{"id":35457,"date":"2019-02-13T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35457"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:52:37","slug":"hoping-potus-ignores-yammering-from-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35457","title":{"rendered":"Hoping POTUS ignores yammering from the far right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34574\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/o-BORDER-WALL-facebook.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the speculation that Donald Trump will sign the border security deal hammered out by Congress is true, then I want to offer a preemptive word of praise to the president.<\/p>\n<p>He deserves a good word for resisting the yapping and yammering from the far right wing of his Republican Party who contend that the bipartisan deal is a loser.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;ll indulge me for a moment . . .<\/p>\n<p>I have yapped at Trump quite often about his adherence to the likes of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson &#8212; blah, blah, blah &#8212; over their efforts to dictate his legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>He listened to &#8217;em once on this border security matter and as a result, we endured a partial government shutdown that stained the president badly.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like all of the deal, either. It&#8217;s better than it could have been had congressional Republicans dug in their heels. Instead, they worked out a $1.37 billion appropriation to build 55 miles of &#8220;barrier&#8221; along the southern border. It&#8217;s not what the right-wing gasbags want, but it keeps the government running.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the president heeds the instinct to ignore them, that he signs the deal, and that we can put this idiocy to rest &#8212; at least for now.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the speculation that Donald Trump will sign the border security deal hammered out by Congress is true, then I want to offer a preemptive word of praise to the president. 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