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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Lockhart on New Day: Give him the 5 Billion in exchange for Mueller Protection.
That may be the ticket out of this Trump shutdown for now and ultimately the end of the idiot.
samnsara
(17,658 posts)...im feeling Muellers not gonna give up as much as the NY courts are gonna find
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)The stupid trump wall can be stopped later.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)Sounds like completely selling out on a humanitarian crisis with no long term guarantee for the oppressed. No long term guarantee at all. It almost sounds like someone who wants the wall.
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)Getting the traitor out of office is of paramount importance isn't it?
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)If that is what you are going with then the deal needs to be that we give him the wall and he steps down. I still wouldnt be ok with that. As you have outlined, this isnt a deal for him to leave office.
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)But Mueller's work could eventually lead to his removal and the 5 billion is not guaranteed to result in the stupid wall. IMO.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)Thats what this is. Of course he isnt going to leave office for the wall. And this deal would do nothing to facilitate that either. Yes. Lets give him the wall and then be thankful the day Pence is sworn in. Not a chance.
Cha
(297,935 posts)wrong.
MrGrieves
(315 posts)Never negotiate from a point of weakness.
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)But hell no! We don't negotiate with terrorists or illegitimate Presidents. Lock him up
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Why should we piss away 5 billion dollars? That's a lot of money to satisfy the orange fucks ego.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)It is a wall intended to satisfy xenophobic and racist voters.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)We don't have enough money to take care of people who need Medicaid or Medicare, but we can piss $5 Billion away on a stupid wall??
No - also McConnell can't be trusted to do anything that he says. He would make Senators vote on the wall and then not bring up Mueller for a vote. Look at me I'm Lucy!
Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)Permanent protection for the Dreamers with a fast path to citizenship.
still_one
(92,492 posts)safeinOhio
(32,746 posts)I'd love to watch his reaction to that deal. Then add on to it, the House will not release his tax returns in return for him to step down and away.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)If something is economically/financially, ethically and morally the wrong thing to do, which that idiotic wall idea is, than it certainly shouldn't be used as a bargaining chip and shouldn't even consider it.
If we cave on this we look insincere and weak on issues that are at the core of our party. Find a 'bargaining chip', with Trump and/or Republicans, that they can't pull a 'Lucy' on (Peanuts reference) and that allows us to stand strong on our position(s).
elocs
(22,633 posts)peggysue2
(10,848 posts)You don't give in to terrorists.