Total waste of time!

Total waste of time. This could be solved in 15 minutes, but Mitch is punishing Trump for reneging on the earlier bipartisan bill that was passed overwhelming by Congress. Trump is floundering and nobody is listening except his base of birthers, flat-earthers, Pizzagate believers, Bengazhi hacks, and Hillary haters and, of course, those who believe Mexico will still pay for the wall or fence or barrier. It's entirely obvious at this point that the shutdown is simply a revenge motive on the part of the GOP. They lost the House and their reaction was like a mob style protection racket: punish the country for not voting their way. McConnell could have held votes on competing solutions when Congress was first seated, but waited so that Trump and the GOP could maximize the damage and pain.

Tax cuts to the wealthy

So people are beginning to understand that when you pump 1.5 trillion of borrowed money onto an economy by means of tax cuts to the wealthy there will be a price to pay and it’s going to be paid by you and me. I just lost my $16,000+ tax deductions because of the policies passed by the Republican party! I thought the GOP stood for lower taxes? With policies like these I will never vote for the Republican party which supports raising your taxes substantially for the normal folks, while the 1% gets itself bigger tax breaks. The Republican party are TRAITORS! VOTE THEM OUT! VOTE THEM OUT! VOTE THEM OUT!

America is in decline - well the red states are, states where education is scorned.

America is in decline.

Well the red states are, states where education is scorned. Where the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and where economic opportunity is dependent on luck , places that vote for their own poverty. My part of the US is doing pretty well but then we re liberal. We ignore the trump race to the bottom. We have a minimum wage of $12.00 an hour low unemployment high standard of living. We have real products manufactured in our state. We provide services of value and our average household income is $84,594. Low crime rates, half the rate of the national average, long life expectancy and low infant and maternal mortality. Mississippi has infant and mortality rate similar to some third world countries. Will the GOP places drag down the rest of the US, maybe-maybe not.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a turtle disguised as a human.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked legislation on Thursday that would have reopened most of the federal government impacted by the partial shutdown. Sadly roughly a quarter of the government has been shut down since Dec. 22, forcing roughly 800,000 federal employees to work without pay or be furloughed.

Until morale improves, the primary challenges against establishment Republicans upstart conservatives will continue. And morale will not improve until Republicans replace Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader.

I thought the GOP stood for lower taxes?

I just lost my $16,000+ tax deductions because of the policies passed by the Republican party! I thought the GOP stood for lower taxes? With policies like these I will never vote for the Republican party which supports raising your taxes substantially for the normal folks, while the 1% gets itself bigger tax breaks. The Republican party are TRAITORS!