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I'm replying to Carlton Tucker who notes that,
"some...on the left, want to blame the president for the interruption in
government services." I would think that's all of us on the left. And we
call it a shutdown. So does the president. He said he would "shut down the
government" if he didn't get money for his wall, a rare episode of
honesty. In addition to quotes, the internet has videos of campaign rallies
with Mr. Trump asking, "Who's paying for the wall?" The crowds would
call back, "Mexico!" There's not much argument over who's supposed to
be paying.
The president's latest argument for the monument to Trumpism
is that it's going to stop all the drugs from coming in. It won't. The Coast
Guard makes over half the seizures. Here's a quote from Rep. DeFazio (D-
Oregon), "If the president really wants to talk about intercepting drugs,
and he wants to talk about real border security, he should be talking about
giving more resources to the United States Coast Guard, and not stiffing them
on their paychecks, and not making them fly ancient helicopters and use
50-year-old cutters." The president could at least stand up to Ann Coulter
and Rush Limbaugh and end the shutdown so that branch of the military could get
paid.
The $5 billion he wants for the shrine to his presidency
would go a long way toward supporting drug interdiction at sea and providing
customs agents to stop them at legal points of entry where most of the bulk of
them come in. Democrats know that. The president's new chief of staff does,
too. He called the border wall "simplistic" and "absurd and
almost childish."
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