[Lagmeister]

I’m with you, but I believe Trump has already crumbled on this one. Am I wrong?

[babble-on]

This is simply not the right vehicle for doing this in the Continuing Resolution. There’s plenty of ways to get this done without handing the Dems a propaganda win this week. It’s just a few billion dollars, do it in the regular order budget, and then let the Dems vote it down. The wall is popular and makes sense. But shutting down the government over it is bad politics.

Mick Mulvaney sure looks like a man who is out of the loop though.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Sean Spicer at today’s presser said funding would be FY18, which means no wall this year.

They could have easily done a supplemental, or taken reprogramming action using expiring funds were it not for the spineless RINOs.

[LS]

Yes. You are wrong.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’m with you, but I believe Trump has already crumbled on this one. Am I wrong?

I think you are. I was a Trump skeptic, but by holding his fire on his signature policy, he looks reasonable and cooperative. He has several sets congressional sets of opponents, ALL the Democrats, a handful of Republicans who will openly oppose him at will (McCain, Graham, Collins) and quiet opponents who don't want their fingerprints on overt opposition.

WHEN the Congress fails again, then he lowers the boom. He will have allies in Congress (Cruz [politics makes strange bedfellows] in the Senate, and a handful of Freedom Caucers in the House). Talk radio and social media will be activated, and the lilly livered play ball. If the Dems block it in the Senate, then he has to play it differently, but the closer it gets to elections 2018 the stronger his nad gets. IT DOES NOT MATTER what your approval numbers are in the first or even early second year of your presidency, ask George Herbert Walker Bush about that! Bannon and Conway know the score well. Pence has prudence. I don't see the Kushners breaking TRump on this, but he will continue to keeop himself in a position to negotiate.