Because one big, long expensive fence just isn’t enough, Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Newton Leroy Gingrich has signed yet another pledge, but this time it’s a pledge to build a double fence along the entirety of the southern border of the United States. That’s right folks, because nothing says national security more than not one, but two fences along your boarder.
According to the Huffington Post, Newton – also known as “Stay Puff” – promised in the Americans for Border Security pledge to construct a complete double border fence between the United States and Mexico by the end of 2013, should he become president, joining Michele “Krazy” Bachmann as the second GOTP candidate to sign on.
“The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,” Stay Puff’s campaign website reads. “Every nation has the right to control its border. Historically, every country that has been determined to control their border has been able to do so. Controlling the border is a matter of resources and will.”
Reportedly, nearly all of the major GOTP presidential candidates have called for a fence along the southern border, with the exception of the Reverend Rick Perry, who’s said it would be too expensive to build and maintain. Continuing upkeep of the current border fence, without additional fencing, will cost an estimated $6.5 billion between 2009 and 2019, according to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office.
With his signature on one more pledge the question persists as to whom the GOTP candidates will answer to if elected, the American people and the Constitution to which they swear an oath, or to those who’ve gotten them to “pledge”? Wherein does their honor rest? To their country and its best interest, or the special interests they’ve sworn their allegiance to?
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