2022 Midterms

Rick Scott Thinks We Can Save America by Finishing the Border Wall and Naming it After Trump

Rick Scott (R-Fla.) may be the most obnoxious senator in the Senate. Although admittedly, he’s got lots of competition. But on Tuesday, he released an 11-point campaign agenda that calls for the completion of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and demands that it be named after former President Donald Trump.

Like I said, the man is obnoxious.

Business Insider reports that the first-term senator, who is also chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee along with being in charge of overseeing the national party’s midterm Senate strategy, released the agenda, which declares that “the hour is late for America.”

“This is what people think, by the way,” Scott told Politico’s Burgess Everett. “If you talk to a normal, non-woke family, this is what they think.”

He’s made immigration one of the agenda’s focal points, declaring that “we will secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump.”

“We welcome those who want to join us in building the American Dream, immigrants who want to be Americans, not change America,” the document reads. “We are a stronger nation because we are a nation of immigrants but immigration without assimilation makes us weaker.”

But Scott ups the cockamamie in a few places. His agenda claims “no one has a ‘right’ to come to America,” and complains about “cultural segregation.” It claims immigrants are being incentivized to leave their countries and come to America “to receive government benefits.”

His yammering about “cultural segregation” reminds me of how our ancestors treated Native American schoolchildren — much of it involved shocking cruelty. And while it’s nice to encourage people coming in from other countries, no one should have to lose their own culture to do so. And as far as receiving “government benefits,” it’s no walk in the park for immigrants to do so, according to this fact sheet provided by the National Immigration Forum. It shows that immigrants have to jump through a number of hoops.

But that seems to be lost on Scott, and his agenda calls for immigrants to be prohibited from collecting “unemployment benefits or welfare” for the first seven years after they arrive in the U.S.

“We have plenty of welfare recipients — we need productive citizens instead,” the document says.

This seems to be sort of a jumping-off point for Scott, a clear contrast with Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), who has yet to release an agenda for Republicans in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections.

In January, reporters asked McConnell how Republicans would govern if they regained the majority.

“That is a very good question, and I’ll let you know when we take it back,” he said. “The election this fall is a referendum on this all-Democratic government.”

Which is a cute way to say a whole bunch of nothing about nothing.

Scott is taking a more strident approach and in his 31-page document he declares that Republicans “don’t deserve to govern” if they have “no bigger plan than to be a speed bump on the road to America’s collapse.”

“We must resolve to aim higher than the Republican Congresses that came before us,” Scott claims. “Americans deserve to know what we will do” he said in a “letter” at the beginning of the document.

But let’s remember — while Scott is worried about all those immigrants sucking up “welfare” money, the Sun-Sentinel reports:

“When the federal investigation of Rick Scott’s former hospital company became public in 1997, the Board of Columbia/HCA forced him out. Scott left with $300 million in stock, a $5.1 million severance and a $950,000-per-year consulting contract for five years.”

Gee, is that all?

Let’s not forget that Trump started all this anti-immigrant racism with his comments about “bad hombres” and his attempts to ban people from largely Muslim countries especially. His much-ballyhooed wall was, fortunately, a dismal failure, with only 450 miles of fencing being added.

Trump himself was a dismal failure as president. It mystifies me as to why Republicans like Scott want to put him on a pedestal.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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