{"id":17912,"date":"2019-01-16T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17912"},"modified":"2019-01-16T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:41:49","slug":"partisan-responding-to-the-trump-fortress-america-in-two-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/01\/16\/partisan-responding-to-the-trump-fortress-america-in-two-points\/","title":{"rendered":"partisan responding to the Trump &#8220;fortress america&#8221; in two points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Nancy Pelosi is &#8220;winning&#8221; on the Wall, encrusted as it is in the big government shut down.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course she is.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wall is a stupdifying idea, something a more adroit politician could back track to some grand &#8220;border security&#8221; premise.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sort of baked into the cake. And always begs the question&#8230; posed, it seems, by Ann Coulter:<\/p>\n<p><em>She continued, declaring that Trump has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screwed up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the first two years of his presidency by not getting the wall built, adding that now \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with three seconds on the clock, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finally throwing the ball.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t he just have a Republican Congress that was apt to do something of his bidding?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe not really&#8230; as their checklist amounted to a tax cut and Judicial appointments.<\/p>\n<p>But be that as it may, looming ahead:\u00c2\u00a0 Who the heck are the Democrats going to nominate in 2020?<\/p>\n<p>Giving the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/1083481983433482240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1083481983433482240&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prisonplanet.com%2Fus-military-ohttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGirdusky\/status\/1083009291974557697\">trajectory of the party on foreign policy<\/a>, somewhat in reaction to Trump&#8217;s various isolationist impulses as too his tie in with Russians&#8230; I think the Democrats oughta draw the contrast and nominate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/423399-democrats-should-nominate-a-military-officer-in-2020\">As everyone thinks along these lines<\/a>&#8230; but more logically&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly &#8212; as befitting the current needs of the Democratic party &#8212; if he has a sex change operation, but if he just wants to go in drag that&#8217;ll work out well too.<\/p>\n<p>His running mate can be Michael Bloomberg, obsessed as he is with everyone&#8217;s dietary habits in drinking big sodas, appears to slide into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/state\/south-carolina\/article224616115.html\">that major issue that concerns at least a chunk of leftwing commentators right now&#8230;<\/a> how the President deals with the government&#8217;s shut down in shutting down culinary service to cater the college football champion meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(In drag?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Nancy Pelosi is &#8220;winning&#8221; on the Wall, encrusted as it is in the big government shut down.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course she is.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wall is a stupdifying idea, something a more adroit politician could back track to some grand &#8220;border security&#8221; premise.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sort of baked into the cake. And always begs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17913,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions\/17913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}