So a starving college student that's tired of Top Ramen should quit eating because they tire of a bad situation? I'm NOT eating until I can eat a healthy diet. Makes sense. Especially if you want to make Trump completely oppose DACA. Which being a vengeful sort he likely will.
Fake news. The CR only even arose due to the Dems refusal to approve the budget, instead insisting on attaching the non-budget issue of amnesty for illegals which they already know will not be decided without the Supreme Court Ruling which is expected around mid-Summer. This is going to cost Dems a lot more seats in Nov.
Well there you go with the fake news line again maris......according to AP feeds all day, they did have a deal..but it was contingent upon DACA being upheld...GOP didn't want to play ball....simple...and there's a difference between a deal on the table and a deal agreed to in the end...the deal was on the table..it sure did exist
Newly elected Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, in his most high-profile vote since taking office, was one of five Democratic senators to vote overnight with Republicans on a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Jones’ election to the Senate last month marked the first time in 25 years that Alabama voters picked a Democratic senator. The election results sparked much political speculation about whether Jones would vote with Republicans or fellow Democrats, considering that Alabama is one of the country’s most conservative-leaning states and gave President Trump more than 62 percent of its vote in 2016. While Jones’ vote this weekend might suggest an intent to represent his electorate or win a 2020 re-election, he made clear from the start of his improbable special-election win that his top priority upon arriving on Capitol Hill would be to keep alive the Children's Health Insurance Program, which the GOP spending bill did for several years. “Because of CHIP and the many families in Alabama and around our country that would be put in jeopardy by a government shutdown, I felt compelled to vote yes,” Jones said in a statement posted on his Twitter account. Jones won last month by less than 2 percentage points over Republican candidate Roy Moore, a conservative firebrand whose campaign was severely damaged in the closing months by allegations of sexual misconduct as a young man. The Republican leaders of the GOP-controlled Senate failed overnight to get the 60 votes needed to move forward and pass a temporary spending bill to keep the government fully operational past Friday midnight. Republicans have a 51-to-49 member majority in the Senate. The vote was 50-49. Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain did not vote because he’s home recovering from cancer treatment.
Trump for many years has claimed vehemently that govt shutdowns are directly on the president.....he bashed Obama about it over and over ..now...well..he's changing that tune...
Trump said from the beginning (6 months ago when the courts ruled DACA an illegal over-reach by Obama) he would sign into law any deal that Congress brought to him, and gave them until March 5th to do so. Sen. Pelosi very publicly asked to keep DACA separate from the budget deal and the President agreed. 4 Dems and 2 Reps tried to secretly offer a deal the rest of Congress had not even seen and Trump threw them out. Schumer re-presented the same basic deal and the President again told him to present it to Congress for a vote and if it passed he would sign it into law. Dems voted down the budget in typical tantrum style.
sure.....read it and weep....Mexico won't pay for your wall.....who's not good at math? You voted for him. I'm not hyping the Dems either....they fuck up plenty...but Trump could've kept govt from shutting down....the dems just called his bluff. Unlike your post....I think this hurts the GOP even more...math says Dems are making up for lost ground pretty quickly with the GOP firing everyone in sight. Top 5 staff members in Trump's administration have yet to file financial disclosures....Kushner has made 39 changes to his...adding millions and still hasn't finished his homework....these guys are supposed to be professionals...math? Crowd size? Who can't do math? You honestly think this administration has done a responsible job vetting cabinet appointees?
Good luck with that. Government shutdowns have never lingered in voters' minds for very long. And that even assumes they blame Democrats. Current polling shows most of the public right now blames Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown. That could change, obviously, but pinning your hopes both on that changing and people even remembering it 10 months (and 50 Trump distraction news cycles) from now is definitely a good way to set yourself up for disappointment.
Not really the same thing. A starving college student can't just choose to be richer and able to afford a better diet. Congress can just choose to work together to create a proper funding bill--it just takes political will. A government shutdown creates some political will.
Having 17 years experience as a Federal Employee I am aware of the non-issue and non-effect of a temporary limited government shutdown. The only parts of government that are paused are the ones we can totally do without, the scams and ripoffs that Congress was paid by lobbyists to enact. So a shutdown merely highlights these tax-wasting targets for permanent removal. It's a win-win for anyone wishing to shrink government. As for am I happy with the President's performance, absolutely yes! My income rose significantly last year and will again this year, he has already kept every promise he made with exception only of those acted on but temporarilly stalled in lib-courts. He has drained the swamp considerably by firing or not rehiring deep state moles and is lining up prosecutions for many more. He destroyed ISIS in a few months, has NK shaking in fear, has exposed Socialist-Europe for the weak-willed failure it is, and I'm looking forward to finding out who the DOJ's recent 9,000 secret indictments are going to bring down.
Depends on who you ask. https://www.newsmax.com/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-blame-gop/2018/01/19/id/838289/ Key results from the CNN poll: 31 percent said Democrats in Congress would be to blame for a shutdown. 26 percent said Republicans in Congress would be to blame. 21 percent said President Donald Trump would be to blame. 10 percent said all politicians would be to blame. 56 percent said avoiding a government shutdown is more important than coming to a solution on the DACA issue. 34 percent said the opposite. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...-for-government-shutdown-poll/article/2646509 http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/politics/shutdown-democrats-poll/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politics/cnn-poll-shutdown-trump-immigration-daca/index.html
This is not true.....this shutdown affects first responders....military housing in the field...many things....I've profited from the deregulation and tax cuts to big business but that doesn't blind me to the utter chaos this administration has brought about...Trump hasn't drained the swamp at all from my view....he's definitely helped his own cause in the business world though...that anyone trusts him baffles me honestly...N Korea hasn't been so emboldened with their missile program in human history as they are now...ask the Japanese how much boot shaking they are doing...the world is more volatile now than since Nixon
