Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
That's the point of a messaging bill - if you've drafted the bill reasonably enough that you get votes from the opposing party, you've done it wrong.

Yeah, there were controversial things in it like making sure CBP officers were carrying radios. :)

But what does that get you?
Just read the responses in this thread. The democrats are getting roasted on the border (despite years of saying there was no problem) and the polls are showing it. They know their coalition doesn't support ANY increases in security whatsoever so they're playing the only card they have at the moment: blame the GOP for their failings.

Again, just read the responses in this thread: all of them from the left side of the aisle are pushing the unified premise that the deal is dead because "MAGA killed it" with the secondary theme that "there is no possible way to get anything this good on security for decades". This requires one to accept the dual premises that

1. This bill was a good bill (it wasn't, as documented by me on this board)
2. The democrats are absolved from any responsibility for negotiating in good faith in the future.

The play the democrats will make will be to pretend their bill of normalizing loads of migrants was a Golden Bill that Trump killed for political reasons and thus invoke #2 as a way to avoid future responsibility.

Why would Trump allow that? Why not get ahead of it by laying out bait that he knows the dems will take and force them into a predictable situation? You win lots of football games and win wars with deception.

You still don't have the ability to do anything about the border. You still have the hundreds of thousands of asylees in the country for years, waiting for their hearings. And in the conservative theory of the border, that will encourage even more people to come to the border.

I gain addition by subtraction. By (correctly) labeling the democrats as the party that refuses to secure America's border, I get...fewer democrats. As the beatings continue, they're more...motivated...to actually come to the table and talk solutions.