I make it a habit of scanning through most of the major news sources in the morning to stay up-to-date. Hey, I enjoy the punishment! In any case, most of the major items like Nk, Oil supply/Demand, Trade, etc. have now been overshadowed by the stunt pulled by some congressional forcing their way into illegal immigrant detention centers and screaming about family (child) separation. While I feel for the kids, in almost all cases the parents were well aware of immigration policy and ignored laws, thereby placing their family members in jeopardy alongside of them. In my eyes, this is not America's problem and should not be this ignorant platform that it is becoming. I hate to make this partisan but it appears to be a page from the Dem playbook when they no longer wish to have a meaningful discussion behind closed doors.

Is this unnecessary grandstanding? What say you?

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