My diary on Project Indivisible’s Angel Padilla calling out Shumer and Pelosi for making a deal funding the Government, because McConnell couldn’t, thereby freeing the Majority Leader to pursue his favorite pastime of repealing the ACA, went over like a lead luft ballon, so I, being the stubborn fuck I am, decided to post another after reading this Politico article:
“Following a low of 39 percent in the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll last month after his controversial reaction to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump is back at 43 percent in this week’s survey. Other surveys show similar results: Trump bottomed out at 35 percent in Gallup’s weekly tracking poll in late August, but ticked up to 38 percent last week. Trump is at 40 percent in the RealClearPolitics average, up about 2.5 points from his low-water mark last month….
...Trump’s popularity still remains historically low for a first-year president. But since his August polling nadir, Trump has earned positive reviews for his responses to two major hurricanes, Harvey and Irma. And while polls showed his decision to wind down the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — which shielded some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation — was unpopular, Trump’s subsequent nod to bipartisanship by negotiating with Democratic leaders in Congress may have helped stanch the bleeding.
Gallup’s weekly data more closely resemble SurveyMonkey’s findings. Trump has ticked up 2 points among both Democrats (from 7 percent to 9 percent) and Republicans (from 78 percent to 81 percent) since late August, but he jumped from 30 percent among independents in late August to 35 percent last week.”
Everyone is happy that Funding for Hurricane Harvey got through for the good folks in Houston, and a government shutdown would have hurt the Obama Recovery that drumpf takes credit for creating.
But by swooping in so quickly to deal with Trump, our leadership has delivered him a boon.
He should have been forced to crack some teaparty heads to fund the Government, and if he had failed, we could have thought about picking up the pieces...after extracting some real concessions.
I agree with Indivisible.
No more deals until DACA is restored and the ACA, if it survives, is safe.