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View Poll Results: Should POTUS declare a state of emergency for the border wall?
Yes 96 34.78%
No 180 65.22%
Voters: 276. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-10-2019, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Trumpies don't seem to be so excited to be casting their votes on these pressing matters as they once did...
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:52 PM
 
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Trump is probably stomping his feet, hitting his head against the wall, screaming and crying over not getting his ridiculous wall. Meanwhile, Mexico is laughing at him!

His ridiculous wall? This is congress' wall from 2006 that both Schumer and Obama helped pass but didn't fund. Mexico is the laughing stock of the world and has been for some time now.
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:53 PM
 
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This border wall hysteria is being generated by Trump to distract from the recent Manafort news.
Nearly everything this guy does is a calculated distraction or to change the subject. Hes a pure con man
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:56 PM
 
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I'm disappointed that the Democrats have flip flopped on the border issue. It wasn't that long ago that the top Dems told us how important border security was. What happened?
The Democrats did not flip flop. They have been consistently for border security. They voted for and continue to support the $1.3 Bil border security package that Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and Trump all agreed to.

Once Rush Limbaugh and Coulter made a stink, Trump reversed himself and said he won't take the $1.3 Billion. The only one who flip-flopped is Trump.
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:56 PM
 
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The Dems do want to support border security, but not the "wall" that he is promoting. You say Pelosi and Schumer shouldn't trust Donald? I think that is the other way around! Trump shouldn't be holding innocent people's lively hood as hostage. They have done an honest days work, they should be paid. He is putting his own interest ahead of the working people of america. He shouldn't have deceived folks about Mexico paying for the wall (although common sense should have kicked in to know that wasn't going to happen).

And why is it that they were ok with a wall back in 2006 but not now? Inquiring minds want to know. I'd rather hold a few thousand workers hostage for a short time over border security than put 320 million lives at risk.
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:57 PM
 
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Donald Trump's words from a speech in 2004:
“Don’t give up. Don’t allow it to happen. If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around it, but get to the other side of that wall.”
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:59 PM
 
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If Trump thought he could get away with it, he would have already have declared an emergency. Just more bluster and BS from the bad orange one.

Bad orange one? Am I on the kindergarten playground again?
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Old 01-10-2019, 01:02 PM
 
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He had control of both houses for the last 2 years if this was such an urgency he could have proposed and had approved the necessary funding....
You need to take a course in political science and find out how congress actually works. A couple of proposals were made in the past but neither side would give.
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Old 01-10-2019, 01:04 PM
 
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Oh yes, I’m sure that Mexico is in the business of “shoving undesirables” into the US.
Where have you been? They've been doing that for decades now.
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Old 01-10-2019, 01:06 PM
 
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Border security is important.

A wall is not.

The wall is the best kind of security, duh. Just ask the Border Patrol or are you one of those who thinks you know better than them?
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