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I am a democrat and I thought the President was super reasonable in his speech and at times seemed the most Presidential I have ever seen him. He did a good job in a hard situation and he definitely put country before personal wants.
I usually agree with you, but not this time. I wanted to hear details about things getting up and running - some sort of timeline, including when people who've been working would get paid and when those who have not would return to work. Instead, most of the speech was focused on how much we "need" the wall, and the whole thing was capped off with a threat to declare a national emergency if he doesn't get one.
He had an opportunity here, and I don't think he used it well.
It's doomed anyway. It's doomed because the media is completely dishonest and is not reporting what is really going on, which is that one political side has done something really horrible to win and when the lost, they are weaponizing the government to bring down the opponent instead of fighting fair. I am not going to go into it all. The people who know my posts know what I am talking about. I am not going to argue with these leftist idiots anymore on here.
I don’t know, even Fox seems to be blaming Trump for the shutdown...
But hey, since you won’t be back anymore, I guess it’s irrelevant!
I think you and I will have to agree to disagree about the wall. But I do hope a compromise can be reached.
With just 3 weeks, both sides best come ready to give. Otherwise this 35 days may well seem short, and the next shutdown may be far more comprehensive.
The emergency declaration seems like the most likely path at this point. But maybe the Democrats will cave and provide for some wall funding and work with Trump on the other aspects of a immigration related deal here.
I think the former is more likely, but I would seriously not entirely discount the possibility of the latter.
By all means, tRump should declare the emergency to get himself and his GOP another hard slapdown.
I'm laughing my ass off at people like yourself who are bashing the President for giving you exactly what you wanted.
Giving us what we wanted? I don't think so. I highly doubt any sensible reader would say they wanted 800,000 working Americans to go without pay for a month while Trump pouted about not getting to spend billions of our tax dollars on his pet project. Because at the end of the day, the shutdown accomplished exactly nothing and did a heck of a lot of harm.
The funniest new development, is Pelosi isn't saying the SOTU is back on. She said when the government was back from the shut down, she would hold a meeting with Trump, and they'll decide on a mutually agreeable date for the speech. A white house official seemed to agree that the SOTU will not occur next week.
February 15 is the new government shutdown deadline, I won't hold my breath
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