This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again
This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again
IAN MILLHISER at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-caves-shutdown-reopens-government-speaker-nancy-pelosi-effective-5e247a05034a/
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Nancy Pelosi has been speaker of the House for just 22 days, and she just humiliated the president of the United States.
Ever since President Donald Trump shut down much of the government last month, Pelosi has delivered a consistent message to Trump — “my offer to you is this: nothing.” On Friday, Trump took that offer, announcing his support for a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government for three weeks without any additional funding for a border wall.
Trump’s cave on Friday is absolute. He will reopen the government and he will not get his wall. Pelosi wins. Trump loses.
Trump agreed to take nothing after leading his party into the political abyss. An AP-NORC poll shows his approval rating at just 34 percent. Multiple polls show that solid majorities of the country blame Trump for his shutdown, while only about a third blame Democrats. Senate Republicans reportedly spent a Thursday lunch with Vice President Mike Pence sniping at each other. An angry Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), “This is your fault.”
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some former colleagues, who have been on furlough, and they were having a hard time with the news, just heard it five minutes prior. They were bent out of shape at Speaker Pelosi but glad they were going back to work.
and we needed a bass player, a good bass player offered to jam with us and I knew he was a righty and I said no, not interested.
And we need a bass player 
