Why Democrats Said No to Trump’s Border Compromise

[GURPS]

They view him as a devil they must defeat at all costs.

Lots of people are wondering just why Democrats rejected President Trump’s plan to reopen government agencies even before he announced the plan. House speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a “non-starter,” and Senate Democratic whip Dick Durbin rejected it even though, as the Daily Caller noted, Trump’s proposal to protect immigrant “Dreamers” from being deported “included everything” that Durbin had asked for “just over two years ago.”

The Washington Post editorial page, normally one of Trump’s harshest critics, was puzzled by the Democratic intransigence:

To refuse even to talk until the government reopens does no favors to sidelined federal workers and contractors. . . . A measure of statesmanship for a member of Congress now is the ability to accept some disappointments, and shrug off the inevitable attacks from purists, if it means rescuing the lives of thousands of deserving people living among us.​

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The Democrats seem have to been captured by the thinking of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. The author of Rules for Radicals, Alinsky inspired both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He used to tell his protégés that “the issue is never the issue.” As historian David Horowitz notes

The cause of a political action — whether civil rights or women’s rights — is never the real cause; women, blacks, and other “victims” are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power.​

Why Democrats Said No to Trump’s Border Compromise

 

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They view him as a devil they must defeat at all costs.

Lots of people are wondering just why Democrats rejected President Trump’s plan to reopen government agencies even before he announced the plan. House speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a “non-starter,” and Senate Democratic whip Dick Durbin rejected it even though, as the Daily Caller noted, Trump’s proposal to protect immigrant “Dreamers” from being deported “included everything” that Durbin had asked for “just over two years ago.”

The Washington Post editorial page, normally one of Trump’s harshest critics, was puzzled by the Democratic intransigence:

To refuse even to talk until the government reopens does no favors to sidelined federal workers and contractors. . . . A measure of statesmanship for a member of Congress now is the ability to accept some disappointments, and shrug off the inevitable attacks from purists, if it means rescuing the lives of thousands of deserving people living among us.​

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The Democrats seem have to been captured by the thinking of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. The author of Rules for Radicals, Alinsky inspired both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He used to tell his protégés that “the issue is never the issue.” As historian David Horowitz notes

The cause of a political action — whether civil rights or women’s rights — is never the real cause; women, blacks, and other “victims” are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power.​

Why Democrats Said No to Trump’s Border Compromise

Ummm...the Dems had the text of the President's proposals before he went on TV. If you don't understand why the proposal was rejected ahead of time, that's why. The President, the great negotiator who can't negotiate, made a bullsh!t offer...so it was rejected out of hand--just as it should have been. Just as any one of you all would have done had the tables been reversed.

Trump is inept. After 2 years in office he still doesn't understand that he isn't running a private company anymore. He still doesn't understand that he is up against people who actually know what they are doing.

Trump's poll numbers are falling. He is being blamed for the shutdown and this mess by a majority of Americans....a majority also don't see the southern border as a crisis....nor are they clamoring for a wall. Trump has a weak hand and everyone outside of the right wing echo chamber knows it.

IF Trump were 1/4 of the businessman he claims to be, he would have already settled this stupid exercise and moved on to the next item on the agenda.

 

[GURPS]

Trump's poll numbers are falling. He is being blamed for the shutdown and this mess by a majority of Americans ....

yeah we have seen your fantasy over sampled poll

 

[baxter]

yeah we have seen your fantasy over sampled poll

People who know what there doing???? Does this include Pelosi`s statement on border security of "just cut the tall grass "????????? SHE IS AN IDIOT!!!!! And all Schumer does is cry

 

[Hijinx]

People who know what there doing???? Does this include Pelosi`s statement on border security of "just cut the tall grass "????????? SHE IS AN IDIOT!!!!! And all Schumer does is cry

A senile old rich lady who cannot even read a speech without slurring her words knows what she is doing??
I beg to differ. What she is doing is wasting more money on a shut down than she would spend building the wall.

What she is doing is making a damned fool of herself.