Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
Heh. I asked 50 times on this board and got crickets. Why was that?

Did you? I recall you asking for no number - that we're going to start denying everyone the right to ask for asylum right away.

If 4,500 gets your vote, I'm fine with that. If you're asking for 500, then no.

Maybe because the bill was never the border security panacea some think it is.

No negotiated piece of legislation is ever a panacea to everyone in the party. And in both parties, there are (and will always be) hardcore members on any issue who will refuse to except anything except 100% of what they want - which again, can't ever happen in a real piece of legislation that can actually get passed.

So if you genuinely want to have a border bill passed, it's never going to be a "panacea" to the Freedom Caucus (or whatever group contains the most ardent immigration hawks). Unless you're willing to take a good but flawed bill, you'll never get anything. And Johnson's statements on the bill are not consistent with being willing to accept a good but flawed bill (even if the Senate bill required changes to get to "good but flawed"), but instead signalled pretty clearly that no bill would be brought to the floor.