Pelosi’s Shutdown: Why Americans Increasingly Blame Her for Failing to Reopen the Government
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Did you know that we’re still in a partial government shutdown? Of course you did. It’s hard to miss. This shutdown has broken records, and it’s finally gone long enough that some of the doom and gloom sentiment could start to come true. Federal workers are about to miss their second paycheck, and if Congress can’t pass a budget soon, we’re going to start to see some economic fallout from the shutdown.
While the left still tries to blame President Trump for the shutdown, they have taken unequivocal ownership of this problem. The President hasn’t even been given a budget to veto, and the House is now adamantly refusing any level of compromise.
Pelosi’s Requests
To understand this shutdown, you have to take a look at both sides. We can leave the blame game alone and resolve to know where the contentions exist and why a compromise hasn’t yet been reached. For Pelosi and her constituents, a federal budget will be unacceptable unless it meets a few criteria.
Some of the points that have been most vocalized are specific changes to immigration policy and procedure. The Democrats want protection for anyone formally classified under DACA. They also want to extend protections for people in America under the umbrella of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
No, that’s not nearly all. They also want to expand resources for processing asylum seekers and similarly displaced people crossing the border. In addition, they want unilateral control over all discretionary spending in the United States, and that includes a policy of spending $0 on improving border security, even though the asylum processing would come from the same budget they won’t increase.
Lastly, they want Trump’s metaphorical head on a silver platter. At least, we hope it’s a metaphor.
Trump’s Offer
Knowing this, President Trump made an offer. He asked for $5.7 billion to expand border security. Among those dollars, nearly $1 billion is earmarked specifically to expand personnel, facilities and other resources dedicated to processing asylum and refugee cases. The goal of this money is to ensure we can handle the cases without separating families or having lapses in humanitarian aid during the process.
To compromise with the Democrats, Trump also offered a three-year extension on both DACA and TPS protections. Other than that, he’s actually left the rest of discretionary spending up to the Democrats in the House.
Calling this offer a compromise is an understatement. He’s given them absolutely everything they want in exchange for $5 billion of increased border security and his head on a platter. Signing this offer would be a huge win for the left too.
The Devastating Refusal
The fact that the Democrats completely refused this offer without making a counter is insane. It’s basically everything they wanted. Sure, they could counter with a longer extension of protection for DACA and TPS. They could even negotiate on the price tag of border security. They did neither.
Instead, Nancy Pelosi fully rejected the offer before it was even made. Assuming she knew what would be in it, she said, “It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House,” and called the offer a non-starter.
That’s obviously stupid. Extended DACA and TPS status would easily pass the House. A billion dollars to protect asylum seekers also seems like an easy win for the left. They only contention they have with anything in the budget is that some of the $5 billion — that was requested by Border Patrol by the way — will go towards physical barriers in area where there are none. It’s a ridiculous, childish contention, and with this move, Nancy Pelosi has taken full ownership of this shutdown.
She panders to the people and bemoans how hard the shutdown is on federal workers. She tells us it’s crashing the economy and a danger to the people. Then, when she gets an offer that has absolutely everything she wants, she throws it completely out the window and refuses to even counter the offer. She did all of it to make sure President Trump can’t say that he made progress on his promise of a border wall. It’s downright heinous.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are direct enemies of the American people. Saying “gotcha” to Trump is more important to them than anything. They will gladly watch us all suffer, die and burn if it means they can score political points against Trump. There are no excuses. There are no words.
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Pelosi's Shutdown?
Uh, damn antifreeze in the TEA again, huh?
It's Pelosi's. President Trump told her in December what is needed to keep the government open. She chose to go full retard on it. So, now we fast a bit we have democrats parying in Puerto Rico, trying to "go visit the troops" (a first in Pelosi's 40+ year career) and a few other things.
Then she and the rest of the mouth breathers complain about the 800k furloughed not getting paid and they don't vote? Yeah. This is Pelosi's.
And what was it the Trump said was required to keep the government open?
So, this is Pelosi's shutdown?
Trump shuts down the government while the Republicans controlled the house, for two years....the Republicans didn't give him the money so he shuts down the government and then tries to blame it on the person that hasn't even taken the gavel yet.
This is a total republican shutdown, started in DEC 2018 UNDER TOTAL REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF ALL 3 BRANCHES OF GOV'T! All for Trumps ego over a wall nobody wants (over 70% of Americans don't want it) and certainly NOBODY wants to pay for. Pass one of the house bills, including gop ones they already fricken passed last year, and open the gov't. You do no solve these policy issues with a damn shutdown! Border security can be and has been addressed, but stop taking the country hostage for Ann Coulter. Because now our entire security is at risk, directly because of the shutdown. Enough.
I believe the bag of shit in the white house, otherwise known as the great negotiator, said the shutdown would continue until he got his wall. I hope the air traffic controllers and the TSA walk off the job next and then hang the resulting economic calamity around the teapublicans necks.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Any enemy of Trump is my friend.
If you have to ask that, you obviously aren't paying attention. But, since you ask.
In December when the President pulled Pelosi and Schumer into the Oval Office in front of live cameras he told them to fund the wall.
That's funny. Did they ask 100% of the population? I wasn't ask. So that's false information. But then again pollsters are permitted where I live.
And the President told them what that bill should include. It wasn't included so there isn't even a reason to vote on it. But somehow the Democrats found $12B to send out to other countries?
So, yes, this is Democrat owned.
The DEMOCRATS have voted 10 times to reopen the gov't through the end of the budget cycle, and it got bipartisan support. MITCH MCCONNELL REFUSED TO ALLOW THEM. This is all Trump and McConnell and the gop that enable them. This was a republican shutdown, started under total gop control of both houses and WH. The 3rd one in 2018 I might add. The house and senate had passed the bills Trump said he agreed to back in Dec and it was set to pass. Until Anne Coulter got Trump's balls. Then he changed his mind. AGAIN. The reason he is getting the blame is because the entire world knows he is to blame. And Americans are really really pissed. This is nothing that should involve a shutdown, this is policy and is negotiated. Trump is a terrorist holding federal workers and America hostage. We don't negotiate with terrorists.
Why is Pelosi refusing to cooperate? Sheer plain unadulterated spite comes to mind...
She's doing what 70% of the country wants her to, not pay ransom to the terrorist holding the country hostage.
What's the excuse about the Republican controlled house not giving him the money for 2 years? He shut the government down while they still had the house.
You are confusing Pelosi with Trump. It is Trump playing dictator and liar in chief. Every day he lies. You know this.
Sadly this video is only available on Facebook, but it shows how the Democrats really prefer to handle their duties and is exactly what Pelosi and Schumer are doing, while saying Democrats don't act this way. They are throwing the temper tantrums that Schumer said they never do, and the video repeats Schumer's soundbite saying that while displaying their temper tantrums from the first day that Trump took office to today:
Yeah, because that's "real news"... if it can't be turned into a 5 second repeatable meme, dumb as fuck Republicans don't want to hear it...
So, are you denying that the video shows Schumer, in his and Pelosi's reply to Trump's speech about the shutdown a couple weeks ago, saying that "We don't govern by temper tantrum"? Are you denying that the Democrats had a sit-in on the House floor in a protest at the beginning of the Trump Presidency? Are you denying that the Democrats disrupted the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings before Grassley could finish welcoming people to the hearings? Do you deny that Pelosi invited Trump to give the SOTU on Jan 29th while in the middle of the shutdown, then withdrew that invitation while using the shutdown as the reason for doing so? Please say whether you deny these ACTUAL occurrences or not, as they are all easily proven as being the actions that Democratic lawmakers have chosen as the means to govern and are ALL temper tantrums.
So? What does any of that emotional word salad of lousy whataboutisms have to do with the fact that more and more people ARE NOT blaming the Democrats for Donald Trump's Great Government Shutdown of 2019. We will not forget Trump saying over and over again, "I am going to build The Wall and Mexico is going to pay for it". Are YOU denying that Trump said that? We will all be waiting on pins and needles...
Pelosi’s Shutdown
Not so fast there Bucko, one Mr. Trump on National television (therefore there is a record of it that cannot be refuted) stated that He would be proud to own the shutdown, cannot hand it off now that it has blown up in His face.
No plausible deniability on this one.
Here is proof it's trump's shutdown in his OWN words
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Hahaha!
Now the Republicans are eating their own again.
Republican lunch yesterday....Senator looks right at Mitch, trump's bitch and says
"This is all your fault!"
"Nancy Pelosi fully rejected the offer before it was even made. Assuming she knew what would be in it, she said, “It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House,”
"HER" robot" ……
......….hmmmmm……..
What is it that makes the Left Like "Robots" more than Humans !
Maybe 'cause she "Seems" so Human ?
Gotta luv technology huh.
No NO NO.. Please make No robots like pelosi.
Robotic humanoids need to look more like this:
Hahahahaha !
Pelosi is the OLD MODEL !
LOL
Time to upgrade.
For sure !
LOL..
Judging from the looks of the second generation, by the third generation, it may be worth it.
lol
Trump caved...no vanity wall funds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-leaders-continue-to-seek-a-deal-to-end-shutdown-that-will-satisfy-trump/2019/01/25/09c898dc-20ad-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.2894de6ec423
Trump caved... he's still in power.
no vanity wall funds... this way,
Next
"I see a crisis"
"and who knew it would be this complicated to build a damn wall?"
A crisis, well invent one or manufacture one. why not both ?
Welcome Venezuelans ?
Pelosi spanked him harder than Stormy.
LOL He probably enjoyed it.
this man is used to getting his own way, How is not as important as getting his own way, He's not done.
There is no cave.
I know, it's a move to save power, the fight for his wall moves on.
1.1.3 321steve
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PS: KAG .. You'll love this: (Clicking the links not really necessary)
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Or is it really 5 ?
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There is your crisis !!
Need a crisis, encourage one.
Talk a great game and for weeks telling us how "we" like you're in the loop, will come out victorious with the shining city on the hill bullshit...
You got owned. Trump rolled over like the fake he is.
He even mentions shutdown again and the Dems won't have to worry about impeaching him, the Republicans will already have that in process.
I told you before I was waiting for this day. And here we are. Pelosi nor the Dems are anywhere near getting blamed as predicted, and Trump got his ass kicked by a woman.
Karma came back with an appetite.
Won't happen, your boy now lies on the ash heap of history.
SAD
The shut down started to reach Trump, news broke of the Back up at Laguardia Airport where he keeps his plane. Air Traffic Controllers were calling in sick, how would his snotty kids get out of the city if his airplane could not get off the ground in New York..Oh dear, such a shame...
Oh yes! Please,please do. Trump enacting the act would be a gift you'll never forget. As a matter of fact it would be the best thing you could do for the liberals. Please set that precedent and then watch what you brought upon yourselves.
"Pelosi's shutdown" = an example of the room temperature IQ of a typical trump toadie