Let\u2019s make one thing clear. The most important issue in the United States isn\u2019t foreign policy. It isn\u2019t the economy (stupid), and it isn\u2019t what\u2019s happening on the Southern Border. The most important issue is the clear fork in the road America will take on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. On that day, election day, we will be choosing the next President of the United States. Our choice is the current President, Joe Biden, an eighty year-old Democrat, or Donald Trump, the former President, a seventy-eight year old \u201cRepublican\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I put \u201cRepublican\u201d in quotes, because Trump leads the Republican Party away from its traditional roots. Republicans stood for a strong America with a powerful role in the world. Today, Trump would have us leave Ukraine alone against Russia. Republicans were the Party of a strong economy. But today, Trump would have Biden left as a \u201cHoover\u201d so that Trump can win the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Republicans have been the Party of strong borders. That\u2019s the stand that the Republican (and conservative) Senator James Langford took in Senate negotiations on legislation to \u201cfix\u201d the border problem. There\u2019s a lot in that legislation that Democrats readily agree to: better fentanyl detection, more legal aides and judges to determine asylum claims. And there are parts that Democrats stand against: more deportations, closing the border when the number of asylum seekers get too high, more \u201cmilitarization\u201d of the physical border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
President\u00a0\u00a0Biden and the Democratic leaders of the Senate determined to accept Langford\u2019s compromise, in return for aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and increased help for the Gazan Palestinians left destitute by Israeli action in retaliation for October 7th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0Those are all issues \u201cregular\u201d Republicans support too.\u00a0\u00a0It was a balanced package, one that, frankly, looked a lot more like something George Bush or even Dick Cheney would advance, rather than Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the legislation reached its final form, it had bipartisan support. Sure, some Democrats would struggle to accept it, but for many Republican Senators, this was everything they wanted. And in our narrowly divided Congress, it was a bill from the center of the political fray. Even in the fractious House, if that bill ever reached the floor for a vote, it likely would pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Donald Trump couldn\u2019t allow it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cRepublican\u201d Party of Donald Trump stands for only one thing: what\u2019s good for Trump, is good for the Nation. And the twice impeached, four-time indicted, facing ninety-one felony charges former President needs chaos at the border as a hammer to pound away at the Biden Presidency. So instead of taking a huge step forward to solve the border problem, the first since 1986, Trump ordered his Party to block the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senators and Congressmen don\u2019t work for Donald Trump.\u00a0\u00a0They are elected to represent their constituents and the American people, paid for through tax dollars raised by the US Treasury, and under oath to protect the United States Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0There is no direct \u201cline of authority\u201d from the former President to any of them.\u00a0\u00a0But, almost as a block, the bipartisan legislation became, as Republican Speaker Mike Johnson stated, \u201c\u2026dead on arrival\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRepublicans\u201d are now willing to allow Ukraine to fall to Russia.\u00a0\u00a0They are willing to let the People\u2019s Republic of China take Taiwan.\u00a0\u00a0They want the nonsense at the border, from Texas defying the United States Supreme Court, to \u201csurprise\u201d buses of unaware migrants dumped in the streets of Washington, New York and Chicago,\u00a0to continue.\u00a0\u00a0And they even\u00a0\u00a0are willing to hold back support for Israel.\u00a0\u00a0All to give Trump his issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Biden spoke to the Nation on Tuesday afternoon. He asked, in fact, he demanded, that the Congress move forward with the legislation. Some will say that Biden sounded \u201cweak\u201d, imploring Congress to do its job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Biden made the salient point. This isn\u2019t about what\u2019s good for the country, and this isn\u2019t about what\u2019s right. It\u2019s not even about what the Republican Party believes. It\u2019s about Trump, and Biden made sure that the blame is placed where blame is due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The border was going to be a problem for the Biden campaign. Now, they have their answer. We had the fix, one that we had to \u201csell\u201d to our own Democrats. But, through old fashioned political compromise, working from the center out, the Biden Administration went a long way towards solving the problem. Trump stopped it \u2013 and it\u2019s his problem now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask Biden, ask Harris, ask Schumer, ask Jeffries: what are Democrats doing about the border? Now the answer is simple: it\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault. He couldn\u2019t have given Biden a better \u201celection\u201d present. Trump gave Democrats the answer to the border problem. It\u2019s his fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He even put a bow on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRepublicans\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Whose Fault?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n