Of course I can and do blame this on Congress ... the fractured asinine NT wing of "our" party, those in the pockets of the Koch brothers, the liberal-socialists who are still placing fresh bits of cheese for the new rats to follow to the border and beyond. Congress knows what needs to be done --- what laws need to be amended to protect us AND silence the interference of the judiciary. But they will not do it.
Look at the effing mess in Washington. Call it what you will. Call it Congress, call it the swamp, call it the enemy of the people. But together they've built THEIR wall, and it's around the President.
Donald Trump left a billionaire's paradise to get this done. He's not playing games, he is damn serious.
It's too bad you think the President isn't doing what you want done quickly enough. It would behoove you to step away from your emotions, think rationally and remember: Without this one soul it would not be happening at all.
You are correct in many ways. It is/was foolhardy to look at the Ryan House and believe or infer that they would have ever done Trump's bidding on any matter that they didn't want to see move forward. And with "Republican" Senators like we have, thinking that the McConnell Senate would ever pass meaningful legislation for border security is also a fool's gambit. Can anyone name more than a small handful of "Republican" Senators that want to see Trump's agenda implemented? How many can you name in the House?
However, Trump's problem is that he has never figured out that the ways (methods, tactics) that he used to get his way in the private sector, and even to win the election, simply are not effective in his role now as President.
In his past, if he was involved with some sort of negotiation, it was not done out in the general public. If he had to bluff, puff, and bluster, it was within a small set of other actors. They either called the bluff and moved on, or somehow found a way to make a deal work for them. For the most part, not many beyond that small cadre of actors really every heard all of the details of the process.
Now, he huffs and puffs on Twitter and in these press opportunities saying things that he has no intention of seeing through. He is bluffing and threatening Mexico with the "close down the border" nonsense that he knows will never happen. He would be better off picking up the damn phone and calling the leader of Mexico and making his threats privately. He thinks that he is gain by ginning up his base with more "red meat" to get them stoked, however after being put through this cycle of listening to Trump bluff and bloviate, then up not following through, for months and months, a lot of people are just getting pissed off and burnt out with it all.
He needs to stop TALKING about crap that he is going to do, and just DO something.
