[TakebackGOP]

When is the wall going to be funded if he keeps pushing it back?

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Levin can shove it. Trump was smart to put the GOPe on notice that if they keep failing him, he does have an Option B.

[montag813]

Levin is an idiot. Ryan and McConnell are no less enemies than Pelosi and Schumer. And is Trump supposed to hold Harvey aid hostage to the wall? And besides Kevin McCartly already told Bartiroma yesterday that the wall funding would be put off “at least” until December. This was a smart tactical move by Trump to tell the GOPe to f**k off.

[9YearLurker]

https://www.axios.com/trump-democrat-for-a-day-2482296772.html

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Sacajaweau]

What's this "President Trump defied....."

He's the President....

Ryan has been defying Trump since Day 1...

[RC one]

conservatives have plenty of leverage after the DACA decision.

[JohnyBoy]

Holding up hurricane relief is just stupid especially when the places being hit are red states.

[TTFX]

A radio guy who does nothing but scream all day sure knows all about negotiation.

[DouglasKC]

The GOP woyld cave anyways and try and would have tried to blame it on Trump.

[Red Steel]

A related dumb article from the same CR group posted here:

“Unforgivable: Donald Trump just made Chuck Schumer POTUS
CR ^ | 9/6/17 | Chrid Pandolfo”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3583778/posts

[CASchack]

[MortMan]

Trump changed the focal point on the lever, IMO.

[tennmountainman]

Did Levin say he was for an 18 month spending bill that would
put renewal up after elections?
Or a 3 month spending bill that would have to be addressed
again before primaries and the general elections?

The GOP wanted an 18 month spending bill.
Trump wanted a short term spending bill.

[RightInTheMain]

It was his signature item.

However, if it were going to get done in totality, it would have been done in the first 2-3 months. I don’t think it will happen unless he primaries out of GOP members and sends a message.

I do believe they will be able to get some of it in the infrastructure bill by generalizing it in some way.

If I were going to shut down the govt and risk a credit rating bump, I’d do it for the tax cuts personally. THAT is far more important.

[Reno89519]

Another NeverTrump loser speaks again. Where was he to help Trump?

[af_vet_rr]

When is the wall going to be funded if he keeps pushing it back?

It's not. Developers, agriculture, and other large industries want the labor that flows through the border, so we are not getting it. Those of us who follow those industries, or who work in them, know that.

The wall, at least as envisioned by Trump and others, is not going to happen, but if you start increasing the penalties for hiring illegals, both on companies and individuals, and if you work out a better verification system, you can reduce the illegals a lot more than any wall would.

[DesertRhino]

“, but also gave away his biggest bargaining chips for a wall on the southern border, says Mark Levin.” “

Levin the dumbass. Does anyone believe that in return for a raise in the debt ceiling, that Ryan and McConnell would have funded the wall?
They have obstructed every Trump goal with a single minded obsession. The only answer is to marginalize them and hurt their goals.

[Eddie01]

Levin is insufferable.

So are those who blame Trump for congressional and judicial obstruction.

[Fantasywriter]

Levin missed the point. If Ryan and McConnell get to jerk Trump around forever, we’ll never get anything that requires congressional cooperation. Since neither of them were lifting a finger to help Trump to begin with, he had nothing to lose. So he sent them a message. Namely, that he won’t put up with their sabotage forever.

It’s the only thing Ryan and McConnell understand, short of a thrashing in the next election. Hopefully that’s coming up.

[ctdonath2]

At the other extreme, Scott Adams thinks this was a brilliant move: https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/905539296735649792