One way or another, President Trump will be rewarding his supporters with billions of dollars' worth of border wall construction.  Those of little faith who denounced him for failure on the border wall when the GOP House passed a continuing resolution with no funding for the wall – a group that includes Ann Coulter, just unfollowed by the POTUS on Twitter – failed to reckon with his wiliness.  Not only did he succeed on motivating Paul Ryan to get the funding back in and pass a substitute C.R., but he is poised to get his way with or without the assent of the Senate. He has, in essence, given opponents of acceding to his program to protect the border the easy way or the hard way. The easy way would be for Chuck Schumer to allow eight of his senators to vote in favor of the new C.R. and have it pass. It is unlikely that Amy Schumer's cousin would agree, but even if he stands fast, he will not like the first trump card that...(Read Full Post)