Timothy Birdnow

If you want proof the GOP - especially in Arizona - is not ready for prime time, this story should suffice.

Outgoing Republican Governor Doug Ducey cut a deal with the Federal government, promising to remove the shipping containers he placed to block border access. He must remove the containers by Jan. 5.

But what did he get in return?  A PROMISE to build a fence to block the gap.

I get what he was thinking; he's leaving office and the usurper who stole the Governorship will no doubt just remove them herself (well, not physically herself) and so Ducey figures he got something for his efforts.

But he didn't. Not only is he taking concrete action for a promise at a later date, a promise that will not be kept, he's letting the thief Katie Hobbs off the hook. She would have been forced to remove the barrier and taken the political fallout. Now she can say "we had a deal but Washington reneged" and get a pass.

And of course the Biden Administration cares nary a wit about the heat from this; they have already opened the borders wide.

Anyone with any political sense should know to force the Democrats to tear it down. In fact, they should have had cameras there to film the Hobbs administration removing those containers. Instead Dufi, er, Ducey the Deuce threw the old lag a lifeline.

I suspect ill Duce thinks this will give him some political good will by allowing him to say he negotiated a deal to keep them there. But sometimes one must sacrifice a pawn to take the Queen.

Republicans are amateurs and Democrats professionals. It's like watching a high school football team go up against the New England Patriots some times.

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