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| KINZINGER: Picking sides on border |
So
I suspect he’s stunned to find out that there are people in positions of authority
who think he’s behaving like, to put it bluntly, a twit for doing so.
THAT’S
THE CASE these days, as Kinzinger the other day made a point of siding with
Trump (sort of) on the issue of declaring an emergency status so as to allow
him to use federal funds to erect the so-called ‘wall’ he’s eager to have built
to create the image of Mexico as some alien place totally separate from U.S.
I
say “sort of” because Kinzinger’s support for Trump was kind of lame. Almost as
though he wishes he didn’t have to say anything publicly on the issue.
Because
Kinzinger, when appearing this past weekend on the CBS “Face the Nation” program,
said he won’t vote to block Trump’s wall talk.
As
in he won’t side with the measure likely to get majority support in the House
of Representatives to thwart Trump’s desires. It’s the measure offered up by
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – so it shouldn’t be a surprise that
Kinzinger wouldn’t be inclined to support it.
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| EVERS: Took Wisconsin out of partisan mix |
KINZINGER
SERVES AS an Air National Guard member who recently got called up to active
duty; and in fact finished a stint with his unit in Arizona to help local authorities
in terms of patrolling the border region.
Yet
his unit, which is based in Wisconsin, is no longer going to be part of border
patrol efforts. For it seems that Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued his own order
recalling his state’s contribution to the border efforts.
The
order was issued Monday, and Wisconsin’s troops will be returned home by
Sunday. Kinzinger is probably thinking he and his Guard colleagues were “sold
out” by their very own leadership.
Yet
it’s more likely that Evers is simply more aware of the mood of Wisconsinites
who’d rather not see their people and resources used to try to justify the “national
emergency” that Trump is so desperate to want us to believe exists.
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| TRUMP: It's all about his ego, now |
PARTICULARLY
SINCE I suspect Trump’s real motivation for backing this whole idea is to see
something built on his watch as president. As in “Trump, the Border Wall!” To
go with all those ridiculously gauche hotels he’s had erected that bear his name.
Kinzinger
has offered up defenses of Trump’s efforts at interfering with existing immigration
policy. Although I can’t help but read those and think Kinzinger is actually
offering up justifications for why we ought to think of Trump as a fraud on
this issue.
Such
as when he tells of how he was part of a crew that caught a man trying to cross
the border into the United States with 70 pounds of methamphetamine. Which he
used Twitter to ponder, “Wonder the damage that would do in Milwaukee.”
Except
I see it as there wouldn’t be any need for that guy to try to bring such a
substance into this country – if not for the fact he knows it will bring him
big bucks. As in it’s people in this country already (the ones that Trump would
try to claim are “real Americans”) who create the demand.
KINZINGER
ALSO TOUTED the “coyotes” he helped capture (as in the people who help smuggle
people into this country.
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| LINCOLN: Wiser words from Honest Abe |
But
if we had more rational immigration policies (as in not so concerned about
keeping certain types of people from thinking they might belong in this country),
the “coyotes” would be put out of business.
The
Congressman also mentions helping to rescue a woman who was stranded in the
desert that separates the United States and Mexico. Which is a noble purpose;
although I suspect many of the ideologues who favor Trump and his border wall
and immigration “tough talk” would have favored leaving the woman to suffer.
All
of which means Kinzinger likely would have been better off keeping quiet on
this particular issue. Because as Abraham Lincoln is said to have said, “It’s like
when you remain silent people may doubt if you are a fool, but if you say
something silly you will know for sure.”
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