[Jamestown1630]

The president makes concession after concession and the democrats still dig in their heels? He has set up the ‘I did all I could’ scenario...

[Pravious]

The president makes concession after concession and the democrats still dig in their heels? He has set up the ‘I did all I could’ scenario...

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Agreed. It’s another chess move, and a good one.

[Political Junkie Too]

Fox saying that Democrats won't budge until the government is reopened.

In other words, they want Trump to give up his leverage before they play.

Trump is offering solutions to the national problem, but Democrats are only focusing on the process of negotiation. They know that if the government reopens, then the pressure will be off of them to compromise at all, while Trump's offer is still hanging out there in the ether.

It's Democrat SOP:

1. Refuse to compromise while Republicans keep sweetening the pot.
2. Pressure Republicans into giving up their "show-stopper" to continue, in this case, funding the government.
3. Once the government is reopened, Democrats refuse to compromise but insist on Republicans giving what they previously offered.

All of this happens without the Democrats ever putting an idea of their own on the table. Democrats just keep saying "No... no... no..." while Republicans keep adding compromise after compromise after compromise. When the dust settles, Democrats now have a menu of compromises to choose from while Republicans have nothing similar from the Democrats.

-PJ