By DEXTER DUGGAN
Will the force of Donald Trump’s strong will outmatch Democrats’ stubborn won’ts?
First came Kava-no — the eventually failed Democrat strategy to block Trump’s selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Then came hopes for Kava-mo — momentum for Republican candidates in the upcoming November midterm elections whipped up by Trump’s steadfast support that led to Kavanaugh’s impressive confirmation victory in the closely divided Senate.
In an October 10 Politico article, presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway was quoted telling the Fox & Friends program that while history isn’t on the side of the majority party going into the midterms, “This is just a president who defies trends. And rather than repeating history, he tends to make history.”
Trump intended to keep GOP momentum going by flying hither and yon to speak at campaign rallies.
Even though Kavanaugh had an establishment GOP background, having worked in George W. Bush’s White House, he was no more acceptable to the Democrat-media alliance for a High Court seat than moderate GOP Sen. John McCain had been in 2008 when his presidential candidacy bumped into radical Democrat Barack Obama’s ambitions.
Moreover, the Dem-media alliance was aghast at the possibility that Kavanaugh might turn out to be a vote to reject the fictitious national right to slaughter preborn infants that the Supreme Court had invented in January 1973.
Still seething over the Catholic judge’s victory for a lifetime appointment, vengeful Democrat leaders reportedly planned to try to keep damaging him for as long as they can, with House Minority Leader and bad pro-abortionist Catholic Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) actively involved.
“Democratic leaders are taking steps to obtain and release detailed documents and emails about the sexual assault allegations against him and disputed aspects of his service during the Bush administration,” Politico posted on October 10.
“While Democrats are strategizing to get what they consider the most potentially impactful records out soon, it’s all but certain that the process will drag on for years and perhaps even decades,” Politico said.
After the successful battle for Kavanaugh’s confirmation, reports from the field in October said there was new energy among Republican voters.
Republicans and independents likely would be further energized to vote if the GOP decides to make an issue of sore-loser, rabid Democrats wanting to make life an unending nightmare for a devoted Catholic justice and his family.
Victor Joecks, a conservative opinion writer at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest daily, told The Wanderer on October 9:
“One of the things that makes this midterm election so fascinating is how close it is going to be. Democrat attempts to submarine Brett Kavanaugh have done something that Republicans hadn’t been able to do in months — increase Republican voter enthusiasm.
“While it’s likely that Republican enthusiasm will decline some, Kavanaugh’s nomination has provided an unexpected electoral boost for a party that sorely needed it,” Joecks added.
The Wanderer asked conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard if he thought Republican intensity would decline once Kavanaugh’s victory had been secured, or whether GOP voters would remain energized for November.
“This all occurred close enough to election day that much of the energy will remain in effect,” Querard replied on October 7. “States with early voting or mail-in balloting are going to the polls this week, so the timing is good for Republicans, who finally delivered something for their base to be happy about.”
Republicans of almost all stripes united behind Kavanaugh to help push him to victory, demonstrating what could be possible in the midterms against Dem candidates.
However, at almost the same time Trump celebrated the new justice’s victory with a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at the White House on October 8, fresh pressures from uncontrolled illegal immigration popped into the news from Arizona.
The GOP has been less successful at uniting on that issue because of such factors as the clout of the big-business lobby seeking cheap labor and opposing firm border security.
Despite Trump’s longstanding pledge for a secure border wall, the Republican-majority Congress has mainly thwarted him at providing the necessary funding.
A Washington Post story reported that an ICE spokeswoman said more Guatemalan families were simply being released into the U.S. after they came into Arizona to take advantage of U.S. court restrictions against holding alien children beyond 20 days.
“As a result, family units continue to cross the border at high volumes . . . as they face no consequence for their actions,” the Post quoted her.
“U.S. agents have observed buses dropping off migrant families south of the border to walk through the desert and turn themselves in, said a senior Border Patrol official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss unpublished numbers,” the Post reported.
“. . .‘It’s a very well-orchestrated smuggling venture,’ the senior official said, ‘and it’s overwhelming the resources we have in those areas to process, house and transport them’.”
Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner reported on October 10 that a U.S. Senate committee was told lax border security is one of the “top five areas of concern that keep senior (administration) officials awake at night. . . .
“Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson admitted to witnesses at the start of the hearing that he did not believe U.S. borders were even secure, in addition to the growing list of other concerns,” the Examiner reported.
“ ‘Unfortunately, I have to say our border is not secure. Not even close,’ said the Wisconsin Republican.”
Expressing concern that a terrorist could sneak into the U.S. to carry out an attack, Johnson also said, according to the Examiner, that “‘loopholes’ or legal decisions that require families and kids be released from federal custody once apprehended gives traffickers a way to lure people into paying thousands of dollars to be transported to the U.S.”
Because of the influx of unauthorized aliens, the Washington Post story said, ICE began curtailing reviews of their cases on October 7 and was “dropping off busloads of families at church shelters and charities, some with ankle monitoring bracelets, others with little more than a notice to appear in court.”
Illegal aliens often don’t keep their court dates and simply disappear into the U.S.
Why He Locks His Doors
Responding to news of more unauthorized aliens being released into the U.S., the Border Patrol’s Art Del Cueto, who is vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, was a guest of Phoenix radio talk host James T. Harris (KFYI, 550 AM) on October 9.
Del Cueto, of Tucson, said officials who were installed by the Obama administration are still in their positions in the Border Patrol and haven’t been replaced by Trump.
Having grown up near the border, Del Cueto told Harris that if he locks his doors at night, it’s not because he hates those outside but loves those inside.
In an October 9 story, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported that “Americans are paying more to cover the costs of illegal immigrants having children in the United States than Congress plans to give President Trump in border-wall funding this year,” according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The new report reveals that women in the United States illegally had 297,000 children in 2014 at a cost of $2.4 billion,” Bedard wrote. “That is $800 million more than the Senate has approved for Trump’s border wall this year and enough to pay for the wall over 10 years.”
The report “also put a price on the likely Medicaid bill for childbirth and early care to illegal and legal immigrants combined, at $5.3 billion. That is one-fifth the total cost of building the border wall,” he wrote.
The San Diego Union-Tribune posted on October 9 that Mexican officials had found a sophisticated tunnel under construction, with rail and solar-power systems, east of San Diego that crossed under the border line but whose exit into the U.S. hadn’t been completed.
The news organ quoted a Border Patrol agent that the tunnel likely would have been used to transport drugs into the U.S., and that sophisticated tunnels aren’t uncommon in the area.
“In August 2017, Border Patrol agents found a tunnel that emerged among weeds in a vacant area near the Otay Mesa border after 30 people, most from China and a few from Mexico, appeared out of it early one morning,” the Union-Tribune said.
“Digging a tunnel to China” at least used to be a children’s game, but had someone actually accomplished the task? Or was this just the result of Democrats digging as deep as they could to unearth old Kavanaugh records? Were they written in Mandarin?
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