More about Trumpsky and Congress
Ryan Lizza, on the New Yorker's Website, today quotes an unnamed White House personage to the effect that Trumpsky is "excited" about threats to shut down the USG a week from today! Holy shit! What insane assholes!
Recalling the Obama experience with right-wing loonies in 2013, he writes, "...the government closed for two weeks before Republicans came back to the table. At the time, many predicted that the tactic would have dire political consequences for the G.O.P., but the following year the Party expanded its majority in the House and took over the Senate. Republican leaders have prevented their right wing from forcing shutdowns in the years since, but one lesson from 2013 is that the threat of a government shutdown is a powerful way to press for concessions without paying too high a political price."
You read that correctly...we are fucking doomed!
Recalling the Obama experience with right-wing loonies in 2013, he writes, "...the government closed for two weeks before Republicans came back to the table. At the time, many predicted that the tactic would have dire political consequences for the G.O.P., but the following year the Party expanded its majority in the House and took over the Senate. Republican leaders have prevented their right wing from forcing shutdowns in the years since, but one lesson from 2013 is that the threat of a government shutdown is a powerful way to press for concessions without paying too high a political price."
You read that correctly...we are fucking doomed!