Americans will pay at least $18BILLION for the Wall IF it gets funded.
Immigrants are NOT bad for America as Tweety and his sycophants think and say. Immigrants BUILT THIS COUNTRY, and they did so with DIVERSITY!
American now DEMAND HEALTH CARE JUST AS THEY WANT A STRONG MILITARY. The Republicans continue to put poison pills in budget bills to undermine health care in America.
Tweety gets a punch in the nose with the Government shut down. The only one playing "shut down politics" is clearly Tweety. Tweety may find he cannot be a bully all the time.
I am afraid of how Tweety can twist and spin the story and it is up to the Democrats to speak loudly, but most importantly, CLEARLY, UNAMBIGUOUSLY, on what happened, why it happened, and what the solution is.
A vague, mealy mouthed defense by people who want a deal on DACA and immigration and the Wall/border security (the Wall idea is stupid for $18B) and ACA clauses (and whatever else is wrapped up in this 2018 budget) and weak offense will fail.
I pray the Democrats hold fast. This is their time to stand up to the bully.
"On Trump’s First Anniversary, a Government Shutdown"
By John Cassidy 20 Jan 2018
"After a day of back and forth on Friday, the decisive vote in the Senate was taken after ten P.M. It was on a motion to go to a vote on a Republican spending bill that would have kept the government open for another month. Needing sixty votes to prevail, the Republicans only got fifty, with four of their own members voting against the party line. (The dissidents were Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul. The ailing John McCain was absent.)"
Did the Dems shut the Government, or did Tweety renege on a deal?
"The White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, immediately put out a statement that included the alliterative framing Republicans had been using for days, but also included some uniquely Trumpian language. “Senate Democrats own the Schumer Shutdown,” it said. “We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators.” McConnell, in a speech on the Senate floor shortly after midnight, read out some of the White House statement and called the vote “a cynical decision by Senate Democrats to shove aside millions of Americans for the sake of irresponsible political gains.”
Of course the Republicans who own all three Government entities, Executive, Judicial, and Congress, blame the Democrats. This tribalism is disgusting. You are all fired!
Here is the Dems side of the story, showing they agreed to support a lot of Tweety's bulls shit agenda, more than I would have agreed to. It looks like the Dems really tried to get a bi-partisan deal.
There was a bad deal in the White House. Tweety appears to have wanted people of other nations out, likely because they are not white.
"Schumer, in his response to McConnell, sought to place the blame for what had just happened squarely on the President. This line had been telegraphed previously, too, but the Democratic leader, Schumer, had a new twist to offer, in the form of an account of his ninety-minute meeting with Trump, who fashions himself as the great dealmaker. During that meeting, Schumer said, he outlined a possible deal in which the Democrats would agree to finance Trump’s wall across the Mexican border as part of a package that also included extending legal protections for the Dreamers, funding the CHIP health-care program, and boosting the budget for military and domestic spending. The meeting had gone well, Schumer said, and after leaving it had he had thought the sides might be able to agree to fund the government for a short period, during which they would hash out the details of an agreement. But even though Trump had seemed to be open to this idea, Schumer said he “did not press his party in Congress to accept it.”"
More. Schumer thought a deal was made?
"“What happened to the President who asked us to come out with a deal and promised he’d take heat for it? What happened to that President? He backed off at the first sign of pressure,” Schumer said. “The same chaos, the same disarray, the same division and discord on the Republican side that’s been in the background of these negotiations for months unfortunately appears endemic.” That was a none-too-subtle reference to the televised meeting in the Oval Office a couple of weeks ago during which Trump had said he would accept any bipartisan deal that the other people in the room came up with. Schumer went on, “Now all of this problem is because Republican leadership can’t get to yes, because President Trump refuses to. Mr. President, President Trump, if you are listening, I am urging you: please take yes for an answer.” The “blame should crash entirely” on the President’s shoulders, he added."
Tweety wanted to get outa Dodge for his party!
"On Friday, the Daily Beast reported that he was distinctly nonplussed at the prospect of staying in Washington and missing his anniversary party down in Florida. (The story didn’t say who at the White House, if anybody, had explained to the President that the job of President occasionally involves staying in town and working weekends.) Will Trump stand by his initial refusal, in the statement Sanders put out, even to negotiate with the Democrats? Or will Schumer’s taunts goad him into action? We’ll soon find out."
"How Trump Gave Schumer His Shutdown Leverage"
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells January 19, 2018
When the Republicans needed Democrat votes, Tweety failed them, horribly!
"As debate opened on the Senate floor on Friday morning, Schumer’s deputy, the Illinois senator Richard Durbin, laid out the political physics: a Republican majority in the House, a Republican majority in the Senate, a Republican President, a Supreme Court appointed by Republicans. There was no question, Durbin said, whom Americans would find responsible for a government shutdown; a year of Republican chaos had set the context."
The Republicans LOST!
