Discussion: Texas GOP Rep. Slams Trump's Wall: It's 'Unnecessary' And Too Expensive

Hell just froze over.

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“Intelligence-led approach?”

The intelligence-led approach was not to elect him, asshole.

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Let’s hear what Lamar Alexander has to say, first.

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It’s a wash. But the rubes like the idea. Reality for Putin’s puppet is so much public relations.

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Did he try to tell Trump this when it first came up?

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Hurd heard from the Texas ranchers, farmers, construction, food service and domestic staff employers.

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one of the few bright spots re: the wall - it’s going to fuck up a lot of conservative texans’ land.

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The only thing that counts is the public opposition from a GOP rep. The terms it’s expressed in hardly matter. There is no practical problem a wall would solve. It’s a symbol for scapegoating an ethnicity and an expression of vain hope that time can be made to run backward to an imaginary golden age.

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Poor Rep Hurd…he’ll be deported soon.

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Good God Almighty, I’m glad I was sitting down, because I just read a comment from a Texas Republican that was sensible, based on sound reasoning, and that I AGREED WITH??? What is happening???

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Ryan: Tax cuts will take care of the expense.
Trump: Its necessary because I ran on this issue and millions of my supporters think its a great idea. Also, I think this guy is so ugly, his wife must be 1 or 0. I dont have to listen to him.

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I know, right? Who saw that coming? How’d he slip through the filter?

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Don’t you mean this Texas idiot, who just loves him some Trump!

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In the end, what I think will happen is that Rump will focus on some section of the current wall and will focus his resources on that giving the illusion that he’s building his wall.

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Anyway, off With His Head!!

Make a headless example of the urchin!

Alternative facts are arbitrary, so everyone has to get on board which ones they’re running with. If Rumpublicans every solve this problem, they’re going to be the biggest threat to people having nice things that the world has ever seen.

It doesn’t make too much sense, though, does it? Seems to open him up to a whole lot of embarrassing explanations and yes, mockery.

Shouldn’t he have handed this off to some Republican committee and then tried to shame them when they didn’t do his nut ball bidding?

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To give you an idea of why he may have spoken out, here’s a map of his district

Dangerous for a Republican in that district to not speak out. He only won election by 3200 votes. (The Libertarian won 10,00 votes and swung the election).

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A rational Republican?