26th January 2019, 11:22 PM
Woah, the shutdown is over! All it took is Nancy Pelosi cancelling the state of the union (until after the shutdown) and then one day of news about major delays at New York's LaGuardia airport, and presto, Trump completely caved and surrendered, shutdown over with a total victory, so far at least, for our side. It's pretty awesome, particularly with how that happened on the same day that Trump ally Roger Stone got indicted for his criminal acts during the campaign, and just as or more importantly for his lies trying to cover up said acts.
Now, sure, it's only a three-week funding bill, so in just a few weeks Trump will have to decide about whether he'll agree to sign a probably also wall-free funding bill and rely on trying to win a long court battle about whether he can declare a national emergency to fund the wall (I hope not!), or shut it down again. I don't see much support from the Republican Party for another shutdown, though, and apparently McConnell pressured Trump to end this since Senate Republicans may have been mostly voting with Trump but they were not happy about it, but if Trump ignores them and decides on a second shutdown, there will be one because today's Republican Party has zero independence, they don't act like a political party anymore but instead like a bunch of Trump cronies. Maybe seeing this defeat will get some of them to abandon him, but not many I imagine...
But on the other hand, with how badly this shutdown went for the nation and particularly for the Republican Party, since everyone knows that the shutdown happened because Trump wants his wall, another shutdown would not go any better for them, so I hope they see reason and abandon him if he chooses that very foolish course of action. Maybe he really will just give up and start a court battle over it though, we'll see...
But what we do know now is, Nancy Pelosi just won a major victory over Trump and it's pretty awesome.
Now, sure, it's only a three-week funding bill, so in just a few weeks Trump will have to decide about whether he'll agree to sign a probably also wall-free funding bill and rely on trying to win a long court battle about whether he can declare a national emergency to fund the wall (I hope not!), or shut it down again. I don't see much support from the Republican Party for another shutdown, though, and apparently McConnell pressured Trump to end this since Senate Republicans may have been mostly voting with Trump but they were not happy about it, but if Trump ignores them and decides on a second shutdown, there will be one because today's Republican Party has zero independence, they don't act like a political party anymore but instead like a bunch of Trump cronies. Maybe seeing this defeat will get some of them to abandon him, but not many I imagine...
But on the other hand, with how badly this shutdown went for the nation and particularly for the Republican Party, since everyone knows that the shutdown happened because Trump wants his wall, another shutdown would not go any better for them, so I hope they see reason and abandon him if he chooses that very foolish course of action. Maybe he really will just give up and start a court battle over it though, we'll see...
But what we do know now is, Nancy Pelosi just won a major victory over Trump and it's pretty awesome.