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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after speaking about his plan to move a 1,300-page spending measure, which includes $5.7 billion to fund President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the sticking point in the standoff between Trump and Democrats that has led to a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
McCarthy-McConnell Republicans betrayed Trump, killed the wall<\/h1>\n
By Ralph Z. Hallow
\nThe Washington Times<\/p>\n
ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n Forget the sunny-side propaganda put out by all sides on the Great Border Security Compromise Act of 2019.<\/p>\n Its intentionally fatal flaw lets southern-border municipalities nix wall construction on their turf for any reason they choose.<\/p>\n These local jurisdictions tend to be as blue as this monstrosity of an act should make you feel if value American sovereignty.<\/p>\n So whether President\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0redirects $8 billion, $80 billion or $1 trillion to wall construction, the product will be a 1,954-foot hallway with enough permanently opened doors to let in the world.<\/p>\n Forget about legal clearance or lines.<\/p>\n That makes the new law a defeat for everything that President\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0has been striving to achieve. And a defeat as well for everyone else who, like the president, cherishes American exceptionalism and the rule of law.<\/p>\n This unnatural disaster happened because the Kevin McCarthy-Mitch McConnell Republicans in Congress betrayed\u00a0Mr. Trump<\/a>\u00a0and then left him with no choice but to sign the legislation on Friday or get blamed for another government shutdown.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a win for\u00a0Mr. Trump<\/a>\u00a0only in the honest disgust he hurled at the law\u2019s border-protection provisions before he inked his name to the measure\u2019s 1,700 pages, with all the genuineness of an American POW signing a war-criminal confession in North Vietnam.<\/p>\n Otherwise, it\u2019s a colossal defeat for America\u2019s security, self-governance and self-respect.<\/a><\/p>\n That alone would be enough to make it a win for the Nancy Pelosi-Chuck Schumer Democratic party and their immigrants-without-borders agenda.<\/p>\n It\u2019s actually more than just a win. It\u2019s the kind of smashing success the Democrats could only dream of. Until Friday, they had butted their heads against the president\u2019s obstinate drive to build an impenetrable wall.<\/p>\n Mr. Trump<\/a>\u2019s wall promise made him a hero to conservatives and to patriots of any affiliation. He has made the wall\u2019s purpose clear from the beginning.<\/p>\n It is to, yes, make America great again \u2014 to return to American citizens through their elected representatives the exclusive power to decide who enters the United States, when, where, how and in what numbers.<\/p>\n Without those powers, we cease being a nation and become instead a global pawn.<\/p>\n The McCarthy-McConnell Republicans \u2014 despite their inevitable denials \u2014 gave silent consent to Democrats to ensure that no matter what heroic political and legal risks\u00a0Mr. Trump<\/a>\u00a0takes in reallocating billions of dollars in emergency money, it will all be for naught.<\/p>\n Despite\u00a0Mr. Trump<\/a>\u2019s efforts to win them over, those same Republicans stood by and watched the Pelosi-Schumer Democrats insert a provision that turned the whole border-security part of the bill into a gigantic poison pill, then gave\u00a0Mr. Trump<\/a>\u00a0no choice but to sign it or get blamed for another government shutdown.<\/p>\n The McCarty-Mitchell Republicans, acting out of what they may have thought was self-preservation, have kept their eyes on polls. Whether Republican, Democratic or bipartisan-conducted, all surveys show a majority of voters oppose the wall. Yes, it may seem astonishing that Democrats have persuaded most Americans that walls don\u2019t work or are immoral or both. But it\u2019s fact of life.<\/p>\n Only six years ago, nearly two-thirds of Americans favored a 700-mile border barrier \u2014 so long as the poll called it a \u201cfence.\u201d Now only about 37 percent favor a \u201cwall,\u201d a word that has been a negative for Americans at least since President Reagan urged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall (which was built to keep Germans from leaving, not entering the communist-ruled eastern sector).<\/p>\n