{"id":35430,"date":"2019-02-12T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35430"},"modified":"2019-02-12T03:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T03:30:03","slug":"no-back-slapping-high-fiving-on-this-deal-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35430","title":{"rendered":"No back-slapping, high-fiving on this deal, Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35431\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/border-patrol-4.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wait for it. Members of Congress are likely to pat themselves on the back, toast each other with adult beverages over an agreement &#8220;in principle&#8221; they have reached that aims to avoid another partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan negotiating group has come up with a border security plan that provides some money for The Wall, but which falls a good bit short of the amount of money that Donald Trump insisted should be spent.<\/p>\n<p>They announced the agreement tonight. They&#8217;ll draft the legislation Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The president could torpedo this deal. He should think long and hard before he considers it.<\/p>\n<p>Congress should avoid the back-slapping just because it came up with a deal that keeps the government up and running. This incredible sequence of events has been a terrible demonstration of how <em>not<\/em> to govern this great nation of ours.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that we have a president who doesn&#8217;t know what the hell he is doing is bad enough. That we have a Congress that cannot craft a long-term budget that spares us this political melodrama only worsens Americans&#8217; view of <em>their<\/em> government.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the president deserves the bulk of the blame for what we have witnessed, given his insistence on building The Wall. However, Congress isn&#8217;t full of political statesmen and women, either.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait for it. Members of Congress are likely to pat themselves on the back, toast each other with adult beverages over an agreement &#8220;in principle&#8221; they have reached that aims to avoid another partial government shutdown. A bipartisan negotiating group has come up with a border security plan that provides some money for The Wall, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No back-slapping, high-fiving on this deal, Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[709,1112,1424,2245,3688,4784],"class_list":["post-35430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-border-security","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-potus","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35432,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions\/35432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}