New Years Wish: No More Morally Superior Phonies.

• Date: 28 January 2019
• Author: Singleton, Marilyn M.

My new year's resolution is to expose the hypocrisy of the morally superior politicians whose election strategy was to pretend they cared about crafting policies in the country's best interest.

Take "the wall" on our southern border. Ignoring the opinion of the border patrol agents (51 percent of whom are Hispanic) that it would "without a doubt" be a helpful tool, Nancy Pelosi and her people claimed it would be ineffective in stopping everybody. That's like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stopping its flu vaccination campaign because the vaccine is only 40-60 percent effective.

And sanctuary state California Senator Kamala Harris was quick to the gun control microphone when some people were shot in a brawl but not a peep out of her when a community is in mourning after its brown-skinned legal immigrant policeman is gunned down at a traffic stop by a twice arrested illegal immigrant.

Expanding on the racist meme, the new talking point is that a wall is "immoral." Where is the morality in enabling 1.5 million pounds of drugs to enter our country through Mexico contributing to the 70,237 drug overdose deaths--over 200 deaths per day--in the U.S. in 2017? Or in turning a blind eye to MS-13 gang members and criminals entering the country? I imagine the Costa Ricans and Panamanians are racist for securing their...