The EU is pressing its effort to punish Great Britain for the latter’s effrontery in leaving the EU.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has reiterated that the EU finds a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland “unacceptable.” He warned of “serious damage” in the event of a no deal scenario.
Because the EU wants to split Northern Ireland away from Great Britain.
No threat there.
Extending their perpetuation of the existing partial government shutdown, now the Progressive-Democrats won’t even allow the Senate to function.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the chamber from considering bipartisan foreign-policy legislation in a bid to pressure Republicans to reopen the government….
This is of a piece with their “rebuttal” of President Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech calling for negotiations on a border wall and border security generally, wherein the Progressive-Democrats reiterated their refusal to negotiate at all, and they denied the facts presented regarding our border situation while cynically declining to present their own facts.
And their Wimpy-esque promise to gladly negotiate the wall later for a government opening today? Trump tweeted of Wednesday’s abbreviated meeting with Progressive-Democrat and Republican leaders,
I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO.
So much for the believability of Progressive-Democrat commitments.
Remember this in the coming election season.
Here come the Progressive-Democrats, and they’ve made their priorities clear in the House with the first things they want to get done. Here’s some of what’s in their HR1:
For Progressive-Democrats, it’s all about personal political power. Remember this in the coming election season.
Newly sworn-in California governor Gavin Newsom (D) has a plan to expand on the State’s sanctuary “status” and draw even more illegal aliens into the State and into the country:
…an unprecedented new health care agenda for his state, aimed at offering dramatically more benefits to illegal immigrants….
As Newsom noted,
People’s lives, freedom, security, the water we drink, the air we breathe—they all hang in the balance
And Newsom wants to increase that risk by encouraging a flood of illegal aliens to enter the State. It’s true enough that the vast majority of those illegals are harmless beyond the economic burden they’ll inflict in Newsom’s brave new world of hugely expanded, and hugely more expensive, health care for all, citizen and illegal alike. However, it’s also that the few who are dangerous are capable of inflicting vast damage—as the families of MS-13, et al.; the survivors of 9/11 (which terrorists entered legally, but they’re not the only terrorists entering); the victims and their families of the cartels’ drug epidemic; the families of Kate Steinle, Ronil Singh, Pierce Corcoran, Silvano Torres, and a host of others can attest.
His health care “expansion?” He intends to implement the erstwhile Obamacare Individual Mandate at the State level. Everyone will be required to purchase health coverage whether they need it or not, whether they want to or not. Except those like illegal aliens, who can’t afford it. Those coverages will be paid for by the State’s citizens and legal residents. Somehow. Oh, and “children?” They’ll be allowed, under Medi-Cal, to stay on mumsy’s and pop-pop’s health coverage plans until they’re 26, instead of the current age limit of 19.
Newsom has had no words on how this expansion is to be funded. Apparently, he’s channeling Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY):
People often say, like, how are you going to pay for it, and I find the question so puzzling because “How do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for cheaper rent?” You just pay for it.
Because vastly expanding a program makes it cheaper. Sure.
But Newsom and his clan of Progressive-Democrats in the State’s legislature don’t care about that. They only care about the bennies flowing from their expensive, and dangerous, virtue signaling.
A Fox News piece centered on the refusal of some “caravan” participants’ refusal to leave a closed Tijuana warehouse and go to a better shelter facility—but a few miles farther away from our border—closed with this comment from 40-yr-old Honduran Norma Perez, who traveled with her 5-yr-old child. She wants President Donald Trump to
personally go to Honduras so he can see with his own eyes that we simply can’t go back, that there are no jobs, no companies, nothing.
Never mind that all the foreign aid we’ve been sending to Honduras to help with precisely those conditions has been going into the pockets of Honduran authorities; very little of it has made it to folks like Perez. Since she’s never seen any of the money or any of the economic benefits from the money, there’s no reason she would know of it in the first place.
However, it is well-known that the Mexican government has offered all of the “caravan” participants asylum and work permits. Perhaps Perez should personally go to those Mexican authorities and accept the asylum and work permit offers. And stop holding her child at risk.