Democrats confident they can win government shutdown fight

[mystery-ak]

Democrats confident they can win government shutdown fight
by David M. Drucker | Jan 16, 2018, 12:01 AM

The federal government barreled toward a partial shutdown Monday as the Democrats in Congress dug in their heels in a battle of political wills with President Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill.

The Democrats are demanding relief from deportation for illegal immigrants who participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as part of a deal to keep the lights on in Washington. It’s risky; the party in the White House tends to win shutdown fights, as Republicans learned in 2013 and previously.

But the Democrats are confident. They are convinced the uproar over Trump’s denigration of immigrants from Haiti and certain African nations by referring to them as coming from “shithole countries” has given them the upper hand in the debate.

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-confident-they-can-win-government-shutdown-fight/article/2646003

[libertybele]

Democrats confident they can win government shutdown fight
by David M. Drucker | Jan 16, 2018, 12:01 AM

The federal government barreled toward a partial shutdown Monday as the Democrats in Congress dug in their heels in a battle of political wills with President Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill.

The Democrats are demanding relief from deportation for illegal immigrants who participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as part of a deal to keep the lights on in Washington. It’s risky; the party in the White House tends to win shutdown fights, as Republicans learned in 2013 and previously.

But the Democrats are confident. They are convinced the uproar over Trump’s denigration of immigrants from Haiti and certain African nations by referring to them as coming from “shithole countries” has given them the upper hand in the debate.

more
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-confident-they-can-win-government-shutdown-fight/article/2646003

Why wouldn't they be confident?  The GOP(e) normally 'caves' and that's what they're used to.

[mountaineer]

And then there was the time Schumer said of the government shutdown gambit:

“No matter how strongly one feels about an issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage . . . That’s wrong and we can’t give into that,” he told the New York Observer. “We could say, ‘we’re shutting down the government, we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’ It would be governmental chaos,” Schumer said a week later.

Lying hypocrite.

More at Michelle Obama's Mirror and at Townhall.

[andy58-in-nh]

The Democrats' core constituencies are nearly all government dependents of one variety or another. When you have only one useful card to play, you play it.