The image implied in my heading is not one that I would wish to linger upon but even so there can be no other to better illustrate her latest article. I must confess (and quickly plead for mercy lest she turns on me!) that I have rather forgotten MDA's scorching output - my bad! She was, of course, a major cheer leader for the Trump campaign at the last election and no doubt her vigorous support added considerably to his success. Even so, unlike most lazy commentators, she never lets her eagle eye waver from what a Presidential 'wannabe' says, and what an actual President does! Thus:
For decades, voters have been lied to by politicians promising to crack down on immigration. We vote and we vote and we vote, and nothing ever changes. Wage-lowering, culture-destroying policies manage to appear in every bill Congress passes.
We finally got sick of it and voted for Trump. He promised to build a wall, deport illegal aliens and end the anchor baby scam. No matter how much the establishment screamed at him, he never backed down.
To call Trump's promise to build a wall his "central campaign promise" routinizes it. That promise was indispensable to his election in a way that no other president's campaign promises ever were.
Well, yes, that was the impression I gained, even 'over here'. So what actually happened?
The bill President Trump signed last Friday is worse than anything Hillary could ever have gotten through Congress.
To mention the two most shocking examples, the bill prohibits Trump from using any Homeland Security funds to build a wall anywhere along the border. Only bollard fencing is permitted -- and even that is allowed in only one small section of the border with the approval of local authorities.
Inasmuch as the "local authorities" in that particular sector are liberal Democrats and/or beholden to Mexican cartels, the bill Trump just signed effectively prohibits any barrier whatsoever from being built on the border.
The bill also expressly prohibits the deportation of any illegal aliens who are part of a household, or thinking of becoming part of a household, that contains an "unaccompanied minor" -- i.e. any illegal alien who claims to be under 18 years old with no parent in the country. This is why the bill is being referred to as the Pedophiles-Go-Free Act.
Ouch!
Of course, 'The Donald' is exceedingly fortunate that the Democratic party opposition forming to oppose him in 2020 is the biggest collection of freaks, juveniles, dimwits and Old Age Pensioners ever seen but, even so, have a care, Mr. President! You are facing nearly two years of a non-stop barrage of virulent criticism from one of the best and sharpest political commentators in the media. Better to have her on side than in opposition!
It's not clear Coulter's whipping Trump's arse any more than covering it. She's criticizing him for not doing something the large majority of American's don't want and security experts say is pointless. She doesn't mention anything about Mexico footing the bill, which was half of the wall promise. She's on to something when mentioning that it's largely the wealthy, like the Kochs, who want access to cheap labor, but ignores the highly relevant point that Trump is no different.
Trump has a long history of using undocumented and foreign labor at his golf courses and hotels as cooks and other restaurant workers in addition to house and grounds keepers. He's also brought models into the country on vacation visas and put them to work in his agency, which is a federal rap. Before he washed out of the construction business he used lots of foreign workers, the most famous case being Polish workers on Trump Tower who had to spend 15 years suing him to be paid.
Sorry, but Ann barely gets an E for effort.
Posted by: Bob | Saturday, 23 February 2019 at 19:33
Business interests in the US will sell their souls for cheap labor. At the same time the "Democratic" Party has realized that their future lays with ever more Hispanics flooding America to eventually become voters-Democrat- in as many states as possible and by any means necessary. Hispanics are the Left's will to permanent power. An effective wall, border security, deportation policy is a threat to profit for business and an existential threat to power for the other. Both motives are trashy.
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 23 February 2019 at 22:56