While appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Tom Brokaw uttered these words:
"I think the Democrats are as much to blame right now as the Republicans are. They've got control of the House, but they're mostly just 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not going to do what you want to do.' I haven't seen a grand plan."
The "grand plan" was back in December when the Senate overwhelmingly passed a "clean" (no wall funding) budget bill, which President Trump showed all indications of signing, but then reversed course due to right-wing talking heads like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh telling him he shouldn't. This would have, at least temporarily, prevented a shutdown. Instead, after Trump shockingly rejected the proposal, the Senate was forced to scramble and rush something together in order to prevent a shutdown. This didn't happen and here we are, in day 34 of the the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
This is 100% Donald Trump's shutdown. He showed all signs of signing the Senate's proposal and changed his mind at the last minute. It's as simple as that. Even before we reached this point, he told New York Senator Chuck Schumer on live television that he'd own this shutdown; that it would be his shutdown and he'd be proud of it.
So how can any even semi-intelligent person say with a straight face that the Democratic Party is just as much to blame as Donald Trump and the Republican Party for this shutdown? The American people largely don't support the installation of a border wall. By an even wider margin, the American people don't support a shutdown over this wall. Not only that, but rightly so, a majority of people blame the president for the shutdown. He said he'd own it. He went back on his words about a bill which would have kept the government open. We're now in day 34 of the shutdown he said he'd be proud to call his own. It's your shutdown, Mr. President. You said so yourself. Apparently the 78-year-old Tom Brokaw didn't hear that part.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tom-brokaw-says-democrats-as-much-to-blame-as-republicans-as-shutdown-drags-on-senate-may-vote-thursday-on-trumps-offer-2019-01-22
"I think the Democrats are as much to blame right now as the Republicans are. They've got control of the House, but they're mostly just 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not going to do what you want to do.' I haven't seen a grand plan."
The "grand plan" was back in December when the Senate overwhelmingly passed a "clean" (no wall funding) budget bill, which President Trump showed all indications of signing, but then reversed course due to right-wing talking heads like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh telling him he shouldn't. This would have, at least temporarily, prevented a shutdown. Instead, after Trump shockingly rejected the proposal, the Senate was forced to scramble and rush something together in order to prevent a shutdown. This didn't happen and here we are, in day 34 of the the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
This is 100% Donald Trump's shutdown. He showed all signs of signing the Senate's proposal and changed his mind at the last minute. It's as simple as that. Even before we reached this point, he told New York Senator Chuck Schumer on live television that he'd own this shutdown; that it would be his shutdown and he'd be proud of it.
So how can any even semi-intelligent person say with a straight face that the Democratic Party is just as much to blame as Donald Trump and the Republican Party for this shutdown? The American people largely don't support the installation of a border wall. By an even wider margin, the American people don't support a shutdown over this wall. Not only that, but rightly so, a majority of people blame the president for the shutdown. He said he'd own it. He went back on his words about a bill which would have kept the government open. We're now in day 34 of the shutdown he said he'd be proud to call his own. It's your shutdown, Mr. President. You said so yourself. Apparently the 78-year-old Tom Brokaw didn't hear that part.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tom-brokaw-says-democrats-as-much-to-blame-as-republicans-as-shutdown-drags-on-senate-may-vote-thursday-on-trumps-offer-2019-01-22
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