They looked like hapless singles on a blind date that went horribly wrong, desperate to find a way out.
Posted on 01/08/2019 11:12:58 PM PST by be-baw
Politicians just interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring you a message they’ve been repeating ad nauseum for the last three weeks.
President Trump went first. Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, he read a watered-down stump speech from a teleprompter. Illegal immigrants and a flood of drugs are streaming across the border, the president said in so many words. The shutdown is the fault of Democrats, he continued, and the solution is some variation of a wall.
Notably lacking? Fireworks.
Trump was presidential in that Trump was unusually low key. He didn’t declare a national emergency, a move which would have thrown Congress and the courts into an immediate crisis. He just repeated the boilerplate language from his campaign.
Democrats offered their rebuttal next, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., standing cadaver-like behind a shared podium. They may haunt the dreams of any child who was unlucky enough to be awake during prime time, but aside from that they didn’t accomplish anything new.
Pelosi said the president was holding the country hostage. Schumer followed up arguing that the president was appealing to fear, not facts, and that Democrats and Republicans agree border security is necessary. They just disagree, Schumer posited, on how to do it.
Pundits promised that this would be a clash of the political titans, a rough-and-tumble exchange of fire worthy of the last two years of hysteria. It was instead a 20-minute dud with all the drama of a "Friends" rerun.
And believe it or not, that is a good thing.
Nothing bad happened tonight, because nothing dramatic went down and nothing changed. Governing from crisis leads to unforeseen outcomes and extra-constitutional actions. Instead, both sides laid out their battle lines after kicking a little dust in prime time.
Trump ain’t your typical president
Did you even bother to vote in the midterms?
Right now, the government shutdown is the best leverage Trump has as the House will never put out a solution while the Dems own it.....
They looked like hapless singles on a blind date that went horribly wrong, desperate to find a way out.
In my view the Democrats are refusing to move on the Wall for two reasons:
1. They know it will be effective and they don’t want Trump to get credit for it.
2. After the midterm elections where, with the aid of illegals voting, the Democrats won big in California. They would like to make it a model for every state.
“Glooooooom.... Despair..... Agony on me!!!”
“Glooooooom.... Despair..... Agony on me!!!”
“....why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I’d found true love...you met another and poof you were gone”
~ ode to HEE HAW
You sound very sure, when all i see is compromise. Why would anyone in their right might wait to get serious about this when they are no longer the majority party .
Here is hoping you are right. So far, i see no evidence.
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