Republicans better be careful not to overplay their hand.

Freaking disgusting

Suzanna Guthrie types need to knock it off and confront the real problem....the gop.

He could have given trump his wall and kept the government open, but Mitch said nope.

He just wanted to punt to the Dems.

This joke of an administration shouldn't get anything from the Dems but subpoenas.

He is such a rich bastard, he can do it without our help. After all, he makes the best deals and he knows the best people. Because he is SO rich.

In Fact.. THANKS!

GET MEXICO to Pay for Stupid wall, Pundits!

They're trying to push public sentiment in that direction it seems. Do they not understand that they play a role in public perception?

Next time that question is asked, someone should say, "Depends. Will your boss allow you to do your f*cking job and accurately report the truth? All of trump's lies about the wall, as well as crimes involving undocumented workers at his own facilities, are very well documented. You could try reporting on that during the standoff."

the worst possible thing to do is give it to him.

I suspect that if he had been denied things just to shut him up as a child, he might be a different type of person.

ThING they want in life. To give in to excess is to teach a child that something is very wrong not to always get what he wants.

Reminds me of the story Thom Hartmann tells about the group of people who periodically visit some huge glass-enclosed arboretum somewhere to shake the trees. The structure contains an abundance of plant life and is, of course, protected from the natural elements, including the wind. These people come to shake the trees to imitate what would be occurring out-of-doors in order to make the tree roots strong as they grow. Otherwise, they fall over very easily if pushed.

The story about the trees is interesting.

We have a three year old in charge of our government. It terrifies me.

to harden it, so the tree will be strong.

But there is hope, people like Nancy Pelosi can change the narrative. When she calls a press conference they will come and Trump isn't going to be the center of attention like he was.

needs and wishes, not Trump. If they choose to fondle Trump they should be voted out.

Its not a Democrat problem that Trimp lied and made promises he couldn't keep, and then turns around and takes the government and government workers as hostages to get his way.

Trump did and he promised over and over again that Mexico would pay for it, "Believe me folks, believe me."

Sounds like Trump's problem to me. Democrats aren't responsible for Trump's broken promises. Maybe he shouldn't have promised stupid crap.

Why don't election winners have a mandate anymore? Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots, but all anyone in the media could talk about is how the American people had given the Republicans an irrevocable mandate to do pretty much anything they wanted forever, in spite of any number of election irregularities, gerrymandering, and open Republican cheating. The Democrats win a smashing mid-term victory with the highest turnout in memory, and all the media can talk about is how the Democrats need to reach across the aisle and do what the Republicans couldn't do when they held all the power.

Fuck that shit.

Fuck that shit

The talking heads have done their fair share to mess up our country and are still clueless and/or bought by the republicons of the 1% and corporations. The Democrats need to take these issues and shove them down the throats, or maybe up the asses of every republicon until that party is nothing but a bad, distant nightmare. Period.

.....talking point so that the MSM would finally have to also say: "For 5 Billion we could build x number of schools, fix x number of roads and bridges, train x number of rural and out of work coal miners in tech jobs, grant x number of free college educations" and on and one and on.

If this magical wall were somehow to be built, who is going to pay to MAINTAIN IT? Ground shifts, floods, lightning strikes, heat/cold, man-made damage - a wall of this size would cost a FORTUNE to maintain, even to monitor for damage and weaknesses. Wildlife migrations interrupted, properties falling to eminent domain and losing their value, and more and more.

It's like that war in Iraq that was supposed to last a few weeks and we would be welcomed as liberators - so welcome that they would reward us with their oil! Years and thousands of lives later, it goes on.

After it is determined that the wall was impractical, useless, and costly, then we would have to pay to tear it down and remove the debris.

a bill for consideration. What do you call that?---Extortion? Blackmail? Something ugly, anyway. Like gangster-dealing. Trump is well-acquainted with such methods from the looks of things.

Everyone needs to stop apologizing for cursing. We're fucking adults, people. We've earned the fucking privilege.

for his fucking wall and he's spent a fucking fraction of it! No more money, Fat Nixon!

Oh, wow.

Ouch.

Mexico will not pay for that fucking wall.

Bratty baby Donald said they would.

Leave Dems out of that spat.

with your perception of cheeto's wall mania.

Democrats, don't even think of giving these turds a God d**n border wall. If you do, you will lose your mandate to do the peoples business. If you can just wait them out a number of the rats will jump ship and we can move on.

...and his MAGA Pukes had two years to develop and build his MAGA Wall yet no MAGA Results?

...MAGA Man's fooling us...he's only a pretend MAGA Developer from New York...

...MAGA Fail...

And R.