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A subject of interest over the last few days has been Democrat leaderships insistence on making complete fools of themselves. Particularly because of their immediate, knee-jerk objections to anything proposed by the new administration, whether those objections are rational or not.

The quandary resulting from the self defeating strategy is remindful of the slogan used to market the phonograph‘s introduction as a “gift that keeps on giving.” Because the benefits from Democrats lack of mature, intelligent and worthwhile responses will help Republicans to remain in political power for years and years to come. 

In today’s case a federal judge, James Robart, in Seattle “issued a temporary nationwide restraining order Friday stopping President Trump's executive order banning citizens of seven countries from entering the United States.”

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement after the ruling: “The Constitution prevailed today. No one is above the law — not even the President. It's our president's duty to honor this ruling and I'll make sure he does." 

While the legal issues are quite clear and simple to grasp, the political practicality of the matter is somewhat harder to understand. And that’s because while Trump is taking steps to secure the nation’s safety, Democrats are fighting him tooth and nail to prevent him from doing that.   

On Fox News, Vice President Mike Pence put it this way to Sean Hannity: “any fair-minded person" would understand the directive's intent. What President Trump has done is essentially impose a pause on countries that have been compromised by terrorism so that we can evaluate the screening process and establish ... extreme vetting so that people coming in to this country don’t represent a threat to our families and our communities."

Pence added that the order was "clearly not a Muslim ban" and "not in any way associated with religion."

So, here we have a president trying his best to protect Americans and their homeland and Democrats saying “Oh, no” we don’t want you doing that. Leave the borders unattended and let anyone in who wants to come here. 

And what’s even more ridiculous are the actual statistics involved.  

After the court hearing, Will Cocks, a spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, provided the details as follows:  

"Fewer than 60,000 individuals' visas were provisionally revoked to comply with the executive order. We recognize that those individuals are temporarily inconvenienced while we conduct our review under the executive order. To put that number in context, we issued over 11 million immigrant and nonimmigrant visas in fiscal year 2015.  As always, national security is our top priority when issuing visas." 

Which, according to basic arithmetic, comes down to 'inconveniencing" .0054% of the total number of those seeking to come here. For the other 99.5%, nothing changed an iota.

As the situation unfolded, the unequivocally predictable Schumer praised the ruling in a Friday night statement, saying: “This ruling is a victory for the Constitution and for all of us who believe this un-American executive order will not make us safer. President Trump should heed this ruling and he ought to back off and repeal the executive order once and for all.”

So, by saying that he believes Trump’s efforts to protect the nation are wrong which implies that events like 9/11 are to be ignored, Schumer’s apparently trying to appeal to his leftist base. And, perhaps, he must rely on the negative because he has nothing else to offer.     
 
Because, as noted by FoxNews.com’s Chris Stirewalt yesterday, “Democrats, on the other hand, now find themselves desperate to oppose Trump but also freighted with trying to defend Obama’s legacy. Obama’s health law. Obama’s Iran deal. Obama’s Supreme Court appointment. Obama’s global warming plan. Obama’s immigration action. And on and on.”

Which also explains why Schumer breaks down and cry’s so much.

That’s it for today folks.

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