Posted on 01/11/2019 8:44:03 AM PST by Kaslin
The Democrats are no more serious about border security today than they were when they falsely promised Ronald Reagan in 1986 that they'd secure the border in exchange for amnesty for some 3 million illegal immigrants.
Democrats are experts at seducing Republicans into abandoning their principled commitments. Over and over again, in contentious political skirmishes, Republicans relent in good faith -- after accepting the Democrats' promise to deliver on their side of the bargain in the future -- and immediately deliver their side. But that future never comes. In legal parlance, this is fraud in the inducement.
In his notorious "read my lips" travesty in 1988, President George H.W. Bush promised that if he were to be elected, there would be "no new taxes," but in 1990, he reneged on his pledge in reliance on the Democrats' disingenuous and later broken promise to cut spending.
Now the unctuous, cadaverous duo of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demand that President Trump immediately reopen the federal government in exchange for their vague assurance that they will work with him in the future on border security measures.
Note: Democrats aren't even offering Trump as much as yesteryear's Democrats offered Reagan and Bush 41. This time around, they aren't even pretending to make certain concessions in the future beyond the anemic $1.3 billion they've already committed. They're just demanding that he unilaterally abandon his signature campaign promise for their half agreement to contemplate certain half measures on border enforcement at an unspecified future time.
Yet Trump is the one who is being unreasonable and overly political?
Many conservative commentators are saying that Democrats are solely focused on making Trump look bad and handing him a devastating political defeat, but I think it's more than that. Of course they want to lure him into forfeiting any chance he may have for re-election, but they also now actively oppose serious border security.
The Democrats risibly claim they oppose a wall because it would be an inefficient use of federal funds -- as if fiscal responsibility were even part of their passive vocabulary, let alone their active one. They insist that focusing on border enforcement is imprudent because most illegal immigration occurs from people overstaying their visas. Regardless of the accuracy of that claim, it is absurd to oppose border enforcement because it is only one important part of a series of necessary steps toward enforcement.
Don't think for a second that Democrats oppose a wall because it wouldn't work. They do so precisely because it would work. I repeat: It is border security they oppose, as evidenced by their opposition to Kate's Law, their reprehensible support for sanctuary cities, their callous disregard for criminal elements, in whatever percentages, illegally crossing our borders, their jaw-dropping opposition to the deportation of MS-13 gang members and other violent criminals, their demonization of ICE, their history of obstructing border enforcement, their secret affinity for open borders because increasing illegal immigration leads to an endless new supply of future Democratic voters, and their endless game-playing over a wall, including their gleeful eagerness to keep their precious federal government shut down just so they can demagogue the issue and humiliate Trump.
One day the Democrats will pretend they earnestly support border enforcement, and the next Pelosi tells us that a wall would be immoral. She can't have it both ways. Why would it be immoral for a sovereign nation to protect its border and its citizens? Why would a wall be immoral when other forms of border enforcement are not? Was it immoral when she and virtually all other Democratic Party leaders gave impassioned speeches in recent years stressing the imperative of border security and preventing illegal immigration?
It's time the Democrats were forced to justify their indefensible position on the wall. It's heartbreaking that we've arrived at that point in our history when one of the nation's two primary political parties is bearish on national sovereignty and the rule of law. Democrats, whether because the majority of them embrace the notion or because of a morbid fear of their rabid base, are now the party of open borders. Indeed, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new face of the party, asserts that illegal immigrants and those who seek to cross our borders illegally "are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be."
Don't you see? Trump's deplorables are un-American because they want to preserve America's sovereignty, its rule of law and what is left of its uniqueness and exceptionalism.
How does this debacle ever end? It won't be easy, because Republicans must get substantial funding for a wall if Trump is to preserve any chance at re-election in 2020 and because Democrats feel no urgency, seeing as the status quo on immigration suits their purposes and advances their political interests. Democrats have no desire to resolve the issue without bringing Trump to his knees in abject capitulation. They think they've cleverly backed him into a corner because he said in the infamous Oval Office meeting that he would accept responsibility for a shutdown if Democrats wouldn't agree to substantial wall funding. Everyone knows that what Trump meant was that he was willing to shut down the government over the wall, which he believes is essential for our national security -- not that it would be his fault if they couldn't come to an agreement.
Yet Schumer and Pelosi keep childishly repeating the "Trump's shutdown" mantra, thinking that Americans are too dense to understand that when a shutdown occurs, each side is contributing to the impasse.
I think the Democrats are being too clever by half. The longer this fiasco continues the likelier average Americans will realize how nonessential many government services are to their lives and realize that contrary to the Democrats' posturing, Trump has been far more flexible and reasonable than Democrats, and Democrats' extremism will become increasingly evident.
Trump has nothing to lose politically by holding firm and everything to lose by caving without Democrats meeting him halfway. Likewise, America has much to lose if Democrats prevail in their orchestrated charade. Please hang tight, Mr. President.
David Limbaugh is exactly correct.
He is pointing out the absolute truth about the Dems.
President Trump has his eyes wide open and remembers the past transgressions of the Dems...he also has them on the ropes because the only way they win is if he caves and that ain’t gonna happen. The best they can do is after-the-fact damage control after they cave.
Trump must hold.
And if the RINOs assume the bent over position, we may as well just plan on a replacement party - as much as that hurts.
I think the President should up the amount by $5 billion every week the (actually pretty small) government shutdown continues.
Really, let’s get something in return for their shenanigans. They need to pay an ever higher price for being derelict in their sworn duty.
Te democrats can’t come up with one logical reason to not have the wall hot air and whining ensue.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 King James Version (KJV)
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good......................
Congress promised US border security in 1986.
We never got it or the enforcement that was supposed to make another amnesty unnecessary.
By 2006, they were trying for another amnesty and the furious response from the citizens prompted them to promise US border security again with the Secure Fence Act.
We never got it.
Now 32 years and 32 million illegal aliens later we are done waiting.
BUILD THE WALL!
DEPORT THEM ALL!
Democrats oppose the wall (concrete or steel) because they know it would work.
After the wall gets built item number 2 should be VOTER ID!
The way the BLUE states have cheated until the cows come home, a VOTER ID law for all federal elections should be immediately instituted.
Stonewall Trump!
Rassmussen says since August 5% more people want the wall built.
And I am sure if another 5% are added soon the Dems yield to the pressure.
Now it stands at about 54% who think govt. should be doing more to control the border. Most still don’t get that its an emergency but its quickly sinking in to their brains
Another Caravan or more God Forbid murders will convince those who don’t yet get it.
The lib media is the headwind Trump is fighting against.
Why doesn’t some rich Republican buy up one of the networks
and give GOP equal time?
Democrat Party protection of the ideology of Progressivism lies at the heart of the determined “resistance” to Candidate/now-President Trump. That ideology has “progressed,” almost unopposed by either Party, for decades, and its cult-like adherents cannot tolerate a determined leader who exposes the totalitarian ideology they embrace and defend.
This lack of backbone and willingness to cross the aisle to make the other side happy, is why, prior to 2016, millions of potential voters had withdrawn from the process
What? So if vote for HRC - I lose and if I vote for Jeb, I lose, and so on right down the ticket.
I think the exact nature of the “white” killer of 22 yo Officer Natalie Corona in Davis, Calif last night is being OBSCURED, owing to the ongoing struggle over The Wall.
OFFICER NATALIE CORONA
I’ll bet it’s an exact re-run of Katie Steinle.
I think number two should be what the Dems themselves have mentioned: people overstaying their visas. DEPORT THEM!!
Their goal is to keep talking in order to run out the clock.
EXACTLY. Take the present offer off the table. Up the ante.
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