Month: January 2018

Last night millions of us, less the 13 Democrats who protested, watched the President give his State of the Union speech. Admitting I favor conservative policies and fully understanding half of the country does not, I ask you “what am I missing?” What did the President say last night that the democrats hated so much that they couldn’t stand and cheer?

I honestly can’t remember a time when the Left has so blatantly shown the world what they stand for. Seriously, the results are in.  If there was ever any question, the Democratic Party clearly showed last night that they put Americans last. They couldn’t even get out of their seats to applaud “In God We Trust”. They hate the President so much and they want their power back so badly, they’re willing to turn against our core beliefs.

I understand it is politics.  I know this isn’t the first State of the Union where one side sat and the other side stood. But Mom taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right.

What I find appalling is that the Democrats didn’t stand for those very things that “anyone” who loves our country and who loves our people would willingly stand and cheer for.

The members of congress who are among the racist Black Caucus didn’t even stand when the President announced black unemployment is at the lowest level ever. The Black Caucus! What part of that statement isn’t positive, isn’t encouraging, and good for our fellow Americans? When the President spoke about standing up for our flag and putting our hands over our hearts, the Democrats never moved. Again, if you are an American and you love our country, why no reaction? When he introduced us to the two couples who had lost their daughters to the MS13 gang they remained in their seats while my wife and I wiped the tears running down our cheeks. When he said we are no longer going to send our money to countries that are not our friends, the Democrats remained in their seats. What part of that statement could they possibly disagree with? When he announced, against the wishes of his own party, that he is willing to nearly triple the number of illegal aliens’ amnesty (amnesty that the Democrats had requested), they booed. One of the leading Hispanic congressmen stood up and walked out. Does that make any sense at all? Again, “What Am I missing?”

Every single thing the President spoke about was good for the country and therefore good for you and me. He talked about the growing economy, tax reform, higher wages, bonuses, removal of the individual mandate, the dismantling of ISIS, less regulation, manufacturing on the increase, highest stock market ever, lowest unemployment among Hispanics and Blacks and women’s unemployment lowest in 17 years. He wants to, for once and all fix the Nation’s immigration problems, rebuild our aging infrastructure, strengthen our border to protect Americans and stop the flow of drugs. He restated his devotion toward our military and our vets.  He stated that it was we, the people, who are making America Great Again. None of these goals, none of these very good things for America were greeted positively by the Democrats. Through their inaction one can only assume that they are against it all. Even if you set aside the fact they didn’t stand or cheer, the looks on their faces told the real story.

If you ever questioned my earlier posts, telling you the Left only cares about regaining their power. If you have an ounce of common sense, last night’s reaction to the President’s address, should have dispelled any questions you have.

You simply cannot love America, care about her people and be against any of these important initiatives that the President presented to the world. You can disagree about the details of how we get these things done and you can fight to get more of what you believe is important but you cannot remain in your seat when you’re presented with positive and hopeful ideas that are good for our country and our people. When a President says “You (me and you) are making America Great Again,” you must stand and cheer. The depth of the Left’s hate for this President harms us all in very deep and scary ways.

Any of us can dislike, even hate what the President may have done when he was a private citizen. We don’t have to make excuses for any of that. He was a billionaire who used his power to get what he wanted. In the process people were used and hurt. Today however he is not a private citizen, he is the President. He was elected because millions of Americans could no longer stand by and watch the politicians steal our wealth, take away our freedoms, and make promises that never came true. This brash billionaire stood before us and didn’t pretend he was a saint. He openly told us he was a part of the billionaire club that paid for special interest to get what he wanted. He spoke in a way that wasn’t fancy or deep thinking, but in a manner that every-day people could understand and appreciate. Suddenly the politically correct crowd was being called out. The left wing media was exposed. He said the politicians are all talk and no action. Who among us can disagree with that? When he asked the Black community, “what in the hell do you have to lose?” we thought to ourselves, “What do you have to lose?”

So, I finish as I started, “What Am I missing?” What part of the President’s speech was bad for us or bad for the country, what part?

Never in my life time have I been so adamant about the need for Americans to vote in November. We must all come out and vote. We must give this President a huge majority so that he can continue to fix this country, and as the king of branding always says, “Make American Great Again.” We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a big and important difference in our own lives. Obama ran on “Hope and Change”, the problem was, it was the wrong type of hope and change. This President offers us a chance for real and positive hope and change. We can’t let him down and more importantly, we can’t let this opportunity pass us by. Assume nothing.  Vote and tell everyone you know to vote! United we Stand. This is our time.

 President Trump Quote on Immigration

“My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers, too.” 

 

By now you can obviously tell I lean heavily to the Right. Sitting here tonight, thinking about all the news coming at me via the television and web I asked myself, what’s the truth? Who can I trust? Who cares about me?

Let’s face it, in today’s 24/7 news cycle with all sorts of opinions constantly thrown at us, finding the truth is difficult.

The vast majority of the news feeds are liberal.  That’s one thing that isn’t hard to see. Even the Left cannot argue that point. Well, they can but it’s not a serious argument. NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN versus FOX News. On the web, most of us have Yahoo as our home page and finding Right-leaning articles on Yahoo is challenging. Almost every other article is from Huffington Post and Newsweek. These two organizations are about as Left as you can get. Couple that with news from Hollywood (don’t understand why their political opinions matter) and it’s fair to say the web is also dominated by the Left.

This means that those on the Right have to work very hard to find stories that represent our view. It also means that the vast majority of Americans only see Left wing sourced stories. I have friends who share my views but are not as compassionate as I am. By the questions they ask I can tell that they never look any further than Yahoo’s home page or one of the major news networks. Many people think they are getting both sides of every story because they watch CNN or read USA Today. Little do they know, they are being brain washed to believe that everything from the Left is right. See, even that statement is confusing. Right? LOL

I do my best to seek out the truth but it is pretty difficult. I think most of us believe what we want to believe.  We seek out the story that meets our need, the story that gives us the answers we want. Whether those are true or not remains questionable.

How we view an issue boils down to our core beliefs, doesn’t it?  I think it does.  I think our core beliefs come from our personal life experiences, our upbringing, and even our friends and co-workers. Our current status in life also plays a role in how we view a topic.  No smooth political ad or slippery politician can sway how we feel on a topic that we have dealt with or are dealing with on a personal level. Example: If you’re poor, Obamacare looks pretty good to you and no one can tell you otherwise. Consider that and then throw in the fact that 99.9% of the information this poor person receives comes from the liberal media. This poor person will be a liberal forever. Sadly, they will probably also be poor forever.

If you approach every topic  by asking yourself, “what is best for the country?” then chances are you’ll arrive at a different answer than if you approach every topic with “what’s best for me.” The two rarely line up with each other. However, I believe that the odds of those two lining-up are much greater if you lean Right. The Obamacare example is a perfect example of what I mean. The poor person, personally needs health insurance but what he really needs is a job. Free insurance doesn’t provide an incentive for anyone to get a job. Why should they, the more they earn the more they will have to pay. In other words, Obamacare is good for the poor guy but bad for the country. You with me? On the other hand, if you lean Right you believe in personal responsibility. You are likely a very proud person who would be ashamed if someone else had to pay your bills.

On the surface, in my view, the Left’s whole platform is based on keeping the majority of Americans down and keeping them dependent upon the Government to provide for them. The more they (the Left) can give you the more likely you will be their slave and vote for them. They want you to believe that they care about you.  They portray themselves as the loving party who is always looking out for your best interests.  There are many examples of how they keep you down without you even knowing it. This horrible cycle relies upon the poor staying poor and the middle class staying middle class. By extending unemployment insurance they want you to believe they’re helping you, right? And why wouldn’t you believe that? You don’t have a job, you need money to buy food. It’s the same argument I used above with Obamacare. As long as someone can get unemployment the incentive to find a job is less. I understand, but these social programs will never give you the chance to better your situation. The more food stamps you get the less need you have to work. Again, these are perfect examples of the Left vs. the Right.

The biggest problem I have is that the Left doesn’t care at all about you, they honestly don’t. For them it’s the vote and the vote only. The Left actually doesn’t want you to have any personal pride.  In fact, they prefer you remain right where you are.

Now the right has a different approach.  Their approach can be perceived as “not caring”, but trust me, they actually do care. Don’t misunderstand me, they care about votes too, a lot! But their policies can actually provide you with growth. The Right’s approach is a tough-love kind of care but none the less, their ideas are designed to make you more self-reliant. Their policies provide a pathway to regain your pride, your life, your independence.

When we were growing up, our parents forced us to do things we didn’t like, right? Many of those things made us better people, right? If you went to your father and asked him for $20 and he handed it to you it was great! Right? But what happens when Dad isn’t there anymore? What happens when Dad doesn’t have $20? The better answer to your request would be, go clean the garage and I’ll pay you $20. It’s the whole teach a person how to fish thing.

I think the food stamp program is important and needed.  I also believe that there have to be limits.  Those who can, should be made to do something to earn the stamps until they can get on their own feet. Such thinking on the Left is considered outrageous, unthinkable, inhumane and without any compassion.

Let’s look at the differences with a current topic, immigration.  Consider what you’ve read and seen on television. Who has your best interests in mind, the Left or the Right?

According to everything I’ve seen, the Left wants us to believe that they support illegal aliens and are willing to do anything it takes to make sure that they will be given the right to remain in the country. Just last week they even went as far as shutting down the Government over this issue. They demanded that the Right provide a pathway to citizenship for the 800,000 DACA people (Remember, Obama had granted temporary rights to DACA people so they could remain in the country). That’s pretty serious, right?   They must really care about the illegals.  So it’s understandable that the majority of Americans think the Left really is the caring party.

Fast forward to this past week and the President, from the party on the Right announces a proposal.  The President is attempting to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy.  His number one goal is to end the mess we are in and never return to a situation where the flow of immigrants is out of control and we don’t have any idea who is (even) in the country.

His proposal would allow 800,000 DACA people a pathway to citizenship and he doubled that number to include some 1.8M illegals. His proposal came with certain requirements. These illegals could remain in the country and prove (clean the garage…) they were good citizens by not breaking any laws over the next 10 years. If they break the law the deal is off and they are deported. The President’s proposal also included a wall and other illegal immigration protections along the southern border (Controlling who enters the country and stopping the flow of drugs into the country).  His proposal also stops chain migration and stops the visa lottery program. Every year the Government randomly awards VISAs to 50,000 people from “underserved” countries. Randomly!

Now remember, the Left just got done shutting the entire Government down over DACA, refusing to approve a stop gap budget until the Right agreed to provide a pathway to citizenship for these people. Based on the news, the websites, the liberal politicians and social media, the Left is outraged with the President’s proposal. What? Why?

That’s right, they are outraged. The minority leader of the House held a news conference where she accused the Right of wanting to turn American white again. The minority leader of the Senate accused the President of being racist. Last week he told us he had agreed to give the President the money needed to protect the border.  This week after the president announced his proposal, the Senate minority leader said that deal was off the table. So what the hell is going on? The DACA people continue to protest and “demand” that they should be allowed to remain in the country.  Wait, the President’s proposal offered that to them.  If you are confused by where the Left actually stands on this issue don’t feel bad, you’re not alone.

Here’s the deal. The Left doesn’t care about the illegals they never have. What they care about is votes.  With the elections coming up in November they cannot allow the President to win on anything because it makes them look bad. So, while last week it appeared the Left cared deeply about the illegal aliens, all they were really doing was trying to hurt the President.  In their minds, that would translate to more votes for them in November. It is honestly no more complicated than that.

Many on the Right don’t like the President’s proposal.  Many believe in the rule of law and therefore the illegal aliens must go. Some are against his proposal because it doesn’t include voter ID which is a whole other article.

All that said, the President is the leader of the party and nation. He seeks a middle ground that shows real compassion for the illegals while also doing the right thing for the country. One would think that any liberal American who truly cares about the country could and should support the President. But they don’t.

Where do you stand? I can tell you that I stand in the middle, boots pulled all the way up, hoping the mud doesn’t get all over me. While I strongly believe in the rule of law, I also want the borders protected and the immigration policies fixed once and for all. I’m tired of talking about this and really tired of listening to the illegals make demands. Not once have I heard one of them say, thank you or show appreciation of any kind for the time and energy we are putting forth on their behalf. Finally, never in my life has it been clearer how fake the Left’s care is for any of us or the country. They call the illegals dreamers and American citizens racist.

The whole purpose of this post is to suggest you look beyond the noise of the media, the World Wide Web and Politicians and do some thinking of your own. If you take the time to think about your life, your experiences and apply some good old common sense, I am certain you’ll make good decisions for yourselves, your family and our beloved America.  Let’s face it, the only one that cares about you, is you.

I told you before that I am sick and tired of talking about the DACA issue. Also, in my prior post, I laid out the terms that I would agree to if the country decides to allow them to remain in the country. News flash, I’ve changed my mind.

I think many of us struggle with “what is the right thing is to do” with these people. I know that I’ve bounced around and listening to congress, I can tell I am not alone.

The caring human side of me isn’t all that charged up about sending all of these people out of here and back to their birth country, a country they know little about. They arrived as kids (the dreamers) so they’ve spent the bulk of their lives here in the U.S.

The American citizen in me who believes and follows our laws isn’t all that charged up with allowing these people to remain in the US. It breaks our laws, sends the wrong message to other illegals and it’s completely unfair to all of those who have been going through the proper legal channels to come to our country.

I’ve made my decision though.  Interestingly enough it is the DACA people themselves that made the decision easy for me.

I am so taken aback by how brash they are, how demanding they are, the things they say, the things their signs say, and the mess they leave after protesting, that I am done.  They need to go, every last one of them. As stated above the law has always been high on my list. By way of their actions they have removed any sympathy I might have held for them.

I tweeted this morning, that every group, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all of them have bad apples among them and all of them have good, loving, caring, honest, law abiding people among them too. In fact there are many more of the latter than the former hateful, law-breaking types. This is a true and simple fact. So, that being the case I asked myself, “Where are the good DACA people? Where are the ones that are thankful for being in our country and are thankful we took them in?  Where are the ones that honor our laws and are respectful of our rights?  Where are the ones that love us? Where are those people?”

The left wing media show us pictures of the poor family being torn apart. Daddy being deported and his wife and kids crying in the background. This is all designed to tug at our hearts and it does tug at our hearts but then we see these people protesting and carrying signs demanding that they should be able to stay and calling our President names I refuse to use and camping out in front of Senator Schumer’s home chanting, “if we can’t dream, you can’t sleep.” Believe me, I am no fan of Chuck Schumer but these people should have their heads examined. These are the types of people we want to welcome into our country? These are the types of people we want voting?  These are the people we want to expose our kids to? Hell no! We have enough of these types of hateful LEGAL people in this country we sure as hell don’t need to add to it.

Having seen these DACA people and how they act, would you invite them into your home? Would you knowingly hire them to work and represent you? I wouldn’t.

Where is the humility? Isn’t it true that if you want something, you work for it? If you want a job do you tell the person interviewing you to piss off and then stand up and demand they hire you? No you don’t. If you need help and you want something from someone, don’t you ask politely and don’t you say please? Most sane people do.

The Left would have us believe that these are good, honest people who make America better. They tug at our hearts by telling us they came here as children and worse they still call them children while the average age is like 25. We know that the Left only wants votes.  That alone should tell you how bright these DACA people are. They actually believe the Democrats care about them or at least they did until this last fiasco. But I digress…

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I’ve shared mine. For me, it’s like everything else in life.  I’m not a racist until a racist calls me a racist. I care about all people until they don’t care about me. I don’t use people and I don’t let them use me. I expect everyone in my life to treat me the way I treat them. Lastly, I still believe that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

New Immigration Platform:

1. Deport all illegals. The law is the law.
2. Get rid of chain migration.
3. Get rid of the VISA lottery program.
4. Pass voter ID.
5. Move to merit base immigration.

 

Finally, my wife asked me the other night, “what would happen if we just deported all of these illegals?”

Wanting to provide her a well thought out answer, I paused to think about the question before answering and then I said “Nothing.”  Without any pause she replied “Exactly.” She’s right. I guess she doesn’t like it any more than I do when an illegal alien tells our President to F off…

Americans are you hearing all of this? How many of you even know what I am referring to? Less than half would be my guess. The only network talking about it is Fox. But then again, there are a lot of you on Twitter, and FISA has been front and center on Twitter so maybe you have some idea.

FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). This is the act that was put in place after 911 allowing our Government, the FBI and CIA primarily to spy on foreign actors who are plotting against the US. The concern has always been that these agencies have expanded their surveillance to American Citizens which is against the law.

When you hear FISA these past few weeks, the reference is to the FBI using the law to spy on, then private citizen Donald J. Trump, who as you know, was running for President. The Government went to the FISA court (the FISA court is made up of special judges to whom the Government must submit requests and from whom they must get approval in order to spy on someone), at least two times, asking the court to approve their surveillance of Mr. Trump.  The court turned the requests down. This almost never happens. It is well known that FISA requests are always approved. It happened in these two cases because the Government’s arguments were weak, not convincing enough for the Judge.  Which means the requests must have been really weak.

In the meantime, the Clinton campaign hired a group to produce a dossier on her opponent Donald Trump. Translation – go out and find dirt on my opponent that I can use against him during the campaign. She paid this group over 10 million dollars for this dossier. When Hillary was asked about it she said she wasn’t aware of any such dossier. Think about that.  She spent, or rather, the campaign that she was running spent near 10 million dollars.  She isn’t aware of it? This was going to be our President. Ah, 10 million here, 10 million there, pennies, right? Not to you and me. In the end, the findings in the dossier were never used by the campaign because none of the allegations could be backed up.

The FBI was made aware of the dossier by…   Are you ready for this? Senator John McCain. McCain sent one of his cronies to Europe to meet with Fusion GPS, the authors of the dossier headed by a former British Spy. McCain I guess, felt the information in the dossier was a threat to our national security, so he gave it to the FBI. The fact, I am sure, that Trump slammed McCain during the election had nothing to do with McCain wanting the FBI to have this. McCain wasn’t about to let the truth get in the way of his being able to get even.

At least three higher-ups in the FBI (Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe) took the dossier and ran with it. These three have been proven to be huge Hillary Clinton supporters, donating thousands to her campaign. These clowns massaged their prior requests to the FISA court to include the false information in the dossier. This time they hit gold, the court approved surveillance of Trump.

Remember when Trump accused the government of wiretapping Trump Towers? Remember, then FBI Director Comey testified to the Intelligence Committee that this never happened.  Interesting, huh?

Fast forward a month. Trump wins the election. Now we are hearing about text messages between these three FBI agents.  They are talking about some kind of insurance policy, in case Trump wins.  Although, they think that’s highly unlikely. They (Peter Strozk and Lisa Page) talk about some secret society.  They talk about Attorney General Loretta Lynch knows Hillary won’t be prosecuted.  This was prior to the election when Hillary was being investigated over the email/server debacle. We also are learning that the letter that Comey read to the nation, letting Hillary off the hook was written prior to the FBI even interviewing Hillary. The feeling is, the whole Hillary investigation was a hack job.  Comey also testified to congress that he didn’t make up his mind on Hillary until after he interviewed Hillary. Based on these text messages, that’s a lie. Oh and just for the heck of it, Strozk and Page were having an affair while they were playing Maxwell Smart and agent 99.

                                         Peter Strozk                           Lisa Page

It can be very confusing.  It is designed to be very confusing. During the first two months, remember, President Trump fired Comey.  Comey then released private notes to a professor friend.  Per Comey’s instruction, the professor (friend) leaked the notes to the Washington Post.  As planned by Comey, this causes the hiring of the special prosecutor Mueller. Mueller is hired to investigate possible Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. The entire Russia collusion is based on the dossier.  The fake dossier if you listen to Sean Hannity (which I do).  Is this ripe for the next Clancy novel or what?

If true America, we are witnessing a plot to 1. Fix an election and 2. Over-throw a duly elected US President. This stuff makes Watergate look like a child steeling bubble gum.

Also, if true, Comey lied.  Loretta Lynch lied.  Whoever made the actual FISA request lied.  Certainly, the three FBI agents (one of which, Andrew McCabe was on the Mueller investigation team until he was removed once Muller learned of his bias toward Hillary) LIED.  These three did all of this because they felt that they knew best who should be our president.

Last week we learned that congress wrote a memo outlining all of this.  I assume their memo was outlined much better than I just did it.  The memo reportedly contains great details about the conspiracy to rig the election and over throw (impeach) the president. The republican congress is demanding that the memo is released to us, the public so that we know what they know. Twitter has gone wild with #releasethememo.

In the meantime, Congress is requesting that the FBI release all the text messages between the two FBI (lover) agents Page and Strozk. Guess what? The FBI claims that the text message have been lost! Not kidding.  50,000 text messages from November 2016 to January 2017 have suddenly gone missing.  Where have you heard this before? Remember the 33,000 missing Hillary emails? Remember the missing IRS emails. Every time a case is heating up, something suddenly goes missing. Just a coincidence…I am sure.

So America, what if this is true? Do you think all of this is just happenstance?  Not true?  Made up by Republicans to throw off Mueller in the Russian investigation? How is it that a year later, Mueller hasn’t pinned anything on Trump? If it is true, the entire Mueller investigation is a made-up shame, wasting tax payer dollars and completely harming the President and the country as a whole.

It seems odd to me, that for the past two weeks we’ve not heard a word out of Hillary. Even big mouth Obama has been silent on this and so have their (NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN) media outlets, who have not spent two minutes covering this story. Wouldn’t you think they would at least be screaming about these damn Republicans?

This is another “standby” post, because only time will tell. A few of the congressmen are saying they expect the memo to be released to us, maybe as soon as next week. The Democrats are already planning their strategy. They’re starting to say that this in just another right wing conspiracy. Over 100 Republicans have gone down to the secured room where the memo is and have read it. As of this writing, fewer than five Democrats have even taken the time to read it.

Meanwhile, the big debate that the media wants us to focus on is illegal aliens being allowed to stay in the country.  Focus America.  When the media point to the shiny object in the corner, don’t blink.  Keep your eyes on this FISA investigation. Our democracy depends on it.

Let’s talk again, real soon.

When we last talked, my guess was the Government would shut down and it did. Trust me, I am not patting myself on the back and I hated the last 36 hours. At one point I became sick and tired of the whole thing.

Passing these short term resolutions makes me crazy. Running the Government one month at a time is ridiculous. There is no successful company on the planet than runs this way and for good reason. So, that’s number one. It’s great that the Government is back up and running but the entire thing was stupid, wasteful and a perfect example of what is wrong with those we place in leadership positions. Worst of all, we will be right back here again come February 8^th when this resolution expires. How dumb is this? Really dumb.

The Schumer shutdown was a big bust for the Democrats. As I said, their number one goal wasn’t about DACA.  Their goal was to make the President look bad and make him look like he isn’t capable of running the country. 36 hours later, the President doesn’t budge and yes, the Democrats blinked.

This stunt has the DACA people feeling that the Democrats let them down and used them for political hostages. Ya think? To the DACA people (and more importantly, all legal citizens), if you haven’t already figured it out let me make it very clear for you. The Democrats don’t care about you and don’t feel bad, they don’t care about any of us. They care about power and they will go to any lengths to regain it. If you’re still a non-believer consider this;

The Democrats just got done voting NO for tax cuts for all citizens. Why? Because it was proposed by the other party. They would rather you and I not be able to keep more of our money than to agree with something proposed by the other party. That’s more important to them than you are. The Republicans, all of them, voted NO on Obamacare. A big difference here.  The Republicans voted NO because they felt Obamacare was bad for “you”.  Reducing taxes, keeping more of our money can never be a bad thing, never.

The Dems just put their party over our military troops, our vets, and children’s health. Forget about the fact they did this on the false narrative that it was for the DACA people.  It is not as though that makes their argument better, it makes it even worse. They voted NO because the other party proposed it. That’s the only reason. They are hell bent on making the President look bad and convinced this will gain them the seats they need to once again have the power, the majority. To beat a dead horse, nothing else matters to them, nothing. It doesn’t matter what is good for the country, what is good for us, it only matters that they regain their power.

What a great platform they have in November. “Vote for me, I stood against you keeping more of your money! I stood up against the Republicans when they wanted to lower corporate taxes. I know millions of you received higher wages and bonuses because of these lower taxes but remember, corporations are evil. I voted against the repeal of the individual insurance mandate because I know all of you wanted to pay the fine so that you could help others pay less for their insurance. Finally, vote for me because I stood strong for 36 hours in favor of people who are not citizens. I know it looked like I didn’t care about the military but I love the military. I know it appeared I didn’t care about our children’s health but I do, I am a Democrat, I care about everyone. If you honor me with your vote, I promise I will fight for you and work hard to get President Trump impeached. Let us never forget, he is the one that gave you these horrible tax breaks, he’s to blame for this country’s economy, and he cannot hide from producing the lowest unemployment in our history. A vote for me is a vote for the American people.”

Only in politics can such spin occur.

To the DACA folks I will end by saying you should rethink who you put your faith in. Your faith in the hands of the democrats and their leader Chuck Schumer obviously was a huge mistake. I hope you’ve learned by this and understand it was really never about you. The only hope you have is in the hands of the very person you’ve spit on, marched against and called a racist. Your only hope indeed is the President of the United States, the leader of the Republican Party.

Today is the deadline day for the budget. No one has blinked yet. The house passed a four week stop gap budget last night and shipped it over to the Senate where things become much more difficult.

One of the things I’ll give to the Democrats is that they stay the party line no matter how ridiculous the line is.  Not so with the Republicans.  Inside their party, they fight with one another, so much so that more often than not, nothing gets done.  It drives me out of my mind.  Example, tonight Rand Paul was a guest on Fox where he let us know that he will not support the stop gap budget.  Why, because he is tired of the Government spending beyond their means.  Who would disagree with that?  Not me, that’s for sure.  The trouble is, Mr. Paul, whom I like, has been a senator now for many years and what has he done about this?  Nothing, except to put on a big show every time a big important vote comes before him.  In this case he is going to stand on his beliefs even at the demise of the military funding.  He knows damn well that his non-vote will have zero impact on any change.  If he wants to change things he needs to actually work on it and get it done.  Grand-standing a few times a year obviously isn’t getting anything done and makes him no better than the Left.  All talk; no action.

John McCain is home fighting cancer and Jeff Flake is, well, a flake.  His only goal, on his way out is to get even with the President.  Then we have Senator Lindsey Graham, who like Flake is in the get-even mode.  Senator Graham’s reason, the President sent him walking when he and his pal on the Left, Durban gave the President a POS proposal on DACA/Immigration.  Graham, throughout the years would have us believe he is the champion of the military.  Yet, like the Left, he is willing to shut the Government down until such time that the President agrees with him regarding DACA.

In order to pass, the Senate needs 60 YES votes. There are only 51 republicans and three or four of them are grandstanding, again.  The Left of course, loves this.  Why wouldn’t they?  The Republicans look like fools.  I believe, or at least hope, that each of them will pay the price come November. Let’s face it, when the President says we need to drain the swamp, that’s not exclusive to the Left.  At least I don’t think it is.  We have congress people on both sides that have to go if we are ever going to have a Government that works for us.

In my last post I said “my guess is that the Democrats care more about hurting the President than keeping the Government open.”  After the  recent events “my guess remains and the blame will be on the swamp dwellers made up of both Democrats and those few Republican standouts.  Don’t get me wrong, the President will get the blame from the media, that’s a big “duh.”  The Swamp however will get the blame from Trump’s supporters including yours truly.

Who gets blamed, Left or Right, I don’t care.  What I care about is funding the Government, period.  All of these other issues are important, for sure, and they need to be dealt with but not at the expense of the military or even those employees working in the Government.  Why should the guy emptying the trash in the Senate offices not get paid?  Some Senators on the Right and all the Senators on the Left sure don’t care.

So there you have it, my two cents on this dramatic budget showdown.  Everything has to be so hard and so dramatic in Washington, doesn’t it?  Maybe after a good night’s sleep cooler minds will prevail.  Great, now I’m lying to myself…

The week started out with a bipartisan meeting at the White House to discuss immigration.  It was the closest we’ll ever get to a love-fest. As Sean Hannity from Fox News said, “Hell has frozen over.” Even a few of the left wing fake news media outlets gave the President credit for the meeting. Like a CEO, clearly in charge, he let everyone talk and share their opinions. This was a brilliant move on the part of the President because he was just moving away from the “Fire & Fury” fiction novel which gave the Left more fire and fury against the President. They were actually talking about impeachment again, because of a “tell all” book… I kept tweeting to the liberals, “don’t believe everything you read”.  Guess what, listening is not one of their strengths. Inviting the press to the meeting was brilliant. No one, after watching the meeting, could say that Trump doesn’t have all of his marbles.  That’s for sure.

During the meeting, the President couldn’t have been clearer in terms of what he wanted. He also let them know that he intended on signing anything they came up with. This is a classic move from the Chief Executive (President), let the group actually feel like the decision is completely up to them. The dunce Dems in the room and (to be fair) some of the dunce republicans took his words literally.

Based on their proposal a few days later, they forgot the list of things that were a must for the President. During their presentation a few days later, I am guessing that the President, all but “lost it”.  The proposal was so horrible, so far from what he expected, and so far from what he had requested, that he couldn’t control his anger. Somewhere around this time (still guessing obviously) is when the President asked “why do we have to take all these people in from shithole countries, why can’t we take people from Norway?” Norway came up because earlier in the day he had met with the President of Norway.  He could have mentioned any country but Norway was top-of-mind.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I’ve attended an executive meeting, what is said in the room stays in the room. This is a good policy because it allows for an open dialog of ideas. To no surprise, things don’t work this way in Washington and that was Trumps biggest mistake. The enemies in the room couldn’t wait to get out of the meeting and run to the media.

When will he learn that he can’t always speak the truth,              not out loud anyway

The rest of the week was dominated by media interpretation of what the Dems claimed had occurred in that meeting. It took Trump nearly two days to tweet a rebuttal and the Republicans, two of them, said they didn’t “recall” the President using those words.  Weak.

In my opinion Trump probably did used the language he was being accused of using. The Dems and their co-workers, the left wing media, went wild and called the President’s remarks, what else? Racist. At one point during the week my favorite democratic senator, Nancy Pelosi (favorite? Not!), came to the microphones and proceeded to say, “Why are five white guys deciding what our immigration policy should be?” Then in her attempt to be funny she referred to the Five Guy’s food chain. The trouble is, some of the five guys were her fellow democrats, one of which was her Number Two. He wasn’t happy. Even still, the left wing media didn’t say a peep about this truly racist comment from Ms. Pelosi and instead kept up their onslaught against the President.

The President is always getting in trouble for speaking his mind and worse, speaking the truth. These countries he called shitholes are, well, shitholes. How this is racist though is beyond this simple minded American.  He didn’t say the people in these countries where shitheads or holes, he said the countries they come from are. Just because the people living next to me live in a shithole house doesn’t mean I think they are shitholes.  (So sorry about the language here.)  His point was that these countries are dumps thus the people cannot be the best and brightest the world has to offer which is what he wants for America. The color of their skin had zero to do with any of this. Look, he shouldn’t have said it, I get that but that’s the way he talks, that’s who he is, that’s what got him elected. People, myself included, are tired of the PC politicians and tired of America always being on the losing end of every situation. We elected him because we really do want to make America Great Again. We really are concerned for our safety. Never the less, the President started out having a brilliant week and then he proceeded to step in it. When will he learn that he can’t always speak the truth … not out loud anyway.

The most amazing thing to me is that the Democrats are now threatening to allow the Government to shut down unless the DACA people are given amnesty. Think about that. The Dems are willing to hurt legal American citizens including our military in favor of illegal, non-citizens from shithole countries. That my friends is your democratic party. Votes are that important to them.

The good thing about all of this, actually there are a couple of good things, is that there is now a chance the DACA people will have to go home because there will be no deal. That’s a win for America as far as I am concerned. The other great news coming out of this is that Maxine Waters and Mr. Lewis, both democrats, both perhaps the biggest racists in congress have announced they will not attend the State of the Union this year because of the shithole comment. I guess the President truly is a stable genius smarter than he gets credit for and don’t be confused, his comments and the Left’s swipes against him only further energize his base of deplorables.

I don’t know about you but, I am about sick and tired of the 24/7 talk about DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). All of our elected representatives, including the President coupled with the media and the online tweeters are more focused on these illegals than they are on the citizens of this country. These so called dreamers are protesting demanding we allow them to stay. Demanding…

So, having said that let me continue the insanity by “jumping-in” on the debate.

The Left will have us believe they are the party of love and genuine care for these 800,000 illegals. This week there was an internal memorandum that clearly stated the importance to the party that DACA people be allowed to stay in the country. In so many words the memo said “Their votes are crucial to our party this November.”  When you consider my last post about voter ID, this stance by the left is nothing new nor surprising.

The President this week signaled that he too wants to work out a deal so the DACA people can remain in the country. The conservatives about had a heart attack. I wasn’t thrilled myself. The law is the law. Cold hearted, I know. The President also made it clear that there can be no DACA amenity without the removal of chain migration, elimination of the immigration lottery, and The Wall. This of course doesn’t fit with the Democratic narrative.

The Democrats attempt to pull on the heart strings of the country by accusing the Republicans of being heartless.  They ask, “How would you feel if you couldn’t live near your family members?”

They don’t seem to do much arguing about the lottery. In today’s world of terror that’s a difficult one to support.

I love (not really) their argument about the wall. Their two main talking points are #1. The wall doesn’t stop people from entering the country. One of the congressmen said the wall only gives the border patrol a few extra minutes. I’m pretty sure a border patrol agent will take every extra minute they can get when dealing with these armed drug dealers. At any rate, the statement itself is a lie. The border patrol have supported Trump and have clearly stated the wall works and it is important. #2. This one is laughable. They complain the wall is going to cost 1.8 billion dollars. Wow, suddenly the Democrats are concerned about spending money. This is the party who was in charge for the past eight years who allowed Obama to increase the national debt more than all previous presidents combined. Yeah, laughable. By the way, the savings alone by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord will more than pay for the wall…  In the end, it will indeed be interesting to see just how bad the left want these 800,000 illegal votes. My guess is they will agree to the Presidents demands.

True conservatives are not happy about the possibility of amnesty. Wall or no wall, most of the Right do not want 800,000 illegals in the country voting for the Left. To be clear, I don’t think the Republicans are any better than the Democrats as it relates to the real issue which is votes. In my eyes though, I tend to fall on the republican side of the argument only because, as I’ve said, the law is the law, no one should get to pick and choose which law(s) they want to follow.

So where does this leave us? Now and going forward there has to be 60 votes to pass a bill so the republican’s must bring over some democrats in order to pass anything. This means they must be willing to give some things up in order to get some of the things they want. In other words, the days of being able to do what you want are over. You can argue that this is a good thing because it allows for a larger swath of the country to be represented.

I know you’re dying to know what I would do if I were in charge of writing this bill so here you go.

I would call the democrat’s bluff.  I know I need some of them to pass the bill so I’d keep that in mind but, mostly, I’d keep the legal American citizens in mind.

1. The wall must be approved and built
2. Chain migration must be stopped
3. Visa lottery program, gone
4. DACA people can stay with conditions. A) They must not have had any criminal violations. B) Those of the age of 20 years old or older, not in school, must be employed. C) No government benefits afforded to illegal “Arrivals” for 10 years. D) At the end of the 10 years, those that have remained clear of the justice system will be granted citizenship. Those that violated our laws during the 10 year period will be removed from the country. E) The annual legal immigration number would be cut by 800,000 so that we end up neutral at the end of the 10 year period. F) Finally, I would require all Americans to show ID in order to vote. This is a must and is an obvious law to put in place to further protect the credibility of our elections. If both parties are truly concerned about voter fraud, agreeing to voter ID should be a snap. Right?

The above accomplishes a lot. First, the Left and the DACA people can’t say this is heartless. They will but they shouldn’t. This allows all of the DACA illegals who haven’t broken further laws to remain in the country. This also controls the total number of immigrants entering the country. This is accomplished via the wall, no more chain or lottery migration and it doesn’t expand the total number of new citizenship. This of course isn’t fair to all those who have been standing in line which is regrettable. Finally, this requires both parties to vote based on honesty and not on votes … and … it puts Americans first.

If the parties cannot agree to this then the bill doesn’t pass and the DACA people go home which by the way, isn’t the end of the world as we know it.

Those on the Right say it all the time, “the Left only cares about the votes.” Could this really be true?

While I honestly want to understand the liberal mind it seems as if the accusation from the Right is true. Take for example, the most recent election. To hear those (Liberals) tell it, Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election. Somehow, they are convinced that Trump worked with the Russian Government to change the outcome of our election in 2016.  At the same time, the Left is completely opposed to voter ID. They claim that requiring an ID will disenfranchise the poor Hispanic and Black Americans.  So, on the surface one would conclude that the Left cares deeply about protecting our elections against foreign intruders and of course, they care deeply about the poor Hispanic and African Americans. Let me ask this.  We know that our country has millions of illegal aliens inside our borders, so doesn’t our “no ID required to vote” policy have a much greater potential for election fraud? If the Left is truly concerned about the integrity of our election system and if they are opposed to outside influence then how can they oppose voter ID?

As far as the concern for the poor not being able to get an ID, you’ve heard the conservative responses.  I mean really, you can’t do anything without an ID, well, except vote for the leader of the free world… This excuse about the poor is a fraud anyway. The Left doesn’t care about the poor.  They care about the illegals being able to vote. If that’s not treason I don’t know what is. As for the poor, they can’t cash their food stamps with an ID so let’s please come up with a different excuse for not making voter ID a law.

Seriously, what am I missing? How do you claim to be outraged over the possibility of Russia meddling in our election while at the very same time you don’t care who votes in our election. I don’t know what else to do other than to throw the BS flag. “Election Interference by the liberals, 15 yard penalty, Trump is still President.”