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And while I'm living in fantasy land with solutions nobody will pay attention to, I'd like to suggest that both the POTUS and the Speaker stop the petty games of the last few days.
Potus: Give the speech from your office, and cut out the neener-neener crap. And be honest with yourself, giving this speech wasn't going to accomplish much anyway. So give it from your office and be done with it.
Speaker: Book a commercial flight or get a ride on a friend's private jet, or don't go. But whatever you do, also cut out the neener-neener crap. Go or don't go, but be honest with yourself that going on the trip wasn't going to accomplish much anyway.
Both of You: Score big points by doing something that shows you're paying attention to the people being hurt by this.
Talk is cheap, you need to show how you care about them. Start by making a personal food delivery to one of the areas really affected. And venture out of the beltway, while you're at it. Just pick any place where visits to food banks have suddenly doubled due to all this, there seem to be plenty. One place you could start would be any little town in Coastal NC where almost all the residents on dependent on the Coast Guard. Go bring hamburgers to THEM. Sit with them, meet their kids who need cancer treatments, talk to small business owners who suddenly have no coast guard business plus no way to get a small business loan. You could get a lot of positive PR doing this, and do some good along the way. But most of all, you'd be acting like an adult.
Last edited by Piney Creek; 01-17-2019 at 07:33 PM..
And while I'm living in fantasy land with solutions nobody will pay attention to, I'd like to suggest that both the POTUS and the Speaker stop the petty games of the last few days.
Potus: Give the speech from your office, and cut out the neener-neener crap. And be honest with yourself, giving this speech wasn't going to accomplish much anyway. So give it from your office and be done with it.
Speaker: Book a commercial flight or get a ride on a friend's private jet, or don't go. But whatever you do, also cut out the neener-neener crap. And some honesty for you to think about, too: going on the trip wasn't going to accomplish much anyway. Go, or don't, and be done with it.
Both of You: Score big points by doing something that shows you're paying attention to the people being hurt by this.
Talk is cheap, you need to show how you care about them. Start by making a personal food delivery to one of the areas really affected. And venture out of the beltway, while you're at it. Just pick any place where visits to food banks have suddenly doubled due to all this, there seem to be plenty. One place you could start would be any little town in Coastal NC where almost all the residents on dependent on the Coast Guard. Go bring hamburgers to THEM. Sit with them, meet their kids who need cancer treatments, talk to small business owners who suddenly have no coast guard business plus no way to get a small business loan. You could get a lot of positive PR doing this, and do some good along the way. But most of all, you'd be acting like an adult.
Please remind me again how the federal employees are suffering on their paid vacation.
nobodys quitting their federal job and losing their federal pension benefits and health insurance over getting paid a few weeks late. idle threat, laughable.
in a mere few weeks Pelosi has turned the Speaker of the House job into some bumbling, fumbling, understudy who answers to Mitch McConnell. Amazing, good choice!
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