The Great Canadian Wall

The GOP candidates have focused their presidential ire on illegal immigration. Donald Trump has leap-frogged the pack by assailing Mexicans seeking a better life in El Norte as rapists, murderers, and drug dealers. Wisconsin governor Scott Taylor had the backing of the infamous Koch Brothers, but has lost ground in the early polls out of Iowa to Trump and this week Walker announced on TV that building a 5000 mile continuous wall between the USA and Canada from Maine to Washington State and also along the Alaska frontier intended to stop 10,000 violators crossing from Canada to the USA each year, although last year US Emmigration agents arrested less than 1000 Canadians.

The cost of a top-of-the-line fence would be about $18 billion US.

The cheaper version prices out at $1.5 million per mile or $$75 million, but almost anyone could get over that fence.

No one else is talking about the Canadian Wall, except for Scott Walker and the news media, because the best guard on the border and Old Man Winter, which I know as a native of Maine.

Here's the river crossing at Fort Kent, Maine.

Looks like ISIS could drive across the St. John's River in the blink of an eye.

Not So Great Scott

Scott Walker had surprised the Democrats by maintaining his control of Wisconsin. His right-wing policies have won favor with the white voters in the Cheese State. Unions have been weakened and taxes on the rich have been cut to insure lottery winners that they too will benefit from the GOP's trickle down economics.

While Scott hasn't announced his candidacy for president (he's busy cutting the state budget ), he does lead the GOP back by a solid 7% over his nearest rivals; Kentucky's Rand Paul and Doctor Ben Carson, who each have garnered 10% of the vote.

Republicans are praying for a solid candidate to oust the Democrats from the White House.

It's early yet, but on a dreary June 1st, I can't see any of these clowns winning the election, but then I haven't spent much time in the hinterland, so my finger is on my own pulse and not that of America.

And I can't feel a thing in my veins.

Death Camps For The Old

During the fight to pass President Obama's Affordable Healthcare Bill, the GOP accused the Democrats of having written a clause designed to create death camps for the elderly. This falsitude was promoted by Fox News to the believers in the Right and this week Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin proposed to cut funding for the SeniorCare drug program to save a mere $15 million over the next two years.

Death Camps are back on the list.

It's the way of the GOP.

Too Close To Call

The recall vote in Wisconsin has been declared too close to call by the BBC and Al Jazeera. CNN and Yahoo has refused to comment on the exit polls, while CBS has the GOP incumbent slightly ahead. Drudgereport.com went out on a limb to call the results as follows; 60% to Walker to some 39% for his Democratic challenger. That ain't too close to call in my book, but then the GOP outspent the Dems $29 million to $15 million. Putting their money on the rich, because no one wants to be poor anymore. Onto November.