Some observations since the HUGE CAVE – IN by Trump yesterday:
If the country gets to the deadline date and no compromise has been reached, anti- wall Americans should be primed and ready to march! Non violent marching can make people feeling solidarity with other fair minded citizens who believe such a preposterous strategy as a shutdown with so many innocent victims cannot be allowed to happen again. In addition, as shutdowns become more frequent, recruiting qualified, high caliber applicants for government service becomes becomes more challenging.- with a chilling impact on overall government efficiency. Shutdown are simply bad policy and must stop.
Also – lets urge House Dems to initiate a bill that any future shutdown must include a hold on the slalaries of all members of Congress until. of course. the shutdown comes to an end. Call the bill the Share the Pain of a Shutdown bill.The bill would have no chance of passing but it would serve as a great way to remind Americans that lawmakers might not embrace a government shutdown so readily if they actually had skin in the game.
The only good news to come out of the shutdown might be that it has now dawned on millions of Trump voters that their Art of the Deal President displayed no deal-making skills whatsoever. He was out dueled by Nancy Pelosi and left looking doleful and clueless. And Pelosi’s skill in staring down Trump augurs well for the women candidates running for President in 2020. However there is no time to gloat.
Trump foisted this suffering on innocent Americans for a vanity wall that most Americans don’t want or believe is worth the cost.. This malevolent, ego-driven rogue President now stands guilty of an impulsive, foolish decision aided and abetted by a bunch of amoral. self-interested GOP Senators – especially Mitch McConnell.
What Trump overlooked in initiating the shutdown was that the House no longer belonged to the Republicans. The Dems showed almost total unity in the voting on the two Senate bills to reopen the government. It was the GOP who showed cracks in their pro-shutdown position – six GOP Senators voted with the Dems to reopen the givernment. .
In the end, all it took was air traffic at two major airports to become too congested – causing safety delays and cancellations for Trump to throw in the towel. The GOP could tolerate punishing government workers to give Trump his wall. But they certainly could not abide a horrific mid-air collision or business travelers and corporate donors becoming riled up about business deals going down the drain due to flight delays.
Here is a good article from Daily Kos discussing how poorly Trump is managing Day 2 of the 21 day interim before a compromise has to be reached. If you haven’t called Mcconnell please do so. He has to make a good faith effort to help the bi-partisan Conference Committee reach a compromise or he too will have his favor ability polls start taking a hit – in Kentucky. Mitch is up for re-election in 2020 and Kentuckians may be getting tired of his poor leadership.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/26/1829829/-Donald-Trump-Just-Made-a-Fantastic-Argument-AGAINST-Building-His-Idiotic-Border-Wall
McConnell’s contact info:https//www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/328/contact