{"id":30334,"date":"2018-06-16T01:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30334"},"modified":"2018-06-16T01:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:11:55","slug":"democrat-bill-umm-no-it-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30334","title":{"rendered":"‘Democrat bill’? Umm, no, it isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The president of the United States sauntered toward reporters this week and began tossing out more whoppers than they do at a well-known fast-food burger joint.<\/p>\n

This is one of them: “If you notice when I came over they were all saying about separating families. That is a Democrat bill. That is Democrats wanting to do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, Mr. President. It isn’t a “Democrat bill.” It is no bill at all. We are talking today about a policy<\/em> that the Trump administration decided to impose. The policy is a “no-tolerance” initiative regarding illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

It has resulted in the separation of young children — including toddlers and infants — from their parents who are caught entering the nation illegally from points south.<\/p>\n

Donald J. “Liar in Chief” Trump has pulled this “Democrat bill” idiocy straight out of his backside.<\/p>\n

Let me stipulate once again that I favor<\/em> stricter border security. I favor<\/em> the president’s goal to crack down on illegal immigration. I want people seeking entry into the United States to do so properly, legally and with all the requisite documentation.<\/p>\n

I oppose categorically<\/em> the hideously cruel notion of taking children out of their parents’ arms, sending them somewhere<\/em> while arresting Mom and Dad and holding them apart from their children.<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats did not enact a bill that creates that situation. This humanitarian crisis is the creation of the Trump administration as explained by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

For the president to call it a “Democrat bill” once again is yet another demonstration that the head of state appears to be pathologically incapable of telling the truth.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a liar.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should try to understand that a pathological liar<\/em> cannot help himself. Aww, no. I don’t intend to cut the president any slack on this habit. I won’t even try.<\/p>\n\n

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The president of the United States sauntered toward reporters this week and began tossing out more whoppers than they do at a well-known fast-food burger joint. This is one of them: “If you notice when I came over they were all saying about separating families. That is a Democrat bill. That is Democrats wanting to … Continue reading ‘Democrat bill’? Umm, no, it isn’t<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2240,7213,2434],"class_list":["post-30334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-policy","tag-jeff-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30336,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions\/30336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}