Trump doesn't understand his leverage is gone - By Jennifer Rubin

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 2 at 9:00 AM

The Post reports:

President Trump has invited congressional leaders to the White House for a briefing on border security, the first face-to-face session involving Republicans and Democrats as the partial government shutdown entered its second week. . . .

“Border Security and the Wall ‘thing’ and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker! Let’s make a deal?” Trump tweeted Tuesday.

One wondrous result of the 2018 election, we will discover, is the near-total irrelevance of Trump’s tweets. He can say whatever wacky thing he wants, throw out whatever insults he pleases, but Pelosi (D-Calif.), the incoming House speaker, is not going to be thrown off track or even alarmed. She takes his tweets as confirmation he is clueless and unstable.

Of course, Pelosi would like nothing better than to demonstrate Democrats can govern and the Republican Senate cannot. (“Pelosi responded to Trump’s ‘let’s make a deal’ invitation by tweeting that the president had “given Democrats a great opportunity to show how we will govern responsibly & quickly pass our plan to end the irresponsible #TrumpShutdown — just the first sign of things to come in our new Democratic Majority committed to working #ForThePeople.”)

Pelosi has her plan ready to go: Pass a clean resolution for six of the seven appropriations bills to fund through the end of the fiscal year and the Homeland Security appropriations through Feb. 8. Trump cannot prevent her from doing it, nor can Freedom Caucus gadfly Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who declared the move a “non-starter” — as if his consent were necessary.

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[dalton99a]

1. It is time to get even

[Wellstone ruled]

2. His leverage went to zero the

morning of the Shut down. Guy's my guess is this is not going to end this week. So if you have Family affected like many on this board,be prepared to cut more checks for Groceries and Rent as well as their House payments.

Just heard from one of those persons a hour ago,their info was,it ain't going to happen this week as per their DC contacts.

[TeamPooka]

3. His leverage went to zero when "Chuck and Nancy" hooked him live on TV taking responsibility

for the shutdown.
Since then the whole thing has been a long drawn out losing move for him that his ego cant quit.
like if you just have your King and a pawn left in Chess but refuse to resign
I hope he never has to make a serious decision about the safety of this nation if he cant let go of a simple thing like this.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. The kock-bell rung when

we went shut down. Schumer and Pelosi gave the sucker wiggle room and he wasted it for the sake of his sorry ass ego.


So we change some things around in order to protect our Grand Kid,and make sure there is gas money and grocery money in their house.

This has now become personal,and you damn right,I will be working a Democratic Campaign to replace this Asshole.

[Hekate]

5. Nice read