Posted on 01/20/2018 5:13:33 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Tired of all this Winning yet? – Yesterday’s Campaign Update told you that shutting down the government would be the best outcome for the Republicans. Lo and behold, we have our government shutdown, as the Republicans completely out-maneuvered the Democrats on one of these things for like the first time ever. They have President Trump and Chuck Schumer, who completely over-played a terribly weak hand to thank for that.
With polls showing that 70% or more of the public wanting to do “something” to “protect” the poor DACA “kids” – many of whom are in their 30s – Schumer and every other Democrat spent the entire week claiming they would not do a deal to extend government funding without including some sort of amnesty for these folks who are in our country illegally.
When President Trump called Schumer over to the White House early Friday afternoon, Chuckie boy rushed over with a list of demands in-hand, no doubt expecting Trump to cave, like any of his Republican predecessors would have done in this same situation. But Trump is not a Bush, and no caving was to be had, so poor Chuckie left the White House in a huff, so obviously angry that he actually passed up a chance to talk to the assembled reporters outside, the first time Mr. Schumer has passed up a chance to have his face on TV since he was in grade school. At that moment, he no doubt fully intended to get back over the Capitol and hold a presser announcing his caucus was going to shut down the government.
But a couple of funny things happened while he was on his way back to the office. First, he was no doubt told by his staff that the hashtag #SchumerShutdown had been trending on Twitter since Sarah Huckabee Sanders had used the term in her White House press briefing earlier in the day. Second, CNN released a poll while Schumer was in the Oval Office showing that, by a margin of 56 to 34, people thought it was more important to keep the government open and protect Americans than it is to shut it down over an issue related to 800,000 illegal immigrants.
Why was that CNN poll such a big deal? Well, you have to think like the Democrats think. While there are still good people in the Democrat Party – no, really, there truly still are a handful of well-intentioned Americans still willing to associate with this band of miscreants – the party itself has no soul. The party itself really believes in nothing, unless believing in something helps it to obtain and maintain political power. That’s it. They don’t really give a damn about these DACA “kids”, unless caring about them helps them in that over-arching goal. Thus, that CNN poll told them clearly that standing firm on a DACA fix at this time was a horrible political loser for them, bigly.
Thus, Schumer and his entire caucus then went into panic mode, and spent the next several hours trying to concoct talking points that would make giving in look like some sort of “victory”, and throwing out an array of alternative plans that would have allowed them to keep the government open while saving a little face.
But Mitch McConnell and his Senate Republicans for once held firm and rejected each and every one of them, even as little Lindsey Graham was conducting shuttle diplomacy between Schumer’s and McConnell’s offices, begging them all to give in one more time.
So, we wake up this morning, on the anniversary of Donald Trump’s being sworn into office, with 14% of the federal government technically shut down. As the Campaign Update said on Friday, this is literally the perfect coda to Trump’s first year in office. If you want to clean out the swamp, one of the things you simply must do is stop giving in to the Democrats in these idiotic games of political brinksmanship.
The real glory in all of this is that President Trump for once does not get all the credit for the GOP finally, at long last, doing the right thing. The happy fact is that every leader in the congressional GOP played his role perfectly. Speaker Paul Ryan had his congressional chamber pass the bill that set the tone – with bi-partisan support – on Thursday, and then promptly adjourned the House and sent everyone home so they would not be around to gum up the works any further. Perfect.
McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn then played their hand perfectly all day long on Friday, putting out a steady drumbeat of consistent messaging about how the Democrats were ignoring the interests of the millions of American citizens in the name of making a special deal for a relative handful of illegal immigrants, a message that Ryan stayed in town to help push as well.
It was all perfect. Everyone played their roles just right. They’ll still get blamed for the shutdown by the fake news media, but the panic on the Democrat side clearly demonstrated which party will gain strength from this shutdown come election day.
At long last, Donald Trump appears to be rubbing off on members of his own party. They’re slow learners, but it does seem that these old dogs are capable of learning new tricks. Tricks like #Winning in situations where they had always lost in the past. This is a day to celebrate if you really care about this country.
Just another day in President Trump just keeps on #Winning America.
That is all.
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I still think this would be a great opportunity to institute a Zero Based Budget.
Make every department prove that it’s needed.
It is time to arrest the criminals, murderer-accomplices,
traitors, and other felons in Congress during the
Schumer (Vagabond) Shutdown.
All of em are laughing.
They’re still on the public payroll...
We don’t need no stink’n budget. :)
DJT now has the freedom to determine which agencies to ‘temporarily’ close such that feds can live within their means. It’s only a 10-15% cut. Cash Flow Positive Baby !
Drain the Swamp !
It is time to arrest the criminals, murderer-accomplices,
traitors, and other felons in Congress during the
Schumer (Vagabond) Shutdown.
Tomorrow’s Campaign Update will address that topic.
“Democrats were ignoring the interests of the millions of American citizens in the name of making a special deal for a relative handful of illegal immigrants,”
There is my only quibble with this article. Never use progressives’ made up language. People aren’t immigrants if they are illegally in the country. They are illegal aliens.
I'd go one further an make it prove it has a measurable benefit. Otherwise you'd have unelected bureaucrats crawling over everything looking for problems or issues to justify their existence. They do enough of that already.
>>no, really, there truly still are a handful of well-intentioned Americans still willing to associate with this band of miscreants
No, really. They are not good. They still vote for foreigners over Americans, the soft racism of low expectations, infanticide, and the redistribution of wealth forced at gunpoint. Some are too stupid to associate their voting with reality, but most are just not willing to accept that they are Marxists (but then they will provide proof texts that Jesus was a Socialist—so...ummm...Marx and Stalin are actually latter-day Apostles??).
Just like the “well-meaning” Mohammed who took the Gospel and turned it on its head to create the Koran, the “good” Democrats turn it on its head to make it the source document for the Communist Manifesto. Neither is “good”.
If the welfare class misses their checks at the first of the month, THEN, you will hear the blame game go full spin and if the GOP is still #Winning then, we will have witnessed a miracle.
>>Make every department prove that it’s needed.
And make them all apply for their own job every few years.
MY electric is on, the toilet still flushes, there is food on the shelves. The shut down is great.
How did we ever survive eight and half hours with the government shut down?
“The real glory in all of this is that President Trump for once does not get all the credit for the GOP finally, at long last, doing the right thing. The happy fact is that every leader in the congressional GOP played his role perfectly. Speaker Paul Ryan had his congressional chamber pass the bill that set the tone – with bi-partisan support – on Thursday, and then promptly adjourned the House and sent everyone home so they would not be around to gum up the works any further. Perfect.”
Is the GOP finally on board the Trump Train? I don’t know.
But it sounds like they’re at least in the train station, staring at the schedule board, charge card in hand, thinking about buying a ticket, eyeballing all the other folks out on the platform...
True, but that’s not going to happen. Hell, they’ll most likely have this all resolved before Monday. The point here is that the Republicans finally showed that they can stand firm and win. That’s huge progress for this bunch.
They’ll still make a lousy DACA deal in the end, but this show of will will ensure that they get significantly enhanced border security concessions in return, and it also - more importantly - fires up the GOP voter base, which really needed firing up.
This is a great day. Trust me.
Dingy Harry went YEARS on continuing resolutions and NO budget, and all of a sudden Chucky demands a budget. How times have changed. When the Dems are blamed for the #SchumerShutdown by Associated Press and NYT, and the Dems have internal polling that shows they are infinitely wrong, it is a great morning in America!
Is the GOP finally on board the Trump Train? I don’t know.
No, they’re not all finally on the Trump Train, but they are learning. This shutdown would not have happened a year ago, or even six months ago. This is progress, and it’s very important for the midterm elections.
You mean like the Germans who saw nothing bad about Hilter's death camps while living only a few miles away from them?
Have the monuments in DC been barricaded yet?
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