Wile E. Democrat - Super Genius

<![CDATA[Political strategy is something that usually takes a little bit of time to analyze. And often, after a year or two, or even a decade or two, only at a distance in the rearview mirror can that strategy be analyzed in more context to make a fair determination of whether or not it the strategy was prudent. 38 days ago, or two pay cycles ago, Senate Democrats deployed a game plan to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement by holding the rest of the Department of Homeland Security, and ultimately, Americans, hostage until Democrats get what they want - hands off remaining illegal aliens in the country. What they've gotten instead is an undeniable and absolute public relations disaster. As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in reconciliation and signed by President Trump last year, ICE was padded with extra funding, covering them for the next couple of years despite the regular budgeting allotment the agency was to receive in the current DHS appropriation bill Democrats are filibustering. Democrats, believing the entire country had turned on ICE after the shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis, overplayed their hand, like they usually do. Once President Trump replaced both Border Patrol director Greg Bovino, leading the agency that actually runs the Minneapolis operations for detaining and deporting violent illegal aliens, and then Kristi Noem at DHS, the wind quickly left the sails of the 'ICE needs to be defunded' movement. Border czar Tom Homan took over in Minneapolis, and local authorities, both civil and police, in the Twin Cities began to cooperate. There have not been the sensational headlines to keep the narrative of ICE being out of control alive, because even left-wing media moved on from it.   The long game Democrats are playing, of course, isn't so much that they're trying to defund ICE. They are consciously attempting to prevent any further erosion of potential voters. And whether they deny it or not, their actions speak volumes. There is a bloc of illegal votes being cast, especially in blue states, and elected Democrats are terrified to see them go away. That's why they're blocking the DHS appropriations bill, and that's why they're blocking the SAVE Act with everything they have. They view both bills as an existential threat to them as a political party. Over the weekend, among the many effects of another Democrat-made government shutdown, albeit a partial one this time, is that the percentages of TSA agents nationwide not showing up to work continued to skyrocket. Not getting paid, with no hope in the immediate future of that status changing, will do that. Countless numbers of agents have sought work in the private sector, where Democrats can't shut those businesses down every time they throw a tizzy. And few people can blame them for doing so.  The result at major airports, especially ones that airline carriers use as hubs, was TSA screening lines that exceeded four and a half hours in some instances. Here's just a sample of what the country faced at the hands of Democrats trying to protect the potential voting rights of illegal aliens. Again, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has not hidden their objective here. Several times, both in press conferences and on the Senate floor, he's called for a compromise that includes a path to citizenship, or outright amnesty, for those here illegally. That path, or amnesty, turns them into voters, and presumably, Democratic ones. In New York at JFK International:]]>