Timothy Birdnow

I caught Loose Nikkers Haley on Meet the Press. As usual she sounded over-eager and earnest and, well, like a high school overachiever trying to impress a college admissions board.

The moderator asked Haley why she opposed giving Joe Biden more money to secure the border.She hemmed and hawed and really didn't give much of an answer.

I don't know why this is so difficult for the GOP to articulate. It's easy and I thought of this reply immediately:

Joe Biden inhereted a reasonably secure border, a border which only became unsecure when he overturned the Trump-era policies in place. President Biden could end the border crisis without another dime from Congress with the stroke of a pen; it is his POLICIES that are the problem, not a lack of money. If Mr. Biden were even remotely serious about this he would first issue executive orders that would restore the policies he changed, such as remain in Mexico.

He has given nobody reason to think he'll actually follow through. This is a request for money now with the promise of securing the border later. What we believe is he will simply use this money to move these people into the center of the country rather than to keep them out.

Mr. Biden could do any number of things. He could advertise in Central America that they are not welcome and will be turned back. He could threaten to cut off the tax-exempt status of NGO's organizing these caravans and supplying them with food and clothes and other aid. He could threaten to withhold aid and boycott businesses of Mexico and Central American countries and any other country sending substantial numbers of aliens (like China). All of this could be done for little to no money. And he could ship those seeking asylum who say they are unsafe to a secure location outside the U.S. - like Guantanamo. Jimmy Carter did that.

Joe Biden can stop this any time he wants. But he clearly doesn't wish to do so.

Once the money is given it can't be taken away.

Furthermore, why should the GOP help Joe Biden in his quest for four more years of open borders? Biden waited until a year before the elections, and is only now acting because he's being clobbered in the polls over this issue. Why should we help hin with OPTICS, which is all he'll give us anyway. If there were any credible reason to believe Biden was serious we'd be passing a bill tomorrow. But it's clear Mr. Biden is only doing this under duress, and all he's going to do is make a show of securing the border.

IfJoe Biden were serious about this he would not have gone to court against Texas for their efforts to secure the border. He says he doesn't have enough money, yet here we had Texas spending their own money and he dragged them into court at the expense of taxpayers both across America and in Texas to stop them from doing the job Washington JUst Won't Do.

So President Biden sends Federal Agents to cut down fences and sink floating barricades and then has the nerve to attack Republicans for killing a deal to give him more money. He could have gotten his border security on the cheap if he really wanted it.

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At any rate that's how I would have answered it,but of course Haley mumbled her way through a fairly incoherent answer.

This isn't that hard. But Haley is obligated to straddle the fence here because she took a lot of money from the big money RINO donors and can ill-afford to cheese them off. They want this as much as do the Democrats.

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