So today is January 2, 2019 and tomorrow the Democrats get control of the house by a whopping majority.

There should be a resolution to the government shut down..right?

yeah….think again.

Today the President nixed an idea of getting the government moving again all because the Democrats were not going to put any money into his wall project.

And yes, at this stage of the game, it’s a damn project.

it went from Mexico was going to pay for the darn thing to now it’s going to be tax-payer funded.

You want to know the ironic thing about this? His base doesn’t care about who pays for it; they just want a wall!!!!

So, with all of that, is there not a compromise ahead?

Yes and it involves using the same “ice” that was used last week.

YOU A COLD PIECE DONALD

Okay let’s speed this up for conversation’s sake.

Last week or maybe even two weeks ago, the GOP controlled senate passed a measure that had seven packages attached to get the government back up and running from this partial shutdown.

I’m not going to go into all the detail but you can read the information here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/politics/government-shutdown-congress-trump-border-wall/index.html. What should be of notice though: THERE IS NO FUNDING FOR THE WALL! Not outright there is.

And so with a 100-0 vote from the Senate, guess what Nancy Pilosi decided to do and she telegraphed this on purpose: she’s going ot have her chamber PASS THE SAME BILL!!

that’s right.

She and the Democrats are not going to touch it. they are taking the Seate bill that passed and put it on the House floor for a vote and it will pass.

And thusly, today, when the President wanted to be grand poobah in the Situation Room, the Democrats pitched their idea for re-opening the government and guess what?

Donald said no.

YO….IT’S THE SAME DAMN ICE

This is what pisses independants off the most; the inability of a side to realize that they have not leverage to bargain with and they will steadfastly dig in to the brink of stupidity.

Pay attention here because this is going to be a quick lesson on why Trump will never get funding as long as the Democrats are in control.

See the ploy was simple….no bait and switch here.

The very plan that got 100 senators to say yes is the same plan that a majority Democratic house is going to say yes to but here’s the kicker and shows why Washington is broken: Republicans from both chambers will vote no on it because the Democrats have their name on it.

Yes that is going to happen.

To solidify my point here, I read a quote from Kevin McCarthy, the #2 House Republican, who said the Democrats didn’t come to negotiate.

“We never did get through the complete briefing,” McCarthy said, which was led by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. “I was a little disappointed with some on the other side. Once the secretary started, Senator Schumer interrupted her and they really didn’t want to hear it.”

So here;’s a tidbit about negotiating: If I have all the gold, you’re not in a position to demand anything. If I am the majority holder of the gold, you need to find a way to bring me to your side.

In layman’s terms it’s this: Donald Trump is not going to get $5+ billion for his pet project from the Democrats or the Senate; the votes are NOT there. What he can get is $1.3 billion that includes his project. He needs to take the damn deal!!

IT’S THE BEST DEAL ON THE TABLE

See what Trump and his supporters don’t get is that you are getting SOMETHING for the wall.

SOMETHING!!

The Democrats aren’t stupid people.

Hell right now, Pilosi has Trump by his gonads because there are some 800,000 government employees and contractors who aren’t working.

Now some of you want to say a lot of those not working are Democrats.

I’ll play along.

Let’s say out of 800,000 20% of them are Democrats; that is 160,000 pissed off Democrats

If they are what you think they are, your boy, Trump fans, is so screwed in 2020.

You ever try to get a person who lost their house and their middle class status to vote for you and YOU’RE the reason why they lost their house and their middle class income?

That’s a blue wave in 2020 for the Senate for sure and possibly the presidency.

But hey, let’s say that 160,000 are GOP leaning members and Trump doesn’t take the deal but the House and Senate pass it off of his veto.

‘It’s the same result: trump is screwed.

Look this is really simply people.

Trump and his diehard supporters need to suck it up, suck it in and grit their teeth here.

What the Democrats are playing isn’t the normal politics; they’ve put people’s livelihoods to their proposal.

If the GOP in Washington reject this bill simply because the Democrats just scooped out some of that GOP ice and put it in a Donkey bag, they’ll never rebound from this.

If you are going to allow stupid be your driving force to stand up against what the Democrats are doing here, then as a GOP member, your party has no business being in office and the 2016 midterms was the right indicator.

it’s the same damn ice people.

Gregory Moore is a former journalist who now opines from time to time on things that just makes him go….hmmm.