § 1158
“Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section or, where applicable, section 1225(b) of this title.”
Append after the word “title”, the following text
” as long as the United States government is required to do so under the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations shall denounce the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees under Article 44 by a notification stating “The United States hereby denounces the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees” addressed to and delivered to the Secretary-General of the United Nations forthwith”
Paul Ryan's wall 
Zuck's wall I see a lot of this “last chance” for Trump business being ranted on this site, but I’ve got my own opinion about it.
As disappointed as it will be if the wall doesn’t get built, I’m still not throwing Trump to the curb. That single issue is not enough to let all of the former Clinton-Bush-Obama agendas to come roaring back in 2021.
When I look at all the other things Trump has done for America, i.e. the economy, employment, and other general common sense things, the single issue of a “wall” is not worth witnessing the “return of socialized medicine”, high taxes, voter fraud, etc., etc., etc.
If there is one thing I hate more than voter fraud, it’s “single issue voters”. They are selfish, suffering from “me me me” ideology and drowning in selfishness.
Trump has done everything humanly possible to get that wall, with a constant battle from the dems, and his “turncoat” constituents on the Republican side, I think he’s fulfilled his promise as well as can be...to this point.
Trump is a phenomenon that we won’t be seeing for a long, long time to come. I’m 73, and he’s probably the last, best, hope for me.
/rant off
Who elected Ryan to be speaker?
His fellow GOP House members.
In January, they will elect Ryan’s protégé.
Ryan did his job. No ACA repeal replace. No Wall.
Home for the holidays, a nice rest, then back to work for lobbyists,who will make him a very rich man.
Well said, Frank, well said! I’m only 63, but I also feel that Mr. Trump is the last best hope to keep this country from devolving into a place of Crony Capitalism, where the “free press” is nothing more than a total mouthpiece for whatever pablum the oligarchs want to feed the masses.
“If there is one thing I hate more than voter fraud, it’s “single issue voters”. They are selfish, suffering from “me me me” ideology and drowning in selfishness.”
What is the correct number of issues a voter should care about in order not to be ‘selfish’?
The DHS and Border Patrol agents and workers who work through the shutdown will all be reimbursed...It’s not like they won’t be paid...It will just come after the shutdown is over...
The illegals do not have a clear path to cross over...
More than one issue
Ducking the question, which is no surprise from Common Core Republicans like both of you.
I suggest you and Frankie refrain from telling others how to vote, and worry about yourself. And some remedial reading on American history might help you girls out as well.
Merry Christmas.
15 Million, and rising...
Not bad, at all.
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