Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer Lace Up Their Golf Cleats and Tap Dance On Trump's...Ah...Foot

screengrab from https://youtu.be/53DrKoBSN0c

Shortly after President Trump gave his press conference announcing his soft cave on the government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi held their own press conference to declare victory. In fairness, I’m not sure they are wrong.

BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi in presser just boasted that President Trump "underestimated" her and her Democrat caucus' "power" in resisting pressure to fund the border wall

Your move, Mr. President

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 25, 2019

BREAKING: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in press conference maintained that President Trump capitulated to his demand to reopen government, then scolded him for holding government workers as "hostages," and suggested he taught him a "lesson" in the importance of government

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 25, 2019

“No one should ever underestimate Speaker [Pelosi], as Donald Trump has learned,” Schumer says, adding the president knew the shutdown was “a lost cause” pic.twitter.com/fQFs7rC56f

— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) January 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/1088900421995900928

The topline for this is that the shutdown strategy has failed. Even if Trump signs and executive order

https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1088556357572349959

the fact remains that this was a option that was open a month ago. It makes no tactical sense to shut down the goverment, particularly Homeland Security, for a month and then do what you could have done without a shutdown.

The second point that I take from Pelosi’s self congratulation about her strength with her caucus and Schumer’s fawning over her is that the House Democrat caucus was very close to a revolt.

One thing you can take to the bank from this is that the Democrats will come away emboldened and more intransigent. Virtually everyone is going to see this as a huge climb-down for Trump and that is not a good combination for Trump.

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