{"id":84231,"date":"2019-01-15T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84231"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T18:13:43","slug":"in-the-words-of-that-great-sage-yogi-berra-its-like-deja-vu-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84231","title":{"rendered":"Down Along The Border 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWords: Perry Gaskill<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the words of that great sage Yogi Berra, “It’s like deja vu<\/strong><\/i> all over again.”<\/p>\n

Word this week is that there is yet another new immigrant caravan headed for the U.S. border. According to news reports and social media, asylum seekers are due to leave Tegucigalpa, Honduras today to start the long trek north. This latest caravan, that by some estimates could be even larger than the one in October, will apparently be shoving off despite the fate of the last one. Of the roughly 3,000 who remain of the 7,000 who arrived, they’re still mostly camped out in the mud of rainy Tijuana.<\/p>\n

At this point, it seems fair to ask the simple question: Why another<\/i> caravan?<\/p>\n

And a possible partial answer is this: Under normal circumstances, what amounts to an invasion of the U.S. could be expected to spark some firming up of public policy in such a way that politics are set aside to meet a common foe. Events such as Pearl Harbor had that effect, as did 9\/11. But these aren’t normal times, and it’s becoming more apparent each day that for one side of the congressional aisle, all that matters is getting rid of President Trump by any means necessary.<\/p>\n

Even if it means trashing American sovereignty in the process.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of recent clues:<\/p>\n

In a heated exchange at the White House on January 5, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi interrupted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s briefing on the number of illegal border crossings and told Nielsen, “I reject your facts.”<\/p>\n

Nielsen said, “These are not my<\/i> facts. These are the facts.”<\/p>\n

DHS has based its numbers on apprehensions of illegals by Customs and Border Patrol which are currently estimated at roughly 800,000 per year or 2,000 per day.<\/p>\n

What seemed to fly under the news media radar following Pelosi’s in-your-face confrontation was that apparently at no point did Pelosi offer her own set of figures as evidence that Nielsen was wrong. Which could mean, without stretching things too far, that on Planet Pelosi any hard data numbers are irrelevant in the context of destroying Trump. If you admit any numerical evidence, the risk is you might inadvertently acknowledge there actually is a problem on the border, and by extension that the President might be right.<\/p>\n

Border crisis? What border crisis?<\/p>\n

It’s also no surprise that Pelosi is not alone in being willing to resort to sleazy tactics. Over in the Senate, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, he sits on the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, had a chat with acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan last week about a White House plan to cobble together some alternate funding and use the Army Corps of Engineers to work on the border wall. This is in order to get around a current congressional refusal to fund any money for a border wall at all.<\/p>\n

Durbin said in statement following the Shanahan meeting, \u201cUsing DoD funds to pay for the wall, when Congress was never asked to approve of such a plan, is a major breach of relations between DoD and the oversight committees. In my meeting with Acting Secretary Shanahan, I cautioned him that if President Trump directs DoD to circumvent Congress in such a legally dubious way on such a major issue, Congress will have to reevaluate its relationship with the Department and judge whether each instance of broad flexibility granted to the Department is worth the risk of abuse by President Trump.\u201d
\nMeaning, apparently, that if Shanahan doesn’t “reevaluate” an inclination to follow the orders of his Commander-in-Chief, he’s going to have unpleasant things to think about.<\/p>\n

Or put another way, Durbin sounds like a couple of guys named Vinnie and Rocco showing up at the Pentagon and saying, “Nice little place you got here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another post from our own Perry Gaskill. To me a PG post, besides being relevant to today’s issues, is a study in writing skills. I thought I had some chops in that arena, but enjoy; you are now in the realm of a master word-smith.<\/p>\n

And he’s not the only one here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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