Posted on 01/12/2019 3:29:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When President Trump made a rare journey to the Capitol last week, he was expected to strategize about how to end the government shutdown he instigated. Instead, he spent the first 20-odd minutes delivering a monologue about “winning.”
“We’re winning” on North Korea, the president told Republican senators Wednesday at a closed-door luncheon. “We’re winning” on Syria and “we’re winning” on the trade war with China, too. And, Trump concluded, they could win on immigration if Republicans stuck together through what is now the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, according to officials who attended the presidential pep talk.
The problem was that Trump offered no path to victory — other than brinkmanship.
Talks between the two parties remained stalled this weekend after the president torpedoed his last negotiating session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) by walking out of the room.
With Trump determined to deliver on his signature campaign promise of building a border wall and Democrats standing firm against what they view as an immoral and ineffective solution to illegal immigration, there is no end in sight to the dysfunction.
Trump was nevertheless confident on Saturday about his handling of the standoff. “I do have a plan on the Shutdown,” he tweeted. “But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people.”
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Four authors? Costa and Rucker are two of the Post’s biggest liars. Costa especially, he lies and then lies about how unbiased he is.
It’s up to Congress to fund the government. Which they’re refusing to do. Meanwhile, it’s the presdent’s dury to protect the country. And Congress is trying to prevent defending our border. So far, that’s two big losers for Congress ( and the huge size and many illegal activities of the federal government — desperately need cutbacks — So it’s great that “non- essential functions” aren’t being funded right now. Adjust any mistakes and then Hoping they make this permanent !
Defiance. Defiance of whom? I guess the treasonous Rats who want to maintain the invasion of the country by unskilled gimmes and worse so they get a little permanent unbreakable Majority that’s who.
We need to call them the Amazon Washington Post.
And we are winning on the supposed shutdown, too.
Stopped readig after, he instigated
Reading
Just because he said he would own it doesn't mean he does.
Their agony is entertaining, I kept reading.
Yes commie congress is defying the chief executive.
I wish he would have put his foot down on the republican house. And had the defense department build the wall as an emergency defense measure.
He’s going to have to do it that way sooner or later.
TRUMPS DEFIANCE?
Leftist totalitarian fascists refuse to work with the president to protect the people of this country and maintain its sovereignty and they say it is HIS fault.
May they be shot at dawn.
Donald Trump is the Media’s Golem. They created him and he had the audacity to not disappear when he was supposed to. The Golem was a created being, without a soul. The story goes that on the first day, he called his creator ‘master’. On the second, he called his creator ‘brother’. On the third, he called him ‘servant’. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Four authors? Costa and Rucker are two of the Post’s biggest liars. Costa especially, he lies and then lies about how unbiased he is.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
When they tell bigger lies, it takes at least 4 of them, then they can say they didn’t know which of them lied. As reporters the Washington Compost reporters are like the Keystone Cops.
One of their so called reporters, Khashoggi, now deceased, was touted as their reporter when in fact Khashoggi was using the Washington Post as cover to his true purpose: a Muslim Brotherhood Agent Provocateur against the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia. That is what got him dead, not his reporting, which was simply pro Muslim Brotherhood propaganda for the most part.
The Washington Compost is hardly a newspaper anymore. It is a propaganda rag like the New York Slimes.
The Compost needs to quit while they are ahead. They lost Trump hater Krauthammer to death as well as Khashoggi to the anti-propaganda gods.Costa and Rucker should be looking over their shoulders for the eventual terminal effects of their own negative karma. We shall see.
Amazon Post says Trump is an idiot wandering into a dead end.
Yeah, sure. How come the shutdown hasn’t led him to capitulate to the Democrats?
Fake news has all the answers.
Doesn’t IT seem WRONG chuck and Nancy have made no, NO counter offer?
PDJT offer of ownership required a Bill without Wall funding and his veto. No such thing has happened. This is on the dimwits. They took another vacation. He should order con-gre$$ back into emergency session. Let them chew on that.
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