(01-29-2019, 02:09 PM)jradMITEX Wrote:

(01-29-2019, 01:36 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Again, you continue to look at this from a win/loss standpoint. The president has a responsibility to 325M people and Pelosi has a responsibility to 0 people. He has said a million times that he does not want to use his constitutional powers to build the wall and that he simply wants congress to DO THEIR JOB. Congress is not doing their job. That is the main issue here, but please continue to look at them as "winning".

Trump lost let that sink in, he repeatedly asserted that he wouldn't open the government without the 5.7B for his border wall, he said he would go on for months or even years, in the end he caved and walked away politically weakened.  That's what a loss is politically.  Its your opinion that congress isn't doing their job, I would argue they are being that the wall is opposed by a majority of people in the country.  Separation of powers, congress holds the purse strings, its their prerogative to pass bills as they see fit, as they see is best for the country.  Pelosi answers to the same 325M people.  Its funny in the Trumpian mindset, people are only doing their jobs when they are doing the will of Trump, majority of the public be damned.  Its rich coming from a guy whose avatar is Trump with a crown on, that aptly describes the mindset.  You honestly think that if Trump thought he could build the wall without Congress it wouldn't have already been done?  You think he cares about the institutions of the country and presidential overreach?  The only reason he hasn't declared an emergency is because he knows that it will get shot down 5 ways before it gets off the ground.  He knows that an emergency declaration won't get the wall built, the wall is not gonna get built unless he comes off citizenship for DACA/TPS which we know isn't gonna happen.  

He's gonna lose on the wall, he lost on Obamacare repeal what happened to all that winning he promised?  Must have been like Mexico paying for the wall.