Will The #SchumerShutdown Shut Down Democratic Hopes For 2018?

Townhall ^ | 21 January 2018 | Authur Schaper

[lowbuck]

Election 2018 is going to be just as turbulent an election season as 2016. An enlightened or enraged electorate will be rushing to the polls this year, elated or outraged with Washington, DC and President Trump’s agenda.

I am confident that Republicans will retain the United States Senate. Republicans will gain seats even in the face of “The Blue Wave” since Democrats nationally have gone so far left, and the progressive grassroots want Obama policies on steroids from the Democratic Party. Red-state Democratic incumbents face pressure from their constituents, but Democratic base will fire back at these DINOs (Democrats-In-Name-Only) and launch primary challenges.

The House of Representatives, however, may turned into a blue-wall shellacking. Republicans have held power in the People’s Chamber for the last 8 years. The caucus is more conservative, and has ditched one Speaker. Paul Ryan is listening to the conservatives and the grassroots, but with the latest shutdown, Republicans risk appearing more dysfunctional than ever. Even though in 2016 Trump won in 12 House Districts currently represented by Democrats, his populist platform might not buoy Republican contenders for 2018.

Worse yet, Real Clear Politics has registered a 10-point to 16-points advantage for the Democratic ticket going into November. The overwhelming turnout for the Year 2018 Women’s March all over the country should also concern Republicans. Liberals are investing time, energy, resources to flip seats in fly-over states, too. At the Women’s March in Downtown Los Angeles, I saw so many posters featuring profanities, vulgar attacks against President Trump and the Republican majority, but I also saw frequent references to vote, vote, vote. “The Blue wave” stood out clearly.

But will the latest shutdown turn into a brick wall for Democrats or Republicans? The federal government needed a continuing resolution by January 19th to ensure payment for federal employees, then military, and it provided a long-term solution for the CHIP program plus a delay of onerous Obamacare taxes. Republican leadership included programs that Democrats wanted, yet only six House Democrats voted for the CR, including California Congressmen Jim Costa because he wanted the CHIP funding; and Salud Carbajal because Santa Barbara County needed the emergency funding.

Despite five US Senate Democrats voting with the GOP majority, the CR didn’t pass the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer deserves the public’s blame. He cried to the press that his caucus refused to fund the government for another month unless amendments were added to grant legal status to illegals. There it is: Democrats have shut down the government over illegal immigration. Surprisingly, this talking point came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a get-along type if there ever was one. Not only that, House Speaker Paul Ryan informed his Leadership to go home for the weekend. These GOP leaders are calling the Democrats’ bluff. I don’t give them full credit, however. Real leadership under President Trump in the White House has stiffened the spine of Congressional leaders, at least somewhat.

According to the latest polls, Democratic recalcitrance is not helping them, and it’s only going to get worse, judging by what happened to the Republicans during the Shutdown Showdown from 2013. That year, Republicans only controlled the House, and they passed a CR which included defunding mechanisms for Obamacare. Speaker John Boehner didn’t want to go along with the plan at first, but the caucus pushed him to follow through. Yes, the government was shut down, but for the same reason as now: Senate Democrats would not pass the CR. Majority Leader Harry Reid was confident that he could marshal public opinion against the Republicans. His targets included conservative colleague Ted Cruz, who led a 22-hour non-filibuster filibuster outlining to the public how devastating Obamacare had become to working Texans. Eventually, a resolution was reached, and Republicans ended up wounded a little by the press. Then came the Obamacare rollout, a devastating Democratic failure. Coupled with the upcoming six-year itch against Barack Obama’s party, and Republicans were riding a wave into victory for Election 2014.

So, can Democrats expect a lingering backlash in their favor later this year? I strongly doubt it. First of all, President Trump was elected specifically for his opposition to illegal immigration. Democrats are on the losing side of this debate by shutting down the government over DACA. Even Democratic voters in California have voiced their opposition to Schumer’s shutdown, regardless of their views on the illegals. What’s worse for Democrats is that Trump’s signature legislative achievement (unlike Obama’s in 2013) is gaining in popularity. The Tax Reforms are working out for businesses large and small. Individuals are enjoying the benefits, and they are seeing past the lies pushed by the press and the Democratic Party.

The Democrats not only shut down the government, but Chuck Schumer, with signature tone-deafness, pitifully reports to website visitors this message: “Sorry, can’t help you right now”. Even worse, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just took her dwindling caucus out for dinner to celebrate, all while our military doesn’t get paid. Three weeks later, Americans will continue to appreciate Trump’s signature successes, and Democrats will suffer lower approval ratings going into November.

I sense that Democrats are going to be kicking themselves for going along with their radical, progressive base on immigration, suffer a national blowback, and lose further credibility in the eyes of the voters. Democrats who voted for Trump will remember why they rejected their party’s presidential nominee in 2016 and vote against them again in 2018.

If Republicans stand strong against amnesty and hold the #SchumerShutdown meme over the minority caucus, then Republicans can look forward to holding the House as well as gaining seats in the Senate. The GOP leaders should be kissing President Trump’s feet because he has put his foot down, willing to fight for the American people’s priorities on immigration. Prediction: The #SchumerShutdown will shut down Democratic chances for Election 2018. Republicans will lose at most ten House seats, but retain power in the House of Representatives.

[lowbuck]

One take on how the shutdown will play with the voters come November 2018.

I think the Republicians can gain seats in the Senate as so many Dumbocrats are up and running against not only the other party but their own if they are not "lunitic left enough". Sort of like Labour in Britian today.

The house is more dicey unless the Republican candidates begin to talk about what the voters are concerned about. A look at the recent "special election" in Wisconsin shows the Democrat sounding like a Trump supporter and getting the win.

Your thoughts?

[Yosemitest]

DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !

STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).

To better understand "THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration ( 24:40 )
Bev Harris
Published on Oct 31, 2016

I'LL NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !

Election Fraud Against Moore Confirmed, Shills BTFO ( 24:29 )

Things have changed!

Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a

" ... a GEMS tabulator—for Global Election Management System—which is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the county’s election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which haven’t, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machine’s status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.

At the end of Memphis’s election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby County’s GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadn’t checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smith’s poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "

Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.

"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:
Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.

Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.

[Yosemitest]

WATCH and LISTEN to how the 'RTATS have turned !
Read these quotes:

Dems’ words about the 2013 government shutdown come back to haunt them — and prove their hypocrisy

Jan 21, 2018 by Chris Enloe


2013, Schumer said on CNN’s “The Lead”

... 2013, Schumer said on CNN’s “The Lead”:
“I believe in immigration reform.
What if I persuaded my caucus to say,
‘I’m going to shut the government down,
I am going to not pay our bills unless I get my way?’
It’s a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.”



Charles Schumer 'This Week' Interview: New York Senator on Government Shutdown ( 4:49 )
ABC News
Published on Oct 6, 2013

“The basic line is:
No matter how strongly one feels about an issue,
you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage.
That’s what the other side is doing.
That’s wrong and we can’t give in to that,”
he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

He further explained:
[Then-House] Speaker [John] Boehner comes in and he says, basically,
it’s sorta like this.
Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage,
and then says
‘Let’s negotiate over the price of your house.’
You know, we could do the same thing on immigration.
We believe strongly in immigration reform.
We could say,
‘We’re shutting down the government,
we’re not gonna raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’
It would be governmental chaos.

... At the time, Pelosi called the GOP “legislative arsonists.”
“I call them ‘legislative arsonists.’
They’re there to burn down what we should be building up in terms of investments and education and scientific research,
and all that it is that makes our country great and competitive,” she said.

According to the Washington Examiner, Pelosi later called the shutdown an “unthinkable tactic” employed by the GOP.
“I join the American people in their disgust in what happened in terms of the shutdown of government.
That’s an unthinkable tactic to use in a political debate,” she said. ...

[frnewsjunkie]

That and the memo they promised to release... yes!

[yoe]

< href=”=”https://youtu.be/yuCuuYUQFXM";>(Unbelievable)</a>

[lowbuck]

Hello Yoe,

The link to youtube did not work for me.

See you are from the great state of Arizona. Any opinions on the Senate race? I like what I have seen of McSally but would appreciate a view from “boots on the ground”.

[EliRoom8]

A very good analysis except for the lack of factoring in how the FBI/DOJ scandals and the Muellar investigation will effect the vote.

[Hiryusan]

With any luck, this will also end the myth of single payer health care....not available every time little Chucky Schumer has a rash in his diaper.

[momincombatboots]

No wall, no vote, 2018!

[Cobra64]

The Gutless/Stupid Party will not use Democrats’ own words against them. How many times have we been given golden opportunities to win but fail to use them, and thus lose?

[anton]

Make it hurt. Dem constituencies get no cash. Send the entire migrant relocation apparatus home, the EPA, the UN delagation. Stop food stamps and welfare payments if the military is not being paid. Make it hurt.

[DrPretorius]

“No wall, no vote, 2018!”

This is the post of the day! It distills the outcome of the election to the one consequential item to track that will likely matter. That is, if Trump doesn’t get off his ass and start to build the physical wall, by hook or crook, regardless of the pushback he gets from the Marxocrats and their RINO colleagues, then the Stupid Party will suffer massive losses due to the failure of a large number of the voters to show up in the fall. This is his “Read My Lips” issue. Nothing else will matter. Not anything. The entire future of what’s left of this country will hinge on this. Count on it!

[usconservative]

[spintreebob]

electorate will be rushing to the polls

I'm not sure how much of this article is sarcasm and how much is reality. The nature of the shutdown news, and of the news media in general, it to de-motivate people from voting. The goal is that the Tea Party and others motivated to vote become disillusioned and despair of politics.

The strategy of the Democrats is to motivate the far left to become Soros volunteers who go door to door targeting Democrat doors and GOTV-Get-Out-The-Vote.

You saw the massive turnout of Democrats in Alabama? That was due to an effective GOTV. That is the plan of the Democrats.

The shutdown serves the Democrat goal of demoralizing Republicans and Tea Party.

[jospehm20]

I don’t know about that. Most people I know don’t care if 12% of the gubmint shuts down. Many wish it would really shut down.

[Lisbon1940]

SchumerShutdown is more than a meme. That trivializes it.

[trebb]

Many of the People are too stupid to predict - that said, I think the tax cuts and the idiot dem shutdown will help us.

[Jacquerie]

The rats chose to defend the wrong hill at the wrong time. It will certainly cost them in November.

I just hope President Trump can withhold the pay of non-working federal employees during this fabricated shutdown. No paid vacation for these people. It would resonate with President Trump’s base.

[FlipWilson]

There was nothing massive dem turnout in Alabama. There was massive Republican non-turnout. Alabama is a case that predicts nothing and really shows what happens when the GOP in fights and eats its own.

As for the Schumer Shutdown deflating conservatives, I don’t think so. Why would I be deflated when the democrats are making this fight about amnesty and the GOP, for once, is not budging? This isn’t an impasse over some arcane budget matter. This is about the whole ballgame.

I am not buying the Blue Wall thing either. Yes, the Dems are motivated but they have no message other than chaos.

[ripley]

“Thoughts?”

Democrats are propagandists. They’ve taken lessons from the best one of all, Herr Goebbels, not to mention the
“journalists” at Pravda and Izvestia.

They will hornswoggle large swaths of the electorate to vote for them through the usual routine of doing it for the “children” or some such nonsense. (It never fails.)

(One can always trust Democrat scu&bags to be Democrat scu&bags.)

IMHO IMHO