Charlie Daniels is 100% right:
never seen an organization that actually made an art out of gaining control and throwing it away like the Republicans
Get it together guys!!— Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) May 2, 2017
Republicans control the House, Senate and the presidency and they still can’t get their budget passed?
I can't believe we control the WH, House, and Senate, yet Dems still got 80% of their most far left demands.
They win. #Budget2017
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 1, 2017
Charlie has hit it on the head right here because it is true. Why in heavens sake are they so scared of the Democrats? @GOP why why why #GOP https://t.co/QMkVE7sPgS
— Smurf The Deplorable❌ (@Smurf4555) May 2, 2017
So very true Charlie https://t.co/YURHox5JJQ
— Rev Gerald Hennighausen: Doctor of Divinity (@einstine43) May 2, 2017
President Trump blammed the bad deal on the filibuster and called for a change to Senate rules:
The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017
either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good "shutdown" in September to fix mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017
Why wait until September?
On Trump shutdown/filibuster-nuking tweets: If bipartisan CR is so bad, why not veto it? I.e. If a shutdown's so good, why wait til Sept?
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 2, 2017
And apparently negotiating the budget is tougher than avoiding the Civil War:
President who said he could have negotiated a deal to prevent the Civil War https://t.co/UAIzlSDRcz
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 2, 2017
But even worse for the GOP, Trump’s tweets basically admit that he caved to Dems:
And so much for WH efforts to spin the spending bill as a win for Trump. He just called it a cave to Democrats
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) May 2, 2017
Sigh.
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