This time the "payoff" will be the loss of the Senate and the Presidency in 2020. You don't throw air traffic control, TSA, Coast Guard, FHA and VA loan origination, farm subsidy payments etc into chaos for a silly symbolic battle in a war that's already been lost in the last 2yr
1995/96 #shutdown established principle of tough bipartisan negotiating. Out of it came welfare reform, largest capital gains tax cut in history, 4 consecutive balanced budgets(only time this has occurred in our lifetime). Shutdown was painful, but outcome was consequential (2/2)https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1084171241970434049 …
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You ended up losing your seat. It was memorable
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Use of tax-exempt organization for political purposes; provided false information to House Ethics Committee
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You love reliving those days when you had some power. Now you have nothing. Still trying to be relevant 20+ years later. You were old then, you’re older now.
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At least the other side chose to negotiate with you. Not the case here
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Sounds like a man trying to justify destroying bipartisanship and planting the seeds of the dysfunction we all have to live with today. Sorry
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Basically there’s a history of shutdowns used as a form of hostage taking to make things happen that people don’t actually want, a practice we badly need to stop before it gets any worse than it already is. Got it.
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