“If the shutdown continued through this week the Senate on the Repuke side would be caving in with McConnell’s help...”
From this keyboard expert’s perspective, that would have been preferable than to do a variation of H.W.’s lip reading.
I read elsewhere Pelosi said the demokraps were successful because they were unified. If the GOPe were unified and stayed with POTUS, the outcome would have been much different. POTUS bailed out the GOPe; Pence delivered the message from the hill. While I’ll continue to support POTUS, he played the shutdown game like a businessman. As soon as the demokraps indicated there would be no negotiation, he kept negotiating with himself. He should have stopped making offers to entice demokraps back to the table ... people armed with 24/7 slanted news support and deal in bad faith, who hate his guts.
Pelosi isn’t the problem, Romney is the problem. He’s the one who stuck the knife into Trump’s back.