Just One More Thing...

• Just one more thing... on Obama Care Repeal.

Since only 8 million people have Obama Care, how will 24 million people die if it is repealed? Will 16 million people be randomly shot?

• Just one more thing... on Donald Trump.

If Donald Trump deleted all of his emails, wiped his server with Bleach bit and destroyed all of his phones with a hammer, would the Mainstream Media suddenly lose all interest in the story and declare him innocent?

• Just one more thing... on equal pay.

If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?

• Just one more thing... on Sanctuary Cities.

If you rob a bank in a Sanctuary City, is it illegal or is it just an Undocumented Withdrawal?

• Just one more thing... on ISIS.

Each ISIS attack now is a reaction to Trump policies, but all ISIS attacks during Obama's term were due to Climate Change and a plea for jobs.

• Just one more thing... on the London 'Lone Wolf' terror attack.

After the London 'Lone Wolf' terrorist attack government officials have arrested at least eight other 'Lone Wolves' who had conspired with the original 'Lone Wolf' in planning the 'Lone Wolf' attack. Even though all involved are Muslims, you can be assured, the 'Lone Wolf' attack has nothing at all to do with Islam, just like the other 1000 plus 'Lone Wolf' attacks by Muslims, are completely dissociated with Islam.

• Just one more thing... on Entitlements.

We should stop calling them all 'Entitlements'.

Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, ad nauseum are not entitlements. They are taxpayer-funded handouts, and shouldn't be called entitlements at all.

Social Security and Veterans Benefits are Entitlements because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.

• Just one more thing... on the Muslim Refugees.

If Muslims want to run away from a Muslim country, does that mean they're Islamophobic?

• Just one more thing... on The Women's March.

If Liberals don't believe in biological gender then why did they march for women's rights?

• Just one more thing... on the Russians hacking the election.

How did the Russians get Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders? How did Russia get Donna Brazile to leak debate questions to Hillary Clinton in advance of the debates?

• Just one more thing... on Democrats and the Electoral College.

Why is it that Democrats think Superdelegates are fine, but they have a problem with the Electoral College?

• Just one more thing... on the FBI and elections.

If you don't want the FBI involved in elections, don't nominate someone who's being investigated by the FBI.

• Just one more thing... on Hillary's speeches.

If Hillary's speeches cost $250,000 an hour, how come no one showed up to her free ones?

• Just one more thing... on Russia manipulating our election.

The DNC is mad at Russia because they 'think' they were trying to manipulate our election by exposing that the DNC was manipulating our election?

Partisan Chasm Like Never Before?

The difference between our nation's two political parties seems to be separated farther apart today than it ever has been in my lifetime. Just watching the news analysis of the President's State of the Union address to Congress last night illustrates this point in glaring fashion. I wish to share my observations about why we as a country find ourselves at such an ideological difference today. (In case you didn't watch or listen to it, here's the transcript; thanks to the "fake news" N.Y. Times and its petty points of difference in the margin.)

I heard and saw so much last night that I really wonder how the Democrats will survive the next three years of Trump's administration; let alone his second term. Trump gave example after example of the ways our nation has taken a 180 degree turn since he came into office. Tax cuts, repatriation of corporate assets coming back into the country, jobs by the millions, unemployment dropping for both the black and brown communities, ISIS decimated, new construction of manufacturing plants by companies in the upper mid-west, people and families getting off of food stamps and unemployment subsidies, introductions of multiple individuals or families who's circumstance or actions revealed the spirit of our American values of honor, bravery,  duty and desire - with one North Korean who managed to escape from that incredibly oppressive regime on crutches into China, and managed through his intense desire to make it into the the United States - is a perfect example of why our nation remains a beacon of freedom and liberty to the world.

Yet, during the whole speech the vast majority of Democrats remained seated, rather than standing to join the rest of the chamber in clapping, during the mention of nearly everything he spoke about. They sat and didn't clap when Rep. Steve Scalis, one of their own, who survived the terrible shooting by a Bernie Sanders supporter at a congressional baseball game in Virginia. They sat on their hands when President Trump introduced and told the tragic story about the two families who lost their daughters to MS-13 gang members, or soldiers and policemen who helped their brothers or sisters in need. Do they no longer feel virtuous actions of our citizens deserve recognition and praise? They sat long faced when President Trump introduce the boy from Redding, CA who took on the project of putting American flags on veteran's graves. Time after time, when President Trump spoke of the positive changes he's implemented during his first year, they refused to applaud or join in celebration of his plans to restore America to its greatness. Commentator Joy Reid on CNN actually tweeted during the post-SOTU address coverage last night, "Church... family... police... military... the national anthem... Trump trying to call on the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for. #SOTU" Another CNN commentator, Tom Brokaw, actually said the bigger missing person within the congressional chamber was the absence of Robert Mueller who's investigating the Russian collusion to rig the election in Trump's favor! They just won't let it go! What a joke! (Here's Ann Coulter's article and Dick Morris's video about the SOTUS.)

And why were liberals sitting on their hands? In my honest opinion, because it does not allow them - liberals in general - to continue dictating the 13 year old middle-school adolescent mentality of trendy group attitude to the nation through their poor choice for a presidential candidate who had sickened the nation so badly that they couldn't stomach a continuation of the previous eight years. The decent, hard working people of this country saw right through the mountain of lies and corruption going on, with Comey exonerating Hillary before an investigation was ever conducted about her clear disregard for the national security of sensitive information on her private - and very lawless - server as SOS. Because liberals have gotten their way with their social experiments of more than two genders, threats from those who have demanded that someone running a business do what they tell them to do against their religious beliefs, while at the same time defending the culture of those who treat women worse than their dogs, throw homosexuals off of rooftops, and cut off the heads of Christians for heresy to their "religion".

No, the people of this country aren't that stupid Ms. Reid. We know that we'll never be able to return to an era that rebounded from wiping out the twin global threats to liberty and freedom in World War II. They're just tired of the dismissive excuses you've made about those in our society who want to do their children harm, are tired of living pay-check-to-pay-check, and wonder what the future will be for their children as they become adults in circumstances that only increased dependence on the government for those who managed to have a job that allowed them to survive while paying increased taxes year after year. And yet, you seem to now believe that such desires are "deplorable". I can't help but get the impression that your elitist attitude sees us who wish to maintain our freedoms and liberties for our posterity as just "cattle" for maintaining your modern reservations and plantations.

No thanks! We made that clear a little over a year ago. Oh, and by the way, the time is fast approaching, and seems to have arrived, that your poor decisions during the last election are now coming home to roost; like the chickens that you are!

Survey Raises Hackels of Tax Payers

This local story, an extra from The American (see bottom of article), is on how taxes in Tacoma, WA are climbing every year. (You'll want to see this brief video about what's happening in Olympia now that the Democrats are in power.)

Volume 7, Number 2.1 February, 2018

In This Issue. . .

I'm Angry and I'm Not Keeping Quiet About It! By Paula Lonergan

Today, I received a very pleasant email from our editor, Richard, and was very nice hear from him. After reading his email and while still sitting at the computer, I received a phone call about 10:25 AM from a professional surveying company and you'll never guess what it was about (or, maybe you can guess).

 

After I was invited to participate in the survey, I learned the 

caller wanted to know my receptivity to a new 0.1% of a city 

sales tax, and boy did I let the caller have it. Here's the 

premise for this year's early request. You see, we have a 

new mayor. One that isn't real sure if she has a BA or an AA 

degree, but she promised to do more for the poor of our city 

so those who support the arts that believe I should too, want 

to make an absurd case that the poor need to increase their 

exposure to the arts and someone needs to cough up 

another tenth of one percent to help pay for it! 

 

I heard the caller's rationale for the proposed tax increase 

and the need to increase the exposure of the poor, 

especially poor students, to the arts. The caller wanted me 

to feel a moral obligation to voluntarily vote for another sales 

tax increase, in spite of the fact that I'm still reeling from the 

last set of tax increases, to include now having an 

outrageous 10.4% sales tax thanks to ST3! I distinctly 

remember getting angrier and angrier, speaking a little more 

tight-lipped as usual, as the caller continued his line of 

questioning. He almost seemed to project a sense that if he 

could only somehow appeal to sense of duty to help the poor 

that I would be unable to see through the 'bull crap' and 

finally agree that if the newly formed city council could 

somehow wrap another smelly, repugnant tax package in 

shiny Christmas paper that it would never occur to me that of 

all the things a poor person might want me to pay for, the 

arts are the very last thing a poor kid might ask for!

 

Now, I can believe that the arts community may want to glom 

on to more tax dollars to help pay for stupid art projects and 

programs, or to support museums that cannot make it on 

their own as well as upgrades to the Pantages, Chihuly's 

Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum and/or the LeMay [Car]

Museum (that was, now that I think about it, specifically 

mentioned), nevertheless, I was still able to hold my ground 

and say that no matter what the answer is still, “No.”

 

All of a sudden, in the midst of the call, I remembered my 

friends, the Sims. I could see quite clearly why they may 

have felt compelled to sever ties with this city and state, sell 

their home, pack up and leave everything they've known and 

loved behind. As the song goes, “I can [see] clearly now, the 

rain is gone...” Well, that's it! I don't usually do this but now 

that my son, Joe, is off of the city council I may actually have 

to go down to the next open forum and let them know I know 

what they're up to and I'm not going to stand still for it! 

What's so reprehensible to me is that the new mayor is 

already trying to placate her financial constituency by 

promising to use more of my resources--competing with cars 

tabs, increased sales tax as well as the increased property 

taxes, too.

 

Before closing out this article, I invite you to give a great deal 

of thought to what's coming down the pike and channel your 

anger wisely to make your thoughts known about increased 

taxes for the arts--oh, yeah, and let's not forget, this is for the 

poor and you can certainly take that to the bank (or, rather, 

someone wants to dip into your account for that).

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“The American” is published before the first week of every month aimed at the voters of the 27^th Legislative District and Tacoma, WA. The focus of the publication is to identify some of the issues that affect our district mixed with opinion, commentary and humor. The subscription is free. To subscribe to this newsletter, please send your email address with a request to Richard Sims ragsims 1544@gmail.com. Those who contribute articles will receive full credit for their contribution.

I'm Voting Democrat because...

• I'm voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
• I'm voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine, as long as nobody is offended by it.
• I'm voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.
• I'm voting Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies, so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to government for redistribution as THEY see fit.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe those who come into our country illegally aren't breaking federal law, they just don't have the proper documentation yet so they can vote Democrat.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over there, when they come over here I don't want to have any guns in the house to fight them off with.
• I'm voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my lama.
• I'm voting Democrat because I want everyone else who drives a car to pay 4Xs their normal renewal tab fees and an average of $100/month on property taxes to support building a 19th century technology rapid transit system that will take 30 years to build in order to solve a 21st century problem of congestion that will only impact 3% of the drivers, when we'll have driverless cars in another 5 years.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe oil companies' profit of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
• I'm voting Democrat because California wants to make a business owner's waiter/waitress who gives a customer in a restaurant a straw without their asking for it, punishable as a crime to either pay $1,000 or spend 6 months in jail.

Makes ya wonder why anyone would EVER vote Republican, now doesn't it?

A Few Interesting Facts About "Dreamers"

• 792,000 dreamers are over 25 years old (88%)
• 900 dreamers serve in our military (Less than 1%)
• 743,000 dreamers do not have a college degree (83%)
• 189, 000 dreamers dropped out of High School early (That's roughly 21%)
• 9,000 dreamers are incarcerated (1%)
• 657,000 dreamers receive some form of welfare (73%)

Please tell me... exactly what positive impact are these "Dreamers" having on our communities and society? What type of scam is our government running against us?

This Is What Socialism Looks Like!

If there's a way to understand just how socialism works in our modern society, California's government is a prime example.

Don't believe me? Read this article, and watch the video contained within it to learn just how socialists' view business versus the homeless in their state. While the socialist has complete sympathy for the homeless by making excuses for them and their littering of garbage, they view the way to get businesses to comply with their desire to reduce plastic garbage generated by their business is to consider passing a law which would fine and imprison a business owner for allowing their waiters/waitresses to give out plastic straws without the customer requesting one!

Oh, the irony of it all! While they espouse caring for the environment, they promote the ability of the homeless to turn the landscape around their encampments into mini-landfills of their left-over plastic and paper garbage!

I wonder what excuse the state is going to give when asked why their state no longer has any economic viability in the future after all the residents who are willing to work leave the state for elsewhere because they grew tired of supporting the majority of homeless and illegal immigrants who are now squatting while collecting subsidies from the government.

We're Beyond The Finger In The Dam

Over the past month news has been steadily mounting through daily revelations about the fact based truth regarding what had actually been committed by the left's coordinated efforts by some top F.B.I. and D.O.J. employees to manipulate the election in favor of Hillary and the consequent attempt to undo the unexpected results of Trump winning the election instead. The two "rogue spooks" in the F.B.I. are exposed in an article by Dick Morris; former personal advisor to both Bill & Hillary Clinton back in the '90s. This is causing the left's heads to explode because of the exposure.

Here's a former U.S. Attorney explaining what currently is known from what's been revealed from FOIA requests and a congressional document that's now been viewed by over 200 Congresspersons.

Here's an article which explains the origin of how the "Russian Dossier" made its way from the left's efforts to frame the pres.-elect Trump once their expectations were obliterated by the unexpected outcome to F.B.I. Director Comey's hands; who then gave it to a Columbia University's hands to share with media and launch the biggest fake news collaboration in our nation's history.

Lastly, here's an article explaining how the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, is using the old tactic of bait and switch in his investigation of claims by the left which has discovered no evidence to back up such claims made by the salacious dossier.

Turning America On Its Head

I grew up in an era when it was popular to promote the social construct that law and order were paramount to a safe and prosperous culture. Now that's all changed.

Today, the left is pushing the narrative that human rights trump civil rights; that those who've entered the country illegally deserve the same rights as those who've been born here and lived all their lives contributing to the nation.

I've lived my entire life understanding that:
- following the laws, 
- not committing crimes against anyone,
- defending my country by serving it for four years in the military,
- and going to college to have a chance to give back to society's future generations by being a public school teacher for 30 years while raising my children in a neighborhood where I felt safe,

was being a good member of society and the country. In return, I would feel reasonable to expect as a result that I have earned some degree of respect, cordial treatment by those I might not agree with on certain issues, and otherwise be left alone to enjoy my golden years.

Yet, what are we hearing from the left today?

I just listened to a sanctuary city mayor on a show say that "Dreamers" deserve the same opportunities as regular citizens... even when they do things which break the law. Blocking the entrance to Disneyland was their protest action.

Now, they're telling me - as a white, Christian, male - that all of what's wrong with our country is that we W.A.S.P.s supposedly harbor some kind of "privilege" over other races! Bullshit! I had, growing up, just as many obstacles and hardships as they're encountering, yet I understood that persisting and applying myself would get me and my family ahead. And, it did! No, that type of statement from the left is nothing more than pure socialist propaganda to obscure the need for law and order which the left is working persistently to destroy. Instead, they're treating illegal immigrants who've murdered someone - Kate Stinely, for instance - or raped several women as though they deserve special treatment! And if they succeed, then our nation will turn out no better than the rest of the third world banana republics. In fact, some are now arguing that such a status has already begun in the enactment of certain situations that were set up in the previous administration.
You know, while I understand that these people were either brought here by their parents dragging them with them, or sent here with the future intent of having those children bring them into the country under the family reunification policy of the past administrations, it still doesn't give those people who've been here for between eight and four years any rights if they've not become naturalized citizens! Instead, they've waited, while growing up, for the federal government to pass some kind of legislation giving them a status which would allow them more time to decide whether they would bother becoming naturalized while taking advantage of the "kindness" of America's hearts because the left feels guilty about how good we Americans have got it.

How can I say that leftists are working on destroying law and order? Try the fact that California's Attorney General has announced to the entire state that since the start of the new year, the laws have changed making the whole state a sanctuary state. So, if any business cooperates with any federal agency or agents who are attempting to locate any illegal immigrants who may be working for the owner's business, the A.G.'s office will PROSECUTE that business owner! The only reason such absurd policies are being made like this is that the left has been progressively been moving to a more ridiculous position and is desperate to regain power after losing to Pres. Trump.

This is clearly stepping over the line! If anyone's going to be prosecuted under federal laws, it will be the state A.G. of California and those who are aiding him in prosecuting business owners since there is clear court precedent for federal laws being paramount; especially when it comes to federal issues like immigration. Now the situation can go two ways; restoration of law and order, or literal civil war!

How Easily Our Public Has Been Silenced!

I've touched on this topic in various ways in previous posts, but I came across this very brief video today which is a fantastic example of just how simple it is to combat the left's argument for suppressing free speech whenever someone is speaking "hate" or offending another.

I believe, because our public school system has long omitted teaching critical thinking, along with the adolescent level "group think" of going along with what's popular, much of our youth today have no way of realizing how they can combat or counter the issue of "hate speech" which has now become the left's championing of societal sensitivity. In other words, they've been successfully oppressed with a psychological strategy that comes across as intellectually superior and have no skills or understanding of how to fight back. 

To more clearly understand what I'm getting at, just watch this one-minute clip where Jordon Peterson, a guest being interviewed on the topic of free speech, counters the hostess of the show by pointing out what free speech actually is... which catches the hostess speechless because she can't argue against the clear point he makes in reply.

The Silent Invasion of America

As the saying used to go among adults when I was growing up, "There's something rotten going on in Denmark!"

Only today, that saying would more appropriately be, "There's something rotten going on in the United Nations!" Why? Well, let me ask a few pointed questions.

If you had the inclination to take over a country by stealth methods, how would you successfully manage to pull that off?

If you were involved in helping others to improve their lives because they were fleeing foreign countries where war, famine, drought, and religious persecution was rampant, you'd feel good as a person, right?

What would you say would be a reasonable number of immigrants - excluding those sneaking into the country through the southern border every year for the past several decades - that should be allowed to come into the country? 50,000, 100,000, 250,000, or more? Surely, if our governments been letting them in at the rate they have already, it must be because they know best how many our economic situation can handle, right?

What would be your reaction be if you discovered that most of these refugees who arrived in the country were not vetted, checked for communicable diseases, were being given U.S. Passports, and were being instructed on how to sign up for receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits when they've never paid a nickle into the system? How long would it take you to realize, "Hey, wait, I've been paying into this all my working life and I'm going to be subsidizing these foreigners?"

Has it ever occurred to you that, based on other incidences in the past from news reports and other sources that you realized you weren't being told the whole truth about something? Or, are you someone who, when they hear the news on something you don't quite understand much about, just accepts at face value that, because the news media is authoritative, you trust their reporting of what is told the public to be accurate, the whole truth, and is all on the up-and-up?

I urge you to watch this interview of a woman from the mid-west who attended several refugee organization meetings learned what was actually going on behind the scenes and about which many aspect of the process are kept quiet from the public, about who, what and why they are coming into the country in such numbers. It's worse than you might expect.

Democrats' Successful Deception

The paragraph below Prager U's latest video about the social attitude about Republicans says:

When you think of the Republican Party, what comes to mind? If you’re like many Americans, you may associate the GOP with racism, sexism, and general inequality. It’s a commonly pushed narrative by left-leaning media and academia, but as former Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science Carol Swain explains, the Republican Party was actually responsible for nearly every advancement for minorities and women in U.S. history—and remains the champion of equality to this day.

It's my personal conclusion from research that the Democratic Party, during the Johnson administration of the mid-sixties, devised a strategy that successfully dealt with the unpleasant truths of their past by implementing a switching of narrative, in collusion with the media, about Republicans as the culprits of sexism and slavery, while using the Civil Rights act of 1964 to convince the African-American community that the federal government was their best friend. 

As Rush Limbaugh has said this morning on his radio broadcast repeatedly, "They [liberals of today] believe this stuff!", which illustrates just how effective the leftist/statists have been in pushing their psy-ops campaign on the public for the past 50 years!

With Pres. Trump in the Oval Office liberals are now in full panic mode about everything he says or does because they've not had an outsider of the D.C. swamp dish back at them what they've used to control past presidents with. I urge you to share this, and other Prager U videos with your friends online.

2016 Election Reaction Flashback

It's been just over 14 months since the nation elected Donald Trump president. Yet, even today, the left has not gotten over their initial shock and dismay that Hillary lost. The media continues to malign and berate him while obsessing over every little petty thing they can find to put him in a negative light in the eyes of those who would rather have had a continuation of the past eight years' policies under Hillary!

Just for the sake of perspective, as well as a refresher - and for those of you who may not have ever seen this before - here is a montage of video clips from the days and weeks of post election reaction by the left's Hillary Clinton sycophants. I include it here because it reveals insight into just how immature they truly are and how their remarks at many points reveals the perspective they have about their perception of the conservative's agenda.

It is my personal conviction that the reason we're witnessing the degree of absurdity from the leftist in Congress is because they are truly out of ammunition to counter the successes which Pres. Trump has had over the past year, plus, in office. "Impeach 45" from crazy Maxine Waters, "people are going to die" from Elizabeth Warren, ad nausea. Resorting to the playbook, they continue to jump on every circumstance - the latest being the comparison of two disparate countries by the President in a "not so appropriate way" - with race cards flurrying, innuendo of Nazism or "Hitler".

For further insight into why I make this point, I urge my readers watch this video clip of Sara Sanders with her dad, Gov. Mike Huckabee, on The View discussing these very points and issues. Joy Bahar and Whoopie Goldberg don't even recognize their absurd claims, but Sarah does a great job of countering them. The intensity in the debate ratchets up about the nine minute mark.

We NEVER hear from the media the positive news and results of Pres. Trump's flurry of work which will, in my opinion, be impossible to refute when the nation begins to get their larger paychecks next month. Yes, I believe come the fall's mid-term election, the Democrats will suffer an increase in their long slide into oblivion. Assuming I'm correct, as many others are concluding, Trump will have made a significant, if not "yuuuuuge" drainage of the D.C. Swamp. Now, if he'll just steadily replace many of the bureaucrats within the plethora of agencies which still infest it, I project we will see a shift to economic and cultural prosperity like this nation's not seen in over 50 years.

Hasta la vista, baby!

Why the Media's Got It All Wrong

Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the media in reaction to the president using a comparison between Norway and Haiti to ask a question as to the left's motive for immigration, the N.Y. Times article, by Thomas Kaplan and Sheryl Gay Stolberg covering the most recent activity, posed the situation in a unique way on Wednesday, Jan. 10th. True to the history of this "big dog" newspaper, it's apparent from the way these two reporter's refer to what's going on. They have no clue as to the actual process they describe is going on. Here, let me illustrate what I mean with the following satirical image:

So tell me... do you think Pres. Trump was referring to this person in the picture, or what she is living amidst? Honestly!
 
With the looming deadline to fund the federal government only a week away on Friday, Jan. 19th, the pressure is mounting for congressional leaders on both sides of the isle to present to the president a bill he says he will sign, but only if it meets specific criteria he has laid out. Of course, the media is emphasizing a bipartisan deal. One, no doubt, it hopes will favor retaining much, if not all, of the existing laws on immigration, as was demonstrated when the first proposal was presented earlier in the week and rejected by Pres. Trump.

For those of us who have been paying attention to the background regarding the make-up of the congressional circumstance, we know there are three factions; Democrats who will do and say anything to destroy any attempts to make good on Trump's campaign promises, Never-Trumpers who will do and say almost anything to accomplish the same, and the minority of conservatives who support Trump's agenda. Thus, greatly outnumbered, Trump is working his negotiation skills using what many have often referred to as "3-D chess".

This article focuses on Rep. Labrador's (R - Idaho) bill which he claims, "... is the only bill that’s going to unify the conference, and it’s going to get us to a majority of the conference". On the other hand, Goodlatte of Virginia in partnership with McCaul of Texas, have presented a broader proposal. The most interesting paragraph in the whole article states:

The new House Republicans’ stand underscored the uncertainty about immigration. Mr. Trump’s positions vacillate daily. And members of both parties are divided. Some Democrats are pressing for confrontation, while others seem to fear a political backlash. Some Republicans are searching for compromise against a conservative tide of anti-immigrant fervor.

However, the article engages in focusing on Trump as the adversary, or antagonist, in this situation by using his name when explaining what's holding up progress. If Pres. Trump is "vacillating" at all, it's because he is the master at negotiations and understands how to maneuver through the situation. This is where these reporters, from a well known liberally biased newspaper, reveal what most liberals are unwilling to admit when it comes to why Trump won the election in the first place.

His campaign promises struck a chord with the middle-class, "fly-over" country, and those who, for the last 8 years, felt totally ignored during the Obama administration. With his clear and unwavering promise to fix the massive holes in the immigration issue, the people voted across the country to put him into office. They wanted their country back!

It is this reality which the N.Y. Times journalists fail, and are unwilling, to admit. It is not Trump who is holding the line on immigration fixes; he's representing the country's majority who put him in the oval office; to represent their interests. Yet, the reporter's verbiage attempts to make it out as though Pres. Trump alone is the problem for the left in the country. Only when it's their president in office, do they claim any reference to the vote of the majority. 

The press always does it's best to move the focus away from the beauty of a representative republic where the power resides in "We the People" who've spoken loud and clear.

P.S. When it comes to the looming "government shutdown", should a budget not be in place by the deadline... what most of the people don't know - because the press is unwilling to admit - as well, is that only about 16% of the federal government is actually shut down - the lower priority agencies like national parks - when a budget has not been voted on and passed by Congress. That leaves 84% still funded! So, should we enter into another - and there have been many shut downs in our nation's past - don't believe the press when it goes into "crisis" mode in working the public falsely into a frenzy that the world is going to come crashing down.