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By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 2 at 9:00 AM
The Post reports:
Border Security and the Wall thing and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker! Lets make a deal? Trump tweeted Tuesday.
One wondrous result of the 2018 election, we will discover, is the near-total irrelevance of Trumps tweets. He can say whatever wacky thing he wants, throw out whatever insults he pleases, but Pelosi (D-Calif.), the incoming House speaker, is not going to be thrown off track or even alarmed. She takes his tweets as confirmation he is clueless and unstable.
Of course, Pelosi would like nothing better than to demonstrate Democrats can govern and the Republican Senate cannot. (Pelosi responded to Trumps lets make a deal invitation by tweeting that the president had given Democrats a great opportunity to show how we will govern responsibly & quickly pass our plan to end the irresponsible #TrumpShutdown just the first sign of things to come in our new Democratic Majority committed to working #ForThePeople.)
Pelosi has her plan ready to go: Pass a clean resolution for six of the seven appropriations bills to fund through the end of the fiscal year and the Homeland Security appropriations through Feb. 8. Trump cannot prevent her from doing it, nor can Freedom Caucus gadfly Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who declared the move a non-starter as if his consent were necessary.
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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)morning of the Shut down. Guy's my guess is this is not going to end this week. So if you have Family affected like many on this board,be prepared to cut more checks for Groceries and Rent as well as their House payments.
Just heard from one of those persons a hour ago,their info was,it ain't going to happen this week as per their DC contacts.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)for the shutdown.
Since then the whole thing has been a long drawn out losing move for him that his ego cant quit.
like if you just have your King and a pawn left in Chess but refuse to resign
I hope he never has to make a serious decision about the safety of this nation if he cant let go of a simple thing like this.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)we went shut down. Schumer and Pelosi gave the sucker wiggle room and he wasted it for the sake of his sorry ass ego.
So we change some things around in order to protect our Grand Kid,and make sure there is gas money and grocery money in their house.
This has now become personal,and you damn right,I will be working a Democratic Campaign to replace this Asshole.