Stroock says no deal to Border Deal no Deal

Last night congressional negotiators were stuck on wall funding and the number of detention center beds. A deal emerged just as Trump was speaking in El Paso.

Ari Fleischer makes a good point about the deal:

Sign it. I hope potus signs the spending agreement. There are 2 ways to look at it: Trump now can build 55 miles of the 64 mile wall expansion he sought. That’s a win. Ds won on less $ than Trump wanted. Both sides can claim victory. That’s a good outcome in divided gvt.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) February 12, 2019

But we don't want both sides to claim victory. We want to bring pressure upon the Dems, split the caucus, humiliate the Dems and make them bend the knee.

Trump's has just had a great rally and has an approval in the 50s, and that's after 4 + weeks of a government shutdown. Nothing happened the last time. In fact, no even one noticed.

There is no reason not to go for total victory.

We say, no deal. 

Let the Democrats argue in favor of letting illegal Mexicans go and leaving the border open.

Meanwhile Trump can barnstorm the border making the case.

The Week of Getting Trumped.

What a week!

First,  China agrees to go on a trillion dollar shopping spree with the goal of reducing the trade deficit to zero by 2024. This is what it looks like when you win a trade war. The new agreement is like Appomattox (sorry Harris) and Tokyo Bay rolled into one.

Secondly, Buzzfeed posts a bit of fake news claiming Trump ordered Michael Cohn to lie to congress. The two J-school dropouts reporting couldn't keep their own story straight, and were quickly contradicted by the Independent Council.

You gotta be a real moron to believe Trump would order his lawyer to lie to congress.

And D, Trump has offered a graet deal on immigration: wall for DACA.

This goes much deeper than most Democrats realize.

Not only are the Democrats preventing border security and a wall, a yuugly popular idea, the Democrats are standing in the way of DACA, a yuugly popular idea.

But whatever the Dems do, they lose. Because after Trump gets this deal he can go to the DACA recipients and their sympathizers and proclaim like Charleton Heston from the mount: I got you DACA!

Goodness, what will next week bring?

The Fierce Urgency of the Speech

Ahhhh... The Speech.

What a bastard. 

Good.

We've spent the last 25 years being called fascist, racist, homophobe....

We've spent the last 25 years being accused of wanting to starve children and push granny off a cliff....

We've been called warmonger, chickenhawk….

It's nice to see our side engage in emotional blackmail.

We heard Chuck and Nancy were weird. We didn't watch. As soon as Trump was finished we switched over to Married at First Sight.

It's a Beautiful Wall, and it's Gonna be There

Watch, people. And substitute 'wall' for 'bridge'.

Look people, we don't know if it's battered wife syndrome. We don't know if it's jaded lover syndrome. We don't know if it's a matter of our public school system being so deteriorated that people just don't speak English anymore.

Whatever the reason, we have a failure to communicate. So repeat after us: There. Is. No. Deal.

That is there is no deal in which Trump traded away the wall for DACA.

We quote the great Don Surber who opines:

Being bullish, I read it as an admission by Democrats that the wall is non-negotiable. Off the table. President Trump has the authority to build the wall, and he will.

He goes on to say:

This was what was meant by "excluding the wall" because President Trump told them the wall was non-negotiable. Show some faith, OK? He did not seek election to sell you out.

Trump tweeted that there's no deal and that any deal would have to include massive border security. Here is said tweet:

Trump sent our a massive email last night in which he said there is no deal:

WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO HELP STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND KEEP AMERICA SAFE.

Last night the House passed a budget with 1.6 billion for a border wall.

That's three strong pieces of evidence against Trump making a deal.

Channeling Surber again:

DACA Trump, DACA

Word is there's a deal on DACA.

Good.

That deal does not include a wall but does include enhanced border security measures. We'll wait and see what those are and we should note that right now the White House is saying they didn't nix a wall in the DACA deal.

Look folks we noted here earlier we thought Trump was going to use DACA to get his wall. Well it might not happen, oh well.

Several good things are happening here.

First, Barry's unconstitutional DACA edict is no more. That's half the issue right there.

Second, DIMers (Descendants of Illegal Migrants) get a legal way to stay. Look immigration hardliners, these people were never going to be deported. Finding a legal way for them to stay is a massively popular idea. You really want to deport these people? I don't.

Third, for the second time in a week the Dems have made a deal with Trump. They're normalizing him. If he's so evil, why are they dealing with him? It helps separate them from their whacked out base.

Fourth, the deal undercuts the feckless ninnies in the GOPe.

Fifth, the deal takes a contentious issue off the table.

Yeah, we wanted to trade DACA for a wall.  Trump's already said he intents to push for the wall later. We'll see.

Hey man, democracy is messy.

UPDATE: Trump denies a deal was made, only a discussion and said 'massive border security' wold be needed in such a deal.