{"id":36799,"date":"2018-01-18T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36799"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T23:19:07","slug":"in-his-own-words-trumps-shutdown-demagoguery-is-hypocritical-dishonest-and-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36799","title":{"rendered":"In His Own Words: Trump’s Shutdown Demagoguery is Hypocritical, Dishonest, and Ignorant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has been frantic lately about the Congress not being able to pass a budget or a continuing resolution to keep the government from shutting down. He is engulfed in a blustering frenzy of anger while trying feverishly to blame Democrats for the looming closure and termination of certain public services.<\/p>\n

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But Trump’s yowling betrays his pathetic incompetence. First of all, he apparently doesn’t realize that his own party, the Republicans, is in control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House. That makes it impossible to shift responsibility to anyone but the GOP for the shut down. What’s more, Trump can’t seem to grasp the reason for the political schism. He keeps trying to assert that the military will be the victim of a shut down, despite the fact that all Pentagon programs will continue unabated.<\/p>\n

The real breakdown in negotiations concerns the insistence by Trump and the Republican’s that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients be shut out of the legislation, even as they continue to lose their eligibility to remain in the U.S. Trump’s faction is steadfast in their heartless refusal to correct the problem he created that will send people who have lived their whole lives in America to countries they don’t know. And to make matters worse, they are trying to lure Democratic support by adding language to the bill that continues the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). In effect they are holding both DACA and CHIP as hostages in opposition to one another. It’s both a cynical and reprehensible tactic that burdens people already in troubling circumstances.<\/p>\n

What makes this all the more disturbing is that Trump’s position lacks any moral or intellectual consistency. He doesn’t really care about any of the affected persons, and he has no principles behind his manufactured conflict. Here is what Trump posted on Twitter Thursday on this matter:<\/p>\n

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A government shutdown will be devastating to our military…something the Dems care very little about!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n