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4 hours ago, snafu said:

 

What I meant was whether he offered to talk today, like he should offer tomorrow, and Monday.

invite Pelosi over to the White House every day.  

 

They agreed to form a panel/commission to negotiate during the interim, I believe that they're waiting for the leaders to pick the members who will be on it. Whomever Pelosi picks will tell us a great deal about their seriousness. I think they make those announcements Monday (if they haven't already).

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1 hour ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

They agreed to form a panel/commission to negotiate during the interim, I believe that they're waiting for the leaders to pick the members who will be on it. Whomever Pelosi picks will tell us a great deal about their seriousness. I think they make those announcements Monday (if they haven't already).

 

Expect this guy to be a part of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Castro

 

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First he didn’t mean that Mexico was really paying for it. 

 

Then he didn’t mean it was a wall all along the border. 

 

Then he didnt really mean a wall but a bunch of penetrable beams. 

 

Then he was willing to shutdown the government until he got his wall. 

 

The French didn’t retreat this quickly!

 

 

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21 minutes ago, BeginnersMind said:

First he didn’t mean that Mexico was really paying for it. 

 

Then he didn’t mean it was a wall all along the border. 

 

Then he didnt really mean a wall but a bunch of penetrable beams. 

 

Then he was willing to shutdown the government until he got his wall. 

 

The French didn’t retreat this quickly!

 

 

He never said we needed a wall all along the border. You guys keep bringing this up because you are disingenuous ****heads. What is a penetrable beam as it pertains to the wall?

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58 minutes ago, BeginnersMind said:

First he didn’t mean that Mexico was really paying for it. 

 

Then he didn’t mean it was a wall all along the border. 

 

Then he didnt really mean a wall but a bunch of penetrable beams. 

Then he was willing to shutdown the government until he got his wall. 

 

The French didn’t retreat this quickly!

 

 

 

There's plenty of room to criticize Trump's tactics and style on this issue.  However there is no good argument that we don't need to better secure the border and re-write our asylum and immigration laws and policies and engage our neighbors to the south differently.  What's happened over the past 30 years on this matter is an atrocity.  Fixing it once and for all is a no-brainer.  This should have overwhelming bi-partisan support, unless your goals are strictly political.

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35 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

He never said we needed a wall all along the border. You guys keep bringing this up because you are disingenuous ****heads. What is a penetrable beam as it pertains to the wall?

And you a a trump ball licker who continues to have to make excuses for his lying ass! 

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29 minutes ago, BigMcD said:

And you a a trump ball licker who continues to have to make excuses for his lying ass! 

Thank God, after all of the attempts you've made to impregnate a moose you've been unsuccessful. Wouldn't want to screw up their gene pool.

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A bit optimistic I think.....................but I guess we'll see

 

This Just Might Be Trump’s Andy Jackson Moment

by Mike Ford

 

Most folks are now aware of the latest twist in the so called, “government shutdown.” President Trump has agreed to a deal that will fund the currently non-funded , 25 percent of federal government for the next three weeks. This is supposed to give negotiating teams from both parties time to come up with something President Trump will sign and that both sides can live with. President Trump has indicated that if such a solution isn’t found by Congress, he retains the right to invoke a state of emergency and use those statutory powers to start building the border wall.

 

This just might be President Trump’s Andy Jackson moment. If you recall from history class, the United States Supreme Court Under Chief Justice John Marshall, overturned a conviction of men convicted by the State of Georgia for violating a law that Marshall later stated, would deprive the Indian Tribes of their sovereignty. President Jackson allegedly stated “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it,” or words to that effect.

 

President Trump may get such an opportunity three weeks from now. If Congress cannot come up with an acceptable solution for the President, he will in all likelihood declare a state of emergency and attempt to begin construction of his most significant campaign promise. Once this occurs, I’m sure we all know what will happen. The leftists will find a tame California-based Federal District Judge to issue a nation-wide stay on any wall construction activities, in order to delay any progress on a border barrier until after the 2020 election. For the leftists, this has nothing to do with national security. It has everything to do with denying Donald Trump a “win,” on the most significant promise to his supporters.

 

There are a few things the President can do to limit the effect of this leftist strategy. First of all, he needs to pick a section of border in Texas, 5th Judicial Circuit Territory, to begin construction. This will hopefully place the starting point for any legal action in territory more friendly to conservative ideas, like border protection. It will also have the effect of starting the project with the longest section of US-Mexico border—1200 miles.

 

Second, he needs to partner with Brian Kolfage’s GoFundMe organization to identify owners of land parcels along the border and in priority areas, who are willing to give or sell easement for construction of a border barrier/wall. This will eliminate, at least initially, one legal issue, the forcible taking of land via eminent domain.

 

Third, the Administration, needs to find our own tame Federal District Judge in the 5th Circuit and apply for a Declaratory Judgement. As I describe in a previous article here, this is one possible way to take the offense instead of just reacting to leftist lawfare and it’s concomitant delays, not to mention starting the sure to be Judicial fight, in a friendlier judicial circuit.

 

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Another important aspect of having poor border security is the ability to commit crimes in the US and escape justice crossing back into Mexico. Easy in is even easier out.

 

Secure our borders with police/ patrol dogs carrying body Cam and GPS tracking devices with drone surveillance flying above them.

 

End the problem...

 

 

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24 minutes ago, Figster said:

Another important aspect of having poor border security is the ability to commit crimes in the US and escape justice crossing back into Mexico. Easy in is even easier out.

 

Secure our borders with police/ patrol dogs carrying body Cam and GPS tracking devices with drone surveillance flying above them.

 

End the problem...

 

 

 

You don't even need to cross back to Mexico to escape justice. You just need to be in CA. 

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3 hours ago, Foxx said:

I watched his CSPAN speech after the shutdown because I know he's brought this up in the past.  He used the same talking point that border security is important but there are better and more cost effective alternatives to a wall.  Would love to hear them.  

 

Then he pointed out that he just signed basically the same bill the Senate passed before the shutdown and all he really did was cause undo anxiety for some of the approximately 800,000 federal employees for a little over a month.  I can't disagree with him on that.

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12 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I watched his CSPAN speech after the shutdown because I know he's brought this up in the past.  He used the same talking point that border security is important but there are better and more cost effective alternatives to a wall.  Would love to hear them.  

 

Then he pointed out that he just signed basically the same bill the Senate passed before the shutdown and all he really did was cause undo anxiety for some of the approximately 800,000 federal employees for a little over a month.  I can't disagree with him on that.

The dems have historically agreed to a security fence on the southern border. They shut down the government not because they had a problem with the fence but because they had a problem with giving Trump the fence. It had nothing to do with them being against the fence for security reasons but for political reasons. So basically the dem leadership sacrificed the safety of the American people for their own partisan reasons.

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