The Democrats "cave" . And Mueller presses ON!

Democrats "caved in ".

President Trump was celebrating this week that the (1)>>Democrats "caved in" ending a government shutdown . Surrendering to Trump Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday talks on immigration and border security are "starting over" after he and the White House have exchanged a series of blows about President Donald Trump's border wall. While lawmakers and sources say he was not heavily involved, the president was in full celebratory mode after Senate Democrats on Monday ended a government shutdown they forced over objections to immigration policy after just three days. Even though public opinion polls showed voters placed more blame on Trump and Republicans (48 percent) than Democrats (35 percent) over the shutdown, Trump’s tweets show he is sounding a message of victory. It took two weeks for Washington to agree on how it will fund the government for the next three weeks. When the resolution that ended the government shutdown came, shortly after noon, the  (2)>>Senate Democrats tried to claim it as a victory of sorts. The notion that the President and the Democrats might be able to find common ground hinged heavily on personality. Trump himself is ideologically erratic, the theory ran, obsessed with media approval and cutting deals. Senate Minority Leader  (3)>>Chuck Schumer opposes the immigration framework released by the White House — a potentially fatal blow for the prospective legislation in the closely divided Senate.The New York Democrat on Friday accused President Donald Trump of using a proposed path for citizenship for young undocumented immigrants as cover for making sweeping — and damaging — changes to the legal immigration system. "This plan flies in the face of what most Americans believe," Schumer said on Twitter. While Trump "finally acknowledged that the Dreamers should be allowed to stay here and become citizens, he uses them as a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hard-liners have advocated for for years."  Interestingly ENOUGH,  IN MY LAST BLOG POST I talked about why we really need immigration reform . (3.1)>>Both Parties in our Congress and Senate have kicked the problem of immigration to the curb . Trump's own actions are a wake -up call , how rational or un-rational they seem to the die hard left , they are injecting a voice into a broken system . While I find the "wall" ludicrous & expensive , we do need border security , but a wall with Trump's name on it  is antagonistic in nature .  Its really symbolic of a nation that is frightened of outsiders ,  foreign  invasion.  (4)>>Of Course the creation of a police state . Trump probably won't get everything he wants, but with the fight shifting to U.S. policy on legal immigration, he has outlined a clear path for Congress that could satisfy those who want to permanently protect Dreamers and those who voted for Trump because of his border wall plan and the larger crackdown on illegal immigration that it has always represented. If the wall works fully, it should exclude roughly 200,000 possible migrants per year. At that rate, it will take nine years to offset the inflow allowed by the accompanying amnesty for at least 1.8 million illegals. In that long run ,  sadly many will be deported, families broken up . before the dust settles, in the next years mid term election MAYBE , hopefully we will have sound legislation that grants new citizenship for  all immigrants  .

And Mueller presses ON!

←For me Mueller was in the inner circle of Mr. Trump for a while before he became a special prosecutor.  For almost one year now, the “Special Counsel” heading up the investigation into thoroughly  (4)>> allegations of “Russian collusion” during the 2016 election, has wasted taxpayer money and valuable time. Mueller’s investigation has been proven to be irredeemably biased, with practically his whole team consisting of Trump-hating, Hillary-loving, “activist” FBI agents and lawyers, and over the past few months, a litany of serious and shocking information has surfaced. President Trump said that he was willing and eager to be interviewed by Robert S. Mueller III,its interesting that he's not afraid  of Mueller . Trump can ask for special counsel 'to be fired for any reason,' says former independent prosecutor. Robert Mueller has hired several high-dollar Department of Justice prosecutors, seven of whom donated to (5)>>Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The order appointing a special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein didn’t even identify a crime to be investigated. He has said the DOJ doesn’t conduct “fishing expeditions,” but one expert said this is a backward investigation where there is no stated crime but an investigation where you search all over and see what you can come up with. The special counsel's team could interview Trump soon on some limited portion of questions — possibly within the next several weeks, according to a person close to the president, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations. Asked on Saturday if he had agreed to be interviewed by Mueller, Trump said he had nothing to hide."Just so you understand, there's been no collusion, there's been no crime, and in theory everybody tells me I'm not under investigation. Maybe Hillary [Clinton] is, I don't know, but I'm not," Trump told reporters at Camp David. "But we have been very open. We could have done it two ways. We could have been very closed, and it would have taken years. But you know, sort of like when you've done nothing wrong, let's be open and get it over with.""Because, honestly, it's very, very bad for our country," the president added. "It's making our country look foolish. And this is a country that I don't want looking foolish. And it's not going to look foolish as long as I'm here."

............And the STATE of The UNION address.

This is Donald J Trump's first State of the Union Address . I think Trump is going to throw punches,first of the the "ratings" meter is going to soar along the lines of a shock -value-  speech . The media should get a "earfull" of Trump propaganda.Trump is giving the speech “with the lowest approval ratings of any president in his first year in the history of presidential polling, and can point to the least number of legislative accomplishments,” White House officials have offered few details of what Trump will say other than that he will take credit for a healthier economy and tie its continued growth to the Republicans’ new tax plan, as well as argue his case on immigration, trade, infrastructure and national security.While most of Tuesday's prime-time speech will be devoted to domestic issues, the president is also expected to discuss some foreign policy, officials said. They said that includes his plan to have China and other countries pressure North Korea economically to persuade it to give up nuclear weapons. Officials previewed the themes of the State of the Union on the condition they not be named, saying they didn't want to get ahead of the president's remarks. Early versions of Trump's speech indicate the president, facing an in-house congressional audience grimly divided along ideological lines, will adopt a unifying tone with the theme of a “safe, strong and proud America.” The approach marks an attempt to shift the national conversation from Trump's dismal public approval ratings, an election year that threatens (6)>>Republican control of Congress and a White House consumed by an investigation into Russian campaign meddling.Eleven long months later, Mr Trump has been President for a year, believes he has delivered on many of his electoral promises, and considers himself to be a victim of “fake” media coverage and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.The probe has  often distracted from this president’s message. Trump’s address to financial and global leaders in Davos, Switzerland, last week followed reports that he ordered a top White House lawyer to fire Mueller last June but backed off when the lawyer threatened to resign. Trump called the report “fake news.”More than anything, the White House has indicated that the president's remarks will likely seek to strike a tone of command and stability against the backdrop of a political system that has been reeling since his arrival one year ago.Trump's speech on Tuesday night – even if he reads conciliatory rhetoric from his Teleprompter in flawless fashion – won't alter election outcomes more than nine months from now.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>Democrats "caved in".   Schumer always knew his government shutdown was untenable.Not only did Schumer come up short of getting a deal to prevent the deportation of "Dreamers" — people brought to this country illegally when they were children — but he divided a Democratic Party that had previously been unified. And he let Trump and McConnell walk away from it all as the clear winners on politics, policy and strategy. He’s putting up a faux resistance to funding The Wall, comprehensive immigration law enforcement and a narrow deal allowing highly vetted “dreamers” to stay. (2)>>Senate Democrats tried to claim it as a victory of sorts.  Now, the Republicans run the place! The Republicans run the House. The Republicans run the Senate. Trump made a deal with the Democrats only have (What do Democrats have?) 48 votes. Republicans have 52. Democrats made a deal with Trump. Democrats announced the deal, claiming victory.  Some Democratic strategists said Schumer got enough to justify re-opening the government.Schumer and fellow Senate Democrats have been accused of  the shutdown after insisting that any temporary spending bill to keep the government fully operational include permanent protections for the so-called DREAMers -- immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.(3)>>Chuck Schumer opposes the immigration framework released by the White House —The White House's proposal to Congress would provide a legal path to citizenship for 1.8 million "Dreamers" who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and a $25 billion "trust fund" to build the border wall. It would also sharply curtail legal immigration by ending the nation's diversity visa lottery program and limiting the ability of legal immigrants to sponsor family members who are not spouses or children. By offering to protect Dreamers who had signed up for President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and those who didn't, he's putting pressure on Democrats and their allies to concede to him not just advance funding for the wall with the "trust fund" but also to consider changes to the legal immigration system.(3.1)>>Both Parties in our Congress and Senate have kicked the problem of immigration to the curb .  The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration. Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a large percentage of the nation’s annual income has shifted to investors and away from employees.    (4)>>Of Course the creation of a police state .  The potential for a police state is clear. There is little limit to what immigration cops could do. Under the order, they would be able to deport anyone convicted of fraud in any official matter before a governmental agency. Or unauthorized immigrants who have “abused any program related to receipt of public benefits.” That could include millions, including someone who put a wrong address on a school application, a common practice for parents trying to move their kids to a better school. The number of immigration police to enforce these laws is expanded under the order. The Department of Homeland Security is authorized to hire 10,000 more immigration and custom agents. In an Nazi like fashion , If the addition of all those ICE officers wasn’t threatening enough, Trump wants local police officers and sheriff’s deputies to work with immigration cops to round up immigrants.  (4)>> allegations of “Russian collusion”.  The direction the special council on Russian collusion is taking makes it likely to follow Darwinism into junk science. We establish a desirable answer to a subject, then hammer it into place like a malleable metal until the objectionable corners are made to fit the square hole desired.  (5)>>Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Unfortunately the Clinton's are right up their with him. The blind disconnect because of party affiliation is why he is the president. Bernie Sanders would be the President today had the Clinton's and Schultz not rigged the primary. So we had two slime balls run against each other... and in the name of 'winning', America got what it got.The country picked a painted orange reality TV show star, over a dredged up dynastic political family member. The facts of Hillary Clinton’s collusion are complicated and involve, as it were, many more entities than the fairy tale of Trump’s collusion. For this reason, in a world where good political fiction trumps confusing facts, it is tempting to prefer the Trump collusion narrative, if only to avoid a migraine.But doing so requires ignoring many interrelated facts already available in the public domain that make sense only in the context of the treasonous, un-democratic scheming of the Clinton campaign—first to deny Bernie Sanders a fair shot at the Democratic nomination, (6)>>Republican control of Congress.  Republicans will be defending just 8 of the 34 seats that are up for re-election in November, most of which are in solidly red states. Democrats, on the other hand, are defending seats in states that have a pattern of voting Republican for both Senate and presidential candidates.