Discussion: GOP Rep. Says He Isn't Willing To Risk A Shutdown Over Funding For Trump's Wall

What’s with this Cole guy. Rational thought coming from a rethug?

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ā€œI wouldn’t risk a $1 trillion funding bill for a $3 billion wall,ā€ Cole said on MSNBC’s ā€œMorning Joe.ā€

Would you risk a $1 trillion funding bill for a $25 billion wall? Because that’s what it’s expected to cost, Congressman.

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OK, there’s one republican vote to keep the government open. One need 216 more.

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The eminent domain brouhaha alone will be a nightmare.

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Of course Democrats will compromise with the Miscreant’s badministration…as soon as they propose sensible, coherent policy initiatives, which will happen in, hmmm, never.

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Rump desperately wants the funding for the wall because he needs to satisfy his base. He hosts Breitbart, Newsmax et al. because he needs to satisfy his base.

The rest of us, the remaining issues don’t mean one damn thing to him on a moral level. And he’s too cognitively impaired to understand on an intellectual level.

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Cole is critical. More than ā€œjustā€ a Republican. One of the most important. If Cole is against, it is dead.

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This is why you never promise something a four year old knows is a lie. Call it the cost of promising to make another nation pay for your misguided wall project business.

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Rationally thought? He is still talking of building Trumps Wall.

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Fear of 2018. Pure self-interest.

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Tom Cole often sounds like a reasonable person… saying things like he doesn’t want a shutdown over the wall funding.

McCain and Susan Collins do the same thing…

but when push comes to shove they either go along with the Party or cast a ā€˜covered’ vote… meaning they vote against something or for it because they know it’s going to pass or not pass without them…

they haven’t any real convictions or allegiance other than their own self interests…

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He ought to be careful, the Trump boys are fond of poaching RINOs.

Cole is R+20, in Oklahoma, in a district where he couldn’t even get a Democratic challenger in 2012.

I know we’re having a resurgence because Dumblefuck is dragging the GOP down across the board, but rolling Tom Cole in an election isn’t something I’d be betting on.

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Oh for God’s sake…you only go for a ā€˜shutdown’ when the Dems are in power and you ā€˜think’ you can blame your antics on them? Is THAT your strategy? …I bet you just WONDER why Congress’ approval rate is so low…

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Because they need that wall money for tax cuts

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And those ICE/CBP agents would be only too happy to oblige.

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Don’t be fooled by any contrary words from GOP clowns. They need to appear sensible, but bottom line: they agree with Trump, or they are farther to his right.