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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,438 posts)
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 09:40 AM Jan 2019

Do Republicans even want a Wall?

Or are they just going along with it because they're afraid of Trump/protecting Trump from another embarrassing failure? I don't really hear about Republicans sounding like they're actually much in favor of Trump's Wall so much as they are using it to keep the government shut down (probably to cripple it purposefully) and attack Democrats as "weak" on Border Security. Thoughts?

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Do Republicans even want a Wall? (Original Post) Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2019 OP
No zipplewrath Jan 2019 #1
The GOP run senate passed a bill to keep government open NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2019 #2
Nope. They couldn't care less. If they wanted it, they would have had it by now. In It to Win It Jan 2019 #3
No Andy823 Jan 2019 #4
They had two years where they could have pushed for funding and didn't. LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #5
No, clearly they do not. Equinox Moon Jan 2019 #6
no one will tell the emperor he is naked spanone Jan 2019 #8
No. New poll today shows only 7% of people want the Wall in exchange for opening OliverQ Jan 2019 #9

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
7. The GOP run senate passed a bill to keep government open
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 10:46 AM
Jan 2019

100-0.

Then, Trump gets a mean tweet from Ann Coulter and folds like the spineless turd that he is, and here we are. Donny is holding out because he's afraid of Coulter.

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Andy823

(11,495 posts)
4. No
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 10:04 AM
Jan 2019

But most of them have Russian ties one way or another, and they know if they "DON'T" back trump he will use that against them. If he goes down, they all go down. They value their future over the future of our country!

 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
5. They had two years where they could have pushed for funding and didn't.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 10:10 AM
Jan 2019

Two years of Republic control of all three branches of government and they shut down part of government as soon as they learned they were losing the House. Likely the gambit was to tie the House up from launching investigations, but House took care of it's part of ending the shutdown in only a couple days.

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