RedState.com headline: “Calif. Gov. Newsom Admits Bullet Train A Green Project Boondoggle (But He’s Not Giving Back The Money)” Hmmm…
“…private funding for the project has been scarce yet taxpayers were still on the hook helping fund the organization that would be running the train via a carbon tax.”
So, everyone’s okay with misusing billions for this now-dead ‘bullet-train’ fiasco, but if anyone suggests the President could budget-sweep unspent funds for a border wall…
…all hell breaks loose?
The Washington Times headline: “Black Virginia voters may forgive Democrats: ‘I can’t oust Gov. Northam for acting white in America'”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Critics maintain if the President does go ahead with an executive action (of any type) it will be challenged in court by Democrats, but Republicans can short-circuit that.
Texas (as a border state affected) can file the suit coordinated with Republicans, in order to ensure any appeal would go through a friendly Fifth Circuit in Louisiana.
That way, they’d stymie Democrats court-shopping friendlies, like the 9th Circuit.
Hopefully, these ideas are already well on their way in this regard.
Not surprisingly, regarding the wall-funding issue, everyone seems more focused on the President…because the FakeNews media drives 92% negative daily coverage of him.
But our REAL focus should be on Congress – it’s their job to fund necessary programs.
Yet, once again, media shows how they run cover for Democrats, making every story an issue of how it affects the President’s agenda, as if it’s not America’s agenda also.
Okay – let’s focus on President Trump…
Anyone check approval numbers for Congress lately?
Bottom Line: President Trump made the case, made the effort to get Congress to man up, put Republicans in the ‘protect Americans’ column, and pinned a ‘they don’t care about American security or migrant wellbeing’ tail on the Democrats.
He can re-state the case, sign it (if there’s no hidden ‘gotchas’ in the final bill), then do a budget-sweep or national-emergency executive action, add that cash to the paltry sum they’ve authorized, and continue to build the wall in the areas Border agents designate.
(For that matter, we’ve noted he could use seized drug cartel cash to fund it.)
Considering his broad powers, he could’ve funded it without Congressional assistance: by not doing so until they showed they wouldn’t, he’s honored Constitutional principles.
In the final analysis, it’s Congress who failed on proper funding, and there’s no way in hell anyone can call THEIR ineffective legislation a ‘cave’ on his part. It’s on them.
“After El Chapo conviction, use seized $14 BILLION to build border wall?”
File this idea under ‘Poetic Justice’…
CNS News headliner: “Kamala Harris: ‘Our American Values Are Under Attack. Babies Are Being Ripped From Their Parents’” but, wait…it’s not about abortion?
It’s about illegal immigration…you know…where sex traffickers, drug smugglers, and vile gangs are using other people’s kids as shields to get in over our southern border.
‘Our American Values’ approve of such heinous activity, Kamala?
Really?
The lure of Socialism seems to be based on envy and hopelessness.
Trying to teach the PROVEN evils of such a system to millennials falls on deaf ears.
Okay, hit them where they live…social media, smart-phones, and the like.
Those who’ve lived through it know Socialism means restrictive policies that will control the use of smart-phones, and curb the widespread reach of an all-knowing Internet.
As noted above, such is the restrictive nature enacted by Socialism.
FACT.
Tell them millions died, they don’t listen…but tell them they’ll lose Internet access…
…and all Hell’s gonna break loose.
“Maxine Waters to Donald Trump: We’re Going To Get Your Tax Returns“
GAME ON – do they even realize who runs the Treasury Department (incl. the IRS)?
(photo courtesy pluspng.com)
File this under ‘Democrat Deceit – WRIT LARGE.
Detractors of the GOP tax-cut plan, trying to diminish economic benefits of that plan, are ‘bemoaning’ the fact taxpayers will see unexpectedly smaller refunds this year…
…but (of course) ‘forgetting’ to note take-home pay this year has INCREASED.
What reasonable taxpayer doesn’t understand that last year, they got a larger refund because the tax-cut plan affected the previous year…when they paid MORE taxes?
(You know, because of the Obama reign, when tax-cuts were…unthinkable. Or, is the Republican Party supposed to apologize for needing the time to get their plan passed?)
What reasonable taxpayer doesn’t understand that, if they paid less in as a result of the tax-cut plan (while the cut DID raise their take-home pay last year), they get less back?
When such DECEIT is needed to make a point…what’s the Democrats’ point?
To his credit (unless you ask an anti/never-Trump’er) the President made every effort to get Congress off the dime and do their job, rather than exercising an executive action.
The scant amount of money sought for border wall security is, as Rush Limbaugh calls it, ‘a rounding error’…compared to our annual multi-trillion dollar budget.
Allowing America’s national security to be used as a political football is despicable, and the Congress AS A WHOLE should be ashamed of themselves for such a disgrace.
Congress knows this too, yet refuse to fund the small change it would take to stop it.
Trump tried to get them to do their job; he made the case on it’s urgency…
…if they won’t do THEIR job, he must do it for them…
…and for America.