JimofPennsylvan
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- Jun 6, 2007
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What President Trump in his national address tonight demonstrated with a titanic size flood light is that he screwed-up big-big-big-time, he committed the Grandfather of all screw-ups, in listening to the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity in backing out of the deal with the House and the Senate to sign the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open. He demonstrated tonight that he doesn't have the case to make all those millions of Americans directly and indirectly significantly hurt by the shutdown to go through the hardship they will go through to force Congress to fund his campaign promise of a wall. President Trump hasn't learned the lesson that Representative Steny Hoyer and Senator Dick Durbin told him loud and clearly in his immigration summit in the White House way back in January of 2018 when they said to the President when you're talking about all these things like more Judges, more detention facilities, more security measures, etc. to stop the illegal immigration through America's southern border "you're talking comprehensive immigration reform and if you want to negotiate legislation to reach this goal you have to be willing to provide legal status to a large portion of the eleven million undocumented immigrants currently in America". President Trump in his Address quite effectively articulated the harm coming from illegal immigration through America's southern border but he also articulated how clueless he is in knowing the political path to solving the problem. President Trump quite stupidly believes the American people were all born yesterday the American people have known the scope of this terrible "illegal immigration" wound on the body of America for the last twenty years were waiting for a President that has the leadership skills to create the complex and extensive legislative solution needed to solve this problem. In this Address President Trump showed he offers America no hope in solving this problem.
President Trump if he has a modicum of wisdom in the cavity between his ears will charge his staff to pull out all the stops in trying to pull out a face saving solution to this Government Shutdown. Face Saving 101 would call for him to abandon all talk of the wall, the wall is dead for the 2019 Budget. The Trump Administration should fall back on the provision of the 2018 Omnibus Spending bill which provided for funding for fencing with designs in existence prior to 2018. Bollard (Metal Post) fences work as a security measure and it isn't wasteful spending like a hugely costly wall would be! Chris Cuomo made an excellent point on his program tonight when he said that President Trump makes his best case for added security protections when he talks like Border Patrol authorities tell me the country needs X,Y and Z to strengthen the border the way it should be strengthened and leaves it at that!
In the rebuttal, Senator Schumer's remarks I thought were appropriate and one could respect his point of view because he acknowledged that illegal immigration through the southern border is wrong and we need to address it. On the other hand, Speaker Pelosi's remarks were disappointing and very troubling. The Speaker's remarks were alarmingly off the mark the mass of people trying to enter our country without visas on the southern border aren't women and children and the good characterization of what is going on isn't that it is a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis where these people are fleeing failed countries, countries where extortion, kidnapping, bribery and murder run rampant and inundate the countries. As much as the American people should hope these countries stop their failure and become good countries we should strongly as strongly can be say in words and behavior that we are not your savior to these people don't come to our country we have serious problems of our own our country is a failed country for many of our people we have to fix our country for these citizens of ours we cannot take you in, period, to do so would not be right to those Americans America owes much more to than they currently get! It is really alarming if the Democrat Party's position is what the Speaker seems to be saying which is that coming to America is the solution for these millions and millions of suffering people from Central and South America it is America's obligation to write the humanitarian wrong for these people!
President Trump if he has a modicum of wisdom in the cavity between his ears will charge his staff to pull out all the stops in trying to pull out a face saving solution to this Government Shutdown. Face Saving 101 would call for him to abandon all talk of the wall, the wall is dead for the 2019 Budget. The Trump Administration should fall back on the provision of the 2018 Omnibus Spending bill which provided for funding for fencing with designs in existence prior to 2018. Bollard (Metal Post) fences work as a security measure and it isn't wasteful spending like a hugely costly wall would be! Chris Cuomo made an excellent point on his program tonight when he said that President Trump makes his best case for added security protections when he talks like Border Patrol authorities tell me the country needs X,Y and Z to strengthen the border the way it should be strengthened and leaves it at that!
In the rebuttal, Senator Schumer's remarks I thought were appropriate and one could respect his point of view because he acknowledged that illegal immigration through the southern border is wrong and we need to address it. On the other hand, Speaker Pelosi's remarks were disappointing and very troubling. The Speaker's remarks were alarmingly off the mark the mass of people trying to enter our country without visas on the southern border aren't women and children and the good characterization of what is going on isn't that it is a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis where these people are fleeing failed countries, countries where extortion, kidnapping, bribery and murder run rampant and inundate the countries. As much as the American people should hope these countries stop their failure and become good countries we should strongly as strongly can be say in words and behavior that we are not your savior to these people don't come to our country we have serious problems of our own our country is a failed country for many of our people we have to fix our country for these citizens of ours we cannot take you in, period, to do so would not be right to those Americans America owes much more to than they currently get! It is really alarming if the Democrat Party's position is what the Speaker seems to be saying which is that coming to America is the solution for these millions and millions of suffering people from Central and South America it is America's obligation to write the humanitarian wrong for these people!
