If declaring a national emergency is on the table then calling for impeachment hearings for drump refusing to keep the government open should also be on the table.
People who live here and love The Rump are about 10 times likelier to bitch about their lazy, drug-addicted, welfare-scamming American neighbors who won’t even get off their couch for $10 an hour, than about Hispanic workers who will. As if every dope-smoking derelict and couch potato in the county just kept flocking to the same three unfortunate small businesses who can’t seem to retain a staff longer than a month or two. “What choice does a businessman have but to hire illegally,” ask my Rump loving neighbors.
The GOP endgame is not to help American workers make American wages again. It’s to make Americans work for Mexican wages or be denied health care. So I’d like to see border security tied to some mechanism for American organized capital to begin sharing some of that wealth with American labor. The GOP is against that, and the election should be about whose side they are really on.
Haven’t we seen this pattern before? Nothing seems to happen until the deadline arrives, except a lot of talking, and then things happen very quickly. (Of course in this particular situation, a shutdown would be such a stupid thing to do that it only seems possible in this administration.) In this case, Trump may have gotten an inkling that he was getting something in exchange for his demands, and thus, predictably, is pushing for more.
The king of bankruptcies is trying his best to bankrupt the country. Sad!
“…battle more than most is driven by political symbolism — whether Trump will be able to claim he delivered on his long-running pledge to “build the wall” or newly empowered congressional Democrats’ ability to thwart him.”
(AP) the democrats, as you have failed to report, have ideas on what to do with the money instead of a useless wall. Thwarting 45* isn’t symbolism - it’s dong their job to keep bad legislation from passing. You don’t even try anymore do you?
To paraphrase a certain Speaker from a previous battle over Social Security:
Nothing. We’ll give you nothing for a wall. Is nothing good enough for you?
Can never remember where arriving at peak alliteration comes in relation to the canary keeling over: as an All Clear or at least that we’re into post phony crisis, or time to find an acting canary?
Pall of Pessimism
Fence of Facade
Blockade for Blockheads
Mall of Mansplainery
Barrier of Bull Bilge
Divider of Deadbeats
Structure of Stupid
Might actually mean something, but: maybe not.
And now, it appears that the world’s worst salesman and negotiator, Donald J. Trump himself, is going to do a rally in El Paso, building on his previously unsuccessful lies. Maybe he is trying to construct a wall out of falsehoods. (It would certainly be tall and slippery enough.)