Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 2:04 am
Trump press conference with Pelosi, Schumer
NPR and the various blogs I read describe this a coup for Pelosi and Schumer, but watching the exchange, I donno. At least Trump is on tape saying that he'll take responsibility for the next furlough and not try to label it a #DemocratShutdown like last time (not that hasn't stopped him from doing a 180 the next day and denying he ever supported the thing he's on tape as supporting).
But Pelosi and Schumer could have done a better at playing up how the de facto supermajority requirement in the Senate is a wonderful thing that ensures that only bipartisan legislation gets passed and doesn't let 25 little states run the country over the objections of the most populated states, and how the Congress is really the voice of the people and what saves us from an overactive, and unpopular, executive from being able to dictate policy to the country. That he should let the process work and not try to micromanage, and if Congress decides, in its infinite wisdom, that the wall would do nothing for border security and just be a waste of taxpayer dollars, that vetoing Congress would be an act of sheer hubris. And oh, by the way, wasn't Mexico going to pay for the wall? How's that campaign promise going?
You know, basically all the same bull@#(! that Republicans used to say back when Obama was president and Democrats had the Congress.
But as it is, Pelosi and Schumer had terrible body language and squabbled over stupid @#(! like whether 40 Democratic flips in the House is more of a victory than 2 Republican flips in the Senate, and let Trump get away with repeating over and over again, we have to have a border security, we have to have a wall, the two things are the one and the same. Ugh. They didn't even have the decency to point out that the GOP House had some 60 votes to repeal the ACA knowing that it would never get through the Senate either, so why are they suddenly afraid of symbolic votes "to send a message" all of a sudden?
NPR and the various blogs I read describe this a coup for Pelosi and Schumer, but watching the exchange, I donno. At least Trump is on tape saying that he'll take responsibility for the next furlough and not try to label it a #DemocratShutdown like last time (not that hasn't stopped him from doing a 180 the next day and denying he ever supported the thing he's on tape as supporting).
But Pelosi and Schumer could have done a better at playing up how the de facto supermajority requirement in the Senate is a wonderful thing that ensures that only bipartisan legislation gets passed and doesn't let 25 little states run the country over the objections of the most populated states, and how the Congress is really the voice of the people and what saves us from an overactive, and unpopular, executive from being able to dictate policy to the country. That he should let the process work and not try to micromanage, and if Congress decides, in its infinite wisdom, that the wall would do nothing for border security and just be a waste of taxpayer dollars, that vetoing Congress would be an act of sheer hubris. And oh, by the way, wasn't Mexico going to pay for the wall? How's that campaign promise going?
You know, basically all the same bull@#(! that Republicans used to say back when Obama was president and Democrats had the Congress.
But as it is, Pelosi and Schumer had terrible body language and squabbled over stupid @#(! like whether 40 Democratic flips in the House is more of a victory than 2 Republican flips in the Senate, and let Trump get away with repeating over and over again, we have to have a border security, we have to have a wall, the two things are the one and the same. Ugh. They didn't even have the decency to point out that the GOP House had some 60 votes to repeal the ACA knowing that it would never get through the Senate either, so why are they suddenly afraid of symbolic votes "to send a message" all of a sudden?