Posted on 04/01/2017 1:22:54 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
Democrats in Congress have a new and somewhat surprising tool at their disposal in the era of one-party Republican rule in President Trump’s Washington: power.
It turns out that Republicans need the minority party to help them avoid a government shutdown at the end of April, when the current spending deal to fund the government expires. And Democrats have decided, for now at least, that they will use their leverage to reassert themselves and ensure the continued funding of their top priorities — by negotiating with Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“...by negotiating with Republicans...”
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the GOP was the minority and threatened a shutdown, the MSM played it like the end of the world as we know it, and suicide for the GOP.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it’s called, ‘power.’
The blind, stupid hypocrisy of journalists is off the scale.
Massive fake news.
DjT has said to bring it on....a shutdown won't bother him. He'll have a chance to show spineless republicans how it's done. It feeds into his wheelhouse. That's the extent of dem's power ? ROFLMAO
Further still, Republicans have no choice but to confirm Gorsuch, no matter the method. And dear Claire in Mizzou just wrote herself out of office....a double win !
George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”
Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
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“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."
Shut it down. We can’t keep borrowing forever.
The Washington Post is the CNN of newspapers. VERY fake news.
They aren’t blind or stupid. They know exactly what they do.
They want America to be non-existent.
Without America there can be a one world government.
With America there cannot be.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Journalists are typically not the brightest majors in college. In fact, they chart near the bottom for IQ. Yes, they are knee-jerk Leftists on the whole. But giving them credit for grasping the big picture is something I cannot do.
Shut it down. Spread the ashes. Salt the earth.
They wouldn’t do it otherwise.
If they didn’t have an agenda they wouldn’t be so blatantly hypocritical. They absolutely know they are hypocritical, and they don’t care.
We’re not going to agree on this. I at one time gave knee-jerk Leftists a lot more credit than I do now. Having sufficiently interacted with a great many of them, I am convinced they are simply not intellectually expansive enough to grasp more than their longtime assumptions and unexamined biases. I understand that your mileage varies.
Shut it down.
If the government shut down (not a bad thing) the Bolshekrats can be blamed. The Bolshies have only two points to negotiate on, more taxes and bigger government, both losers.
Exactly!
Now watch the Democrat hypocrites threaten a “shut down” unless the GOP pays some sort of political policy or fiscal ransom. Ye3t, is the article really correct. Does McConnell actually need Dim votes?
When I was in IT, there was a monthly General Ledger report that we ran that was about 1/2" thick, and eight copies were "required". Our manager got tired of cranking out this much paper and one month, decided not to print it. I think that at the most, one department head yelled. He got it, but from then on, only one copy was printed.
They’ll probably get away with it, too.
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