I understand veto.What part of "there's absolutely *no* lie we won't tell and absolutely no filthy,unconstitutional stunt we won't employ to drive Trump from office" don't *you* understand?
It's said that Trump won the last shutdown fight.Even if that's true it's highly unlikely he'd win this one.
Sadly,DJT had no good options open to him...options that had any real chance of succeeding.The Rats are just too powerful at this time.Remember,while it's true that Reagan would have vetoed such a bill he carried 47 states and got 60% of the popular vote.
Ours is a country in,what I strongly fear,is an unstoppable decline.For proof just look at today's Rat Party...ILLary,Osama Obama,Bella Pelosi,Princess Liawatha.
Yes,I'm a pessimist.Yes,I'm damn glad that I'm far closer to the grave than to the cradle.I weep for the kids of this country...their middle age and later years will be much,much worse than mine.
And yes,it was my generation (Baby Boomers) who started this ball careening downhill.
Veto it and it goes back to congress. Either they override his veto or he gets a new budget. But a lot of people forget. The WH was actively involved in this budget. Trump was only playing the part of surprise and disappointment. Unless his minions don't tell him what's in a bill. Heck, VP Pence was out YESTERDAY touting the great bill headed to the White House for signature.
This isn't some deep state move. This was a cooperative effort between the deep state and Trump and his team.
Now take a look at today's 'Puke Party: Ryan, McConnell, Rubio, Toomey, Flake, McCain, Cornyn, Cochran ...
“Sadly,DJT had no good options open to him..”
Wrong. He could have vetoed it, explained why, then went to war by naming every last republican who voted for it, and announced his support, and announced the mother of all rallies to support the campaigns of every last challenger, and then daily talked about a few of them to get their names in the news cycle. It may have been unprecedented, and an enormous risk, but I think he had nothing to lose because the entire party has demonstrated that they are at war with him since day one. Yes he had a bad choice, sign it and lose, dont sign it and maybe lose a different way, or choose the third way with war, but he may have won that way.