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Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster
The Atlantic ^ | 1/18/2019 | MCKAY COPPINS

Posted on 01/18/2019 9:45:44 AM PST by PreciousLiberty

As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens.

This is, of course, not a sentiment lawmakers are eager to share on the record. But in interviews this week with congressional staffers on both sides of the aisle (whom I granted anonymity in exchange for candor), I heard the same morbid idea expressed again and again.

The basic theory—explained to me between weary sighs and defeated shrugs—goes like this: Washington is at an impasse that looks increasingly unbreakable. President Donald Trump is dug in; so is Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Democrats have public opinion on their side, but the president is focused on his conservative base. For a deal to shake loose in this environment, it may require a failure of government so dramatic, so shocking, as to galvanize public outrage and force the two parties back to the negotiating table.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; idiocracy; shutdown; sobstory; trump
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There's a lot of leftist garbage in the rest of the article, but I'd like to highlight the closing:
She’d found Pelosi’s latest stunt—disinviting Trump from the State of the Union—“pointless,” and she longed for a bipartisan deal that would let her get back to work on a proactive policy agenda.

She was trying to stay upbeat, she told me. “But it’s pretty bad,” she said. “I’ve been in D.C. nine years, and I’ve never seen people this miserable.”

Honestly, it sounds like President Trump's war on the swamp is going well!!! :-)
1 posted on 01/18/2019 9:45:44 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

The Dems are hoping and praying for some disaster like a terror attack or other happens so they can blame Trump for it...................


2 posted on 01/18/2019 9:48:24 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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...she longed for a bipartisan deal that would let her get back to work on a proactive policy agenda.

Well, Some good IS coming from it after all!..................

3 posted on 01/18/2019 9:49:29 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: PreciousLiberty
I thought that was the "disaster" yesterday when PDJT stopped the boondoggle express to the E-yewwwwww and Dumbassistan with a stop in Saudi Arabia. No? 😹👍🏼💸✈️
4 posted on 01/18/2019 9:49:44 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Read to the end. By xhr picture, I bet the author uses Gillette.


5 posted on 01/18/2019 9:49:49 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Democrats have public opinion on their side, but the president is focused on his conservative base.

Proof?? The Atlantic is a sad reflection of the media’s desire to push an agenda that is contrary to fact and willfully ignores its critics.


6 posted on 01/18/2019 9:50:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: PreciousLiberty
She’d found Pelosi’s latest stunt—disinviting Trump from the State of the Union—“pointless,”

Scott Adams was saying yesterday that it's worse than pointless. It's a blunder. The SOTU given in the House chamber is a boring spectacle that amounts to very little. But if Pres. Trump gets to make it into a campaign-style rally it will amount to a great deal.

Pelosi's problem is that the only template she has for dealing as Speaker with a Republican president is GW Bush, who was a pushover. She has no idea how to deal with Trump. He just runs rings around her.

7 posted on 01/18/2019 9:50:37 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: PreciousLiberty

"...shutdown ends in disaster..."


To paraphrase Ann Coulter from earlier:
"We will survive if the tourist gift shop at Yosemite needs to remain closed a few more weeks."


8 posted on 01/18/2019 9:50:38 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Some sort of disaster will likely happen as a result of open borders.
We’ll see an attack, some kind of mass slaughter or explosion brought by the free loaders and their friends.


9 posted on 01/18/2019 9:50:48 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

The disaster has been slowing unfolding for 32 years as the government, of both parties, allowed our country to be invaded and colonized by fraudulently documented foreigners and refused to protect the citizens.

IT HAS TO STOP!

This IS the hill to die on.

Or we won’t have a hill, or a country.


10 posted on 01/18/2019 9:51:36 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: grey_whiskers
Read to the end. By xhr picture, I bet the author uses Gillette.

Yep. Gillette's target demographic for sure.

11 posted on 01/18/2019 9:52:01 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Red Badger
The Dems are hoping and praying for planning some disaster like a terror attack or other happens gun-related mass killing so they can blame Trump for it...................

Fixed

12 posted on 01/18/2019 9:52:13 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: PreciousLiberty

People know the democrats went on vacation using taxpayer money.


13 posted on 01/18/2019 9:52:52 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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The Democrats are not winning this at all. They are getting slaughtered. The American people see this as pure politics to support rape and murder and thugs and illegals alien people that have no skills or even speak English when before they voted for secure borders. If anything happens , it is on the Democrats — Not Us. The Honduran Hoards are coming and we have a National emergency NOW!!


14 posted on 01/18/2019 9:53:23 AM PST by Mikemurphy
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To: Lurkinanloomin

slowly unfolding


15 posted on 01/18/2019 9:53:45 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Democrats have public opinion on their side, but the president is focused on his conservative base.

Why isn't the opinion of "his conservative base" considered to be "public opinion?"

16 posted on 01/18/2019 9:55:42 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Mikemurphy

All while the border patrol seized 700 lbs of Coke at Texas border where there is no wall.


17 posted on 01/18/2019 9:55:48 AM PST by mplc51
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To: PreciousLiberty
"As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens."

Like a plane full of fanatical liberal politicos crash somewhere mid-atlantic?

18 posted on 01/18/2019 9:56:31 AM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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People know the democrats went on vacation using taxpayer money.

Might be illegal too. The only reps I have heard so far are Pelosi, Schiff, Engel, Takano, Luria, Davis and Lynch. If they had no Republican reps on their junket then it was illegal.

19 posted on 01/18/2019 9:57:29 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: CatOwner

From all the extreme rhetoric coming from the Democrats and Globalist Republicans, I am concerned for the safety of the President.
The Democrats may be preparing an assassination attempt.
TWB


20 posted on 01/18/2019 9:59:25 AM PST by TWhiteBear (H)
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