Rush hammered the Vice President<\/a> from the word go and, I thought, justly so. His tone was respectful but his questioning was direct and gave no ground. It was completely clear Rush thought Republicans got rolled.<\/p>\nPence did his best to spin the bill as a victory. He said: \u201cLook, the President has made it clear, his number one priority is national defense and national security.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeah? I don\u2019t recall that being the slogan from the campaign. I don\u2019t recall enthusiastic crowd screaming for more military spending. I remember it more like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are we gonna do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBuild the Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho\u2019s gonna pay for it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMexico!!\u201d<\/p>\n
I think Trump ought to tell Congress he\u2019s going to veto the bill and shut down the government unless he gets money to build the wall. It can be any amount, even as little as $1, just so long as he gets to say that he\u2019s keeping his promise. Hell, his salary is $400,000 and he\u2019s agreed to forego it to be a dollar-a-year man; use some of that money to fund the wall. We don\u2019t care where the money comes from, only where it goes to, and that\u2019s got to be funding to build the wall or there\u2019s no deal.<\/p>\n
If Congress won\u2019t put $1 into the bill to show its symbolic commitment to enforcing the national borders, then the country isn\u2019t worth saving and we might as well shut the whole thing down now and be done with it.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s getting harder to disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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