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I
also stumbled across a Facebook-type friend of mine who offered up the opinion
that the shutdown will last “until” people start noticing their refunds aren’t
coming in.
IMPLYING
THAT DESPITE all of President Donald Trump’s attempts to turn the lack of a
federal budget in place into a fight for a barricade to be built along the
U.S./Mexico border will ultimately end as a fight over income tax return
checks.
Or
perhaps I should say, the direct deposits made into their bank accounts of
their refunds.
And
dadgummit, the people will be more than willing to blame Trump for the whole
affair – if they think he’s depriving them of their own money.
This
whole government shutdown has become pathetic – even by the standards of
partisan political battles. It is a complete non-issue that has been elevated
to the level of significance during the past two weeks.
SOMETHING
THAT SHOULD never have gained any traction has elevated an irrelevant (to the overall
budget questions) issue such as immigration policy, and is being turned into
something catastrophic.
What’s
really sad is we have no real idea how long it could last. For Trump himself
has made comments implying both that this is an issue that could extend for
months, if not years; and that it won’t. If anything, his admission that it won't sound more realistic, because otherwise, we'd have to think The Donald is dumb enough to make the same mistakes of stubbornness that dragged the Illinois governorship of Bruce Rauner to its demise last election.
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But the, it wouldn't be surprising to learn that Trump thinks he can declare the situation a “national emergency” and issue
an executive order to have a border wall built regardless of what anybody else
thinks, while turning the budgetary issue into a moot point. Which, truth be told, is the only style Trump has for governing.
If
anything, his presidency to date has been evidence of why business executives
with oversized egos are completely UNqualified to play politics or govern the
public.
WE’RE
GOING TO see politics more and more in coming days – what with the
newly-elected House of Representatives that has Democratic Party leadership
being more than willing this week to take as one of its first actions a vote that
puts in place a federal budget that enables the government to operate.
Oh,
and by the way, it ignores Trump’s wall “demands” completely, leading many to
say Trump will use his “veto” powers and keep the shutdown going – with him
them spewing more trash talk to place blame on Democrats.
Particularly
on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., whom I’m sure Trump will greatly
resent if history winds up recording her as the woman who thumped Trump on this
issue, or any other that will come up in the next couple of years.
There
are those politicos who are saying that a failure to get something resembling a
border barricade built will be the ultimate demise of his presidency. That is,
if you believe Rep. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C.
WHICH
IS NONSENSE talk, except that Trump himself spews so much nonsense that I don’t
doubt he’s inane enough to believe it all!
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So I don’t really know how long all of the nonsense is going to last. It may well be that tax return issue that forces action to take place. Because we’re at that time of year where some people like to file their returns immediately after New Year’s Day so they can get a quickie refund – and a cash influx to help pay all those bills they incurred during the holiday season.
Forget
the high-minded talk of Democratic ideals or cheap “America First” rhetoric or
whatever partisan side’s talk you tend to listen to.
The
real demanding presence could wind up being Visa or MasterCard sending people
the bills demanding they “pay up!,” which they won’t be able to until that
refund check, actual or digital, comes rolling in.
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