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Why Doesn’t Anyone Ask…?
All the lies and exaggerations from the Democrats periodically exceed my tolerance for nonsense. And I have a pretty high tolerance. But I’m frustrated that there is no venue for the Republicans to insist that the Democrats provide some answers to their absurd claims and attacks against Trump. Isn’t there some way we can force the Dems to respond to the following questions?
- Why won’t you acknowledge that terrorists and gang members have been apprehended at the border?
- How are your decisions helping to protect Americans?
- Why don’t you see the approach of another caravan as a problem?
- Why are you saying that constructing a barrier is immoral?
- Why aren’t you considering the assessments of the Border Patrol, that they need a wall to protect the country?
- At what point did it become clear to you that a wall was not helpful, given that you approved a wall just a few years ago?
- If you are a compassionate person, why would you want to give illegal migrants the impression that it is safe to bring their children?
- You say walls are not effective, and yet the segments of our border that have walls or fences have worked? How do you respond?
- What data can you provide that shows that walls aren’t effective?
- Why should we believe that if we re-open the government that you would negotiate in good faith?
I would want specific answers to these questions. They are in no way intended to be rhetorical. I’m tired of the schoolyard attacks; all the Democrats who insisted that Trump was going to lie and scare-monger before his speech looked like petty adolescents to me.
It is mind-boggling to think that the Democrats are unwilling to negotiate with the President on the wall at all. Do you think that most of the American public realizes that this is not even an ideological battle, but a war on Trump? Is the public so willing to accept the personal grudges of Pelosi and Schumer against Trump in place of decent public policy?
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Susan, I have what I hope might be a suggested course of action by our colleagues on Ricochet, and that would be for any of us who feel, as I do, that no team of paid writers up in Washington could possibly come up with better, more carefully drawn, questions than those you have posted, that we simply copy and paste them, as is, in a letter to our Congressperson and/or Senator, with whatever individual comment we may have to offer.
Under the assumption that you do give prior approval to acting on this idea, my next transmission will be to my now-brand-new Congressman, Matt Gaetz, in view of our move to the Panhandle last summer.
I have to note that I do this despite the well-founded belief by many of us that this is the purest possible waste of our precious minutes given us, and that feeling was certainly corroborated on my many attempts to communicate with one of my Senators in Louisiana, from whom I always got form letters in response to my questions about government with much-needed information about the latest sugar cane quotas. However, short of getting on a plane and going up there and sitting in their waiting room until they talked to me, I really have no idea how we’re supposed to get our ideas across to them. I am certainly open to any alternative suggestion anyone may have along these lines.
@susanquinn, I’ll hold off on sending your questions out pending your approval; I would very much like to send them out, as is, as noted above, so that you get the credit you deserve for such a fine piece of writing. (As usual!)
Sincerely, Jim
Jim, I’m honored that you see my questions in such a positive light! You or anyone else is welcome to use them. You are correct of course: whether anyone would ask them or anyone would pay attention to them if they were asked, is the biggest question. Thank you so much for your kind words.
All joking aside, I thought your series of questions was brilliant. I am happy I can use them, should I decide that doing so would have much of an advantage.
Here in California, I doubt any staffers at Pelosi’s office would do anything more than dismiss them. Or else perhaps put my name on a list so later on this year, I can be queried about my “hate thought.”
You never know if and when they’ll come after you, @caroljoy. You’ll be 80 years old running for a school board and they’ll get you!!! ;-) Thank you for the kind words, too.
Susan, I immediately sent your questions along with my comments to Congressman Gaetz; will later do the same to our Senators. I made it a point to very pointedly (of course) ask that he read and consider your questions very carefully and that he distribute them to his colleagues across the aisle.
I only wish I could cast a wider net to get more of our colleagues here to do the same; never know what might happen. There’s even some slight chance it might get results. As I wrote that, I realized that I, like many of us, really don’t like the way the current political structure has caused so many of our fellow citizens to become cynics.
Hope this works.
Sincerely, Jim