The first, of hopefully many, McConnell caves we’ll be seeing.
Have to say of all the things I’m looking forward to over the next 2 years, seeing that smug, obstructing bastard have to eat some crow is pretty damn high on my list.
Oh for many more sweet moments like him whining after midnight after he lost on skinny repeal.
Well, of course they are. Then in February there will be a Democratic House that they can blame a shutdown on.
Im giving this win to Pelosi.
Aw mannnnnnnn.
Trump REALLY wanted it and I was looking forward to it. Turning on the news and listening to endless interviews with furloughed government employees over images of Trump golfing on vacation at his private Richie Rich club. Let them eat cake, indeed. Would have been fantastic. Sigh.
the repubes are stepping up to fund the wall, right???
Oh never mind.
I am REALLY looking forward to Benedict McConnell losing his battle with bacteria and becoming nothing but carbon again
Or lash for being obstructionists after they tell Trump he’s getting no wall so shut up. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Quick, look! Ignore this story. We are pulling out of Syria!!
The world’s greatest negotiator gets nothing once again.
Just what I was about to say. However, having pushed this off to February when they couldn’t get it passed with a full Rethug House now may not be quite as damaging to Dems. Of course, that’s provided that the Dems make a big production out of it.
The House can pass a budget without wall funding and the Senate will go along because none of them give a crap about the wall. Trump can veto it if he wants and Pelosi can tell him to go to Mexico City and get them to pay for it.
McConnell’s chin has also caved, both of them.
McConnell always finds a way to wattle through a crisis.
Yea, since the budget comes from the House. They’ll fulminate, but they don’t know how to get anything done unless they cheat.
Wattle, and waffle too!
“Well, we got things done, but the Obstructionist Republicans in the Senate are in thrall to Trump’s wall, and now you have the Trump Shutdown.”
" and now you have the Trump Shutdown."
Which he said, on national television, that he would be glade to own.
Perhaps a chick’n dinner, with emphasis on Chick’n.
The degree to which Trump has no fucking idea what is going on is just stunning. Had he not done what FOX News urged him to do - and have a public face down with Nancy and Chuck - he would have gone into a room with them, and likely gotten 1/2 of what he wanted (not a wall, but more boarder security funding) but he ends up with jack.
Weak, low energy, leading from behind.
p.s. and had he not listened to that paragon on Natzi virility Stephen Miller, and accepted Chuck and Nancy’s offer of $25B for his wall for a DACA deal, he would have gotten what he wanted. Instead he went with the white nationalist/FOX news agenda. The degree to which living in the FOX news bubble has totally underminded him is just stunning.
Imagine an altnerative world, in which Trump was actually smart and understood what was going on in the real work, and tried to push his horrible pro-white old people/white industrialist/Christian Haters policies (think Mike Pence) the results would be far worse than what we have now.