In the world of bizarre news, Democrat senate leader Chuck Schumer just took to the floor of the senate to claim that the Democrats had not filibustered the continuing resolution or shut down the government in favor of illegal aliens. It was a strange way to end a failed effort to manipulate the system to get what they wanted. Fortunately, the GOP and President Trump responded by steadfastly stating that they would not negotiate a DACA fix while the Democrats kept the government closed. This made it perfectly clear that the Dems were elevating the DACA illegals to a position more important than the 300 million plus American citizens who Congress represents.
I haven't seen any polls on the subject, but there is no doubt that the Dems got poll results showing that the public was blaming them for shutting down the government. For once, the truth made its way past the talking points of the Dems and their mainstream media allies. Even the media was forced to admit that the Dems had shut things down to force a deal on DACA. Every American could then understand that he or she ranked second to the illegals in the view of the Democrats.
I'm surprised that the Dems blinked this fast. I expected that it would take a few more days before they caved. After all, if the news reports are correct, the Democrats got nothing in exchange for their caving on the continuing resolution other than a promise by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring a DACA bill to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks allowing fair amendment and voting. That's nothing. Remember, there's no definition of what the DACA bill coming for a vote will include. Remember further that the House also has to pass a DACA bill, and there's no commitment that the House will even consider a bill passed by the Senate. As I said above, this is nothing but a fig leaf to allow Schumer to claim he got something when he did not.
It's good to see that the Democrats' government shutdown was such a failure for them. Maybe this will end these shutdowns for a while. If not, there will probably be a countdown clock until the next possible shutdown that CNN will put in the corner of its feed.
I haven't seen any polls on the subject, but there is no doubt that the Dems got poll results showing that the public was blaming them for shutting down the government. For once, the truth made its way past the talking points of the Dems and their mainstream media allies. Even the media was forced to admit that the Dems had shut things down to force a deal on DACA. Every American could then understand that he or she ranked second to the illegals in the view of the Democrats.
I'm surprised that the Dems blinked this fast. I expected that it would take a few more days before they caved. After all, if the news reports are correct, the Democrats got nothing in exchange for their caving on the continuing resolution other than a promise by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring a DACA bill to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks allowing fair amendment and voting. That's nothing. Remember, there's no definition of what the DACA bill coming for a vote will include. Remember further that the House also has to pass a DACA bill, and there's no commitment that the House will even consider a bill passed by the Senate. As I said above, this is nothing but a fig leaf to allow Schumer to claim he got something when he did not.
It's good to see that the Democrats' government shutdown was such a failure for them. Maybe this will end these shutdowns for a while. If not, there will probably be a countdown clock until the next possible shutdown that CNN will put in the corner of its feed.
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