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Pouting
Right Turn
By Jennifer Rubin
May 2 at 11:44 AM
... It’s odd that the man who .. told historian Jon Meacham “a year ago that he thought he could have done a deal to have averted the <Civil> War” would find negotiating a simple budget deal so perplexing. If Republicans got blamed in 2013 for a shutdown when President Barack Obama was president, imagine what the voters’ reaction would be when they fail to keep the government going with a Republican president, a Republican House and a Republican Senate. No other president had to demand abolition of the filibuster to get an acceptable budget ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/02/why-trump-is-pouting/
