Discussion: Trump: Odds Of Lawmakers Making Funding Deal I'd Accept 'Less Than 50-50'

dommyluc · January 28, 2019, 1:34pm

Kevin McCarthy makes Paul Ryan look like Nancy Pelosi.

ljb860 · January 28, 2019, 1:36pm

tRUmp’s idea of negotiating is walking into a signing meeting after his staff has struck the deal. Then as people are signing he’ll stop and say “one more thing”. The demand is usually outrageous, already discarded, or some other nonsense. It is his way of saying “I struck the deal”. From my experience, being on the other side of that table, he gets his way if we just don’t care. However, the vast majority of the time we say no. He then goes into the rant, rage routine, as we are now seeing. That also usually does not work.

emiliano4 · January 28, 2019, 1:44pm

That is NOT snark.

davidfarrar · January 28, 2019, 1:49pm

As long as Senate Leader McConnell sticks to his pledge not to bring any immigration motion to the floor for a vote the president will veto, all Pres. Trump needs is a failed joint conference committee and 10 U.S.C. § 284 to build as many walls as he deems necessary without shutting down the government or declaring a national emergency.

mondfledermaus · January 28, 2019, 1:55pm

Trump has trouble accepting that No means No. It meant No in December, means no in January, and it will mean no in February.

lionel_hutz · January 28, 2019, 2:16pm

The guy ran a successful casino operation. He knows odds.

radicalcentrist · January 28, 2019, 2:17pm

Nice try, David. Will go as far as your “two citizen parent” birther nonsense went in getting Obama out of office (and good luck trying that with Kamala Harris). Drugs don’t come in across deserts and rivers with no roads. You can’t bring in meaningful amounts that way. Follow the El Chapo trial-they come in by the truckload through ports of entry. And lets stop blaming other countries for our drug problems. It’s demand driven by Americans-capitalism says where there is a demand, there will be a supply.

horrido · January 28, 2019, 2:31pm

He’s all huf and puf. There is no way he can risk a veto override. That would be the end of him, and he knows it. He’ll settle - for zero, if pushed. Better to allow him something to save face, though.

radicalcentrist · January 28, 2019, 2:34pm

A permanent legislative solution for the Dreamers and refugees is the bare minimum if he gets any permanent structures. No temporary fixes in exchange for even one foot of fencing/slats/wall, whatever.

rascal_crone · January 28, 2019, 2:38pm

I love it when a failed casino owner uses gambling analogies. Roll those dice America!

socalista · January 28, 2019, 2:39pm

Awesome.

I’m going to make a little prediction here and let’s see if I’m right. I predict that Spanky will commit an impeachable offense in his lust to secure “a win” with this wall thing.

rascal_crone · January 28, 2019, 2:40pm

Ask Mulvaney how the president shutting down the structure of government and creating chaos among our allies abroad is defending the nation.

rascal_crone · January 28, 2019, 2:42pm

the GOP has done this for him

rascal_crone · January 28, 2019, 2:44pm

let’s not forget the plentiful meth labs in “America’s Heartland” either

civarum · January 28, 2019, 2:48pm

In the words of a real President…

“Please proceed…”

khyber900 · January 28, 2019, 2:49pm

This shutdown really damaged McConnell. He has three choices.

Push Trump to declare a national emergency and then sign whatever spending bills are passed by Congress.
Actually vote for spending bills that provide a veto proof majority (as happened in December) and force Trump to eat it.
Repeat this same nonsense of not sending up a bill to the WH that Trump won’t sign and repeat the shutdown.

#3 would be a disaster for the GOP and the country.

#2 would be actual governance but would put the Senate GOP at odds with Trump on an important matter and effectively represent a clean break which the GOP has always feared would hurt them with the base.

#1 Would solve Congress’ problem but underscore Trump’s issues of weakness, impotence, and the sense that he is out of touch.

atldrew · January 28, 2019, 2:50pm

so if I hear you correctly, they’ll choose #3.

socalista · January 28, 2019, 3:04pm

#3’s not going to happen. McConnell already got burned doing that. He’s not going to rush into a replay

docd · January 28, 2019, 3:10pm

My guess is that he thinks that negotiating equals weakness. Anyone who has negotiated anything In a professional context has dealt with a bully like him. They think that they can make offers that aren’t actual offers and that the other side will fold. In this case you mix in the sexism of dealing with a woman and it is, once again, the bully trying to get everything and offer nothing.

jruss · January 28, 2019, 3:17pm

Well at least Putin and Treacherous Trump got something, Trump’s Moscow
hotel wet dream funding source released from sanctions while we weren’t
looking. Thanks Mitch and Republicans, no vote to open OUR government but OK a
favor for Putin and his Pawn? Traitors !