Trump Blinks. Now What Will Democrats Do?

The Revolutionary Act ^ | 01/26/19

[Liberty7732]

After much pain and consternation, the confrontation over a government shutdown is now over. Temporarily.

Yesterday, President Trump announced a deal that would reopen the government for three weeks, allow furloughed workers to be paid, and restore some of the not-so-non-essential personnel, like TSA workers, to real-time compensation status. By the end of the day, Congress passed a bill to implement the deal, and the wheels were set in motion for the restoration of a precarious state of normalcy within our federal government.

Most notably, of course, the deal did not include money for wall funding.

Yes, the President blinked yesterday. For all his bravado, for all his claims to never lose, for all his toughness and snide remarks on Twitter, the President capitulated yesterday, giving up — at least temporarily — one of the most powerful bargaining chips in his possession. Now, the real question is, what will the Democrats do?

Clearly, the Democrats’ position in the confrontation has been insupportable. According to them, the presence of a wall at key locations throughout our border is “immoral;” ICE needs to be defunded; and it is best for humanity if people are allowed to cross from one nation to the next without restriction and without accountability. For Democrats, the global human population represents a blob of amorphous protoplasm free to flow across the continents according to the relative attractiveness of the various milieus even if the end result is to destroy the new location where it chooses to reside.

Of course, the Democrats’ position is nonsensical. Yes, it represents emotion-laden fodder for its liberal wing, but it is irreconcilably incompatible with a nation’s continued existence. So now that the Democrats have moved from a position of being a relatively powerless minority in Congress to being in a position to grind the legislative wheels to a halt if it does not get its way. What will they do next?

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are childishly gloating over their ostensible defeat of the President. According to Schumer, he hopes this is a moment that has taught the President a lesson. But once the Speaker and he come down from their celebratory high, they will still be faced with the challenge of solving the issue of border security in the face of another round of largely ineligible asylum seekers making their way to the southern border.

The fact is that the plan the President proposed, the same plan the Democrats resoundingly rejected — one that allots $805 million for technology, canines, and personnel to help stop the flow of illegal drugs, weapons and other contraband; $675 million for drug-detection inspection technology to help secure our ports of entry; $130 million for canine units, training, personnel and portable scanners to help deter and detect smuggled narcotics, weapons, and other dangerous materials coming across the border; $800 million in humanitarian assistance, medical support, and new temporary housing for immigrants; $782 million to hire an additional 2,750 border agents, law enforcement officers, and staff for added border security; $563 million to support our immigration court system including hiring 75 new immigration judge teams to reduce the immigration court backlog of 800,000 cases; enhancement of the nation’s visa monitoring and enforcement assets; and some form of residency provision for DACA recipients that does not include a path to citizenship — is pretty close to the final answer.

And of course, the President is right, regardless of the other components: Any final product must include the erection of walls spanning critical junctures of America’s southern border.

One thing that has materialized from the last few months of zealous discussion is the materialization of a permanent solution to border security. That path is now well defined. The real question is whether the Democrats can stomach going back on their false assertions and support the same components they so recently and hypocritically dismissed.

Personally, I think they can’t.

[gaijin]

Now they’ll repeatedly scream to OUR people that he blinked.

They got what they wanted, now they’ll penalize him for it.

And they won’t stop.

[taxcontrol]

I have the take that the President has set a trap that the Democrats have walked into. Kind of “I was reasonable and reopened the government, now it is your turn to be reasonable.”

[dfwgator]

Now they’ll repeatedly scream to OUR people that he blinked. They got what they wanted, now they’ll penalize him for it. And they won’t stop.

The Democrats, to give them credit, are smart when it comes to these things. They understand the way to beat Trump is to demoralize the base. That's their strategy, and I think it threw Trump off-guard. They know if Trump gets what he wants the base will be energized and he cruises in 2020. They are willing to do whatever it takes to avoid that happening. Trump needs to stop worrying about what people who will never vote for him think. Keep the Base Happy, that's the job!

[metmom]

He didn’t blink.

Based on past experience of watching him operate, it was a calculating move that somehow works in his favor.

The least of which is not he can’t be blamed for the gov.
employees for not getting paid and they can’t use that to turn them against him, cause he agreed to it when the dems refused it.

[llevrok]

Looking at things over the last 24 hours, Trump did not blink. He was done in by Senate RINOs who voted against his re-open bills.

Once that happened, he could hold out but politically bleed to death, or mend his wounds to fight another day

[NormsRevenge]

JMHO

Short term deal for long term gain.. works for me.

Trump just snookered the Left. He hooked them like a fish.

In 3 weeks time, they will be forced to produce or at least negotiate a deal or stew in their own juices, like the obstructionists that they are.

The true National Emergency is in the coordinated efforts of the Leftist leaders and complicit media to keep us defenseless against future invasions.

The eGOP is also up to their eyeballs in allowing this to go on as long as it has, so ineffective is their leadership, and so muted their voices..

[dfwgator]

He was done in by Senate RINOs who voted against his re-open bills.

And we all know who the ring-leader is.

[caww]

Pelosi’s been given a rope...and she’s running with it....we know how that ends!

[yoe]

"Yes, the President blinked yesterday. For all his bravado, for all his claims to never lose, for all his toughness and snide remarks on Twitter, the President capitulated yesterday, giving up — at least temporarily — one of the most powerful bargaining chips in his possession. Now, the real question is, what will the Democrats do?"

"The fact is that the plan the President proposed, the same plan the Democrats resoundingly rejected — one that allots $805 million for technology, canines, and personnel to help stop the flow of illegal drugs, weapons and other contraband; $675 million for drug-detection inspection technology to help secure our ports of entry; $130 million for canine units, training, personnel and portable scanners to help deter and detect smuggled narcotics, weapons, and other dangerous materials coming across the border; $800 million in humanitarian assistance, medical support..." and so on....

Question is did President Trumpo blink or wink? I thinkj he did the latter...."Nancy's Wall" is coming....

[dfwgator]

Pelosi’s been given a rope...and she’s running with it....we know how that ends!

That's been Trump's saving grace to this point.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

“Now they’ll repeatedly scream to OUR people that he blinked.

They got what they wanted, now they’ll penalize him for it.

And they won’t stop.”

And I had such high hopes for them! I just knew that when the airplanes were grounded, the Press was going to realize that the problem was really the House Dems, and not Trump! /sarc

[DarthVader]

+1

[virgil]

It was Trump who reopened the govt, not Pelosi. He opened it so that employees could be paid, and I hope they remember that.

[caww]

.....” Keep the Base Happy, that’s the job!”......

Well no keeping people happy is not the job.....it’s doing the right thing when it’s in his power to do that...especially when his base has little patience or understanding of all this entails to bring about a favorable END solution.

[Leep]

How can you tell if the dims are losing or winning for that matter?
Even when their Presidential hopeful was ahead by Saddam Hussein percentages.. she lost?
One way to sense Trump is winning is when the media says he is losing...
Which is Every day he has been President..?
Tokyo Rose is in the house.

[dfwgator]

....it’s doing the right thing when it’s in his power to do that...especially when his base has little patience or understanding of all this entails to bring about a favorable END solution.

That's the "Bush Way".

[yoe]

Meant President Trump, not Pres. Trumpo

[caww]

This ‘IS’ political maneuvering....it’s not a blink nor a cave until all the cards are on the table. Really wish people would watch the moves and think.... without swallowing the media dribble. Some just are too involved emotionally and it gets in the way of thinking....they lose sight of the game over one hand played.

[Political Junkie Too]

That was my take all over the threads yesterday.

Trump is giving Pelosi the chance to show her true colors. She already passed the first test by still insisting that nothing changed with the SOTU address. The next few weeks will show that she was never serious about compromising.

"The only good Republican is a capitulating Republican."

-PJ