Fri Apr 21, 2017, 10:18 PM
Fast Walker 52 (7,723 posts)
The White House Seems Excited to Shut Down the Government
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-white-house-seems-excited-to-shut-down-the-government
Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump’s hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President’s progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. F.D.R. was grappling with the Great Depression, and he had a pliant Congress that would have passed almost anything he proposed. Presidents since then have often struggled to meet the expectations of the hundred-day report card but generally can point to a list of major legislative accomplishments. Trump does not have such a list. At the same time, the Trump White House is facing a much more consequential deadline, one that will help define his first months in office and perhaps his first term: absent a spending deal with Democrats and Republicans in Congress, next Saturday the government will shut down. Mick Mulvaney is a major asshole, shutting down the govt when his party is in control is insane.
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Fast Walker 52 | Apr 2017 | OP |
mopinko | Apr 2017 | #1 | |
Fast Walker 52 | Apr 2017 | #4 | |
relayerbob | Apr 2017 | #2 | |
Cha | Apr 2017 | #5 | |
PoliticAverse | Apr 2017 | #3 |
Response to Fast Walker 52 (Original post)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 10:33 PM
mopinko (66,052 posts)
1. well, i am not sure you can shut down a government
that doesnt exist. they have not formed one.
i have little problem w this particular govt, such as it is, being packed in mothballs until people come to their senses. |
Response to mopinko (Reply #1)
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 06:08 AM
Fast Walker 52 (7,723 posts)
4. the whitehouse is useless but they can let govt funding lapse, which will cause all kinds of havoc
Response to Fast Walker 52 (Original post)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 10:53 PM
relayerbob (5,805 posts)
2. Unlimited golf!
And unlimited graft. What more could they want?
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Response to relayerbob (Reply #2)
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 06:48 AM
Cha (282,408 posts)
5. lol.. I was thinking along those lines..
Response to Fast Walker 52 (Original post)
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:50 AM
PoliticAverse (26,366 posts)