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Now House Dems Are Threatening to Shut Down the Government Over Statues
2020-07-07
[PJMedia] House Democrats working on the annual appropriations bill say that they will force a government shutdown unless the statues of Southern politicians in the Capitol are removed.

The government will technically run out of money on September 30 unless Congress passes appropriations bills. The appropriation for the legislative branch includes the demand that the Confederate statues in public areas be removed and returned to the states that donated them.

The Democrats are also demanding that plaques and markers that honor people with "unambiguous records of racial intolerance" be removed as well.

The move is a political ploy to force Republicans into an uncomfortable political position while displaying their racial bona fides to the mob.
I really don't see how this benefits them as it is the local, district representatives that get hit hardest by this. The average union man, working on military-government projects will be furloughed right as they are in the heat of the election cycle.
They will blame their local representative more than Trump.
Posted by:DarthVader

#6  Remove Pelosi first. She just jealous that she was before those folks with statues, and never got one of herself.
Posted by: bbrewer126    2020-07-07 17:49  

#5  There will be a tipping point when just plain Joes have had enough and will go hunting.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-07-07 12:57  

#4  #1 & #2 I think you're giving them too much credit. IMO, they simply stupid/power hungry enough to delude themselves into the belief that they can ride the tiger.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-07 12:41  

#3  If this plays out, that is going to be a whole bunch of statues of democrats that will be removed.
Posted by: Whuck Sleling5802   2020-07-07 12:36  

#2  I have thought of that as well. Right now they are losing the fight against the far-left in their party. If they push those ideas and win, then they are good. If they push those ideas and Trump wins in a landslide, they can purge those ideas and people from the demoncrat party.

Right now it is looking like they want a Trump landslide so they can do the second option.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-07-07 12:25  

#1  In many ways its starting to look like the Democrats want to lose.

1. Democrats are in constant civil war. Corrupt wing versus the super-far left that the corrupt know don't appeal to the center of the country.
2. Corrupt democrat wing realizes they are forced to demand increasingly bizarre things as the GOP kept caving.
3. Corrupt Democrat wing knows that the nation is close to an economic death spiral.
4. Yelling Orange-man bad is fun.

So if they let the Marxists go to town they get smashed and GOP gains a spine and helps Trump fix the economy and undo their more recent crazy demands. This allows them to rage against Orange Man for decades as well as re-fight the same battles to put all that stupid crap back into the laws.

It also lets them get there crap together in time for 2024 against Pence and 8 years of Orange man which should be a lot easier. Especially if their own crazies have been humiliated into silence.

Either that or they truly are insane and think the center of America thinks like they do. This is a possibility as well and the results will be the same so it may not matter.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-07-07 12:13  

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