(01-18-2019, 10:24 AM)B2hibry Wrote:

(01-18-2019, 10:06 AM)mikesez Wrote: She had no power to change or stop the shutdown until it had already begun.
She was the House minority leader.

While technically she was elected speaker after, she was nominated well before. She laid out her plans well before here election and shutdown. If you believe she was powerless, that is a pretty naive point of view.  I wonder if those that went against her nomination that have now been shunned from committees would agree with you.

I don't think the one thing has anything to do with the other.

I will agree that Chuck Shumer could have had some power to compromise on wall funding before the shutdown began.

But I clearly remember Trump and Shumer meeting in the white house with cameras on, before the shut down began, and Trump saying that he would "take the mantle," that he would gladly be the one responsible for shutting down the government.

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