January 26, 2019
#LOSER:
'Prisoner of his own impulse': Inside Trump's cave to end shutdown without wall (Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim January 25, 2019, Washington Post)
His poll numbers were plummeting. His FBI director was decrying the dysfunction. The nation's air travel was in chaos. Federal workers were lining up at food banks. Economic growth was at risk of flatlining, and even some Republican senators were in open revolt.So on Friday, the 35th day of a government shutdown that he said he was proud to instigate, President Trump finally folded. After vowing for weeks that he would keep the government closed unless he secured billions in funding for his promised border wall, Trump agreed to reopen it.He got $0 instead.Trump's capitulation to Democrats marked a humiliating low point in a polarizing presidency and sparked an immediate backlash among some conservative allies, who cast him as a wimp.
The Senate won't vote to convict because justice requires it, but because electability does.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 26, 2019 9:24 AM