[ April 18, 2024 ]
The Democrats excoriated the Republicans for the 1995–96 shutdown of the government. The Republicans would do well to take a page from their war games playbook and give it back in spades.
It was the Dems who voted to defeat a bill that would have kept the government functioning fully. The left shut down the government in order to hold the country hostage to illegal immigration (DACA). The enemedia is churning out left-wing propaganda blaming the Republicans. Like last time.
It will be difficult to drive the national conversation if you google “shutdown” — every link is a left-wing news site.
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President Trump must whack the Democrats on the “shutdown” — it will be game over. He has led them into a trap they have constructed for themselves, as the Democrats have shown their true colors, preferring a group of non-citizens (illegal entrants?) to the whole of the USA.
Should widespread public support manifest itself for the President over this issue, then the credibility of the Democrats will be finished.
The #WomensMarch2018 exposed the truth about #SchumerShutdown
"Stopping DACA and limiting immigrants of color block future votes for the Democratic Party."
Never forget this. pic.twitter.com/118TBlsDwC
— Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) January 21, 2018
Shutdown politics, who has the upper hand?
By Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, January 20, 2018:
Last night, in considering which party will be blamed the most for a sustained partial government shutdown, I mentioned two polls. The first, by the Washington Post, found that, by a 20-point margin, more Americans will blame President Trump and Republicans than Democrats. This, I believe, is similar to what most polls are showing, even though it was the Dems who voted to defeat a bill that would have kept the government functioning fully.
However, the second poll I mentioned, by CNN, suggested to me that Republicans might gain the upper hand in the blame game. That’s because of how the public adjudges the dispute that has led to the partial shutdown.
Specifically, 56 percent of Americans think it’s more important to avoid a government shutdown than to “continue DACA.” 34 percent think it is more important to “continue DACA.” The discontinuation of DACA is precisely the reason why Democrats are unwilling to vote for bills that would keep the government fully functioning.
CNN reporters Ryan Struyk and Jennifer Agiesta read this poll the same way I do. In fact, in an article called “Why Democrats may be making the wrong bet on the shutdown,” they point to additional findings that could cause the public, in the end, to blame Democrats more than Republicans.
Not only do more Americans say avoiding a shutdown is important than continuing DACA, a majority says finding a DACA fix is more important than opposing the wall. Trump and the GOP clearly are willing to do a DACA fix. To the extent Democrats are seen as unwilling to do a proper wall, public opinion may turn against them.
The CNN poll also found that the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is seen as a higher priority than DACA. One would hope so. CHIP is for lower income American children, some 9 million of them. DACA is for illegal immigrants, fewer than 1 million of them.
But Democrats are giving DACA the higher priority. They have blocked legislation that would extend CHIP because it doesn’t revive DACA.
Thus, although public opinion seems to favor the Democrats now, and the mainstream media will do everything it can to keep things that way, the dynamic could easily change if an extended shutdown causes the public to think about who is arguing what.
Senate Democrats: You do not have to march in lockstep behind Senator Schumer's shutdown. Show you have backbones and that even though you care about DACA you care more about doing your duty for American children and our military. They are dreamers too. #PutAmericanchildrenFIRST
— Cindy Taylor (@CindyTa21020699) January 21, 2018
DYSFUNCTIONAL DC: SHUTDOWN DAY 2...
BUDGET BREAKDOWN CONTINUES...
STATE OF THE UNION IN DARK?
FUNDING RUNS OUT...
AS FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES...
President Urges 'Nuclear Option'...
But who will be blamed?
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64 Comments
6 years ago
It is time for President Trump to play hard ball with the democrats. The next thing democrats should have closed, is jail house doors behind them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
This is why America needs Trump.
swedish police is so overworked, outnumbered that the Police chief is begging for help from his own govt http://bit.ly/2s75qAn
But they are too busy bringing in more jihadis and dumb Left/liberal women I heard are allowing themselves be their sex slaves so they won’t be killed !
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
With out a doubt and I hope they get them all couldn’t happen soon enough .
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live
up to Christianity.
The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost
impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday mornings.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period
for your purpose.
Rule 9: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Rule 11: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside;
this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.
Rule 12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and
saying “You’re right — we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.”
Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
~ Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
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NOTE: Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are acolytes of Saul Alinsky, Hildebeast actually having done her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky at Wellesley; even going so far as to personally interview him!
Saul Alinsky, often referred to as an “anti- anti-Communist”, was a vile, filthy little Marxist.
6 years ago
Reply to
Gunter
Two can play that game, timing is critical, if done right, the opposition always looks like it is too stupid to come up with an actual reply.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I suspect that President Trump has at least read the cliff notes for Alinsky’s treatise.
May be why he doesn’t broadcast his plans like his Alinsky Marxist predecessor was wont to do.
6 years ago
Reply to
Gunter
Never underestimate the element of surprise. A lot of the politically correct multiculturalists like to talk more than they act, resulting in all they ever do is talk.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Much like all too many who oppose the Left.
Talk is cheap, my friends. Risk putting your money and your body where your mouth is. End life with no regrets?♡
6 years ago
At this point in the game, how does ‘Chucky’ Schumer even have his position. Who is voting for this clown. He clearly loves the sound of his own voice.
6 years ago
Reply to
overboosted ✓ᴰᴱᴾᴸᴼᴿᴬᴮᴸᴱ
And he looks down with his glasses at the end of his nose, like he’s really such an authoritarian on everything.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
When he wears those spectacles, on the end of his nose, it’s so much easier for them to catch his crocodile tears.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Agree. And the pro-jihadi pope wants xians to accept more such “immigrants” https://tinyurl.com/ydy9xkxs
They are more like savages not “poor” refugees or real immigrants.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yeah, just the way TV interviewer would do to S.Palin, trying to diminish her.
6 years ago
No “barrycades” around monuments this time around. Obama did everything he could to hurt Americans during the last shut down.
6 years ago
Commies commit TREASON,, it’s what they do. ILLEGALS but NOT Americans. All Dems should move to Venezuela to create their Utopia.
6 years ago
No “barrycades” around monuments this time around. Obama did everything he could to hurt Americans during the last shut down.
6 years ago
Most politicians are bratty babies. They always demand, give nothing in return, and whine, whine, whine.
6 years ago
Reply to
Midnattsol
But, tonight, Pelosi and her pals will be doing a lot of ‘wine……ing.’
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Nothing but the best that American taxpayers are forced to provide them.
6 years ago
Look at them. I just want to punch them! Tonight they are all having dinner with Pelosi. They stuff their faces while our military is going without pay. Talk about despicable! I hope they all get food poisoning.
6 years ago
Reply to
Janet
I’m sure while she’s stuffing her revolting face, Pelosi and friends will find a moment to raise a glass to our troops. You know, to thank them for their service and all.
6 years ago
Every single national poll clearly shows that American citizens oppose any amnesty of illegal aliens by a wide margin. President Trump payed attention to those polls and made immigration a keystone of his campaign which led to his victory over crime boss Hillary Clinton. Obviously butterknife Schumer and faux Catholic Nancy Pelosi are willing to defy the citizenry, but why? One reason: it is the only chance the Dhimmicrats have to stay in power. 3rd world immigrants vote overwhelmingly Democrat. So flood the country with undocumented Democrats.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ebayer
All the dems need is for Florida or Texas to turn blue and there won’t be another Republican president. Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, et al are doing their part to make this a reality.
6 years ago
Reply to
Guessed Worker
YUP!
That’s why Rubio bucks Trump all the time.
He is betting on that. Before Flake decided not to run, McCain and Rubio were stumping for Flake a few months ago.
6 years ago
Reply to
Guessed Worker
RINO = quisling
Quisling – n. one who collaborates with the enemy
6 years ago
Reply to
Ebayer
Agreed. You should hear it from legal immigrants (there is such a thing) and their descriptions of physicals, background checks, and other hoops to jump through to get here. And then to see illegals, those first act to get here is to violate the law, enjoy that same life?
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Don’t get me started on legal immigration, costs, made up fines (in addition to all of the other costs involved) time, paperwork, red tape, and …. I wish that this keyboard had the eternity symbol ….
6 years ago
Isn’t the US Government normally shut down on Saturday and Sunday?
What’s all the commotion?
6 years ago
Isn’t the US Government normally shut down on Saturday and Sunday?What’s all the commotion?
6 years ago
But, tonight, Pelosi and her pals will be doing a lot of ‘wine……ing.’
6 years ago
The GOP even offered CHIP but NO it;s all ABOUT AMNESTY for DACA and ALL, did you catch that ALL ILLEGALS here. DACA is not the same as DREAMERS. DREAMERS are separate and here illegally.
Don’t be fooled by DACA being kids. They aren’t. The average age for DACA is 26! Obama started the DACA POLICY in 2012. So being here ILLEGALLY for SIX years is hardly most of your life. Besides is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL POLICY. Even Obama knew he couldn’t make DACA and EXECUTIVE ORDER. Notice how the GOP did NOT challenge it! DEMS want VOTES and POWER and the GOP wants CHEAP unskilled labor and uses VISAS for CHEAP educated labor.
6 years ago
Do Americans really care about Daca?Aren’t we sick of those aliens who stick together living their own culture,their own crime-ridden world which they expect me to accept ? I want every one in the slammer for sneakin’ in.
6 years ago
Hey , they’re democrats . The President ought to invite them over for a game of Whack a Troll .
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights….. Carry
6 years ago
Schumer, a.k.a.”Senator Schmuck”, should have read “On War” by Clausewitz, especially the part about never entering a valley unless you control the high ground either side of it.
6 years ago
It is fairly obvious, reading over the comments, that MOST commenters on this site recognize the fact that the Democrats are at fault.
D
6 years ago
Shutting down the government over DACA rather than passing the budget is in the Democrats’ play book: ‘The Center For American Progress (CAP) Action Fund circulated a memo by former Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri calling Dreamers “a “critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.”The memo called on Democrats to “refuse to offer any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them.”“The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a moral imperative, it is also a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.” “If Democrats don’t try to do everything in their power to defend Dreamers, that will jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in 2018 and beyond,” “In short, the next few weeks will tell us a lot about the Democratic Party and its long-term electoral prospects.” ‘ -Jennifer Palmieri
6 years ago
THAT the Demoncraps are doing this over ILLEGAL immigrants, instead of American citizens, the Constitution was WRITTEN for and they took an OATH to uphold is quite treasonous.
Demoncraps outing themselves as they always were. Hardcore Communist and a radical lefty who wish to SMASH the last hold out for their NEW WORLD ODOR.
A BOOT ON EVERY darkie’s neck (Negro included) and to hunt down the last white that prevents them from doing so.
Slaves for all, cry the Demoncraps, once we kill all whiteys!
6 years ago
Second day? It was Sunday, and it’s the second day of the shutdown every weekend.
6 years ago
Senator Schumer is about as anti-American as the Turkish dictator. He leads the “fight” for DACA, which means placing the state of illegal aliens above Americans forced to pay his fat-cat salary and its perks (DACA for the Dems also means increasing illegal voting blocks for Dems). Trump has Schumer, Pelosi, and all the other Dems figured out. Come the 2018 elections Americans will slap them in their faces with defeat. Americans will remember the shutdown and the misery it causes them and who caused it: Congress. Trump, while he may commiserate with Americans affected by the shutdown, is probably laughing at the folly of Schumer and the Dems. Do the Dems realize that countless illegals are now crossing the border together with terrorists? They do and they don’t care. No. They won’t be affected by the rise in crime and the terrorism. They “think” short-term. “Fix Trump! Make him bend to our will! We’ll show him who’s boss!” No, I don’t think that will happen, they’ll only show how leftist and malice-ridden they are.
D
6 years ago
Looking at the “sources” of these polls, I am SURPRISED that the Republicans are not blamed at 90%. These two presstatute PROPAGANDA establishments mean NOTHING in the REAL world of REAL Americans.
Ask REAL Americans who is to BLAME!!
DemoncRATs OWN this shut down 100%.
DemoncRATs are REFUSING to accept the American Peoples’ will that 0b0z0’s ILLEGALLY MADE “daca” is not acceptable.
DemoncRATs only see the “daca” people as a future vote for them.
D
6 years ago
Time to pass a COS bill that states that CAREER POLITICAL POLITICIANS must be docked 2(?) day’s pay for every day that government is “shut-down”. Lets’ see, These paid employees get about $150,000.00 for 90 days of “work”. After the 90 days of “work” they get supported to “stump” for funds to pay their way to remain in office where 90% of them renege on their OATH of OFFICE to protect and defend AMERICANS from Domestic and Foreign enemies.
6 years ago
Mexico is in charge of our country.
California actually IS Mexico.
We’re not friends with Mexico anymore.
“Either we have a country, or we don’t have a country” — Trump.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
You should “carry concealed” in California, U.S.A., where the Speaker of the State Assembly and State Attorney General are both radical, militant Chicano insurgents, and the governorship is about to be handed off to another Mexican buffoon who likewise will be congenitally incapable of grasping the concepts of American freedom and Republican Democracy under our Constitution and the Rule of Law.
But then you will advise, brimming with false pride, not to worry about “the J.V. team,” won’t you?
And regarding your predictable reflexive howler about how you can’t wait to see California secede from the Union — when you surrender California, you are left with a rump state.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I know nothing about “blocking” other than several have threatened to block me. Things, like little crissy … I find them amusing. Watching these things humiliate themselves, time after time after time … it’s just freaking hilarious! And, laughter is the best medicine.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
We have had a POTUS who actually CARES about this country for ONE year… following 28 years of presidents who have sold this country out.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
Whoa! I see from your previous post that you “carry concealed.”
And that you have a hair trigger for boasting about it.
6 years ago
I’m a Dreamer … I dream of a world free of Leftists…
Imagine there’s no Demokkkrats … it’s easy if you try.
It looks a lot like the America … over which Lietards fly.
Imagine there’s no brown rape victims … no reason for them to cry.
It’s what will come … when the Demokkkatic party dies …
Imagine there’s no Islamic terrorism … no ethnic cleansing too.
It can come true … when we defeat the RINOs too.
Imagine no thugs … and clean and safe parks.
We can do it all … just ignore the Leftists’ barks.
Imagine when John Lennon is forgotteeeennn… and the children can play outside.
I know we all want it … I want it too.
But it cannot happen … until the drones want it tooooooooo
LOL.
