Wrong: we are realists, we lost everything thing today....going off Free Republic for awhile at least....
Nothings been lost.........negotiations continue that’s all.
“we lost everything thing today....”
Are you freaking serious?
“going off Free Republic for awhile at least....”
Go and stay. One less soyboy.
I’m sensing tension. Perhaps some perspective is in order.
First of all, the way I see it at least, nothing has really changed. It’s not like past presidents who have caved in similar circumstances saying blah blah like “I’ve agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for increased funding for border security” or some other similar sounding vagueness. He laid out a specific plan of 3 weeks and at the end clearly threatened to declare an emergency if it’s not resolved. There won’t be any more shutdowns it’s either a legislative or executive solution at this point.
I’ll give him credit too I thought he was going to cave a week after the New Year. So hey, I don’t see how anything has really changed. I’ll wait until I hear words like above come from his mouth before I call him a caver.
So why the 3 weeks, someone may reasonably ask well I think it’s pretty obvious: to provide as much security possible for the SOTU and the Super Bowl. That’s really the reason for this minor reprieve IMO. But if one reading this isn’t convinced then at least consider the following:
You aren’t the President! It’s entirely possible over the last week, as those two events approach, he has received credible reports that detail real threats posed to either event or both. Some threats or intel we just don’t have access to because, well, we aren’t the President!
It’s entirely possible that’s the reason.
The bottom line is though even if the reader of this post rejects that theory, it still comes down to a question of whether or not you still trust his judgment. I’m not a fanboy of his or anyone, some around here may remember me as one of his greatest critics during the primaries (I supported Cruz). But he’s the president now, and has 3 weeks time left to work this out he, and the GOP.
And then the invectives of “caving” et al can start if nothing is done or worse we’re fed the line of BS that started this post, that we’ve all grown weary of hearing, “I’ve made a deal for border security that at this time, will not include a wall but that will be worked out on a later date.”
That’s when it’s time to give up. Not now though. To use a football analogy so close to the Super Bowl: it’s 4th and 9 with 7 seconds left in the 4th quarter and you’re down a touchdown. But you’re going to give up now?
Oh, come on be a man and opus out.
“....going off Free Republic for awhile...”
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No one will notice.