Discussion: House Freedom Caucus Chair: We'd Back Funding Bill Without Wall Funding

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I get that and it negates the 2d part of this - if that is so how can they defy him, make him irrelevant and not alienate those voters?

That was the actual question.

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Shhh…

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Translation: “After the Obamacare Repeal Fiasco, House members just aren’t that enthused about walking the plank for a President who can’t get anything done anyway, and doesn’t have your back when you stick your neck out to try to help him but he still can’t it done.”

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They’ll continue to pay him lip service in the emails to their districts/states while ignoring calls from the White House. Since Trump is so desperate for wins he’ll swallow whatever they feed him.

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So much winning. It’s exhausting.

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I still don’t see how they think they are going to get away with it, but they are welcome to try.

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Possible Shutdown and de-funding disaster relief to pay for this stupid wall that Trump keeps promising he’ll make Mexico pay for. It’s almost like the GOP want to lose in 2018…or maybe they just think their voters are completely stupid and will continue to support them even as the GOP are taking money away to give to Richie Rich. Of course their base could be that ignorant

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FACT: Since 1980 every cut to FEMA and Safety/Preparedness Grants to U.S. States has occurred only under republican congresses and presidents.

FACT: The current Republican Budget takes $1 Billion away from FEMA and allocates it to building Trump’s* wall.

So ask yourself right now, what does Texas need more - EMT’s, Firemen and Helicopters; or a Wall in the desert?

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They’re betting the farm on tax cuts. Everything else is making do.

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Two Words: TAX CUTS.

DimWit Donnie is guaranteed to sign them into law.

After that, it’s impeachment time…(to protect their congressional seats in 2018.)

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They can get tax cuts with Pence. In fact, the entire GOP agenda would be a lot easier with Pence. They don’t need Trump for any of that. They’re in a gerrymandered trap of their own making.

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“Something something brown people yadda yadda hurritage ding dong dey took our jerrrrrrrbs blah blah blah sekkkuritah!!!”

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And, thus, the Wall™ dies a quiet, but well deserved, death.

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I’m thinking that ignoring the Man-Baby is a lot different than actively moving to remove him from office. His base is so dumb-as-rocks that they won’t even be able to see him shrinking into irrelevance and will swallow – hook line and sinker – whatever pablum excuse the Freedumb Caucus dolts throw at them.

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That is actually the only thing that makes sense of this situation.

It seems to be the solution all over the government.

ps - it isn’t going to work - for any of them.

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Pretty much that.

Not sure what was the #, but a particular number of em again outperformed ‘45’ n they will cling to that like its a child’s blanket.

N that’s the danger on their end.

Chances are Bannon told ‘45’ about Meadows previous backtrack and now that he’s clearly on Ryan’s side, the House majority better hope that the wins come in soon, because Trump ait afraid of backstabbing his allies.

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That’s the other factor in this program the GOP seems to have implemented in which they appear to be with their president and then aren’t because he’s fundamentally irrelevant.

He already has tried to primary Flake. And instead of being intimidated by that, for some reason the Freedom Caucus isn’t. Either they know something we don’t know, or we aren’t reading the signs right. All I see from this is one huge catastrophic loss for the GOP - no matter which direction you are looking at it from.

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So if they build the wall won’t that keep the water in? (snarky snark)

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They really don’t like Trump but they are stuck with him since they are afraid of pissing off the sections of the GOP base that are extremely loyal to Trump. I wonder who the seniors will blame when they don’t get their Social Security checks because the government is shut down. I will not be surprised if some blame Obama, even though he is out of office

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The really sad thing here is Congress cannot pass a damned budget. Now they have themselves in a bind. They’re up against deadlines of defaulting on the good credit of the United States if they don’t pass a debt ceiling bill. We also need a budget and we damned sure need funding for recovery from Hurricane Harvey. And right now the House is on a vacation. They have been on this vacation since July. It’s damned near September.