RE: Well what I don’t understand is this - if he can move forward with or without them, what the heck is the point in going through all of this nonsense?
I can think of the following:
1) Good Faith. To give Democrats the chance to join a bi-partisan solution to an obvious problem. Trump wants to unite rather than divide.
2) Failing #1, To EXPOSE the Democrats for who they really are, to show their TRUE COLORS -— Weak on Security, Welcoming of illegals, and totally lawless.
Wait another 3 weeks.... it’s not going to be very long now.
I hope you’re right, but, as a former commander once told me, “Hope is not a strategy.” Trump was winning the PR side of the shutdown and gaining more support each time he offered a concession and the Pelosi/Schumer show rejected each concession out of hand.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/poll-nancy-pelosi-most-unpopular-national-politician-in-america/
His only option to go it “alone” is by exercising his Article 2 emergency powers and re-allocating unobligated military construction funding (which does not, by the way, mean that Army engineer units will be building the wall). However, Jared Kushner has strongly advised Trump not to exercise his emergency powers. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see who carries the day, we the American voters or Trump’s progressive son-in-law.
Well... what I think got exposed were the number of republicans in the Senate that didn’t back the president.