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Chuck Schumer: "It will never pass the Senate. Not today. Not next week. Not next year. So, Mr. President ... if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple." Via ABC.
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WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)No Fucking Wall.
No F*cking Way. No F*cking How!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Yeah, I'm with you. Let's see if he stands firm.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)but, if I was a betting man, I'd put my money on Chuck to hold strong.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Let the Senators know you support their stand. (I would say "against the wall" but that has a bad connotation from the '60s. )
https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)He's a good solid liberal so seems appropriate.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)kick for sen schumer
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WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)Not just the never part. Using words like abandon.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Admit that the wall was a campaign promise, and he should add that in the very same "promise" trump said "Mexico" would pay for it. Yes, trump should "keep" that promise and when Mexico writes the check for the wall, he can build it!
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)The spin doctors in the Dem party need to keep two points front and center regarding Trump: (a) he took responsibility for the closure and (b) he said Mexico would pay.
If Obama had done this (putting aside all the other stuff the Buffoon-in-chief has done), he would have been rightfully destroyed.
DEMS: LET CITIZENS UNITED WORK FOR US FOR A CHANGE! You gotta' spin for the masses!
(Yes, I know it's bad to write in all caps, but sometimes, you gotta' do what you gotta' do).
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Kicking in answer to the posts assuming Schumer (or Shumer, as some spelled it) and the "spineless" Dems would cave.
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bluestarone
(16,972 posts)Hold FIRM Chuck!!!!!! and fellow Democrats!!!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a campaign promise. tRump has $$$$ tied into this wall dream. His ONLY motivation his entire life has been money. This is no different. Those Billions could do more good in the economy, repairing crumbling roads, bridges etc. He employs undocumented immigrants at his places of business. Never bothered him before, why now? $$$$$. Follow the money.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)being paid during this holiday time is unacceptable.
Glad that Dems are taking a hard stance, NO $5 Billion for a wall and that Trump owns this shutdown.
adVance democracy
(36 posts)And I don't even need to say that to Nancy! She's got the biggest cojones in DC!
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)President Trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple Sen. Schumer said.
While Schumer and McConnell spoke on the Senate floor Saturday, Trump was having lunch at the White House with members of Congress, reportedly for the purpose of seeking compromise to end the shutdown. The only problem? There wasnt a single Democrat at the lunch. Attendees included Vice President Mike Pence, Republican Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Mike Lee of Utah, and a number of Republican congressmen who serve in the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/senate-goes-home-for-christmas-without-ending-government-shutdown/
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Now Trump is getting a lesson on how to negotiate. He's a terrible negotiator, and being led down a typical negotiation path.
For sure he wants to play golf and will cave. He will resign or accept the way out Schumer will offer him. First Schumer says "no way, no how", and then offers Trump a way out to save face. Trump will take it to save face.
That's how *real* negotiation is done--the last offer to save face is the final move by the controller of the negotiation. Trump will swallow it hook, line, and sinker, and think he's the winner.
Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)lesson but they finally get it, its war, no holds barred war and Dems must fight them at every turn and tell it like it is, the whole, nasty truth that the fascists are the scum of the Earth.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I'm amazed at the change in Schumer now that Nancy is about to be elected Speaker of the House. And of course the big news is that the Dems finally have majority in the House! It will happen in the Senate too, I have great hopes.
Schumer speaks for all the chicken-shit Repukes in the Senate who are too scared to stand up and speak against the Orange Asshole. Schumer knows who they are and so does McConnell. Their number is growing daily.
Bluesaph
(703 posts)Negotiate negotiate negotiate! We will not have another opportunity to trade $5 billion for his damned fence and we get:
DACA permanent residency with citizenship potential.
Stop of child birder separation policy.
Release of children in custody.
Stop of Vietnamese refugee status end.
True immigration reform! Let him have his win and we get ALL THIS!
Call Nancy and Schumer! We have a chance to end this wedge issue republicans have used since time began!
Squinch
(50,955 posts)hold us hostage and make us give in on the previous crises he created.
No. The wall is absurd. It's insanity. It's racism. It's wasteful.
Someone has to be the adult in the room.
Just no.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)will do nothing to solve immigration problems; that the immigration "problem" is a wholly manufactured republican fantasy; that the idiocy will put people off their own land, cost a bloody fortune, be a blight; that it is a racist construct for racist ends.
We need to dominate the news on this nonsense. We need to make people know it is absurd.