When will Republicans like Mitch McConnell go for country over party, forget Trump's wall and reopen the government?

And he is. On foreign policy, he reversed some bad mistakes of his predecessors of both parties (e.g., on Israel and its capital, on funding UNRWA which perpetuates the murderous and self-destructive terrorist movements and leaders, on the very hallmark of Obama's policy of weakening our allies and strengthening our enemies (like Iran), of trying to police the world to impose Western ideas of how other peoples should run their societies (like W on Iraq, HRC on Libya and Egypt, etc. He reoriented it to the US's actual interests. He did what Congress has for years demanded and successive candidates promised but did not deliver once in power, i.e., move our Israel embassy to that nation's capital, where all other embassies are in the capitals of those nations, as specified by the nations themselves; called out the ever more anti-democratic centralized imperial bureaucracy, called the EU, both as a prison house of nations and as an empire which acts against the interests of the US and its allies while relying on the US to provide its military defense and cover. And that's just foreign policy.

You may disagree with any or all of these shifts, but how can you say they are not examples of leadership, even against the non-stop hatred and derision of the MSM in the US and in Europe, not to mention the Muslim world...?

Why can't he lead on this domestic security issue? Why will he not lead?

@daisymay I already answered that. (See above, "What do you mean, not lead?) Repeating the question suggests you did not read or consider the answer or my question to you. That kind of makes reasonable discussion impossible.

@sunsporter1649 Not building a wall sounds more like a reasonable stance than anything. Plus who the hell wants to pay for that thing for the next several decades? You know, to keep it running?

@SW-User Cheaper than paying the $70,000 a year for the 400,000 a year that are pouring over the wall now.

@sunsporter1649 Well the border wall would cost 25 billion or more once it's built since it would take several decades to build. Adding on to that would be for repairs. That's definitely not cheap. And Americans would be paying that for several decades or until some one decides that a wall is not necessary to have.

@MistyCee oh well I hope he has secret service protection.

@updown2020 McConnell is scared shitless, IMO, about nuts on the right and the left.

@sunsporter1649 Okay then in that case Pelosi also wants the same protection. Because she lives behind walls too.

@SW-User Well good, we both agree, build the wall!

@sunsporter1649 Well no. What I mean is border security that Pelosi wants. Not a wall.

So therefore Pelosi cares about the American people.

@hippyjoe1955 Either of them are not the majority senate leader.