But , but , Uncy Donny WANTS another shutdown , he WANTS another tantrum .
Good Call… Although, it is unlikely the Rs want to talk anyway… I noticed all the negotiating the Rs were doing with the Ds during the R retreat.
Yeah, don’t want to give the Goopers the chance to say either “the stoopie Dems were on a retreat instead of tending to business” or “we had to do this in secret because the stoopie Dems were not in DC”…
How unRepublican of you.
I don’t recall ever hearing of such a thing, but has anyone argued that deporting Dreamers is cruel and unusual to those raised in the US and who know no other home?
I hope they weren’t planning to travel by Amtrak.
Dems decided to stay and fight? Or stay and fold?
Leading the way because younger people just can’t do what grandpa and grandma can do.
Clyburn 77 yo
Hoyer 78 yo
Pelosi 78 yo
Behaving like responsible adults will not be lauded in an era that values impulsive adolescence.
Democrats were set to gather on Maryland’s Eastern Shore from Wednesday through Friday to develop and promote a strategy for the midterm elections.
Here’s where the retreat was to be held:
No bunkers.
Invite Trump to give a short speech at their Washington conference providing he stays for at least an hour afterwards for a televised Q&A session covering his first year and immigration policies. Obama’s Q&A session lasted about 1 hour and seventeen minutes at their 2010 retreat, an hour would be fair. Fox cannot pull away their cameras until the end.
I thought you were going to put up a Trump hotel. Looks comfortable either way.
And BTW, was Bernie invited? He might have a few good ideas.
I mentioned last week that the Republicans were going to Greenbrier for their retreat; only fair, then, to say where the Democrats were headed. Of course, now they’ve had to move the whole event to the Capitol.
Who pays for the cancellation or all the space they had reserved? Can’t see the hotel letting them off without charging them near full-price anyway.
House Democrats have canceled their annual retreat as lawmakers struggle to approve a short-term spending bill to avoid another government shutdown.
Hopefully they’ll avoid a train wreck too!
Despite this morning’s report that the Congress is close to a longer-term budget deal (increased funding to military and social programs), Nancy Pelosi just announced on the floor that the house Dems will not support it without DACA. So, they are using their time in DC to make a statement.
I am betting they reschedule it there.
I’ve stayed there. It’s a lovely hotel, but I swear (and others have as well) that the place is haunted - and not always with politicians. It’s built on the grounds of the old state mental hospital. Kind of looks like Oz in the distance as you’re crossing the bridge over the Choptank River.