Posted on 12/29/2018 10:56:39 AM PST by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON — Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Friday that Nancy Pelosi’s not-quite-locked-up bid to become House speaker has stalled negotiations to end the government shutdown.
Mulvaney said that while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer seemed interested in making a deal, “it’s Nancy Pelosi preventing that from happening.”
“They left town,” he said of the Democrats during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
“And I think the reason they did is because Nancy Pelosi, in fairness, does not have the votes for the speakership yet. She cannot be seen by her party as being weak on negotiating with Donald Trump.”
“So we fully expect that until she is elected speaker and has locked that vote up, we don’t expect to hear from the Democrats again,” Mulvaney continued. “They told us last night that they were not countering our last offer.”
A spokeswoman for Pelosi didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Schumer’s spokesman, Angelo Roefaro, said in a statement Thursday night that the New York Democrat had explained to Vice President Mike Pence in private that the White House’s offer wouldn’t pass the Senate.
A funding bill with the $5 billion that President Trump wants for the border wall has already passed through the House. A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said the House is waiting for action in the Senate.
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Pelosi sucking up maitai’s in Waikoloa and visiting her botox doc in Waimea
Already a messaging improvement from the CoS change.
-PJ
The Senate is the problem.
McConnell needs to make the Senate work.
Mulvaney is going to a very proactive COS. He’s already running everything including the WH staff.
Much more effective than Kelly.
sort of a weird thing to say. the senate is going to be where a thousand terrifying pieces of liberal tyranny are going to go to die. we are all going to be thanking God for mitch mconnell very soon.
It’s all about HER ,screw everything else
Force the issue........ close the border
I just hope that the President has not really offered to HALVE his request, as FOX reported. This would be a major cave in.
Of course! With the Marxists its ALL about POWER!
But Trump WON'T! VETO!!!
She’s not in charge of the House yet. How 8s this on her?
Before it gets to Trump's desk, the question is whether McConnell amends the House bill, sending it back to Pelosi, or if Schumer threatens to filibuster any McConnell amendments, pressuring McConnell to cave and keep wall funding out of the Senate bill.
Remember, the government will still be "shut down" while this is going on, so the MSM will start calling it the "McConnell shutdown" if he attempts to put wall funding back into the bill, knowing that Schumer will block cloture.
The MSM will call the Pelosi bill a "clean bill" because it does not have wall funding, and this will allow the MSM to label McConnell as the obstructionist by insisting on adding the "poison pill" of wall funding to an otherwise passable bill.
-PJ
Schumer and Pelosi have been coordinating their actions.
The current House bill was being blocked since before Christmas in the Senate by Schumer, knowing that the bill expires at the end of the 115th Congress, and the 116th Pelosi-led House will pass a new bill without the wall funding.
If Republicans had held the House, this deadline wouldn't matter because the 116th House would just pass the same bill that expired in the 115th House, so the shutdown would likely not have happened.
By leaving town, the Democrats have assured that no reconciliation between the Senate and House can occur in the last week of Congress.
-PJ
Yes, running out the clock.
If I was a Federal non essential employee I would be upset.
Good info I wondered about this very thing. So the house bill with the wall funding dies. 0 chance of funding in the replacement. Well it looks like Trump is either going to have to use defense money or no wall. I’d put my money on no wall.
Incoming chief of staff Mick Mulvaney gives an impromptu press briefing to the media highlighting the position of incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the democrat intention to weaponize the government shutdown.
Career Democrats are working through a highly coordinated political agenda, defended by institutional media allies, that involve weaponizing the House of Representatives.
Mulvaney: Trump willing to shutdown border
White House on the battle for border wall funding
If we take the empirical 2006 example as the starting point and overlay the 2018 landscape to modernize the predictive model, what results is a most likely scenario.
First, any intellectually honest review must overlay the current political environment. In 2018 the scale of unchecked lawless behavior is a significant influence toward the differences we can expect from the last time Democrat/Marxists held congressional power. The term “Democrat-socialism”, in essence a Marxist approach, is now the dominant fuel within the professional DNC political operations.
When the Democrats last held power in 2006, their actionable objective was toward a far-left, Saul Alinsky-type aggressive tone and influence; however, there was a need to couch that intention as they positioned Senator Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential election.
In 2006 the radicals, needed to downplay their radicalism. In 2018 the severity and aggression of the left, as assisted by the dropping of all media pretense, no longer needs to hide the intention. When Democrat-Marxists take control in January of 2019 they no longer need to couch the extremism, the American electorate have been prepped.
Secondly, it cannot be overstated how violent and confrontational the House of Representatives will be as soon as they are sworn in. They will work with an immediate purposeful intention. All political violence will be approved to attain their objectives. The recent behavior of Jim Acosta (CNN media), and ANTIFA toward Tucker Carlson, is now, and will be going forward, the new normal.
There will be extreme political violence.
In 2006 it was the SEIU and AFSCME union foot-soldiers who smashed windows, advanced upon polling places and engaged in the most severe examples of voter fraud and intimidation. In 2018, with the help of uber-Alinsky DNC Chairman Tom Perez, that corrupt sentiment is now institutionalized within democrat-socialist political apparatus. ANTIFA is now the DNC grassroots activist approach.
Failing to accept the severity of this shift in the past decade is intellectually dishonest. As Nancy Pelosi said of the Occupy Wall Street violent anarchists: “God bless these people.” Indeed the OWS precursor to ANTIFA were laying the groundwork for the new severity of power in Democrat leadership. Nothing is out-of-bounds; no level of corrupt behavior will be avoided; everything will happen openly and without any backlash from a compliant media apparatus; the social fabric will be shredded.
The Democrat mantra: “never let a crisis go to waste” is the modern version of the Fabian-Socialist: “remould it closer to the heart’s desire“. Both approaches rely upon the destruction of acceptable norms in order to advance the political objective.
♦ Specifics:
When Democrats last took power in January 2007, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer took control in the final two years of George Bush second term. Immediately they set about a process laying the groundwork for the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama. This was a priority objective.
One of the techniques was the removal of the budget process. By eliminating the federal budget process in 2007 (fiscal year ’08) the Democrats paved the way for the next democrat president to demand massive open-ended spending.
By the time the year of the general election came around (2008), the lengthy budget process was replaced with Omnibus spending bills (fiscal year 2009). Obviously when Obama was successfully installed in November of 2008, the useful crisis was financial. The subsequent TARP bailout, auto bailout, ARRA ($1 trillion stimulus) and QE1 were all accomplished with massive omnibus spending packages.
[NOTE: These are important references because from that moment forward, despite the GOP taking back control in January 2011, the constraining budgetary process was forever destroyed. There was never regular-order budgetary spending again.]
It is also critical to emphasize the difference between Democrats taking control in the last two years of Bush’s second term, and Democrats taking control in the last two years of Trump’s first term. Within this difference you will predictably see a shift in strategic operations from the Marxists.
George W Bush was exiting, and unlimited spending was used to empower the entry of Obama; however, now the Marxists need to knee-cap President Trump by weaponizing the power of the purse – the biggest weapon of the House of Representatives.
After a ten year UniParty hiatus the Marxists will now go back to using budgets in the structural defunding and dismantling of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the Southern Border Wall, and any program, initiative, policy or institution the Marxists want to see removed. This is a strategy of the Democrat crisis-makers; and they are exceptionally better at achieving their desired results than Republicans.
When it comes to political weaponization and political power constructs the Marxists have exceptional work ethics; they will outwork anyone on the other side who opposes them. They are far, far, better at political strategy and scheme than conservative politicians. Part of the reason for their success is that crooks, cons and swindlers are far more cunning than honorable, virtuous and moral people. It is unfortunate, but true; and the same truth applies beyond politics.
♦ Two other thoughts on this issue.
First, you might remember when this massive spending, and the government takeover of healthcare, led to the Marxists losing the 2010 midterm election in a massive defeat. But do you remember what the democrats did in the lame-duck congress between November 2010 and January 2011?
Does the term “Porkulous” ring a bell?
While 63 democrat seats were lost in the November 2010 election (and six democrat senate seats), those exiting Marxists, despite just having suffered the worst defeat in almost 100 years, audaciously –and apologetically– voted in the December 2010 lame-duck session, to fully fund President Obama’s next two years in office. This was done by Speaker Nancy Pelosi specifically to block the incoming GOP wave from upending the priorities of the Obama administration in 2011. That was called the “Porkulous” spending bill; and the democrat-marxists didn’t give a snit about how it looked.
Now, did Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Leader Mitch McConnell do anything as bold to fund and secure the budgetary priorities of President Donald Trump in this lame-duck?
No, UniParty.
Secondly, about the overall unilateral commitment and cunning historically displayed by the Marxists. They are so committed to the long-term view they are willing to sacrifice anything for the biggest, most consequential, advances toward their objectives. In 2010 the democrats killed their own “blue-dog” coalition to advance their ideological goals.
Within the 63 House seats the Marxists lost in that 2010 midterm election; they killed off the entire 40 member Bart Stupak coalition; the blue-dog caucus. Totally willing to sacrifice 40 seats to attain a generational ideological objective (ObamaCare); and they are about to step back into power a mere eight years later. Stunning when you think about it.
Few people have any idea just how bad these next two years are going to be. We are the normal people who don’t spend every moment of our day scheming, conniving, and developing plans to dismantle the lives of your freedom loving community and rebuild it as a collective society. For these political Marxists who are about to take power that’s all they do. Every moment of their existence they spend thinking about how to gain power and dominate, 24/7/365 that is all they do.
That is all the ever talk about; that is all they ever converse with each-other about. Every second of every moment, in every meeting, is consumed with plots, plans and strategies for indulging themselves and growing power at all costs.
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