The Wall
What part of negotiation does Prznint McDeal not understand:
If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
And so with that public decree of not being amused, Prznin Stupid sets the stage for the next dramatic episode of Oval Office Apprentice.
So how is it playing?
Tiger Beat on the Potomac (thanks Charlie!):
“McConnell has made no secret of how much he hates shutdowns, particularly the most recent and historic partial funding lapse. He said Tuesday he’ll probably support ‘whatever works’ to avoid another debacle. He’s considering bills to end shutdowns forever and giving his four GOP conference committee negotiators wide berth to strike a deal with Democrats.”
Meanwhile, Senatorette Lindsey Graham is freelancing the worst idea, ever:
“I think the president understands we need to raise the debt ceiling,” Graham said. “It comes due in March, so why not just expedite things” by throwing it into the mid-February deadline for funding the government.”
And Politico tells us that Hair Füror is prepping for the National Emergency gambit:
“The White House is finalizing the details of a potential national emergency declaration to secure President Donald Trump’s border wall, even as lawmakers are trying to broker an immigration deal that could avert another shutdown in just over two weeks.
“Trump met with his budget chief, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Jared Kushner and other top officials including White House lawyers on Tuesday to walk through the logistics of such a move. And White House aides have been quietly meeting with outside conservative political groups to build support for the president to take such an action. Those talking points, which emphasize Trump’s legal authority, have begun to show up in such conservative media outlets as Breitbart News.”
So it seems that the GOP is again fighting against themselves while the Pelosi and the Democrats appear to be unified; I cannot find any news of them breaking ranks.
And loud guffaws can already be heard emanating from the Federal Courts which will likely hear opposition to the “Emergency!” declaration, before it’s sent to its final resting place. If there was no emergency for the past two years, and no emergency now, and no emergency for the next two weeks, then these dunderheads have pretty much given plenty of ammo to the Dims to use against them.
Now, we’ll see if they can fire back at the Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight. (Unless it’s at their feet.)
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“McConnell has made no secret of how much he hates shutdowns.”
That’s the biggest load of horseshit I’ve heard in a while.
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Suppose IQ45 throws a National Emergency and nobody cares.
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Dont those “Top Officials” have more pressing business right now, like packing a sleep away bag and consulting their criminal defense attorneys?
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Add to everything else you wrote that since the House Intel Committee is now fully seated, the Dem majority can vote to release the Trump-Russia transcripts to Mueller.
Yes, Mueller has copies, but it’s only when the transcripts are officially released that he can finally present his case against Don Jr. to the grand jury.
I believe the earliest that Mueller’s team can then arrest lil’ Donnie Jr is Wednesday next week.
But Mueller has style; I’ve got some more notional Ameros he waits to do it on the 15th.
45 won’t know whether to shit or go blind…
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Making it easier to vote is a “power grab”, but improperly, by any standard, deploying emergency powers to bypass Congress’s funding authority, somehow is not?
That’s where we are now, and the GOP is going to fly air cover for it.
That’s how effective the novocaine drip over the last two years has been — what used to be unimaginably outrageous is now, at worst, “potentially problematic”.
Any guesses as to where we’ll be after two more years of this shit?
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Slowest national emergency in history.
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I just realized there’s an extinct volcano 200 miles downwind of me. That’s a bigger crisis than undocumented immigrants mowing lawns, picking fruit and carrying for the kids of the 1% to send few hundred bucks back home.
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“I think the president understands we need to raise the debt ceiling,” Graham said.
Which raises the question “what is he drinking?”
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Another liberal redneck:
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