Wash Post: Trump's Shutdown is 'An Act of Needless Stupidity'
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/22/wash-post-trumps-shutdown-is-an-act-of-needless-stupidity.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebookPosted on Sat, Dec 22nd, 2018 by Leo Vidal
Wash Post: Trump’s Shutdown is ‘An Act of Needless Stupidity’
According to the editors of the Washington Post, people “go into public service to make sacrifices and to accomplish some good for their fellow citizens, not to be pawns in pointless political gamesmanship.”
But hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will have to work without pay over the holidays have become exactly that: pawns in a pointless game being played by President Donald Trump and his right wing media overlords. As we reported early this morning, Trump has shut down key parts of the U.S. government in a very misguided political stunt.
Trump, who last week boasted he would be “proud” to shut down the government, glad to “take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down.” He also bragged yesterday that his shutdown would “last for a very long time.”
But as the Post editors point out, “the curtailment of government agencies will impose costs across Washington and the country.” Then they added:
After saying he would own the shutdown, on Friday Trump attempted to shift the blame to Democrats. He said the shutdown was their fault for not going along with his ridiculous and unpopular demand for $5 billion to build his beloved border wall — which throughout his campaign he had promised would be paid for by Mexico.
What created the chaos in Washington this week was how he flip-flopped on the stopgap spending bill. As the Post editors wrote:
“Instead of standing up to him — and doing their job of keeping the government running — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — went along, once again enabling the worst instincts of a bad president.”
Yes, the shutdown can be blamed partially on GOP congressional leaders. But at the end of the day, as an article in The Daily Beast points out, “the Shutdown Proves Once and For All Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing.”
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and for all tRump has no idea what he's doing..."
So many times he's gone and done the same. Look at what else is posted today on DU - he throws his hands up in the air on the phone to Turkey, thus giving in to a killer dictator and killing a group of people to whom we had promised help and support.
Tariffs.
Justice Department.
FBI.
Threatening to fire the Fed director.
There's not enough time for me to enter all of the proof (can you imagine how many flash drives Mueller has had to buy to store all of his dirt on IQ45?).
He MUST be gone.
But, more important - so must the Republicans that have supported this National Disaster!
Just ask him if you don't believe me. He is great at creating crisis and then solving said crisis. What more do you want from the self-absorbed I-1?
Just to make sure you understand what I said it is 
The S.O.B. can't even say the words "the wall."
Trump getting advice about international affairs, immigration, and domestic policy
from Rush and Fox is like hiring your lawn mower guy to do your bypass surgery.
Paul D. Ryan, "The President's ligament concerns about border security."
"His base will begin to abandon him now."
Hasn't happened yet - and it ain't gonna' happen. We're 2 years into this national disaster and they're still here.
I was driving here in western PA the other day and passed an electronic sign that had a picture of him with that shit-eating grin and the message said, "The greatest President ever!" Damned near wrecked!
Really? That there is even ONE person on the face of this earth that believes that after all of the screw-ups he's done up to this point - no, they're not going away.
The only thing we can do to rid ourselves of this national disaster is to double our efforts of the mid-terms and vote all of the corrupt, greedy, evil bastards out and start to REALLY make all of America great again (not just the 1%).
I would LOVE to have them prove me wrong (well, at least about this! 
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