Trump Caves

Yes, Trump caved. But, politically and practically, he really had no choice. To honor his constitutional duty as Commander-in-Chief to defend the country, he was duty bound to provide paychecks to those encharged with our defense, that being the Border Patrol and Coast Guard. In short, his constitutional responsibilities eclipsed his urgent need for funds to construct "the wall", a longer term effort. (Well, until February when the CR expires, that is.) Trump is taking the high road while intransigent, sputtering San Fran Nan myopically gloats like a clueless tween. Cleverly and importantly, Trump demonstrated to his detractors his ability to gracefully rise above the fray and to do what had to be done. Of course, he knows that self-consumed Pelosi, glorying in her pyrrhic victory today, will remain intransigent, and that the likelihood of a good-faith effort on her part to fashion a sensible and meaningful deal with Trump over the wall before yet another shutdown in February is, at best, remote. But, having shown his good-faith and compassion, if she again arrogantly nixes his funding request, he will necessarily go the nat'l emergency/Army Corps of Engineers route-- AND keep the gov't open as well. (Thank you, Mr. Trump. A win-win, I'd say.) And the House Hag will have lost what tiny bit of credibility she has left. The wall will be built, folks. Count on it. And over the next two awful years, we can expect more shutdowns and relentless gridlock. With the thugs and subversives in charge of the House, we really can't expect anything more. And with the Pelosi hordes in charge there, gridlock sounds pretty attractive to me