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The shutdown was proof of Trumps stark incapacity for leadership
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-shutdown-was-proof-of-trumps-stark-incapacity-for-leadership/2019/01/25/deef71e0-20e2-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
By Editorial Board January 25 at 7:16 PM
PRESIDENT TRUMPS temper tantrum over Congresss refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors, left millions of Americans disgusted and dismayed, and diminished the United States in the eyes of the world. The impasse was proof of the presidents stark incapacity for leadership, which he reconfirmed Friday by threatening to re-shutter the government in three weeks.
In announcing his non-deal with Congress in fact, it is more cease-fire than solution Mr. Trump rehashed his tired and truth-free arguments, asserting against logic and evidence that building a massive new border wall, to supplement hundreds of miles of barriers already in place along high-trafficked segments of the border, would cause crime to plummet and drug trafficking to dry up.
He has lost that argument with the American people, a majority of whom oppose building the wall and blame him and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, according to the latest Post-ABC News poll. Mindful of that, of the cascading economic costs related to the government closure and of the latest shutdown-related calamity Fridays massive flight delays along the Eastern Seaboard owing to a shortage of air traffic controllers the president agreed to reopen the government until Feb. 15, with no new funding for a border wall for now. Score one for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), though no one is going to celebrate a national debacle such as this.
In the aftermath of such a pointless episode, the best hope is for Congress to step forward and shape a deal. It might include a new law, valid for at least the next two years, to prevent another shutdown. It would deliver back pay to low- and moderate-wage contract workers, such as security guards and cafeteria cooks, as Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and others have proposed. And it would combine some rational border security with some merciful immigration reform.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-shutdown-was-proof-of-trumps-stark-incapacity-for-leadership/2019/01/25/deef71e0-20e2-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
By Editorial Board January 25 at 7:16 PM
PRESIDENT TRUMPS temper tantrum over Congresss refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors, left millions of Americans disgusted and dismayed, and diminished the United States in the eyes of the world. The impasse was proof of the presidents stark incapacity for leadership, which he reconfirmed Friday by threatening to re-shutter the government in three weeks.
In announcing his non-deal with Congress in fact, it is more cease-fire than solution Mr. Trump rehashed his tired and truth-free arguments, asserting against logic and evidence that building a massive new border wall, to supplement hundreds of miles of barriers already in place along high-trafficked segments of the border, would cause crime to plummet and drug trafficking to dry up.
He has lost that argument with the American people, a majority of whom oppose building the wall and blame him and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, according to the latest Post-ABC News poll. Mindful of that, of the cascading economic costs related to the government closure and of the latest shutdown-related calamity Fridays massive flight delays along the Eastern Seaboard owing to a shortage of air traffic controllers the president agreed to reopen the government until Feb. 15, with no new funding for a border wall for now. Score one for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), though no one is going to celebrate a national debacle such as this.
In the aftermath of such a pointless episode, the best hope is for Congress to step forward and shape a deal. It might include a new law, valid for at least the next two years, to prevent another shutdown. It would deliver back pay to low- and moderate-wage contract workers, such as security guards and cafeteria cooks, as Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and others have proposed. And it would combine some rational border security with some merciful immigration reform.
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WaPo Editorial Board: The shutdown was proof of Trump's stark incapacity for leadership (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2019
OP
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. He's a bully
And bullies are not good leaders.
keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)2. That's not strength, it's impotence. And it's embarrassing.
Ted Lieu
?Verified account @tedlieu
Ted Lieu Retweeted Josh Kraushaar
Trump is President of the most powerful nation on earth. But @realDonaldTrump spent this weekend, during a shutdown he caused, alone in the White House twiddling his thumbs.
That's not strength, it's impotence.
And it's embarrassing.
Mr. President: Reopen our government.
Link to tweet