Posted on 01/18/2019 8:21:37 AM PST by PBRCat
Listen, if you’re Nancy Pelosi it makes a lot of sense. Nancy Pelosi is terrified, number one, of her extreme left-wing base; she is captive of that; and number two, the position of Congressional Democrats in this shutdown is objectively unreasonable. In 2013, Chuck Schumer and every Senate Democrat voted in favor of 350 miles of border wall. They have right now shut the government down to stop 234 miles of border wall. I don’t know how you explain that you voted in favor of 350 miles but you shut the government down to stop 234 miles. That is incoherent.
The honest answer: It’s not a substantive disagreement; it’s that they’re terrified of their extreme left wing, who hates Trump. And that’s why we’re having a shutdown. So why does Nancy Pelosi not want the State of the Union? Because the State of the Union is an enormous platform for the president to speak directly to the American people, and she doesn’t want people focusing on the substance of this issue. She wants their information to come from the mainstream media rather than the president.
Listen, it’s the same reason, You remember, back right before the shutdown, when the president met with Pelosi and Schumer in the Oval Office and it was a remarkable meeting. I thought the funniest and most revealing moment was when Pelosi said multiple times, “Please, can we turn the cameras off? Can we get the reporters out of here” She didn’t want people to see that their position was objectively unreasonable. The president said he’s willing to compromise; he’s willing to negotiate but we need to secure the border. The president’s right. Their position is not defensible she’s trying to hide from the cameras and I don’t think we should let her.
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Yep, the radical Left Wing has taken over the party AND they need cover from the corrupt activist media. If the truth comes out, Trump always wins.
When did Sen. Cruz decide to start going all James Garfield? It suits him better than Paul Ryan, at least.
The entire Democrat Party is left wing. The most extreme components do not hate Trump. They hate America.
One more reason that Cruz has been consistently under-rated. He has a sharp mind and the intestinal fortitude to use it. His detractors are way off base.
Campaign talk is campaign talk. Get over it!
“Pelosi said multiple times, “Please, can we turn the cameras off?”
Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the POTUS would’ve said that? The lib media would still be on it 24/7.
I agree.
Trump needs to use the SOTU speech to demand that all the FBI CIA and other intelligence agents that are working for or otherwise working with any media within the US should be outed or listed to Trump.
The reality is that the CIA has had people embedded in the press who were really American Intelligence agents. Those agents used to work outside our country. But after 911, they have been able to work within our press inside of our country. Our country needs to get rid of any connection between the our press and any government, especially ours.
Wow, Cruz nails it.
First Graham showing a backbone from time to time, now Cruz making an insightful observation without self aggrandizing.
I like it.
pouting pelosi's ass burn.
The last time Trump was on tv, he looked calm and reasonable and was short and to the point. Pelosi and Schmuck looked wooden and scared. They requested a do over the next day. They are obviously scared that Trump will make them look more stupid and stubborn and point out their hypocrisies.
Somebody here on FR posted a picture of Trump with the following on it.
In reality, they are not after me, they are after you. I am just in their way
So true.
Pretty sure the commie dem Rats hate Trump as well as America. What really concerns me is all of their supporters do too. The mask is off. Everyone knows the dems are the party of Anti-Americans/Anti-White people. The fact that so many of these haters are themselves white is strange to say the least but when dealing with a group of people who share an obvious mental illness; I guess anything is possible.
Leftism is toxic at every level of society.
Add to that their loss to Trump and you have a mass hysteria by a large group of commie dem leftist rats. They are still enraged. They feed on that rage. Trump messes with them to feed even more rage. They won't be happy until they take down America and make sure they are permanently in power. That is of course when either a second revolution or civil war will begin because there's just no way we could let that stand. It would be another Nazi or Stalin era. We might as well fight as if our lives depended on winning because it would.
/rant
If Ted Cruz was the principled Constitutionalist that his followers believe him to be he would have used his own story to explain to the American people not only why he was ineligible, but that Obama was too.
The children of foreign nationals were precisely who the founders were excluding from being President.
Anyone born with more than ONE nationality is NOT naturally an American.
His ambition got in the way of his principles.
‘The truth is a fortress’
Now you're just coming across as a whiny sore winner. No one likes those--they're even worse than sore losers. The only one you are making look bad is yourself.
Why are you anti-Constitution?
Invite the Dems to Mara Lago for the SOTU we know the Dems like vacations.But first they end the shutdown.
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