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US Vice President Mike Pence says If there's no border wall deal, there's no shutdown deal
2019-01-05
In other words, if they really do get rid of President Trump, President Pence will continue his policies. Life just got even more interesting.
[PRESSTV] US Vice President Mike Pence has thrown his full support behind President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's position on funding a wall on the US-Mexico border, warning congressional Democrats that "if there's no wall, there's no deal" to end the partial government shutdown.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Pence said the White House had no plans to back down from Trump's demand for $5 billion border wall funding, even if it involved keeping the government partially closed for a long time.

"The president has made it very clear: No wall, no deal," Pence said. "We’re here to make a deal, but it’s a deal that’s going to result in achieving real gains on border security, and you have no border security without a wall. We will have no deal without a wall."

The US vice president also said the Trump administration was "completely focused" on building the border wall and passing legislation that provides "resources and tools" for those who enforce immigration laws in the country.

Pence made the comments just hours after the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
 said Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress would refuse to give Trump funding for his border wall project.

"We're not doing a wall. It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with a wall which is an immorality between countries. It's an old way of thinking. It isn't cost effective," Pelosi told news hounds late on Thursday.

Posted by:Fred

#16  Hopefully the Pubs won't cave as in the past. The Dems don't like when their own game is used against them. Trump has leverage in the way of intelligenc/info on these criminals.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-01-05 22:56  

#15  The Israelis have a wall around Gaza and without it they'd probably have to kill a whole bunch of Gazooks to keep from being killed themselves.

The Israelis have a wall around Gaza, and have been bulding walls along their borders with Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. They even are nearly done building a breakwater extending the Gaza wall into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Egypt wall has slowed the flow of “asylum seekers” to a trickle.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-05 20:36  

#14  For all of my adult life the politicians argue and pine about the border and about the issue with illegals. Once the election is over the political class goes silent and does not deal with it. Now the outsider, Trump, is following through with his campaign promise to close the border to the horrors the happen at it every day. Trump has shown them up at every turn.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-01-05 20:10  

#13  To put the effectiveness of a wall in perspective:

Most senior members of congress and just about all Hollywood elite and such have a wall around their mansion. They lock their doors too.

Then they tell us how ineffective walls are.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-01-05 19:24  

#12  Troll
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-05 18:13  

#11  Wall won't work, waste.

I think the Berlin Wall was extremely effective and the Iron Curtain as a whole performed remarkably well. The Israelis have a wall around Gaza and without it they'd probably have to kill a whole bunch of Gazooks to keep from being killed themselves. Then there's the Great Wall of China.

But, hey, I think we could secure our border a lot better and a lot more cheaply too. Just put machine gun nests every quarter mile along the border and when anybody steps across the line shoot 'em.

The alternative is to forget about the United States.

So, yeah, Uleresing Unereger5082, if you wanna live in that kinda chaos, just keep voting for Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-05 15:19  

#10  They have stated that as their end goal. Trump would only be the first step. If they can combine the impeachments into one go it would be a win-win for them.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-01-05 14:19  

#9  Trivia: What do you get with Trump and Pence impeached? President Pelosi.
Posted by: Andy Jush7808   2019-01-05 13:09  

#8  Pence would quickly appoint a VP, the Rep Senate would quickly approve the appointment.

Trump sends congratulatory tweet to Nikki Haley from 9th hole at Aberdeen.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-05 09:49  

#7  Pence would quickly appoint a VP, the Rep Senate would quickly approve the appointment.
Posted by: jvalentour   2019-01-05 09:39  

#6  Try punji sticks and save a buck.
Posted by: Uleresing Unereger5082   2019-01-05 09:07  

#5  Wall won't work, waste.
Posted by Uleresing Unereger

Remove the existing wall and barriers and see what very quickly happens.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-05 08:56  

#4  Wall won't work, waste.
Posted by: Uleresing Unereger5082   2019-01-05 08:53  

#3  That Mike is known historically as a coup. That by act would be a declaration of a one party system. They could never allow another party in such a position to do it to them in the future.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-05 07:35  

#2  If your standard of living has been damaged by subsidising immigration then you should vote Trump.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-05 07:25  

#1  In other words, if they really do get rid of President Trump, President Pence will continue his policies. Life just got even more interesting.

...You can say that again. On the one hand, Pence is a strong Christian who tries hard to walk the walk. That alone will make heads explode across DC. On the other hand, the thinking on the Donk side of the house seems to be that for nebulous reasons that no one has been able to state, when Trump is run out of the White House, 'Pence will have to go too'.
That means either they'll start trying to mug him too the minute he takes the oath (and likely long before), or they'll refuse to acknowledge his succession (for reasons) and demand that the Speaker of the House - untainted by scandal and with motives as pure as the driven snow - take office....

I wish I was kidding. I wish that was a fantasy for a novel. After the last few days though, I'm truly beginning to wonder.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-01-05 06:27  

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