Thursday, January 24, 2019

Senate to vote today on shutdown

My prediction:


8 comments:

James said...

The important thing is this: Pelosi castrated Donald.

James said...

Nancy Pelosi to Republicans: 'Take back your party'

During a speech at the Conference of Mayors, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi encouraged Republicans to regain control of their own party.

Pelosi said: “To the Republicans in the crowd, I say ‘take back your party, the Grand Old Party’. America needs a strong Republican Party, not a rubber stamp.”

The California Democrat’s remarks came on the 33rd day of the nation’s longest government shutdown as her party’s leadership is in a stalemate with President Trump over nearly $6 billion of funding for building a new southern border wall.

During the speech, Pelosi also said quote, “There is serious and justified concern that this president would shutdown the government any time he does not get his way legislatively. That is why we must hold the line on this shutdown in the government.”

After much back and forth between the President and the Speaker of the House, Trump tweeted he will give a ‘great” State of Union Address when the government shutdown is over.
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He can begin by saying, "I caved."

James said...

Trump has so far leaned into his fight with Pelosi in highly questionable ways — pushing for a border wall that people don’t want with a shutdown that people don’t want, and picking a State of the Union fight he seemed destined to lose. If he keeps picking the wrong fights, Pelosi will only have more opportunities to look like the superior leader.

cowardly king obama said...

Watch Trump will get the border wall and the "pastor" will continue thinking Pelosi "won"

By the way how's your Buzzfeed bombshell or the MAGA youth racist stories going, or anything about the corrupt deep state, political_lire next to cease?

ROFLMFAO !!!

James said...

Big Majority Say Shutdown Is Serious

A new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that 53% of Americans now believe the government shutdown is “very serious,” with 77% believing it’s at least somewhat serious. Those numbers have steadily increased over the past month.

However, only about 1 in 4 Americans say that they’ve been personally affected by the shutdown or expect to be affected in the future.
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Shutdown May Be Proving Value of Government

James Hohmann: “Many conservative hard-liners inside and closely allied with the Trump administration, who have made careers out of bashing the federal bureaucracy, believed a partial shutdown would validate their view that government can function just fine without ‘nonessential’ employees. In fact, the past 33 days have done the opposite.”

“It turns out that just because workers have been categorized as ‘nonessential’ does not mean the work they do is not important. That’s why President Trump keeps calling back more and more furloughed workers to do things like process tax refunds, inspect food, approve loans and issue food stamps.”

“With no end in sight to the five-week-old impasse, the effects are poised to become both worse and more obvious to more people. One enduring result could be that Americans collectively come to appreciate the value government provides in their everyday lives to a greater degree.”

Key takeaway: “As on so many other issues, Trump and the neophytes he’s mostly surrounded himself with don’t appear to have thought through the second- and third-order consequences of their actions.”
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Is Trump Signaling He’s Ready to Back Down?

First Read sees President Trump’s backing down on giving his State of the Union address as a possible sign of progress.

“It is a very rare move for Trump to back down on anything, and it suggests we could be closer to solving the shutdown than we were a day ago. In fact, Trump backing down here — instead of marching ahead to give a State of the Union address somewhere else — is what you’d do if you were trying to get out of this mess.”

“Trump also acknowledging this, via the Washington Post, also is a sign we could be closer to resolving the shutdown: Sources in the room told us that Trump pointed out that shutting down the government costs more than building the wall, ‘so this is kind of stupid and every day this goes on the cost gets higher,’ [the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen] Moore added, paraphrasing Trump.”

James said...

Shutdown Seen as Bigger Issue Than Border

A new Fox News poll finds that more voters say the federal shutdown is a bigger issue than the border: 75% consider the shutdown an emergency or major problem.

That’s far more than the 59% who feel the same about the situation at the border.

cowardly king obama said...

AP BREAKING: The number of people seeking jobless benefits dropped last week to the lowest level since November 1969, a sign the job market remains strong despite the partial government shutdown, now in its fifth week.


John Hayward

Gosh, it's so weird that private sector companies are flourishing and hiring tons of people while the stifling federal bureaucracy is idling and its army of non-essential personnel is furloughed. UNEXPECTED, you might say.

cowardly king obama said...

Ryan Saavedra

Democrat Rep. Collin Peterson (MN) on the border wall: "Give Trump the money. I’d give him the whole thing…Why are we fighting over this? We’re going to build that wall anyway, at some time."

Republican House bill to pay furloughed workers got 6 Democratic votes last week, 13 this week, now just 6 votes short of passing...