If Republicans truly want Democrats to "negotiate" about re-opening the Government,

[no_hypocrisy]

then it seems necessary that they first pass legislation that funding the Government can never be attached to auxiliary legislation, that is, other laws that any Party and/or the President wants to pass.

Take away the gun and the threat goes away.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Clean funding bills. Enough of the rider crap.

[Renew Deal]

2. What exactly are they offering in this "negotiation"

[mr_lebowski]

3. Best I can tell? DICK ... (nt)

[no_hypocrisy]

4. That's my point.

There can't be valid negotiation unless the device of duress is removed.

[DetlefK]

11. The wall in exchange for nothing.

Democrats would get an end of the shutdown.
Republicans would get an end of the shutdown, plus the wall.

[standingtall]

5. We need a constitutional amendment to end Government shutdowns once and for all

and if Trump and republicans take this shutdown far enough,there might be and appetite in this country for one.

[Freethinker65]

6. If Republicans truly want Democrats to negotiate, they would demand Mitch call a vote

Call for an up or down vote, after a healthy debate, on the clean House Bill.

If the bill fails, it fails and both sides continue to negotiate. If it passes, Trump has the option to veto. No one can be certain WTF Trump would actually do. Trump loves bullying and making threats he has no intention of following through on. If he actually vetos, try to override, and if that fails, rebegin negotiations to reopen the government.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Yes . . . . AND pass legislation so that we will not have this useless situation

interfere with the process of government.

[In It to Win It]

8. Just curious, what exactly is a compromise between wall and no wall?

Half a wall?

[no_hypocrisy]

10. To give a stipend for bolstering the border.

It could be used to fix, strengthen existing barriers or to pay for surveyors.

But you don't exclusively dedicate it to "The Wall".

[Freethinker65]

12. Increased funding for maintainence and strengthening, where needed, current existing barriers.

Adding funds to increase technological monitoring and manpower if needed to areas where physical barriers would be ineffective, cost prohibitive to build and maintain, and essentially unnecessary in the first place. Adding some barriers where actually needed.

A continuous 2000 mile wall is unnecessary, environmentally damaging, ugly, and wasteful to build and maintain. Monitoring for activity like tunnels in certain areas seems appropriate.

Also- Seeking asylum is legal and must remain so. Threatening to pull economic aid from our Southern neighbors will only make things worse.

[In It to Win It]

13. I understand and I agree. But, effectively, that is "no wall."

How do you compromise with people (Trump) that only see this as a black-and-white wall-no wall issue?

You can’t really compromise with someone that wants an actual wall. For me, there is no compromisable position that includes a wall.

[Freethinker65]

14. True. But the GOP has been floating the whole "wall" was really only a metaphor

Of course to Trump, it meant a WALL....but even Trump recently has been using the term Border Security (which is Trump' s BS way of trying to fix his own fucking mess). And Trump and the GOP love saying things like The Democrats want open borders and like "catch and release" while the Democrats have NEVER been against increased border security and have been approving increased funding all along.

The Republicans will claim they forced Democrats to increase Border Security funding, and the Democrats will crow Trump did not get his wall. The compromise will return it back to the way it was before Trump fucked things up.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Then have several members of Congress and the Senate go on all the shows to

point out the difference between negotiation and coercion, duress, etc. Influence public opinion and make viewers lobbyists-at-large.

[mopinko]

16. let them make an actual plan.

give them $1b or so to go ahead and task the army corp to make a plan.

[dubyadiprecession]

9. Republicanism equals government shutdowns

This might be something for voters to never forget!

[bdamomma]

17. The majority of Americans do

not want a wall, they want immigration reform. tRump is reaching into his barrel of Fear again to make people scared. This is total BS then in the meantime he is tweeting Speaker Pelosi horrible tweets about her excursion which he blurted out and damaged our security.

This jerk has to go.

[Wounded Bear]

18. House Dems passed the Repub bills from December...

what's to negotiate?