Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
What isn't normal is the right's endorsement of not supporting Ukraine. What is your position on this Mike? We moved from a direct invasion of a NATO country to a proxy war with Russia, the bad actor. - Lapsody

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Support Ukraine, sure, that's easy and for all the good reasons mentioned here. What is hard for me is assigning this (and even Israel) a higher priority than it deserves.

I will say again, both of these causes are righteous and deserve our support. However, we must allow that problems having at least equal priority, are possible to exist. We can debate what those might be. But I think the staggering problems at the southern border and the flood of immigrants overwhelming our cities, is one of them.

So what I do hope happens? I hope Ukraine and Israel get their funding. And I also hope the American people get the border security they deserve, something they have been pretty clear on.

It looks like the weak Senate leadership will allow cloture on the so-called clean funding bill (Ukraine, Israel, Red Sea, but NO border security). When that gets over to the House, I hope they staple HR2 to it and send it right back. If there ever was a time to treat the southern border with at least equal urgency as foreign interests, that time is now. Dig in your heels, house republicans, and deliver the deal you promised, Ukraine funding in exchange for border security. Real security, not the watered-down, self-cancelling version that couldn't even make it out of the Senate.

If demanding border security is conservatives abandoning Ukraine, then demanding a clean bill is democrats abandoning the significant American interest of border security.

Both Sides of Both Houses need to keep negotiating. Right up to election day if necessary and then we will find out what the American people think about it.


The right seems to have a love affair with Putin and Russia. - Lapsody

Russia worship has been an often used liberal construct but never has been reflective of conservative reality. To keep using it is becoming just plain lame.