Explain why it's our fault- those of us who just could not vote for Trump for various reasons in 2016. He won without our votes didn't he? And he was well on his way in earning our votes in 2020 on the SCOTUS appointments alone. He's getting no help from you, wanting us to rot in Hell. Which by the way is a new low for TBR. Never during the hight of the campaign did I read insults like that here.
The complete abdication of responsibility for their f--kups is a hallmark of Trump and his supporters. Instead of saying, "yeah, Pelosi called my bluff and beat me on this one", they're blaming anyone and everyone they can think of. Over at Free Republic, some of his loony goons are calling Trump's move today a genius move.
Here at TBR, if you're not fully on the Trump Train, you're subject to a variety of personal insults. I've been used to those kinds of personal attacks for nearly 50 years...ok, call it 47 to be exact. My crime back then was that I accepted an Army ROTC scholarship.
The Army taught me everything about personal responsibility. As a platoon leader, everything my unit did or
failed to do was on me...and no one else. When my platoon flunked an ARTEP, that was on me, baby. That experience molded me into a real PITA: if my neck is on the chopping block, then leave me alone and let me do my job.
It's not just Trump and his merry band of Brigadiers, it's nearly everyone in DC, and that includes the perfumed princes at the Pentagon. Man, at times I could see myself voting for Trump in 2020, but that's not going to happen if this is the best we're going to get on border security/the wall.
That's Trump's signature issue, and he is failing...there's not even a Pyrrhic victory on the distant horizon. C'mon, what did Trump accomplish with this partial shutdown? Anyone? Ferris, Ferris?
Worse yet, Putin, Kim, and a number of bad characters have seen how Pelosi and Schumer rolled Trump on this one. They now have a good idea that there is no hill Trump is willing to die on, and that bodes badly for the near future for this country.