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2019-01-05 Home Front: Politix
US Vice President Mike Pence says If there's no border wall deal, there's no shutdown deal
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Posted by Fred 2019-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 In other words, if they really do get rid of President Trump, President Pence will continue his policies. Life just got even more interesting.

...You can say that again. On the one hand, Pence is a strong Christian who tries hard to walk the walk. That alone will make heads explode across DC. On the other hand, the thinking on the Donk side of the house seems to be that for nebulous reasons that no one has been able to state, when Trump is run out of the White House, 'Pence will have to go too'.
That means either they'll start trying to mug him too the minute he takes the oath (and likely long before), or they'll refuse to acknowledge his succession (for reasons) and demand that the Speaker of the House - untainted by scandal and with motives as pure as the driven snow - take office....

I wish I was kidding. I wish that was a fantasy for a novel. After the last few days though, I'm truly beginning to wonder.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-01-05 06:27||   2019-01-05 06:27|| Front Page Top

#2 If your standard of living has been damaged by subsidising immigration then you should vote Trump.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-05 07:25||   2019-01-05 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 That Mike is known historically as a coup. That by act would be a declaration of a one party system. They could never allow another party in such a position to do it to them in the future.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-05 07:35||   2019-01-05 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Wall won't work, waste.
Posted by Uleresing Unereger5082 2019-01-05 08:53||   2019-01-05 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Wall won't work, waste.
Posted by Uleresing Unereger

Remove the existing wall and barriers and see what very quickly happens.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-05 08:56||   2019-01-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Try punji sticks and save a buck.
Posted by Uleresing Unereger5082 2019-01-05 09:07||   2019-01-05 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Pence would quickly appoint a VP, the Rep Senate would quickly approve the appointment.
Posted by jvalentour 2019-01-05 09:39||   2019-01-05 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Pence would quickly appoint a VP, the Rep Senate would quickly approve the appointment.

Trump sends congratulatory tweet to Nikki Haley from 9th hole at Aberdeen.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-05 09:49||   2019-01-05 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Trivia: What do you get with Trump and Pence impeached? President Pelosi.
Posted by Andy Jush7808 2019-01-05 13:09||   2019-01-05 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 They have stated that as their end goal. Trump would only be the first step. If they can combine the impeachments into one go it would be a win-win for them.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-01-05 14:19||   2019-01-05 14:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Wall won't work, waste.

I think the Berlin Wall was extremely effective and the Iron Curtain as a whole performed remarkably well. The Israelis have a wall around Gaza and without it they'd probably have to kill a whole bunch of Gazooks to keep from being killed themselves. Then there's the Great Wall of China.

But, hey, I think we could secure our border a lot better and a lot more cheaply too. Just put machine gun nests every quarter mile along the border and when anybody steps across the line shoot 'em.

The alternative is to forget about the United States.

So, yeah, Uleresing Unereger5082, if you wanna live in that kinda chaos, just keep voting for Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-05 15:19||   2019-01-05 15:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Troll
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-05 18:13||   2019-01-05 18:13|| Front Page Top

#13 To put the effectiveness of a wall in perspective:

Most senior members of congress and just about all Hollywood elite and such have a wall around their mansion. They lock their doors too.

Then they tell us how ineffective walls are.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-01-05 19:24||   2019-01-05 19:24|| Front Page Top

#14 For all of my adult life the politicians argue and pine about the border and about the issue with illegals. Once the election is over the political class goes silent and does not deal with it. Now the outsider, Trump, is following through with his campaign promise to close the border to the horrors the happen at it every day. Trump has shown them up at every turn.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-01-05 20:10||   2019-01-05 20:10|| Front Page Top

#15 The Israelis have a wall around Gaza and without it they'd probably have to kill a whole bunch of Gazooks to keep from being killed themselves.

The Israelis have a wall around Gaza, and have been bulding walls along their borders with Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. They even are nearly done building a breakwater extending the Gaza wall into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Egypt wall has slowed the flow of “asylum seekers” to a trickle.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-05 20:36||   2019-01-05 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Hopefully the Pubs won't cave as in the past. The Dems don't like when their own game is used against them. Trump has leverage in the way of intelligenc/info on these criminals.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-05 22:56||   2019-01-05 22:56|| Front Page Top

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