The outcome of the first head-to-head television effort of the new Congress was decisive. President Trump clearly gained ground and Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lost ground.
Few issues ignite a firestorm like the issue of immigration. Last night reaffirmed just how far apart our two political parties are on the fundamental principles underlying this debate.
President Trump did something Tuesday night that he has rarely done since taking office: He used the presidential bully pulpit to reach beyond his hardcore base of supporters to make his case to the American people as a whole.
After watching the dueling prime-time speeches last night, it was easy to come away with the idea that the dispute is simply over the president’s demand for wall funding and the partial government shutdown. As such, it should be easy for the president and Dems to cut a split-the-difference deal and move on to the next problem.
Quick – somebody please remind Democratic Senators, Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono, that they’re members of what’s supposed to be the tolerant party. Based on the bigoted questions they recently posed to a judicial nominee, they may think that Democrats are the heirs of the anti-Catholic Know Nothing party.
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi view their opposition to a border wall as a winning political issue for their side. President Trump doesn’t view the illegal immigration crisis through a political prism; he views it as a matter of national security. He’s going to do what he has to do to keep our country safe.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is someone who can be a role model for young girls everywhere. She had a goal, worked hard and achieved it. We should be applauding her accomplishments, not tearing her down and constantly criticizing her.
The fate of Sears, the legendary American retailer now mired in bankruptcy and laden with billions of dollars of debt, hangs in the balance today, a modern-day parable of the collapse of a corporate titan once thought too big to fail.
Democrats are arguing that instead of a border wall, we can use more drones to fix our broken immigration system. That only shows that they know as little about drones as they do about border security.
Like millions of Americans, I will be watching President Trump address the nation Tuesday night on his demand for $5.7 billion from Congress to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in return for ending the partial government shutdown. But I’m not an American, even though I feel like one. I’m an immigrant brought to the U.S. illegally when I was just a year old.
