Subject: Re: Why the border bill will fail
bighairymike: Meanwhile the crafty way the bill is worded, the democrats don't have to run on raising the cap since it will self destruct anyway. Shrewd.

Umm. Year one: the border can be closed for up to nine months.

Year two: the border can be closed for up to seven-and-one-half months.

Year three: the border can be closed for up to six months.

Wow, now there's a dream come true for democrats, especially the progressive wing of the party.

After three years, the worst that can happen for republicans is we go back to exactly what we have now. But you've had three years of drastic border closures in the meantime. Kill the bill now and you have lost up to 25 and 1/2 months of closed borders.

I cannot believe republicans are this stupid and this far deep in the cult of Trump.

If Trump had gotten this deal when he was president, republicans would have carried him around the streets of DC on a lectica, Fox would have been running the closures on chyrons 24-hours a day and Trump would be calling himself the bigly genius who out-foxed the idiot democrats.

There is nothing in this bill for democrats and a ton of provisions republicans have wanted forever.

Killing this bill is Jonestown-level cultishly moronic.

But here we are.