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Read Replies (3) | Respond to Don SurberRepublican cavewomen The Hill reported , “GOP senators balk at Trump targeting blue states.”Asked if it’s appropriate to terminate funding in blue states just because they are represented by Democrats in Washington, Capito said: “I wouldn’t think so.” “The shoe’s going to be on the other foot someday and I don’t think that’s a good precedent to set,” Capito added. She noted former President Obama targeted Republican-led states such as West Virginia when Democrats controlled Washington by cracking down on coal and fossil-fuel production, something that hurt her home state’s economy. “During the Obama administration, he basically killed my red state,” she said. Asked if Trump’s threat to “terminate” funding for projects such as Gateway in blue states is appropriate, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) replied: “No.” Collins said Monday she does not favor the administration’s plan to halt funding for infrastructure projects primarily in blue states during the shutdown. “I’m not for that. I’m not in favor of that,” she said. But Collins faulted Democrats for repeatedly blocking a “clean” House-passed government funding stopgap over the past few weeks. Share “You show me one blue state in America where you don’t have pockets, maybe even big pockets, of Republicans, of conservatives, of MAGA people, of pro-Trump. Do we not care about them?” she said. “Are we just saying, ‘If you don’t like it, you should move to a place where you’ve got a Republican governor?’” she added. “It makes no sense. Why are we being punitive? It’s hard enough when the government is not operating as it should be. Let’s not be punitive to Americans just to score political points.” The Daily Show and Jon Stewart didn’t play softball with him. Stewart played T-ball, setting him up and handing him a bat .STEWART: “So when you see Donald Trump go to them and say, ‘You’re giving me ten percent of your company if we’re helping you out? Or, we’re going to do that, but here’s the thing: you’re not going to charge these people anymore? Does that change the calculus now for Democrats to govern with more balls?” SANDERS: “I think it does. They’ve seen a boldness in Trump using his power in a way we’ve never seen before.” “Donald Trump, he may be crazy, he may be a pathological liar, but he’s not stupid. The message that he gives off is: ‘The system is broken and only I can fix it.’ “The truth is: The system is broken. He is making it worse, but the Democrats have got to acknowledge that the system is broken.” Upgrade to paid Scott Adams tweeted :Trump already won the government shutdown battle, at least with the public. Now Democrats need some face-saving way to back down and reopen. But Trump probably doesn’t care either way. Democrats need a “fake because” to reopen government. Perhaps they can now claim reopening is the only way Democrats can stop Trump from stealing your Democracy. Senator John Kennedy said, “Sen. Schumer thinks he should get $1.5 trillion in new spending in exchange for reopening the government. He needs to put down the bong.” Betsy Warren is heap big mad : “These firings are illegal. They were illegal before the shutdown and they are illegal after the shutdown. The shutdown gives Donald Trump no more power to lay people off en masse like this than he had before.Leave a comment
