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Freelancer

(2,107 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2019, 12:57 PM Jan 2019

What if Dems put together a complete laundry list of demands and dumped it on DT's desk?

Hey, DT wants a counter offer. How about Restoration of Voting Rights Act, citizenship for dreamers, legal strike down of Citizens United, Federal legalization of pot, Medicare for all, making lying by a chief executive an impeachable offense, his resignation, etc., etc.

He might surprise everybody and accept some of it just to be impredictable -- which would place it all at Mitch McConnell's doorstep to pass. Poor poor Mitch would probably disappear into his shell, never to be seen again.

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What if Dems put together a complete laundry list of demands and dumped it on DT's desk? (Original Post) Freelancer Jan 2019 OP

Nothing would happen. He wouldn't read them because he doesn't read, The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #1

He wants the wall because he thinks all he should have to do is demand it. Thomas Hurt Jan 2019 #2

Nah, I think he would just grumpyduck Jan 2019 #3

This is wrestling. Dems need to get into the ring with a folding chair. Freelancer Jan 2019 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,590 posts)

1. Nothing would happen. He wouldn't read them because he doesn't read,

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Fri Jan 11, 2019, 12:58 PM

Jan 2019

and even if he did, he wouldn't pay any attention to them because they came from Dems.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

2. He wants the wall because he thinks all he should have to do is demand it.

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Fri Jan 11, 2019, 01:00 PM

Jan 2019

Moreover, he has been challenged and embarrassed and rebuffed. His bloated ego won't let that go either.

grumpyduck

(6,222 posts)

3. Nah, I think he would just

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Fri Jan 11, 2019, 01:00 PM

Jan 2019

throw another tantrum and storm out of the office.

Then Hannity and company would latch onto how despicable the Dems are.

Remember: the media loves controversy because it sells ad time. Just like all the BS about the Kardashians, which plays to people who need to get a life. But they see the ads too.

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)

4. This is wrestling. Dems need to get into the ring with a folding chair.

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Fri Jan 11, 2019, 01:11 PM

Jan 2019

Being seen as the reasonable side of an impasse only works on Democrats and a few George Will type Republicans. Other America needs to see the Dems make a big counter offer -- dare I say a "YUGE" counteroffer. Then, maybe, some of the people who, by rights, should be voting Democratic will get past images like Schumer and Pelosi standing like mannequins, reading their rebuttals in a flag-stuffed hallway.

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