Donald Trump: Our country needs a good 'shutdown,' suggests Senate rule change

[Cryptoad]

Source: cnn

(CNN)President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the country needs a "good 'shutdown,'" as well advocated for changing Senate rules, in a pair of tweets where he complained about the congressional negotiating process.
"The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We ... either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September to fix mess!" Trump said Tuesday in two consecutive tweets.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-tweet/index.html?adkey=bn

[n2doc]

1. How Charming n/t

[Zorro]

2. We have a President who hates the USA

[MANative]

3. Won't someone shut HIM down? Please? n/t

[yallerdawg]

4. His problem now is 51% in the House!

Maybe the Supreme Court pick was all they were really after.

The House Republicans can't "repeal Obamacare"?

How bad do you have to be, you can't even get your own majority party to support you?

[Still In Wisconsin]

15. "Maybe the Supreme Court pick was all they were really after. " I think you hit it on the head.

Trump is the price the Repubs are willing to pay for control of the Supreme Court. They always play the long game.

[David__77]

5. This is great material for Democrats.

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[spiderpig]

6. We're watching him go off the rails in real time.

Fascinating. Or it would be if so many lives weren't at stake.

[Cryptoad]

7. I hope,,,,

he doesn't realize he might just round up All the Democrats and "Lock em Up"

[KingCharlemagne]

8. What he really means: the country needs an Enabling Act that suspends the

Constitution and allows him and his goons to rule by decree, imprisoning without trial pesky leftists, uppity brown people, Ay-rabs, and women who won't bear children.

Oh, and those decadent gay folk.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Did voters elect a DICKtator?

Apparently they did. The Donald wants ABSOLUTE POWER. And we know what that does. Just look at the Cabinet and those running about the White House.

Who needs a Congress anyway? Who needs a Constitution that makes the United States the greatest nation in the world? We are screwed royally if we roll over and do not turn out our voters in 2018.

KEEP RESISITING people!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. DUzy!

[titaniumsalute]

11. Yeah let's start the 2018 election season this fall with a good shutdown

Let's do that Donald. Let's see how well that works for you and your party in 2018. Maybe this is the kind of stuff that will wake Republicans in Congress up that he's a complete fucking goofball. When he starts making statements that could cost Reps and Senators their jobs in 2018 they will go into offense mode against him.

[kimbutgar]

13. Unfortunately when they shut it down before they gained more seats.

Rethugs never seem to face consequences for their actions. Which leads me to suspect they have been manipulating the vote counting.

[titaniumsalute]

20. They blamed the black Democrat in the White House before

Now they own all 3 branches. Blaming Dems will be extremely tough for them to do.

[Initech]

12. Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

[Bengus81]

14. Donnie wants to move those goal posts closer......n/t

[Vinca]

16. This guy is nuttier than a freaking fruit cake. It's all a reality show to him.

[Yonnie3]

17. this from the man who "doesn't stand by anything"

as he said when asked about the Obama, wiretap, bad and sad tweet.

Although the media is careful to just apply this quote in the context of the one tweet, it is much more likely that this quote applies to anything and everything this _________ (fill in the blank with your preferred adjective and noun) has tweeted, published on the web, or said.

Who can know which direction the breeze will blow tomorrow? What will it whisper into his deluded brain in the future? It remains a mystery as well as a threat to all of us.

[Sunlei]

18. perhaps Republicans should send their man to Florida for a couple of months. Shut HIM down.

[riversedge]

19. nytimes also has a headline but added this.... ha ha

Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/good-shutdown-congress-trump.html


By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS


MAY 2, 2017






..........The White House moved swiftly on Tuesday to counteract Mr. Trump’s contention that he had been forced into an agreement he dislikes, claiming victory on the spending package and arguing that the White House had actually outfoxed Democrats who were spoiling for a shutdown.

“They wanted to try and make this president look like he could not govern,” Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s budget director, told reporters in a conference call. “They wanted to make this president look like he did not know what he was doing, and he beat them on that at the very, very highest level.”

He praised the large increase in military spending in the bill, which dwarfed the money for domestic programs, and said that although no wall funding had been included, increases for border technology, maintenance and repairs would help beef up security on the line between the United States and Mexico.

Democrats, Mr. Mulvaney added, “were desperate to show that we were not reasonable, and we completely destroyed that narrative by negotiating this deal. This is a huge victory for the president.”

But by publicly courting a future shutdown, an extraordinary move for a sitting president, Mr. Trump instead seemed to be confirming his reputation for rash statements that may yield little in the way of follow-through.

“President Trump may not like what he sees in this budget deal, but it’s dangerous and irresponsible to respond by calling for a shutdown,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and the ranking members of the appropriations committee. “Hopefully, Republicans in Congress will do for the next budget what they did for this one: ignore President Trump’s demands, work with Democrats, and get it done.”......................