Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is turning into a real stick-in-the-mud these days with all that annoying finger-wagging. First he floated that non-binding resolution panning Donald Trump's spontaneous decision to pull troops from Syria and Afghanistan. Then came his grim assessment of shutdowns.
"I don't like shutdowns,” McConnell told reporters Wednesday. “I don't think they work for anybody.” What a scold.
Then there are the nags Trump installed as his intelligence chiefs, with their annual "Worldwide Threat Assessment." What a downer. Who cares if Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says America's two biggest geo-political rivals, Russia and China, are “more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s"? Trump's got this.
"Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!" —Donald Trump, Jan. 30, 2019
And don't even get him started on the congressional appropriators supposedly formulating a deal to avert another shutdown in February. "There will not be any wall money in the legislation," Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday morning. Who died and made her queen? Trump already laid down the law on the deal anyway. And let’s face it, no one's in a better political position than him to bring the hammer.
"If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!” —Donald Trump, Jan. 30, 2019
It's all just getting to be a little much for the Orange One.
See, people do like him. He is a winner after all.
"As I take it all in, I then sit back, look around, & say ‘gee, I’m in the White House, & they’re not!’” —Donald Trump, Jan. 31, 2019
But man, getting dragged around by these loser lightweights can really get a guy down. If only he could turn back the clock to Christmas Eve—the early days of the shutdown were so alive with hope:
"I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security." —Donald Trump, Dec. 24, 2018.
Man, those were the days, before his approvals tanked, and Pelosi walked all over him like a Walmart doormat.
