by Haruo » Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:04 am
Why do I doubt that either of these proof texts applies to Trump's (or the Democrats') notion of what to do with the Rio Grande and adjacent turf?
In 2006 the Democratic-majority Senate passed a bill to build a 700-mile "wall" or "fence" or "barrier" or whatever you want to call it along significant portions of the US-Mexico border, citing reasoning very similar to what Trump has been citing for building one the entire length of that border. Now Trump has decided that having it his way is more important than paying his employees for their critically needed services, and the Democrats have decided that having it Trump's way (or to listen to some of them, having any wall) is worth not paying the workforce to avoid.
Both sides are full of hyperbole (a very biblical thing to be full of) and the nation is being ill served (and the workers even more illy).
I was amazed at how well Trump stuck to his Teleprompter night before last. If I didn't know better I might have mistaken him for Obama.
In 2013, "Obama shut down the government" for almost this long to force the adoption of the Affordable Care Act.*
I'm less than impressed with the lot of them, and with the press or whatever it's called that feeds us our views of the facts.
* Depending on which Fact Checker you go with, this is rated True, Half True, or Not True. Wait, that was Ted Cruz, not Barack?
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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