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Gotta love Jr., he says it like it is!

I nominate naming it the Eisenhower Ball Room.

Supreme Comandar of the Allied Forces and dedicated to our active duty members… Even those in the US Army.

President Trump should christen the backroom off the Oval Office as the "Bright Ember Cigar Lounge."

I’d love it if he floated the idea of calling it the Kirk Ballroom just to make more commie heads explode.

Opinion - Government shutdown showdown takes a new turn
Don Wolfensberger, opinion contributor
Thu, October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT


Opinion - Government shutdown showdown takes a new turn
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) may be a prophet without honor. In mid-March, when Congress voted to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal 2025, Schumer and nine Democratic colleagues joined all but one Republican senator to provide sufficient votes (more than 60) to overcome the ongoing filibuster threat.

While Schumer and all but two of his Democratic colleagues then voted against the continuing resolution, it still had more than the 51 votes needed to pass. Schumer’s argument against the alternative of shutting-down the government was that things would be much worse if President Trump had free rein during a shutdown to fire government employees at will and discontinue government services and agencies he disliked. Nevertheless, Schumer’s stance infuriated a good number of his party cohorts, with rumblings of mutiny in the ranks.

Today’s government shutdown is now in its fourth week, and Schumer is fully back on board with his Senate Democratic colleagues. They oppose the “clean” continuing resolution passed by the House unless it also includes restoring the Affordable Care Act tax subsidies reduced by the administration. As it turns out, though, Schumer still holds the dubious distinction as his party’s prophet without honor for predicting what the president would do in the event of a government shutdown.

The president has authorized the Office of Management and Budget to eliminate 4,000 “non-essential” government jobs across eight agencies, with more to come. Additionally, billions in previously funded transportation and infrastructure projects are being rescinded. What this means is that when the government reopens with a new continuing resolution in place, it will not be a grand reopening but a significantly diminished one.

A U.S. district court judge in northern California reinforced a ruling last Friday that the president may not fire thousands of government workers without obeying due process guarantees in law. That ruling may or may not be sustained as it wends its way to the Supreme Court. The courts will play an increasing role in the current shutdown as hundreds of lawsuits have been brought by individuals directly affected by the administration’s efforts to circumvent statutory protections.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has predicted this may be the longest government shutdown in history — the previous record being 34 days during Trump’s first administration. That dispute involved funding the southern border wall. White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett, on the other hand, put a smiley face on prospects, telling CNBC in an interview Monday, “I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end sometime this week.” That optimistic view was leveraged by the threat of harsher funding cuts in Democratic states and districts.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), has pledged to allow Democrats their vote on the ObamaCare tax subsidies after the continuing resolution has been enacted. But that offer has not yet been accepted by Schumer’s colleagues.

Theoretically, the support of House and Senate Republican majorities for the president’s unilateral funding cutbacks may qualify as small “d” democracy in practice. Two things that may (or may not) validate that assumption are public opinion and Congress’s ability to finesses constituent needs and national priorities.

Public opinion and politics go hand-in-glove though there is often a lot of finger-pointing and wrist twisting hidden in the mittens. The president’s powers of persuasion and direct pressures on members will wax and wane as members’ own political fortunes teeter on the brink of next year’s midterm elections.

President Trump has already responded to some of his party’s expressed concerns by transferring research and development funds in the Pentagon to pay the salaries of uniformed military personnel, and by temporarily restoring some of the funding for the Center for Disease Control’s missions that were being zeroed-out.

The American people seem to be inured by all this, having seen government shutdowns come and go like the seasons. The standard public response seems to be, it’s just politics as usual, compromises will be struck, and life will go on. However, any drying-up of resources affecting the broader public will eventually bear down on the constituents of individual members.

In previous government shutdowns, the assumption was always that once a shutdown showdown is resolved, the status quo ante would be restored and life would resume as before. Those assumptions may be dated given today’s shutdown in which government will not likely emerge and function as it once did. Those consequences will truly represent a turn of the screw on how our system of government will function and persevere in the future.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
I nominate naming it the Eisenhower Ball Room.

Supreme Comandar of the Allied Forces and dedicated to our active duty members… Even those in the US Army.

Already taken.

The Old Executive Office Building (the fugly building adjacent to the West Wing) is the named The Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

It should be the President Taft ballroom.

Biggest room named after the biggest President.

The simplest name is also the most accurate: The Big Ballroom

The Big Beautiful Ballroom

I'm going in another direction; Melania's Ballroom.

“The elusive billionaire donor who gave $130 million to to help pay US military salaries during the government shutdown has been unmasked as oil tycoon heir Timothy Mellon.

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that a 'friend' donated as an act of patriotism for the military and his country.

'He called us the other day and said, "I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute personally, because I love the military and I love the country,"'  the president said.

Trump called the mystery donor 'a great American citizen' and a 'substantial man,' adding that he didn't want any publicity. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/15226573

The Big Balls Room.

This gives me so much hope!

https://www.newsweek.com/steve...28-election-10931543

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has hinted that President Donald Trump could make another bid for the White House in 2028.

"He's going to get a third term ... so Trump is going to be president in 2028. And people just ought to get accommodated with that," he said in an interview with The Economist.

"At the appropriate time we'll lay out what the plan is. But there's a plan. We had longer odds in '16 and longer odds in '24 than we've got in '28," he added.

^^^^^^
No way.

“JD Vance has hit out at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's comments about 9/11 after the Democrat hopeful spoke about Islamophobia following the atrocity but failed to mention its victims.

The Vice President slammed Mamdani, 33, after he broke down describing the prejudice his hijab-wearing aunt suffered in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

Vance suggested that the socialist candidates remarks ignored the 3,000 who died and the thousands more who were injured when the World Trade Center collapsed. [as a result of the Islamist attack]

The Democratic candidate, 33, spoke outside a mosque in the Bronx on Friday where he mentioned his aunt's fear of wearing a hijab in the city following the horrific attack.

Posting to X, Vance said: 'According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.' …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/15227047

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
This gives me so much hope!

https://www.newsweek.com/steve...28-election-10931543

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has hinted that President Donald Trump could make another bid for the White House in 2028.

If you believe that even for a single second, you've got rocks in your skull.

If your wish was to appear naive and ill-informed, you've succeeded in grand fashion.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Carpentermaass84:
This gives me so much hope!

https://www.newsweek.com/steve...28-election-10931543

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has hinted that President Donald Trump could make another bid for the White House in 2028.

If you believe that even for a single second, you've got rocks in your skull.

If your wish was to appear naive and ill-informed, you've succeeded in grand fashion.

About the only thing one can realistically hope for from that prediction is that it might cause an aneurysm or two in a leftist or two. Granted, that wouldn’t be a horrible thing.

Bannon, like all of us here, love seeing liberal heads explode! That's all it is.

Unfortunately. *Sigh!*

Cherish these days, because they shall pass away

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