In the Talking Points Memo article linked below, regarding Trump’s bewilderment that the Dems maintain “loyalty”, he also complains that Ryan screwed him by not passing a wall bill during the past 2 years. This really hits me - and I’ll just ask the group: a) why the hell did Congress not give him a wall bill to sign over the past 2 years, and b) why the hell is this not a major news story - that he is now shutting down the government to get his wall when he could/should have settled this in the first 6 months or year of his Presidency. Is there any good reason why this issue is not getting discussed and basically thrown back at him and the GOP?
Without a major trade a bill would not have made it through the Senate. One such did, but it had DACA guarantees and Trump could not go against his base (i.e. Limbaugh). Now that courts have repeatedly denied Trump’s effort to cancel DACA that bargaining chip is gone, so he has nothing to offer Dems. They could stand firm.
I think that some “show” funding could have been done in the last 2 years. Would have been portrayed as some sort of “start” or “pilot”. They needed some Dem votes and would have had to agree to concessions to get them. As others, maybe DACA relief, or some other big concession. The appropriators are in the business of making trade offs. I suspect they did not do so because the wall was far less important than their other priorities, because it was stupid. I don’t think it competed well with the other things they wanted.
I think it would have come through like some weapons systems from some rep’s or Senator’s district/state. Marginally more of the weapons have declining benefit, but the others can be talked into backing a marginal benefit in return for something that they want whose benefit is also on the cusp.
Probably the same ones who whine about why the republicans didn’t do anything about --insert topic here-- when they had the House, Senate and Presidency while trying to hold the curtain covering that same observation in regards to 60 votes in the Senate.
To answer the title of the thread, not the trojan horse OP content…
Libs have zero morals, they want a world with no morals or limits, so they do anything that shifts anything that direction. Ask a Progressive what they are progressing toward, they can’t answer.
Paul Ryan’s House even passed a bill to at least partially fund a border wall. It’s why there was constant prodding from Trump to use the nuclear option in the senate to pass the bill. That they refused to is a decent sign that the senate wasn’t wanting to risk even doing a symbolic vote on the subject even though they did a couple just recently.
But really it’s a ridiculous idea to pretend the Republicans were even on Trump’s side, you have to have a very short term memory in order to forget all the instances of the GOP working against Trump.
