As the Left goes bat-excrement crazy in their glee over the President ‘caving’ on the last shutdown, they and their Democrat puppets fail to realize the trap set for them in Feb.

Basically, on Jan 25th the President announced “…we have reached a deal…After 36 days of spirited debate and dialogue, I have seen and heard from enough Democrats and Republicans that they are willing to put partisanship aside — I think — and put the security of the American people first. I do believe they’re going to do that. They have said they are for complete border security, and they have finally…fully acknowledged that having barriers, fencing, or walls…will be an important part of the solution. A bipartisan Conference Committee of House and Senate lawmakers and leaders will immediately begin reviewing the requests of our Homeland Security experts — and experts they are — and also law enforcement professionals, who have worked with us so closely…Based on operational guidance from the experts in the field, they will put together a Homeland Security package for me to…sign into law.” (emphasis added)

Now, think about this – he announced reaching a deal to put together an acceptable plan, that ‘they are for complete border security’…but all they crow about is caving…

…completely ignoring the fact the deal he’s talking about is predicated on what he deems an acceptable complete border security plan – that INCLUDES barriers.

He ended his remarks, saying “…let me be very clear: We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier.  If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15th, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.  We will have great security.”

REPUBLICANS in the Senate passed a bill promising payment to furloughed workers after House Democrats shot down similar plans Republicans pushed in that body.

The President laid out the real cost of weak border security that is irrefutable.

If Democrat leadership fails to ‘put partisanship aside’ and stubbornly refuse to listen to Homeland Security experts and law enforcement on the need for a border wall, their recalcitrance will now be hard to spin as anything but senseless partisan resistance.

And considering how the President ended his remarks Friday, it will also be hard for them to condemn the man who gave Congress every chance to get it done right, if he ends up having to refuse to sign less-than-acceptable legislation…

…and is forced to invoke a national emergency executive action.

‘Caving’? HARDLY – his remarks Friday painted them into a corner.

Yet, his remarks were hardly ended before Democrat leaders Pelosi and Schumer were attacking the premise of a bipartisan deal as too costly, and not happening…even as it has been reported that ‘FY 2019 unobligated budget balances’ will be $1.156 trillion.

Got that? $1.156 trillion is $1,156 billion, sitting in government NOT BEING USED.

According to that article‘s author, Pres Trump “…can fund the entire barrier without having to declare a national emergency.  Instead, he can draw full funding for a complete border barrier from unobligated balances…” (bold emphasis added)

It’s called a ‘budget sweep‘ – been done before – and takes a few pen-strokes.

Get ‘er done.

Stone was a volunteer, not employed by the Trump campaign.

Hillary’s campaign was directly employed while they colluded.

How does an uncontrolled volunteer get busted, but not PAID aides? How does the President get scalded by a volunteer’s actions, but Hillary doesn’t for her employees?

Stone’s getting shivved because of some forgotten email to WikiLeaks, while Hillary’s campaign is given a Free Pass for real collusion with FusionGPS-funded foreign actors.

FusionGPS and Hillary’s campaign chairman LIED to Congress about their activities.

Where’s that so-called ‘equal justice under the law’ we keep hearing about?

Mr. President, your ‘Justice’ Department is not doing it’s job.

Seriously, how can federal workers furloughed during a government shutdown be angry over such an event, when in actuality they’re all getting paid NOT to work?

If that’s not BONUS VACATION time, what is?

NEITHER DO WE.

If one forgotten email from two years ago is problematic for an FBI just waiting to bust someone, where were they when Hillary scrubbed tens of thousands of them?

In a Roger Stone vs Hillary Clinton match, who has the bigger legality problem?

If karma still exists, the liberal smugness is heading for a downfall.

Equal under the law?

When?

NBC News ‘thought experiment‘: “Before he encountered Omaha elder Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial, Covington High School student Nick Sandmann had already taken steps to provoke and insult people of color. He’d put on a MAGA hat.”

Got that?

‘People of color’ benefiting from historic employment for minorities are provoked and insulted by the Make-America-Great-Again policies which created that achievement?

Why – are they angry because now they have job opportunities?

Thought experiment indeed…

• How do historic job opportunities trigger MAGA insults and provocation?
• How is someone waiting for a bus the one blamed for an ‘encountered’ action?

Here’s a thought experiment: could FakeNews be the cause of false triggers?

President Trump had announced he’d hold a conference today to announce a big deal involving a possible ‘temporary’ solution regarding the current shutdown…

…our guess was he played on media’s desire to see his ‘caving’ to Pelosi, when he’d developed a solution showing HE’S trying his best for affected federal workers…

…despite Pelosi’s (and Democrat) intransigence.

(UPDATE)

Just confirmed, after his speech: he temporarily opened government to pay furloughed federal workers, called (again) for Congress to do their job by Feb 15th…or he will.

In one fell swoop, he’s 1) shown a willingness to help furloughed workers Democrats only use as pawns, 2) met Democrat politicians halfway, giving them the chance to do what must be done…and 3) promised if they won’t, he will – by taking executive action.

In one fell swoop, he has put the lie that he’s dictatorial and autocratic to rest; he’s done everything in his power to get Congress to act rather than declare executive actions.

That’s not the way of a ‘monarch’ or ‘dictator’; that’s the action of a principled leader who understands MORE THAN DEMOCRATS the nature of our Constitutional system.

He summed it all up, saying he wants Americans and legal immigrants to “…enjoy the blessings of safety and liberty, and the rule of law.  We cannot protect and deliver these blessings without a strong and secure border. I believe that crime in this country can go down by a massive percentage if we have great security on our southern border.  I believe drugs, large percentages of which come through the southern border, will be cut by a number that nobody will believe.”

Then he threw down the gauntlet: “So let me be very clear: We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier.  If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15th, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.  We will have great security.” 

Walls work. If they didn’t, the very politicians opposing his request for funding would have no need for doors, windows, or walls and fences around their own homes.

Let’s hope Congress can finally perform their Constitutional function.

Failing that, we’re sure the President will.

While the Left’s aflutter over Mueller’s indictment of Trump campaign aide Roger Stone, it seems they’re ignoring a key element of the indictment negating the ‘collusion’ meme.

First, we should understand he’s charged with lying to Congress, not Mueller.

More importantly, he’s charged with lying about his efforts to find out what damaging emails (or information) WikiLeaks may have had regarding the Clinton campaign.

(Count four of the indictment)

That’s huge, when one considers the ‘collusion’ premise is based on assertions that the Trump campaign was directly involved with ‘hacking’ of those emails: why would Stone be asking anyone to find out information that they’re already accused of having?

Obviously unfamiliar – or uncaring – about the U.S. Constitution she took an oath to uphold, speaker Pelosi says she ‘won’t authorize an SOTU address’.

She has no authority in the matter…the Constitution says in Article II, sect 3 that the president shall provide Congress information on the state of the Union.

FakeNews and delusional Democrats notwithstanding, nothing can stop him from carrying out that Constitutional duty.

If the Democrat majority in the House won’t host the SOTU, Pres Trump can just decide on another venue (hopefully, permanently) that doesn’t lend itself to political grandstanding.

Pelosi’s actions provide him a great opportunity to do so.

House Speaker Pelosi refuses to allow a House vote on a joint resolution to the President inviting him to give the State of the Union address.

She maintains ‘Democrats oppose the resolution’ so there’s only one reason she won’t let it come to a vote…

…she’s lying, and knows there are Democrats who DON’T oppose it, and would vote FOR it.

And, sorry Liberals, but she’s NOT doing it for fed-workers affected by the shutdown…

…because House Republicans offered a bill to issue those furloughed their next paychecks, and she wouldn’t allow THAT to be voted on either.

It’s about fighting against anything that this President wants, plain and simple.

Message to unpaid federal workers…you’re being used as pawns.

(Hope they remember that, in 2 years.)

BlueCollar coins a new word – LIEguments – those arguments based on Lies.

It’s impossible to wake someone who’s pretending to sleep…and it’s impossible to convince someone who’s pretending to debate their ‘truth’ – that’s based solely on lies.