Pelosi wants Trump to cancel SOTU address due to shutdown or deliver it in writing. Nice try, Nancy.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., continues to play political games instead of sitting down with President Donald Trump and forging a path forward to open the federal government AND provide for critically needed border security.
Her latest ploy is to call on Trump to delay his Jan. 29 State of the Union address if the government is still shut down, or deliver it in writing.
In effect, the San Francisco liberal lawmaker does not want President Trump going before the American people and further highlighting the need for a border wall.
On the 26th day of the shutdown, the longest in modern history, Pelosi sent a letter to the president to say that “since the start of modern budgeting” in fiscal 1977, there has never been a SOTU address delivered when the government is not fully open.
Noting that the Secret Service and Homeland Security are not fully funded, she also cited security concerns in the letter shared online.
“Today, I wrote to @realDonaldTrump recommending that we delay the State of the Union until after government re-opens, as the @SecretService , the lead federal agency for #SOTU security, faces its 26th day without funding,” Pelosi tweeted.
The letter came out about an hour after a senior White House official questioned the speaker’s effort regarding the shutdown, according to Roll Call .
“When was the last time you saw Pelosi on television?” the senior official said. “The president of the United States is on almost every day. He head three meetings with the [press] pool two days ago. … I would argue: Where is she? Why isn’t she addressing the American people on the shutdown?”
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the minority whip, responded to Pelosi’s call for a delay to ask: “What are Democrats afraid of Americans hearing?”
Employing the hashtag #ShutdownNancy, Scalise listed a few of the crime statistics related to illegal immigration and our porous southern border. Scalise followed that up with a second tweet, saying: “This decision makes clear what we already know: Democrats are only interested in obstructing @realDonaldTrump, not governing.”
The tweet of the day came from Daily Caller editorial director Vince Coglianese, in response to Pelosi’s actions.
At a time when the president must take full advantage of his bully pulpit, Coglianese tweeted: “Trump should give the State of the Union from the border.”
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk had another excellent idea.
He tweeted: “President Trump should tell Pelosi she can watch the state of the Union: on TV while he delivers it from the White House in front of an audience of veterans and angel moms Constitution says the President will deliver the state of the union – it doesn’t say where.” May we assume Pelosi, who has called a border wall “immoral,” was busy on Tuesday writing her letter and this explains why she reportedly refused to meet with families victimized by illegal aliens? “Angel Families,” who’ve been impacted by crimes committed by illegal immigrants, stormed Pelosi’s office on Tuesday and broke out in a “build the wall” chant.
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....... 6. Her plot to postpone the State of the Union by blocking Trump from the House floor was ridiculed
Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen thanked the Secret Service and her own agency, DHS, for their commitment to secure the State of the Union address to be delivered by President Donald Trump.
“The Department of Homeland Security and the US Secret Service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union,” stated Nielsen.
Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to postpone Trump’s State of the Union, citing supposed security deficiencies caused by the government shutdown.
But the Secret Service, as always, is prepared to serve with honor.
Democrats are running out of tactics to apply pressure on President Donald Trump to end the government shutdown without a Wall.
7. Chuck Schumer Did Not Have An Inspiring Press Conference Outside the Capitol
Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats held up posters of furloughed government workers outside the Capitol Wednesday.
Republicans including Rep. Mo Brooks and Louie Gohmert have already shown photos of the victims of illegal alien crime on the House floor, including a 13-year old girl who was beheaded by an illegal alien.
Schumer’s statement ignores those victims of illegal alien crime. Now that President Trump has signed the back pay bill, the blame for the shutdown shifts to Democrats, who keep workers from getting their paychecks through their refusal to fund the southern border Wall. Schumer held up a poster of a man with a heart ailment, but did not address the Angel families who arrived at Nancy Pelosi’s office this week while Pelosi ignored them.
“Open the government,” some of the Democrats briefly chanted......
Yeah I heard that one on the radio today, not only did they appear and Pelosi refused to speak to them, the point was made that she did it from BEHIND A WALL!
That is how effective a wall is when you do not want to allow someone into your presence! Nancy knows enough to use one when she doesn't want to address her constituents who want one also!
President Trump would like to pretend that it's "business as usual". Unfortunately for him... and everyone else... it is NOT "business as usual". The United States government is shut down, due to a TrumpTemperTantrum TM.
Americans are suffering because Trump is behaving like a spoiled child.
It would be wrong to have a "business as usual" SOTU in these conditions.
About 30% of the US Government is temporarily unfunded.
that being said
It boggles the imagination, or perhaps highlight's Trumps madness, that the brunt of this "unfunding" falls squarely on the very people entrusted and tasked with keeping all of our borders sovereign.
North, South, by land; East & West by sea and from every direction by air, who are paying the ultimate "inconvenience".
As long as Trump is complicit in this fiasco, the SOTU should remain in a drawer somewhere, regardless of who writes it.
The TSA? the faster they go home permanently out of work is not fast enough for me.... (they can take all the extraneous DHS personnel with them along with the FISA courts and any other liberal ideologically driven federal employees loyal to a political party over their country)
A variation on the curse of the dodo bird....
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Where did you get abandon airport security from what I said?
I said do away with the TSA and all the associated gestapo organizations created by the patriot act..... And any politically driven government employees that do their jobs supporting a political party over their country....
You know why there won't be another flight 93?
The next time, the jets on intercept will be in the air fully armed with orders to shoot down if not complying with orders to land.... It's also why we haven't seen very many airliner hijackings since the WTC attack. Pretty much they turned the airliner hijacking into an assault tactical weapon itself....
The passengers are collateral damage, hence the warnings about air travel risks are much more pronounced. Most nations around the world have read the handwriting on the wall about hijackings and the only sane response to them. Hence almost no hijackings since.... (and the few that have happened were with airlines from countries that don't have the capability to respond massively)
Yes it is a much tougher world out there, and all they did with the WTC attack is raise the stakes....
If that happens I will die in the knowledge that I died as a result of the nation defending itself from an enemy......
Trump has offered a variety of compromise and comprehensive proposals. It’s the democrats who are the inflexible ones here.
Would you return to air travel without screening? I remember the days when airliners were routinely pirated... and I don't want to go back.
So... if you want to eliminate TSA, what would you replace it with... and why do you presume that it would do a better job?
(I'm not a fan of TSA. Nobody is. Some of their procedures are pretty... strange... But don't throw out the baby with the bath water!)
"Routinely pirated"??? C'mon Bob - we're not talking France.
So that would mean pretty much everyone Trump has hired.
I don't think so, but each and every Clinton appointee/hire and quite a few of Obama's.....
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Very Relevant to the comment I was commenting about.....but....such is someone else's life. (Laughy Face)
For the record, I as the seeder did NOT flag any post here as off topic. No one else was supposed to do so.
Seems it was a ….. "Split" decision. (Snicker face)
Indeed as so many are on our seeds...
I have no doubt that you are right and agree with you.
Go back and listen to his speech yesterday after he participated in the swearing in of 5 new legal immigrant citizens yesterday and you will know.
I’m looking forward to the permanent furlough of most all furloughed non essential government employees on day 31 of the shutdown. Will Chuckie doll and wicked Nancy let it get to that point?
Keep saying that Bob, and reveal to us all how out of touch the democrats are in reality. This little move only shows that the only thing the democrats are interested in is denying T-rump anything and everything they can.
Purely hateful and childish.......
Plain as the hand in front of your face.
Last time I checked, Bob lived in France and I know for a fact that he only speaks for himself and never speaks for all democrats.
Yes I watched many older relatives, including my sainted father, age ungracefully, completing the emotional bell curve I learned about 30 plus years ago.
Perhaps if we don't want predictable childish behavior from our septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians
we should stop fucking electing the old farts!!!!
Common sense as plain as the hand in front of your face, no?
This I can agree with completely....... on the other hand, the young (OCA comes to mind) are sometimes equally handicapped....
One out of 435 is usually referred to as an anomaly.
Very close to the opposite side of that bell curve, no?
Actually it is about a half a dozen....
You're a bit out of date. I now spend more time in the US than in France, although we still have our home in Calais.
OTOH, you are absolutely right that I never speak for all democrats. I am in favor of democracy, but so are billions of other people, and it would be incredibly pretentious to try to speak for all of them!
Here, fixed it for you:
You're welcome.
Well said.
Nancy Pelosi is a spoiled child. After all, she is a San Francisco Democrat.
All I can say is Nancy Pelosi for President..Trump is no match for Pelosi...
It's too late, considering her age... but yeah! Definitely YEAH!!
Wow, 1.3%
What happens if you delete all of the people over 70?
Would be a roll of the dice, but you would get rid of most of the ossified old political hacks....
That, would be a good thing as long as the replacements were elected fair and square...
Pelosi wants Trump to cancel SOTU address
Well if nothing else, it would give the fact checkers an evening off.
At present the State of the Union is in turmoil and at the center of it we find one Mr. Trump, State of the Union delivered.
No one pays any attention to the fraudulent so called fact checkers and their biased liberal agenda.
Pelosi wants Trump to cancel SOTU address due to the FACT they can't figure out a truly viable "Response" afterword's !
Maybe she read the memo, and actually UNDERSTOOD for a change, that she and Chucky looked like total morons the last time they "Responded" on National TV, and she and Chucky need a few more weeks of "Practice" !
Read 11.1.2.
I did. It's completely wrong on every point.
You people do know what "co-equal" means, right?
To the alt+right it means Dems are always wrong and Trump is Jesus.
Too bad there’s no government aircraft available now for congressional junket trips.
Too bad Trumps approval numbers are tanking with traditional conservatives.
Not as bad Pelosi's ..... congress approval rating is down below 20% last i checked.
Yeehaaaaww .... how low can the wicked witch of the west take it?
The bottom is the limit there botox warrior .....
Scumbag is down 24% as of the WaPo/ABC poll released this morning on the shutdown. And although it's too early to make much out of this Marist* poll of a couple of days ago but it might very well get even worse for Scumbag between now and Nov. 2020:
And although this poll doesn't specifically mention Pelosi it's also very ugly for Scumbag (ah, but I repeat myself):
Note that overall approval for Scumbag is only 37% while Dems come in at 42%. But the real slammer for Scumbag is his 61% overall DISapproval compared to Dems 53%.
Really sucks to be a Scumbag supporter right now.
Yawn .....
Still not lower than your Cali shit for brains botox poster girl and her cronies in congress.
Will there be enough Preparation-H left over when her little scambit fails and her supporters butthurt grows even more exponentially.
I think not. So sad .... so sorry .... too bad for left wing fundies and their ilk ...
Why would you even think I care about Pelosi's numbers? I'm not from her district.
First things first. Why would you think i care if you cared or not?
Fact remains, her approval numbers, as a member of congress, suck worse than Trumps.
Pretty bad eh?
I can’t wait for the SOTU address by our President on 29 Jan. 2019 from the well of the House of Representatives.