{"id":48593,"date":"2021-02-20T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T18:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48593"},"modified":"2021-02-20T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T18:43:53","slug":"priorities-while-texas-freezes-lindsey-graham-stumps-for-trumps-useless-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48593","title":{"rendered":"PRIORITIES: While Texas Freezes, Lindsey Graham Stumps for Trump’s Useless Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party long ago distinguished itself as a haven for cravenly selfish elitists whose primary purpose is to lower taxes on the rich, eliminate regulations that save lives, suppress minorities, and advance the agenda of extremist evangelicals. This week the GOP had some outstanding opportunities to affirm their commitment to that mission.<\/p>\n

\"Lindsey<\/p>\n

Without question, the biggest story of the week was the devastating winter storm that bombarded Texas and much of the eastern United States. What we learned from that ongoing catastrophe was that Republicans were more interested in politicizing the tragedy than in doing anything constructive to help their suffering constituents.<\/p>\n

For instance, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rushed to Fox News to deflect blame<\/a><\/strong> for the failures of his administration to out of state Democrats and the “Green New Deal,”<\/em> which has not been enacted into law anywhere, especially Texas. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz jetted off to the sunny climes of Cancun, Mexico, with his family, rather than stay at home and do his job during troubled times. Humiliated by such a callous abandonment of his duty to his state, he frantically returned and immediately got to work making excuses on Fox News<\/a><\/strong>, where he blamed his minor children for his own poor decisions.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the GOP’s Senior Trump-fluffing Senator, Lindsey Graham demonstrated the same lack of human decency. After spending time with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Lindsey boarded a plane for the southern border where he could raise an issue that is topmost on the minds almost nobody: Trump’s idiotic, useless, and vain border wall. Graham’s cross-country jaunt to serve as Trump’s mouthpiece resulted in a propaganda video wherein he asserted that…<\/p>\n

“The Biden Administration apparently has decided to stop plugging this hole here. As a result the Border Patrol is now gonna try to have a camera and people sitting up on that hill to watch them as they flow in. Wouldn’t it make more sense to put this section of the wall together? What good comes from allowing this hole to continue to exist? This wall is here for a purpose. To keep people from coming into our country illegally,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Biden Administration has apparently decided to stop construction and plugging this hole in the wall. <\/p>\n

I'm going to make sure the Department of Homeland Security tells us why. pic.twitter.com\/umNlhWuEjm<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) February 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n