Monday, January 22, 2018

Schumer shutdown equation = Illegal aliens > American citizens (UPDATE: BACKFIRED!)

What do I think about Schumer's shutdown? Well, I can tell you, Chucky sang a very different tune just five years back...


How far we have fallen as a political system: An entire political party is now willing to shut the government down over a policy exclusively for illegal aliens, not Americans. Even more appalling is that the very leader of the shutdown is a man who has lied to us numerous times on immigration and has created the very immigration crisis we face today by pushing similar amnesty policies before. Most ironic, Schumer himself once expressed support for the very policies he is now calling racist and over which he has triggered the Schumer Shutdown.
...but beyond the standard Democratic hypocrisy that's become par for the course, several other common sense Americans have it precisely right...
"The fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we are blackmailed by the Democrat Party at least once a year, typically multiple times a year. We are blackmailed by the Democrat Party that insists on more spending OR that its priorities come first and our priorities come never. ... The Democrat Party today is saying either you legalize 800,000 illegal aliens or we're gonna shutdown the government for the entirety of America. 320 million Americans, the hell with you. Screw YOU!"
Related links: Lou Barletta: Dems Put Illegal Immigrants over American Citizens with Schumer’s Shutdown
Democrats’ DACA scam: Keeping Dreamers in limbo for political power

So, will this shutdown once again be blamed on Republicans? Certainly. The Democratic propaganda wing (a.k.a. The Mainstream Press) will blame this one on the GOP just as they blame for practically EVERYTHING, but part of the fault lies within a Republican Party that allows its unprincipled RINOs to take the lead in governmental acquiescence and ultimate failure...

Every year the people are told that there is a budget showdown, and if the Republicans don’t cut off the freedom and liberty wing of their party and become reasonable and nonpartisan, they will cause a government shutdown.

Every year the Republican leadership insists there will be no government shutdown, then turns and throttles the freedom and liberty wing and, by extension, the people who put them there, telling them to shut up and sit down.

Then, every year, certain Republicans give away so much leverage over fear of a government shutdown that now, after about a decade of this, they have played their part in the possible destruction of this nation by way of our $20 trillion in debt.

Where does all the fear come from? From the fake outrage ginned up by the media, of course.

Republican leadership constantly put themselves in a box of media outrage because they lack purposeful messaging, detectable principles, or any real disagreement with the Democrats on a large majority of issues that regular Americans truly find important. And for that, the Republicans will, indeed, always get the blame.

This results in frantic offers by the Republican leadership to find a way to procrastinate or make a deal detrimental to their own party’s stated mission in order to create the illusion that they have averted the very terrible shutdown.

That’s not leadership. That’s simply playing the game the Democrats and media want them to play.
But there's really no need to continue with this charade, because there's never any apocalypse from such shutdowns...
"I'm not scared of a government shutdown. Are you, folks? ...[every weekend] the government has shutdown, and here we are, eating, breathing, clothed, most of us; in our cars, in our homes, in our offices, most of us. We're utterly and completely unaffected. The government shutdown for nearly a month under Jimmy Carter and nobody noticed, and nobody will notice it now. We get this cacophony of media coyotes howling, and front groups howling, and Democrats howling, and miscreant Republicans howling. But the fact of the matter is most of you will be completely unaffected by this. No, the United States military isn't shutdown. No, the CIA isn't shutdown. No, the Border Patrol isn't shutdown. Here's the irony: The very programs and the policies that the Democrats and the liberals promote, most of them will be limited! ... Most of the departments and agencies that are affected are on the domestic side. So the Democrats are saying, 'hey, we're gonna commit harakiri, unless you give us what we want.' And I say let them commit harakiri! Let them say'we stand for the illegal alien against the American citizen.' Let them say it!"


Fact of the matter is even with the government shut down, food inspections, federal law enforcement, airport security checks and other vital services will continue, as will Social Security payments, other federal benefit programs and military operations. So this is purely political drivel that's all about Schumer Democrats choosing illegal aliens over American citizens. Plain and simple. For Republicans to continue fretting over theatrical shutdowns and not lead us out of this ridiculous illusion is almost as offensive. It's certainly abhorrent for those cheerleading for lawlessness alongside Dems.

UPDATE: As fast as they shut it down Friday, they fired it back up Monday. That was an extended weekend! Hardly a shutdown. The Schumer Dems chose illegal aliens over the American people during this short-lived government shutdown and that position clearly BACKFIRED...



Schumer buckles, and the media spins on. Congrats to the President and Republicans for the time being, while we continue to monitor whether Congress will do the right thing.
Posted by an ebb and flow at 5:01 PM