jimnyc
01-22-2019, 11:47 AM
While I have seen more than quite a few stand behind the president, the shutdown makes America not care much about who is right and wrong - but they dissect it nonetheless and accountability will be had. Did Trump pass the shutdown on over to Pelosi? To an extent he did. He made a good beginning offer to match the $5.7 billion which would also only be an opening.
I think Americans are smart enough to see the deal in front of them. Hopefully Trump will still have some form of a State of the Union address, and also make the deal clear. And if they continue to refuse, declare some sort of emergency as a result.
It really is that simple at this point. I don't think anyone will fully get their way, a full wall or full demands from Dems. But at this point, it is simple enough to compromise and move forward. I think opening offers from both sides should be fair - and most importantly - get those government folks back to work and back to paychecks.
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Trump's Immigration Offer Solidifies GOP Behind Him
In the midst of the 2016 GOP primary season, few could have predicted that Sen. Marco Rubio would emerge nearly three years later as one of the strongest champions of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, as well as the president’s hard-ball government-shutdown tactics.
But there was the Florida senator on Twitter over the weekend, coming to the president’s defense and unabashedly backing his latest immigration compromise proposal. Rubio also joined Trump in characterizing Democrats as obstructionists who are refusing the deal simply because it would give the president a win.
“POTUS offers to support two bills sponsored by Dems in exchange for Border Security & the instant reaction from Dem leaders is No,” Rubio tweeted Saturday. “Because denying him a win on border matters more to them than paying fed workers or 3 yrs of certainty for TPS & DACA recipients.”
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/trumps_immigration_offer_solidifies_gop_behind_him _139243.html
Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown
On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers -- the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents -- and an immediate end to the shutdown, if she agrees to expand funding to $5.7 billion for the wall.
It's the kind of checkmate political maneuver that may guarantee his re-election.
It's smart because it now puts the onus on Pelosi to open the government. It also puts the pressure on Pelosi to act on immigration reform. For 25 years, Democrats have preferred to politicize the immigration issue -- and treat Hispanic voters as political hostages -- rather agree to a bipartisan solution to deal with the 10 million illegal immigrants residing in the U.S.
There's no good option for Pelosi now.
If she says yes to this deal, Trump fulfills a critical campaign promise -- build the wall -- and he can take political credit for a humane and popular way to give "Dreamers" the right to stay in this country. He can boast about this in his State of the Union and tell voters that he achieved an immigration solution that none of his predecessors -- not even Barack Obama -- could. He can boast of the wall and freedom from government persecution for the "Dreamers."
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/now_pelosi_owns_the_shutdown_139238.html
I think Americans are smart enough to see the deal in front of them. Hopefully Trump will still have some form of a State of the Union address, and also make the deal clear. And if they continue to refuse, declare some sort of emergency as a result.
It really is that simple at this point. I don't think anyone will fully get their way, a full wall or full demands from Dems. But at this point, it is simple enough to compromise and move forward. I think opening offers from both sides should be fair - and most importantly - get those government folks back to work and back to paychecks.
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Trump's Immigration Offer Solidifies GOP Behind Him
In the midst of the 2016 GOP primary season, few could have predicted that Sen. Marco Rubio would emerge nearly three years later as one of the strongest champions of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, as well as the president’s hard-ball government-shutdown tactics.
But there was the Florida senator on Twitter over the weekend, coming to the president’s defense and unabashedly backing his latest immigration compromise proposal. Rubio also joined Trump in characterizing Democrats as obstructionists who are refusing the deal simply because it would give the president a win.
“POTUS offers to support two bills sponsored by Dems in exchange for Border Security & the instant reaction from Dem leaders is No,” Rubio tweeted Saturday. “Because denying him a win on border matters more to them than paying fed workers or 3 yrs of certainty for TPS & DACA recipients.”
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/trumps_immigration_offer_solidifies_gop_behind_him _139243.html
Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown
On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers -- the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents -- and an immediate end to the shutdown, if she agrees to expand funding to $5.7 billion for the wall.
It's the kind of checkmate political maneuver that may guarantee his re-election.
It's smart because it now puts the onus on Pelosi to open the government. It also puts the pressure on Pelosi to act on immigration reform. For 25 years, Democrats have preferred to politicize the immigration issue -- and treat Hispanic voters as political hostages -- rather agree to a bipartisan solution to deal with the 10 million illegal immigrants residing in the U.S.
There's no good option for Pelosi now.
If she says yes to this deal, Trump fulfills a critical campaign promise -- build the wall -- and he can take political credit for a humane and popular way to give "Dreamers" the right to stay in this country. He can boast about this in his State of the Union and tell voters that he achieved an immigration solution that none of his predecessors -- not even Barack Obama -- could. He can boast of the wall and freedom from government persecution for the "Dreamers."
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/now_pelosi_owns_the_shutdown_139238.html