Trump is Angela Merkel, making the problem worse at the border with irresponsible statements at SOTU address, border deal signing and CPAC encouraging people to come here

LA Times: No construction for Trump's wall has begun anywhere because he signed border deal

If Trump had been serious about building the wall, he wouldn't have signed a border deal which ties his hands. He would have vetoed it and proceeded with the national emergency.

Had he done so, legislators would have had little choice but to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government departments threatened with a shutdown at existing levels.

That's the art of the deal, Mr. Big Stuff, but Mr. Big Stuff is all bark and no bite.

Bulldozers sit idle at border amid legal confusion over Trump’s emergency:

No construction for Trump’s wall has begun anywhere, although officials have started or completed fence replacement projects in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Trump, who made building a border wall a central promise of his campaign, declared the emergency on Feb. 15 to bypass Congress and shift up to $6.6 billion, mostly from the Pentagon budget, to build — or rebuild — 234 miles of fencing.

Trump acted after Congress had appropriated only $1.375 billion for 55 miles of border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, far less than he wanted.

But the 1,169-page appropriations bill Trump signed into law when he issued his emergency declaration also contained restrictions on construction in specific towns, parks and wildlife reserves along about 150 miles of the border in the Rio Grande Valley, which is the administration’s top priority for building new barriers. The restrictions have thwarted Trump’s efforts to build a wall there, at least for now.

An aide to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who helped negotiate the restrictions, said it’s not clear if the terms of the spending bill would override the emergency declaration, or vice versa, leaving landowners and town officials in limbo.

It's a lie that we need a million legal immigrants a year when the rate of job growth has been slashed by 70%

Libertarian Liz Mair's only objection to the border deal was how hard it is on lawful border crossers

But Israel got its money!

There were reliable sources warning before the border deal, but conservative talk radio IGNORED them

Tim Burchett, TN-2, voted no for the border deal and its orgy of foreign spending

One of the good guys.

Yesterday showed us that Trump is in fact 25th Amendment material

He didn't remember he let the drug dealers out of prison by just recently signing the criminal justice reform bill when he was riffing on executing them in the Rose Garden yesterday.

That means even if he read what was in the border deal, it didn't penetrate, didn't register, and didn't matter to him. Nothing was going to get in the way of signing the bill.

This denial of reality is religious fanaticism level stuff, courtesy of Norman Vincent Peale but grown especially virulent in this unique DNA combination known as Donald Trump.

What he needs is deprogramming, but the best thing we can do is depend on the sturdiness of our institutions, the separation of powers and the ensuing gridlock to sequester him until the voters do the intervention in 2020.  This is the gift of the founders and we should embrace it and thank them for it.

Unfortunately, expect Democrats to have no mercy, but to press their advantage against crazy King Ludwig. If Republicans know what's good for them, they'll refrain from any more big compromises, but they should work with Democrats to give Trump some nice shiny objects to stroke his vanity in the meantime and keep him distracted.  

Well, that's it, Donald Judas Trump has signed the border deal according to AP

Rush is full of it, saying Trump has no leverage

Trump has POLITICAL POWER. It's called the veto. He should use it! Make the Congress own this piece of shit border deal.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CONSTITUTION you boob, you dog, you spineless weasel, you limp dick sex drug profiteer.

The border deal bill's not yet there for Trump to sign--keep calling 202-456-1414

Border deal US Senate roll call vote 84-15

Here.

 

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 31 )

Vote Number: 25

Vote Date: February 14, 2019, 03:31 PM

Required For Majority: 3/5

Vote Result: Cloture Motion Agreed to

Vote Counts:

YEAs84

NAYs

15

Not Voting

1

Border deal roll call vote US House 300-128

H J RES 31      YEA-AND-NAY      14-Feb-2019      8:59 PM
      QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Conference Report
      BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes

Democratic	213	19		3
Republican	87	109		1
Independent
TOTALS	300	128		4

Here.

The point of the veto is political, to make Congress override the veto and own the border deal, otherwise Trump does

Simple point Laura Ingraham overlooked last night. Don't call into your own show under the influence of alcohol.

This is when you want a politician in office instead of someone like Trump. A politician would understand he doesn't need to sign it, shouldn't sign it, and would win by not signing it despite the override.

Time for Turtle Soup: America is clueless to the defacto amnesty slipped into the border bill by Mitch McConnell

The border deal is being rammed through as we speak, a $1+trillion package no one has read, least of all Trump

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a compromise bill on border security Thursday to fund the government past the Friday deadline and avert another shutdown. The measure, which was approved by a 83 to 16 broad bipartisan vote, is expected to pass in the House Thursday night and be signed into law by President Trump.

The White House @202-456-1414 isn't taking your opinion on the border deal until tomorrow morning @9am Eastern

Thanks for nothing, Trump.

Like Dan Bongino on Levin last night, Limbaugh is conceding on the border deal, fearing a shutdown

Spineless cowards, as always.

Border deal gives $1 billion to Smithsonian, $3.1 billion for global health activities, $3.4 billion for refugees, $4.4 billion for international disaster relief, Ukraine, Jordan and Israel get $5.3 billion, Trump gets 55 miles of new bollard fencing, not wall

Thieving bastards.

Analyze this.

Ridiculous budget deal chops Trump's previous wimpy immigration enforcement request by 75%

This is what you get when no one is serious about the immigration problem, including Donald Judas Trump.

Negotiators reach deal ‘in principle’ to avert shutdown:

The tentative deal includes $1.375 billion for physical barriers — a type of fencing that resembles the “steel slats” that Trump has specifically called for, according to a congressional aide briefed on the talks. It includes a total of 55 miles, which is just 9 miles shy of Trump’s last budget request. ...

The final deal is only slightly higher than Democrats' offer of $1.3 billion for border fencing and falls far short of Trump's demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding that led to the government shutdown in December. And if Trump doesn't agree to sign the bill, negotiators could be back at square one, staring down another potential shutdown later this week.