Bankrupted Beggar Dotard Govt close to SHUTTING DOWN

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/369456-shutdown-drama-grips-the-capitol

Shutdown drama grips the Capitol
By Melanie Zanona - 01/17/18 07:04 PM EST 5,573
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House Republican leaders are within striking distance of securing enough GOP votes to pass a stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, which would shift the funding fight to the Senate.

But they aren’t out of the woods just yet. Many members of the House Freedom Caucus are vowing to oppose the spending measure unless leadership commits to putting a conservative immigration bill on the floor and boosting defense spending, which could make Thursday’s floor vote on the continuing resolution (CR) a nail-biter.

Still, rank-and-file lawmakers and GOP leaders alike expressed confidence throughout Wednesday that their party would find the votes necessary to carry their legislation through the House.

Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, estimated in the afternoon that the whip count for the short-term funding bill was “somewhere between 210 and 215” votes.

Leadership can only afford to lose 21 Republican votes and pass the funding bill without Democratic support, according to the majority whip’s office.

The House CR, which would fund the government through Feb. 16, includes a six-year extension of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). It would also delay three ObamaCare taxes, something that was added to attract more conservative support.

“There’s still some work to do, but I think it will pass,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a top appropriator, said Wednesday.

Passage of the bill would shift pressure from House Republicans to Senate Democrats in the shutdown fight.

While Senate Democrats have been taking a tough line, it could be hard for the party to block a bill that was passed out of the House and includes CHIP funding.

Democratic senators up for reelection in red states are particularly wary of forcing a government shutdown over immigration.

The White House expressed support for the House's continuing resolution Wednesday, which could help sway some undecided Republicans.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his top lieutenants feel they are moving in the right direction, but they have little room for error as most Democrats are vowing to oppose any spending bill that doesn’t include relief for immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children.

Leaders gave themselves a safety valve in case things don’t go according to plan on Thursday. late Wednesday evening, the House Rules Committee granted lawmakers the authority through Saturday to bring any bill to the floor the same day that it is considered by the Rules panel – a process meant to speed up a measure’s consideration in the House.

Chief Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who is acting as the GOP’s top vote counter this week, was seen furiously working the House floor Wednesday night rounding up the votes for the continuing resolution. He huddled with Freedom Caucus members, House Armed Services Committee members and Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.).

The Freedom Caucus, a group of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, has railed against the short-term funding patch — the fourth since September — and expressed skepticism over broader immigration negotiations on Capitol Hill.

Some Freedom Caucus lawmakers are putting pressure on leadership to pass an immigration measure authored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Freedom Caucus member Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) in exchange for their support on the CR.

"We're making progress, yet still, at this point, if the vote were to happen today, there's not the votes to fund it with Republican-only votes," said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, as he emerged from a meeting with McHenry in the Speaker's office on Wednesday evening.

The Goodlatte legislation, which has attracted support from both the conservative and moderate wings of the GOP conference and has buy-in from key committee chairmen, includes more conservative immigration priorities than are expected to be included in any bipartisan deal on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“We don’t wanna get rolled by the Senate on DACA and the budget,” said Freedom Caucus member Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.).

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), another lead sponsor on the Goodlatte bill, said a commitment from leadership on his immigration bill could help win more support for the stopgap bill.

“That certainly would help, in terms of whipping votes on the CR,” McCaul said.

But leadership, while supportive of the Goodlatte approach, has so far resisted calls to put the bill on the floor. It’s unclear whether the legislation could pass the House, and even if it does, it’s likely dead on arrival in the Senate. There is also concern the vote could roil the sensitive, high-level negotiations on a bipartisan DACA deal.

“We’re working on the Goodlatte bill,” said Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), when pressed by The Hill on whether leadership has committed to a floor vote yet.

Some Freedom Caucus members are also pushing leadership to fund the Pentagon at higher levels for the rest of the 2018 fiscal year and pass a short-term CR for the rest of the government — an idea favored by some defense hawks, but that went nowhere during the previous debate over a CR.

Both Reps. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), two members of the House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday night they may vote against the CR because it harms military readiness and puts U.S. troops at risk.

Meadows acknowledged that a full year of funding for the Pentagon is unlikely to be added to the CR at this point, but said money for defense spending anomalies and a pay raise for the troops could help sway some members into the "yes" column.

If some Freedom Caucus members band together with enough defense hawks, they could tank GOP leadership’s strategy to avert a government shutdown.

Other Republican votes could also be hard to get. Curbelo has also threatened to vote against the CR without a DACA deal in place, while Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is a perennial “no” vote on short-term funding bills.

Still, GOP leadership may be able to pass the funding bill without boosting defense spending or promising a vote on Goodlatte’s immigration bill.

A Republican leadership aide said that vote counters were pleased with where things stood as of Wednesday evening, noting that conversations were still ongoing.

The growing sense is that most of the GOP conference will end up grudgingly supporting the CR because it’s better than the alternative, which would either be shutting down the government or giving leverage to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

And Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who represents a large swath of the federal workforce, told WJLA he would ultimately support the CR if he were the decisive vote to keep the government open. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) expressed a similar sentiment.

“We’ll build support, and we’ll get there. We always get there,” Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), a member of the Republican whip team, told reporters Wednesday morning. “Sometimes, some of my friends want to make it more exciting than it has to be.”

House Republicans may also be eager to hand off the political football to the Senate, where the fate of a CR is less certain. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) vowed to oppose a CR, while Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is undecided, meaning support from at least 10 Democrats will be needed to overcome a filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the House continuing resolution seems like it should be “a rather attractive package” for Democrats.

"I'm certainly going to take up what the House sends us. The Democrats in the Senate have been very consistent in clamoring for addressing the children's health care program. This does it with a six-year reauthorization,” McConnell said.

"I believe we have a good chance of passing it,” he said.

Scott Wong, Mike Lillis, Jordain Carney and Alex Bolton contributed.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-17/shutdown-blame-usually-runs-in-one-direction

Shutdown Blame Usually Runs in One Direction
It depends a lot on which side emerges as the antagonist.
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Jonathan Bernstein
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January 18, 2018, 6:24 AM GMT+8

Those were the days.

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Who would Americans blame for an extended government shutdown?

To begin with: Some 20 to 30 percent of the population on both sides are intense partisans, and they will fully support their side no matter what happens. They get news at least in part from partisan sources, and they'll absorb whatever talking points their party is pushing, no matter how illogical or transparently fraudulent they may be.

For everybody else -- 40-60 percent of the nation, that is -- a variety of factors will determine who they blame for the shutdown. Most voters will tend to agree with the party they support or lean towards, but they aren't always convinced. Their opinion of the president matters. Trump has rallied, but still stands at only about 40 percent approval, which suggests that few true independents or weak Republicans, and hardly any Democrats, will automatically believe whatever spin he puts on it.

The other big factor will be news coverage in the "neutral" press -- that is, the portion of the national and local media that, whatever their biases, does not align with either party. Traditionally, they report government shutdowns are inherently bad, and that whomever is responsible should be portrayed as villains.

Mainly because they have majorities in Congress and the presidency, Republicans are most likely to be framed as the antagonists if the government shutters. That's going to be particularly true if the House fails to pass a short-term funding bill (or in the less likely event that a Trump veto closes government doors). The story will be more complicated if Senate Democrats successfully filibuster a House-passed bill. I've seen some pundits already say that Republicans "own" whatever happens given their majorities, but a Democratic filibuster will (and perhaps should) complicate that story.

Evidence that one side actively sought a shutdown will be very important, as it was in 2013 when then Representative Ted Cruz and House radicals said they forced a shutdown in order to push President Barack Obama to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Failure to bargain matters, too. In 1995, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's refusal to speak to President Bill Clinton generated tons of negative coverage for Republicans. That Trump at one point said we need a "good 'shutdown'" will be a factor in this; so might Democratic demands for a DACA fix even at the cost of a shutdown. Some Democrats seem to be spinning already with this idea in mind.

Presidents normally have one big advantage over their opponents during these types of conflicts. They are able to speak with one voice, while Congressional opposition is far less clear. In this case, however, the president is allied with Congressional leaders, increasing the chances they'll send mixed messages. Then there's Trump himself, who has never managed to go more than a few days without undermining whatever theme White House strategists are trying to promote, and who has also built a reputation for dishonesty.

There's more to public opinion than just who gets blamed for any shutdown. Intensity matters. At first, only a handful of people will be directly affected by a government shutdown. If it only lasts two or three days, it's mainly an issue for those planning visits to national parks. If it lasts a week, government workers bear the brunt of the pain. Over time, however, a lot of people have to postpone normal interactions with government, and it goes from being a story in the news to a story in their lives, meaning that they're likely to remember it and hold it against politicians in the long run.

It can also take a while for the blame to set in. During the 1995-1996 two-part shutdown, Bill Clinton's approval ratings fell even as polls indicated that more people blamed Gingrich and the Republicans for the impasse. When Clinton was eventually declared the winner by the media, his ratings rapidly recovered.

And then there's the possibility of indirect effects that can change elections. Extended government shutdowns, for example, can hurt the economy, although the amount is disputed among economists. Economic downturns are always bad news for incumbents, no matter the causes.

Overall, the incentives here are good ones: Incumbents stand to lose when the government can't function, so they should work hard to prevent it from happening. That's probably why there have only been two significant government shutdowns in U.S. history -- the two-part episode in 1995-1996, and the one in 2013. It's one of the reasons why the odds still favor a short-term extension by the end of the day on Friday. Or, to put it another way, it's why it takes something truly dysfunctional to get funding for government agencies to expire without an easily-passed extension, which is why many analysts are worried that it might really happen this time.

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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https://ijr.com/2018/01/1051289-government-shutdown-who-would-be-to-blame/


Government Shutdown: Who Would Be to Blame?
WILLIAM STEAKIN | JAN 18, 2018 | 10:40 AM

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With just about two days to go before the government runs out of funding, Republicans, Democrats and the White House already have their collective fingers aimed and ready to blame someone other than themselves for potentially the first shutdown since 2013.

Republicans on Wednesday night are scrambling to secure enough votes to get a continued resolution passed that will keep the government open, averting the first federal shutdown since 2013 — but if they're unsuccessful, many GOPers plan to blame their colleagues across the aisle.

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) held a press conference Wednesday night, calling out Democrats for not being willing to come to the table and bang out a stopgap funding bill, which in one form would reauthorize six years more years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

“By voting against this continuing resolution, not only are they voting to shut down the government, they are voting to deny children access to critical health care when they need it,” McMorris Rodgers said.

“What's their argument? We need to shut down the government and not fund children's health insurance?” asked Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, referring to Democrats' unwillingness to commit to voting for a continuing resolution.

But on the left, Democrats say a government shutdown would surely fall at the feet of Republicans, the political party with both the legislative and executive power in Washington.

“If, God forbid, there's a shutdown, it will fall on the majority leader's shoulders and the president's shoulders,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday morning on the Senate floor.

Some Democrats even appear to be leveraging the impending shutdown to secure a fix for the thousands of “Dreamers” left in limbo after Trump moved to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, arguing, as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did this week, that he “will not be voting for any [short-term extension] that does not provide legal status to the DREAMers and a path toward citizenship.”

The White House has jumped at this line of negotiating by some Democrats to argue that the left would, in fact, be to blame if funding runs out by Friday. “The Democrats want to shut down the government over amnesty for all and border security,” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday:

“The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding military, at a time we need it more than ever. We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now! No more dangerous lottery,” Trump added.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders echoed the president's thinking during Wednesday's press briefing, arguing that if a deal isn't reached this week, Americans “only have one place to look, and that's to the Democrats.”

Sanders also slammed Democrats for toying with the U.S.'s military's budget by "trying to push through other policies that have nothing to do with the budget.”

But, according to a new Hart Research Associates poll, which was commissioned by far-left organization MoveOn.org, most Americans (42 percent) would blame the president and Congressional Republicans for a government shutdown.

Thirty-one percent would peg Democrats.

Ultimately, some members of Congress are confident a deal will be made ahead of Friday's deadline. House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) told Independent Journal Review he expects a deal will be made, and he would “certainly” vote for a clean continuing resolution as long as House leadership agrees “to give us a vote” on a conservative immigration bill “at some point.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) also offered a more optimistic view of the approaching shutdown Monday, stating: “I don't think there will be [a shutdown] because I think we're making progress on what we call the caps deal."


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Bill Clit-Ton got so much SURPLUS left for Bush to spend. And IMH Dotard Squandered EVERY CENT. Got Deficit / Debt for sure! Pok Kai = 扑街 !

 

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Trump is a stable genius. Overweight but can live to 200. Not shutting down.

 

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Trump is a stable genius. Overweight but can live to 200. Not shutting down.

Evidence here, American family were happy and healthy during Obama era still, all turned to HELL in hands of Dotard:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/18/grandparents-shocked-by-reports-13-starved-grandchildren.html



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Grandparents shocked by reports of 13 starved grandchildren
By BRIAN MELLEY and MICHAEL BALSAMO | Associated Press

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LOS ANGELES – The grandparents of 13 starved and tortured children say their son's family looked happy and healthy when they last visited California six years ago.

"They were just like any ordinary family," said Betty Turpin, the 81-year-old mother of David Turpin. "And they had such good relationships. I'm not just saying this stuff. These kids, we were amazed. They were 'sweetie' this and 'sweetie' that to each other."

Betty Turpin and her husband James Turpin of Princeton, West Virginia visited her son's family for five days at their previous home in Murrieta, California.

Betty Turpin told the Southern California News Group on Wednesday that they are still in shock from learning that her son and his wife were arrested this week, their children, ages 2 to 29, found malnourished with some in shackles.

David and Louise Turpin, jailed on $9 million bail, are expected to make their first court appearance on Thursday, and could face charges including torture and child endangerment, authorities said. Prosecutors plan a news conference for earlier in the day.

Betty Turpin said her son told her he had so many kids because God wanted him to. She said her son shared her Pentecostal Christian faith but he wasn't affiliated with a church in California.

"I feel they were model Christians," she said. "It's hard to believe all of this. Over the years, the Lord knows what happened."

James Turpin said during their visit, "the all looked to me well-adjusted. They weren't skinny or nothing. They were joyous to see us."

He said they were dealing with social workers in attempting to connect with their grandkids, who are hospitalized as they recover from their years-long ordeal.

On Wednesday, authorities searched the couple's current home in Perris, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, where one of the daughters, a 17-year-old jumped out the window and called 911 on Sunday. Investigators removed dozens of boxes, what appeared to be two safes and pieces of a bed frame.

Some siblings were shackled to furniture in the foul-smelling four-bedroom home that looked perfectly normal from the outside.

The Turpins have lived in two Riverside County communities since moving to California in 2011, and police said they were never called to either home, nor were any reports fielded by child protective services.

It's not clear what motivated the Turpins to live a secluded life with their large brood or what went on in the house.

Nor is it clear why the teen girl fled when she did, breaking a silence that had likely lasted years.

Psychiatrists say that even in cases of extreme deprivation, it's common for feelings of helplessness or confusion to lead to staying in place despite opportunities to flee.

"This happens all the time. The number of individuals who would immediately respond to an opportunity where they could get away is very small compared to the number of people who would have that paralysis and insecurity and confusion about what to do," said Dr. Bruce Perry, a psychiatrist and senior fellow at The ChildTrauma Academy in Houston.

The vulnerable girl might have been shamed, beaten or threatened with violence and only after many missed opportunities did she probably work up the courage to act, Perry said.

"It's pretty remarkable that she'd do that," he said. "The power that must have been exerted to keep an entire family like that for so long must have been pretty sophisticated."

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Associated Press writers Emily Schmall in Rio Vista, Texas, and Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.





https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/906054/david-turpin-who-is-he-california-torture-family-news



Who is David Turpin? Father of California torture family revealed
DAVID Turpin lived in a smart suburban home with his wife Louise and their 13 children. He owned nice cars and went on numerous family holidays, but who is David Turpin?
By Simon Osborne
PUBLISHED: 15:51, Wed, Jan 17, 2018 | UPDATED: 15:53, Wed, Jan 17, 2018

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David Turpin appeared to be a normal family man
The 57-year-old Californian accused with his wife of torturing and endangering the lives of his 13 children appeared to preside over a happy all-American family.

But when police entered the Turpin home on Sunday they stumbled into a house of horrors with some of the children "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks” and "malnourished and very dirty".

Turpin is said to have had a relatively well-paid job as an engineer at aeronautics and defence technology company Northrop Grumman.

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But the family filed for bankruptcy in 2011 claiming their large family expenses exceeded Mr Turpin's £124,000 salary.

They were said to be overspending by about £1,000 a month.

His 49-year-old wife is listed in public records as a housewife, with no income.

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Photographs David and Louise Turpin posted on Facebook show their children enjoying trips to Disneyland where they are pictured next to Mickey Mouse and the iconic fairytale castle.

In another image, the children wear matching outfits and smile as their parents renew their wedding vows in Las Vegas. The couple did this numerous times, and on one occasion an Elvis impersonator presided over the ceremony.

The smiling photographs made the family appear ordinary and people who met them and neighbours are struggling to make sense of what happened inside the family home on Muir Woods Road in Perris, 60 miles south-east of Los Angeles.

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As a forensic psychologist, this is why I think David and Louise Turpin may have held their children captive
Large families do tend either to be chaotic or to develop ritualistic processes. Is it possible that, as the Turpins’ finances cycled ever more out of control, they became increasingly coercive in their attempts to handle the situation they had created for themselves?

• David Canter
• Tuesday 16 January 2018 15:15 GMT
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A widely publicised Facebook image of David and Louise Turpin with their 13 children is notable for the standard, red T-shirts and blue jeans they are all wearing. At first glance there is nothing especially unusual about the picture other than the large number of children. It fits their neighbours’ comments that this was a seemingly normal family, quiet and undemanding.

At the back, Allen Turpin stands grinning with his mop-head haircut. His wife stands below him, holding their youngest child in her arms, also with a wide smile. It is easy to believe what the lawyers who had had contact with them in earlier years said: there was nothing untoward about them.

The family lived together in a peaceful, well-heeled street about 60 miles south of Los Angeles. The insignificant house had been listed as a private school in 2011, with David Turpin as its principal. He had been an engineer working for the well-established firm Northrup Grumman, but had declared himself bankrupt in the same year he set up the school. His lawyer said this had not been especially traumatic for the family, just a tidying up of their commitments.

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Yet one of the girls in this photograph had the wit to run from the house and call the police yesterday. She said that she and her siblings were being held captive against their will.

When the local sheriff investigated, he found some of the children manacled and chained to beds. The conditions they were in were described as filthy, although the details of that horror have not been made public. Neighbours said the children looked emaciated when taken away by the Sheriff, who commented that he was surprised how old some of them were because in their deprived state they looked much younger. A 17-year-old was initially thought to be around 10.

It has emerged that the people held in the house ranged in age from two to 29 years – six children and seven adults kept in appalling conditions. Knowing all this, the Facebook photograph of all of them together posing in red T-shirts takes on a much more sinister appearance.

The children are numbered. It would seem that the numbering is in order of age. The little girl at the front wears a 12, the taller girls behind her are 3 and 5. They all wear the name “Thing” (“Thing 12”, “Thing 3”, “Thing 5”) perhaps in reference to a Dr Seuss book about two characters called Thing 1 and Thing 2. Here is a family that thinks it’s a joke to number everyone rather than give them names and refer to them as “things”.

The photograph of the family together at a chapel in Las Vegas when the couple renewed their marriage vows – something, it seems, they did fairly regularly – shows the considerable trouble they had gone to to dress all the daughters in identical plaid dresses and the sons in identical suits. Here is evidence of the children being treated as decorations for the parents’ rituals. They also show that the Turpins were more than happy to display their anonymous brood, apparently unaware of the social implications of showing them off in such a strangely formulaic way.

Accounts of children being kept captive often relate either to them being part of sexual abuse, as brilliantly portrayed in the 2015 film Room or in the real-life case in Austria where Josef Fritzl kept a woman captive for 24 years and raped her numerous times, resulting in the birth of seven children. There is no suggestion of sexual abuse by the Turpins. And there are, in my experience, a number of different psychological reasons why parents might lock their children away from the world and hold them captive for long periods of time.

One possibility is that the parents wanted to keep their children away from the authorities for religious or other ideological reasons, or because they did not trust those outside the family. These situations have all the qualities of a cult in which the father usually acts as a patriarch who browbeats his wife and children into subservience. The Facebook photographs we’ve seen certainly have the look of a cult about them. Even their picture in Disneyland shows the children identically dressed.

David Turpin would not seem to have limited intelligence, having worked effectively for a major engineering company, nor does it seem likely that he had any obvious mental disturbance if he was able to hold down such a difficult and demanding job. It seems more probable that the couple’s commitment to a large family, without much concern for the resources to look after them, was the starting point for the appalling conditions they have ended up with.

The Turpins are reported to have been married for 27 years, when David was 30 and Louise 22. Not an unusual age difference, but one compatible with him being a dominant man keen to be in control. The eldest person found in the house must have been born at least two years before the couple married, suggesting at the very least a commitment to raising a family from early on. David Turpin’s parents declared to the media today that the couple had a Christian calling to have many children.

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Large families do tend either to be chaotic or to develop formal, often ritualistic, processes to manage day to day activities. Is it possible that, as the Turpins’ finances cycled ever more out of control, they became increasingly coercive in their attempts to handle the situation they had created for themselves?

The world the Turpins created for their family had so little contact with others – Louise didn’t work, David was apparently not sociable and the children were home-schooled – that they may have considered their actions normal. Protecting their children from prying eyes became a way of life. They may have thought that what they were doing was right. But as time went on, they might have become more desperate and only able to control their offspring with threats and chains.

Nevertheless, these children were not totally isolated from the world. At least one of them knew that what was happening to them was wrong. She had that understanding and the temerity to escape and call the police.

A great deal more about the circumstances of the Turpins will doubtless emerge as the case against them is presented to the court. How they managed to create the horrors in their house under the noses of their neighbours without raising any suspicions will become ever more manifest. The revealing world of their Facebook entries will be scrutinised for what the pictures are trying to hide, and will, perhaps, reveal more than anyone could have guessed at the time.

David Canter is an emeritus professor of investigative psychology at the University of Liverpool

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See? Airplane Engineer for Northrop Grumman! Maker of Missiles and Drones and Fighter Jets and Bombers !

finances cycled ever more out of control, they became increasingly coercive in their attempts to handle the situation they had created for themselves?

USA is gone fucked!

 

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What's the big deal? There will always be loonies on the fringe. Except for sinkieland where 70% are loonies.

 

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What's the big deal? There will always be loonies on the fringe. Except for sinkieland where 70% are loonies.

13 kids like m&d-laysia? Can not afford to feed. Lost the job from arms dealers who exported weapons to destroy the globe. Fucking retribution! Starve these fucking kids dead lah!

USA is a BANKRUPTED BEGGAR STATE = SHIT HOLE COUNTRY!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...harged-with-torture-after-kids-found-shackled

'This Is Depraved Conduct': Couple Charged With Torture After Kids Found Shackled

January 18, 20184:37 PM ET
Colin Dwyer

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Louise and David Turpin have each been charged with torture and other crimes after their children were discovered emaciated and shackled to furniture.

Riverside County Sheriff's Department via AP
Editor's note: This report includes disturbing descriptions of child abuse.

Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET

Just days after Louise and David Turpin's 13 children were discovered deeply malnourished and — in some cases — shackled to furniture in their home, the Southern California couple have been charged with torture, child abuse and false imprisonment. The two parents face the possibility of life in prison.

"As a prosecutor, there are cases that stick with you, that will haunt you," Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said at a news conference Thursday. "Sometimes in this business, we're faced with looking at human depravity — and that's what we're looking at here."


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The Turpin children, who range in age from 2 to 29, allegedly suffered years of neglect and escalating abuse, both physical and psychological. For at least eight years and in three homes, Hestrin said the children were forced to eat rarely, shower no more than once a year and, when punished, were often beaten, strangled or tied up "for weeks or even months at a time."

"Circumstantial evidence in the house suggests that the victims were often not released from their chains to go to the bathroom," Hestrin added.

Police did not discover the house in Perris, Calif., until Sunday, when the 17-year-old daughter enacted a plan she and her siblings had been working on for more than two years. Hestrin said that the daughter, together with another sibling, escaped through a window — and that though the other sibling soon grew frightened and turned back, the 17-year-old forged ahead and contacted local police.

What they found appalled them.

"To give you an example," Hestrin said Thursday, "one of the children at age 12 is the weight of an average 7-year-old. The 29-year-old female victim weighs 82 pounds. Several of the victims have cognitive impairment and neuropathy — which is nerve damage — as a result of this extreme and prolonged physical abuse."

And though the parents had reportedly registered their home as a private school with the state's Department of Education, the children "lack a basic knowledge of life," Hestrin said. "Many of the children didn't know what a police officer was. The 17-year-old, when asked whether there was medication or pills in the home, didn't know what medication or pills were."

Not long after police visited the home Sunday, the children were taken to medical centers for treatment and the parents were taken into custody.

Among the charges the parents face: 12 counts each of torture, 12 counts each of false imprisonment, seven counts each of abuse of a dependent adult, and six counts each of child abuse or neglect. David Turpin also has been charged with committing a lewd act against a child using force, fear or duress.

As to why the parents face 12 counts and not 13, Hestrin responded: "I don't know why, but apparently the 2-year-old was getting enough to eat."

He noted that officials reserve the right to file more charges as the investigation proceeds.

The parents pleaded not guilty Thursday. Their bail is set at $12 million each.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said Thursday that for at least eight years and in three homes, the children were forced to eat rarely, shower no more than once a year and, when punished, were often beaten, strangled or tied up "for weeks or even months at a time."

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Prosecutors hope to learn more about the lives of these children from one of the few privileges Hestrin said they were allowed: their journals. Hestrin said they lived in Fort Worth, Texas, until 2010 when they moved to Murrieta, Calif., and finally settled in Perris in 2014. And during this time, despite being kept in separate rooms or chained to furniture, the children were allowed to keep journals of their own.

"We now have recovered those journals — hundreds of them — and we are combing through them for evidence."

For the time being, authorities' knowledge of the situation derives mostly from the children's accounts: Stories of the parents eating well and leaving food in front of their children, who were forbidden to touch it. Stories of toys scattered about the house but never removed from their original packaging. Stories of a ban on washing above the wrist while washing their hands, which if violated, would elicit accusations that they "were playing in the water."

"This is severe emotional and physical abuse," Hestrin said Thursday. "There's no way around that. This is depraved conduct."

Hestrin said the family would wake around nightfall and head to bed in the early morning, around 4 or 5 a.m. It was shortly after this morning curfew, around 6 a.m., that the 17-year-old daughter placed the 911 call that brought police to her family's home.

For now, and likely for some time to come, she and her siblings are receiving medical and psychological treatment.

"They've gone through a very traumatic ordeal. I can tell you that they're very friendly. They're very cooperative," Mark Uffer, CEO of the Corona Regional Medical Center, where the adults have been hospitalized, said at a news conference Tuesday.

"And I believe they're hopeful that life will get better for them after this event."

 

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Government shutdown continues as Congress tangles over immigration and short-term funding solution

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The government shutdown will continue into a second day after senators went home without a deal on Saturday night. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said there would be a vote at 1 a.m. on Monday unless they reach an agreement sooner.

The shutdown is the first time in recent history when government operations shut down while Republicans control both the White House and Congress, despite the president and others placing the blame on Democrats.

Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, issued a memo to the leaders of federal agencies and executive departments Saturday, telling them to prepare for the possibility of the shutdown continuing into the start of the work week on Monday. There is no "clear indication that the Congress will act in time" to fund the government by Sunday night, the memo said.



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Late Saturday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed that a three-week short term measure to fund the government will have its day on the floor, even after Democrats today rebuffed his efforts to advance the bill.

“Earlier today, I asked for consent to move up a vote on this bipartisan solution and end this craziness today," McConnell said. "The Democrats objected. That won’t work forever. If they continue to object, we cannot proceed to a cloture vote until 1 a.m. on Monday."

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The cloture vote will end debate on the Feb. 8 short term funding measure and it will need 60 votes in the Senate to pass. Unless there is progress in the next day, the government will not reopen because Democrats will not be willing to go along with Republicans if their immigration demands are not met.



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A top Democratic aide told ABC News pointed to the lack of a comprehensive fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy as a sticking point.

Democrats continued to blast away at the White House, saying "this shutdown is almost entirely the making of the president."

"Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with jello. That's why this compromise will be called a Trump Shutdown," the Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer said Saturday afternoon.

This evening, some senators involved in a bipartisan bill to shield DACA recipients were seen shuffling between McConnell's and Schumer's offices, suggesting that talks are still ongoing.

Earlier in the day, Trump attacked Democrats for prioritizing immigration policy.

"Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead. #WeNeedMoreRepublicansIn18 in order to power through mess," Trump tweeted.






A subsequent tweet read, "This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown."

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he thought negotiators were nearing a deal Friday when he met with Trump. Schumer said he "reluctantly" agreed to fund a border wall in exchange for protections for immigrants who came illegally to the U.S. as children and who risk losing protections from deportation without DACA.

“The only way out of this is for the president to take yes for an answer," Schumer said from the Senate floor Saturday. He accused Republicans of proposing inconsequential remedies that "kicked the can down the road."

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Democrats are accusing Republicans of ignoring the topic of immigration as well as other issues such as public health and veterans in proposed resolutions. Conservatives though portray the stalemate as a case of Democratic obstruction.



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At the Capitol on Saturday, Republican leaders including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., focused their ire back on top officials across the aisle, particularly Schumer.

McCarthy said he believed there was bipartisan agreement to eventually negotiate on four key immigration issues, including protections for persons formally covered under DACA. He said the shutdown was a result of Democrats being "irresponsible."

The White House said Saturday that Trump has been on the phone with McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis. but that the president "will not negotiate on immigration reform until Democrats stop playing games and reopen the government." On Saturday callers to the White House public comment line were met with an away message blaming Democrats for "holding funding hostage."

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Meanwhile, thousands of activists — many of them galvanized by Trump's election to office a year ago — gathered in cities across the nation for the second annual Women's March, which this year organizers are calling "#PowerToThePolls."

The shutdown also comes exactly one year after Trump said in his inauguration speech: "We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action."

ABC News' Mary Bruce, Mariam Khan, John Parkinson and Jordyn Phelps contributed to this report.




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Congressional leaders refuse to budge on shutdown’s first day, but negotiations continue


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By Robert Costa, Paul Kane, Ed O'Keefe and Karoun Demirjian January 20 at 9:45 PM
Congressional leaders in both parties refused to budge publicly from their political corners Saturday on the first day of the government shutdown, avoiding direct negotiations and bitterly blaming each other for the impasse in speeches. President Trump joined the fray with a series of charged tweets.

But private glimmers of a breakthrough were evident by late Saturday, as moderate Democrats and Republicans began to rally behind a new short-term funding proposal to reopen the government through early February.

That plan could include funding for storm-ravaged states, reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program — and an implicit agreement to hold votes at some point in the coming weeks on a bipartisan immigration deal, according to senators involved in the discussions.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed on the Senate floor late Saturday to take up a new spending plan by Monday morning, or sooner, that would keep government open through Feb. 8 but would not contain a solution for “dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children.

“He wants to keep the government shut down until we finish a negotiation on the subject of illegal immigration,” McConnell said of his Democratic counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). McConnell repeated himself: “Shutting down government over illegal immigration.”

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The moderate senators, meanwhile, are trying to reach a deal on immigration in hopes that, should a three-week spending accord be approved, McConnell would allow it to come up for a vote alongside a longer-term spending plan.

Democrats, however, remained intensely opposed to McConnell’s approach, unsure he would agree and frustrated by Republicans’ refusal to meet their demands on immigration while the government is closed. At issue for Democrats is the fate of thousands of young immigrants eligible for protection from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Trump canceled the program in September, and it is set to expire in March. Lawmakers are scrambling to enact a legislative solution.

Democrats also questioned the ability of the negotiating group to reach an agreement that can pass the Senate and House and also earn Trump’s approval.

“The conversation that needs to take place is the conversation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where the president of the United States brings in the four leaders from Congress,” said Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.). “We can come up with the best compromise in the world. The key is how to get it through the House and the way to do that is for the president to provide the air cover that he has not so far provided.”

Lawmakers in both chambers were scheduled to return to work Sunday afternoon.

McConnell and Schumer did little in public Saturday besides trade insults in brief speeches on the Senate floor or on television.

“Do you know what number CR this is? This has been going on for six months,” Schumer told CNN, using the legislative term for a short-term spending deal, a continuing resolution. “This is the fourth time. They can’t get it done and they just use these CRs.”

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McConnell hunkered down in his office and played phone tag most of the day with Trump, updating him on where things stood and projecting an air of confidence that he was in a strong position, according to GOP senators.

There were no substantive talks between Schumer and McConnell. The real effort at bridging the divide was that bipartisan collection of roughly 20 senators from the less ideological wings of their respective caucuses. That group met and was trying to advance a deal that would open the government for three more weeks and set up a series of votes on competing immigration proposals. Still, several Senate Republicans said that McConnell was in no mood to give Schumer any assurances to open up the government.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) are leading the moderate group, with Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), both of whom have worked closely with Schumer on immigration issues in the past, serving as go-betweens for the two parties. The duo shuttled back and forth between Schumer’s and McConnell’s offices on the second floor of the Capitol trying to forge a political peace, but they left for dinner shortly after 6 p.m. with no solid agreement with either leader.

It is unclear whether there is enough bipartisan support for the immigration proposal being floated by the moderates — or for one that Senate conservatives are also drafting. And the possibility of no resolution to the immigration standoff before the DACA deadline remained.

So far, Trump, McConnell and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) have refused to consider Democrats’ demands until there is a bipartisan agreement to reopen the federal government.

“Senate Democrats shut down this government, and now Senate Democrats need to open this government back up,” Ryan said in a midday speech.

Trump, who spent the day at the White House, weighed in on Twitter: “Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead. #WeNeedMoreRepublicansIn18 in order to power through mess!”

[House Republicans are unusually united that the shutdown is Democrats’ fault]

In a bid to move past the political squabbling, the moderate senators met for a second day in Collins’s office. She led a similar bipartisan group in working to resolve the last shutdown in 2013.

Moderates are “trying to find a pathway forward,” Manchin said.

[Everything you need to know about the shutdown]

Democratic leaders made their case for blaming Republicans for the shutdown. As thousands of women gathered along the Mall in Washington to protest Trump’s first year in office, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood at the Capitol and pointed to a poster depicting a Trump tweet from last May calling for a “good shutdown.”

“Happy anniversary, Mr. President,” Pelosi said. “Your wish came true. You wanted the shutdown? The shutdown is all yours.”

Trump, who marked the first anniversary of his inauguration on Saturday, canceled plans to visit his resort in Palm Beach, Fla., for a weekend of celebrations. His scheduled trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this coming week was also up in the air, according to an aide.

At the White House, a phone line for comments directed callers to voice mail with a message slamming Democrats. “Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down,” a woman’s voice said on the message.

[The strong case that Trump is a big reason the government is shut down]

The White House said it supports the plan for funding through Feb. 8, eliminating a potentially significant hurdle to its enactment. Yet the simmering tensions between the Trump administration and Schumer, who said Saturday that negotiating with the president was like negotiating with “Jell-O,” underscored the delicacy of the moment.

Schumer and Trump had met privately on Friday afternoon, giving some lawmakers optimism that their deliberations would advance a deal to avoid a shutdown.

Schumer left the meeting buoyed, telling others that Trump seemed willing to strike a deal on a days-long funding extension in exchange for concessions such as border wall funding. But by midnight, he complained to his members that Trump had suddenly reneged on the possibility.

The White House told a different story. Briefing reporters at the White House on Saturday, budget director Mick Mulvaney disputed Schumer’s claim that he offered Trump his desired border wall funding during their meeting.

“Mr. Schumer has to up his game and be more honest with the president of the United States if we are going to be seeing progress,” Mulvaney said.

Schumer spokesman Matt House fired back on Twitter that Mulvaney, who was not present for the meeting, was “not telling the truth” about what happened.

[Shutdown dynamics highlight the state of politics on Trump’s anniversary]

Democrats pushed for a shutdown to spite Trump for his accomplishments, White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short argued to reporters.

“Their reaction is, ‘Because we can’t beat them, what we’re going to do is shut down the government,’ ” he said in a news briefing Saturday.

There was scattered and acrimonious activity on the House and Senate floors.

McConnell sought to bring up the four-week spending bill that failed Friday night; Democrats blocked the attempt. Democrats asked to vote on a bill guaranteeing federal workers their back pay for the period of the shutdown; McConnell objected, saying they deserve a full funding bill.

Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee who objected to McConnell’s attempt to revive the short-term bill, questioned McConnell’s embrace of the GOP proposal to extend funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program — and highlighted the discord that defined the day.

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“He sounded like Marian Wright Edelman last night, the founder of the Children’s’ Defense Fund, with his newfound interest in the children’s health plan,” Wyden said in an interview. “It sounds like I’m listening to Ted Kennedy talk about health. . . . I’ve never heard of this being a priority [for Republicans].”

In the House, lawmakers prepared for a possible deal by debating a special rule allowing them to consider any bill that passes the Senate on the same day. The debate devolved into a shouting match over displaying disparaging photos of other members — such as Schumer — on the floor.

[Huddled masses? Come back later: The Statue of Liberty closed by shutdown]



Elise Viebeck and Juliet Eilperin contributed to this report.

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MAGA is officially SHUTDOWN on it's 1st Year Anniversary!

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As women march a year after Trump’s election, his approval with some men grows


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From high-profile firings to contentious remarks, the ups and downs of President Trump's first year on the job garnered him historically low approval ratings. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

Thousands of women across the country marked the anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration at rallies, marches and protests to remind the administration that many women still believe that his vision of a great America does not include them.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who is often discussed as a potential 2020 presidential candidate, told the crowd, “It is women who are holding our democracy together in these dangerous times.”

And Emily Patton, a spokeswoman for the march, told The Washington Post:

“This year, we really want to show support for women who are running for office and to encourage more women, women of color and those in the LGBT community, to run for office, to register to vote, to be more civically engaged.”

But while Trump is still struggling to win women — a demographic won by his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016 — recent approval polls show that men seem to be increasingly on the Trump train.

Most men — 52 percent — voted for Trump in the presidential election, according to exit polls. Some found his “strong man” image attractive and supported him pushing back against what his supporters call “political correctness” in a cultural climate that is becoming increasingly vocal about the impact of patriarchy.

As critics of Trump continue to vocalize their belief that his policies disadvantage women, some men’s support of him grows.

A recent CNN poll revealed that Trump’s approval rating among men had improved eight points. Nearly half — 49 percent — of American men approve of the job Trump is doing.

And in a cumulative analysis of more than 600,000 SurveyMonkey interviews about Trump’s job performance, some of Trump’s better numbers are with men.

Nearly half — 49 percent — of white millennial men without a college degree approve of the president’s performance. And Trump’s support has risen among blue-collar white men over 35.

And even among some subgroups where Trump is doing poorly, like black Americans, Trump receives higher approval marks from men. According to the Atlantic:

“Among African Americans and Hispanics, reactions to Trump depend more on gender than age or education. In every age group, and at every level of education, about twice as many African American men as women gave Trump positive marks. In all, 23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women . . . Black men are one of the few groups for which Trump’s 2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share.

Among Hispanics, men were also much more likely than women to express positive views about Trump. Among Hispanic men older than 50, Trump’s approval — strikingly — exceeded 40 percent.”

Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes told the Fix that quite a few men feel as if Trump is speaking for their concerns in a world where few are.

“A lot of blue collar men think they are living in an increasingly feminized world and Donald Trump represents to them unabashed, unapologetic masculinity — an in-your-face refusal to give in to political correctness or the politics of ‘sensitivity.’ They think he fights for them, as opposing to judging or preaching at them. And he makes the right enemies — football players who won’t kneel, black female congresswomen, Hollywood elites, and the media.

They may not fully embrace his vulgarity, his insults or his brutishness, but they like the attitude. And, increasingly politics is not about issues or policies as much as it is about striking the right attitude.”

Author Michael Arceneaux is a frequent Trump critic who often writes about gender. He told the Fix that these numbers aren’t that surprising.

“I regret that men collectively choose to be so embarrassing, but given how ingrained misogyny is in our society, I guess I cannot be totally surprised that a sexist, chauvinistic loudmouth manages to maintain high approval rating amongst men. Despite all signs to the contrary, Trump projects strength because men are trained to believe the sort of bravado and machismo Trump often projects is a sign of strength and leadership. It is, as he would put it, sad!”

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But while Trump may be experiencing some encouraging numbers with men, his team may have to ask themselves if it is worth losing women. Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel recently presented the White House staff with a memo showing how poorly the party is doing with women voters.

It’s understandable that politicians want to appeal to their bases. In the world of politics, there’s a belief that it’s best to dance with the one who brought you as the old saying goes. And it is men who helped get Trump to the White House.

But in a country that is increasingly looking to its political leaders to be a part of the fight for the respect of women, relying on a voting bloc that jumped on the Trump train in part because of its traditional views of gender could see that train forced to leave Washington. Women are energized in ways that they weren’t in 2016 and that does not appear to be changing anytime soon.

 

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Wait — Donald Trump May Be Having An Extramarital Affair Right Now?!
1/20/2018 2:44 PM ET | Filed under: Icky Icky Poo • Wacky, Tacky & True • Legal Matters • Politik • Donald Trump • Sad Sad • New York • Family • Sex • News • Viral: News • Controversy • Melania Trump

We know all the stories about Donald Trump carrying on apparent extramarital affairs and paying off women in his past… but could he actually be having an affair RIGHT NOW in the White House?!

That's what Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff thinks, according to his appearance last night on Real Time with host Bill Maher.

Whoa!!!

Related: Remember When Trump Wanted To Abort His Daughter Tiffany??

Wolff came on Maher's show for an interview about his book and revealed that although the author "didn't have the blue dress" on an alleged Trump affair (a reference to a key piece of evidence in figuring out Bill Clinton was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky), he nevertheless feels "absolutely sure" that Melania Trump.

The only reason why Wolff hasn't come out sooner is that he lacked "ultimate proof." Hmmm…

Wolff plays it coy when Maher questions him about it, saying that he planted a clue in his controversial book about The Donald's administration, but he wouldn't reveal where or what the clue was about in the book.

Wolff said:

"You'll know it [about the clue]. Now that I've told you, when you hit that paragraph, you'll say, ‘Bingo.'"

Good way to sell more books?? Or actual thing to pay attention to here??? Who the hell knows with Trump anymore. LOLz!!!

Here's the full Wolff-Maher interview from last night (below):

Interesting!!!

Amidst all this, Trump has been tweeting weird shit in the last few hours — like this, about the government shutdown that he alone is responsible for (below):

This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

Or this, about the historic and massive women's marches around the country that are explicitly ANTI-Trump (below):

Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

Yeah, OK Donald.

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Share 'em with us in the comments (below)!!

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McConnell: Senate will be back Sunday and "as long as it takes" -- live updates

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced plans to vote at 1 a.m. Monday on a three-week continuing resolution to fund the government after a day of lawmakers playing the blame game on Capitol Hill for the shutdown. The Senate adjourned Saturday evening and will reconvene Sunday and "as long as it takes."

Negotiations appeared virtually stalled on Capitol Hill late Saturday, as Republicans and Democrats hold firm to their positions after a government shutdown went into effect Saturday at midnight.

Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the shutdown, holding press conferences and giving speeches throughout the day. Republicans are framing it as a "Schumer shutdown," While Democrats are calling it a "Trump shutdown."

At the White House, dialing the main number got a recording that blames Democrats for holding national security hostage, and that recording promises someone will pick up the phone -- but not until the shutdown ends, CBS News' Major Garrett reports.


McConnell asked for unanimous consent to begin consideration of a three-week spending bill — shorter than the four-week spending bill the Senate failed to vote on Friday night — but Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, rejected that move, continuing the shutdown. McConnell objected to a measure from Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, to continue paying federal workers during the shutdown. In the House, disagreement became so intense that when Republicans attempted to use a poster of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as a prop, Democrats objected and the Senate held a vote on whether Republicans could use the poster.

Marc Short, director of White House legislative affairs, asked by CBS News chief White House correspondent when he thinks a vote will be, said, "I think tomorrow. That's my thinking." But his guess is probably as good as anyone's, as Saturday draws to a close. As the sun set on Washington on Mr. Trump's inauguration anniversary, the president tweeted there is "unprecedented success" for our country.


White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters Saturday in a White House briefing that Democrats shut down the government because the Trump administration accomplished too much in its first year. Short said earlier in the day the White House would not be open to discussing fixes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program while the government is shutdown. Meanwhile, Democrats are determined to find an immigration fix, with time running out before the program's protections end March 5.

"They look at the accomplishments of the last year, and all this administration has accomplished, and their reaction is, because we can't beat them, we're going to shut down the government," Short told reporters.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service made announcements Saturday that parks would be unmanned, or closed, due to the lapse in funding. The Statue of Liberty was included in that. A handful of members of Congress, including Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, and Barbara Comstock, R-Virginia said they are forfeiting their pay for the remainder of the shutdown.

Mr. Trump, who has not made a public appearance other than through tweets since the shutdown, has officially canceled his scheduled trip to Mar-a-Lago, where he was supposed to celebrate his first year in office with a party that cost $100,000 per couple to attend. "This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown," the president tweeted early Saturday morning. The president, who has been relatively quiet and made no public appearances outside of tweeting, has been speaking to members of his own party, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. But the White House called a travel and photo lid shortly after 4 p.m., meaning the White House expects no more activity on its end Saturday. Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, asked by reporters what he'd heard from the president that day, said, nothing.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, blamed Mr. Trump in a Saturday afternoon press conference, saying the president kept shifting his positions on what he wanted out of a deal, and what he would agree to in the final hours before the shutdown.

"Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O. It's impossible," Schumer said.

Schumer said it's, "next to impossible to strike a deal with the president because he can't stick to the terms. I have found this out. Leader McConnell has found this out. Speaker Ryan has found this out."

But Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, in the White House briefing with Short, said Schumer wasn't entirely truthful in his depiction of conversations with the president, suggesting he wasn't willing to offer much border wall funding at all. Mulvaney's office is responsible for implementing logistics in the shutdown. "In fact I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts down the government is me, which is kind of cool," Mulvaney said on The Sean Hannity Show Friday.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats held a post-caucus meeting press conference late Saturday morning, hours after the Senate failed to reach an agreement on government funding Friday night, triggering a partial shutdown.

"He promised infrastructure, he gave us a train wreck," Pelosi said of Mr. Trump, on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, noting what she saw as broken promises from the commander-in-chief.

Republicans are trying to convince the Democratic counterparts, CBS News' Nancy Cordes reports, to agree to a three-week spending deal, instead of the previous 30-day proposal. Republicans insist on saving immigration, specifically DACA, for once the government is back and running.

"There is a deal out there to be made," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-North Carolina, told CBSN Saturday afternoon, talking about immigration. "I'm willing to engage. the president is willing to engage. All we need to do is open this government back up and get to a solution in the coming weeks."

But Democrats fear a slightly shorter spending agreement would make no difference. Congress has been divided on spending matters since Mr. Trump in September announced he would be ending DACA.

A deal on spending and immigration seemed possible last week, when Mr. Trump met with both Republicans and Democrats in congressional leadership at the White House. Mr. Trump said he would be open to a clean bill to fix DACA, then seemingly shifted his position shortly after, saying he wants border security funding and funding for the border wall to be a part of any immigration-related bill.

Schumer said he told the president he would even consider border wall funding on the table. A deal, Schumer said, seemed more possible. But then, according to Schumer, the president called him and said he heard Congress had reached a deal to fund the government for three weeks. It had not — the idea was merely that, an idea floated by a handful of Republicans. But then, Mr. Trump began adding more requirements for any such deal, Schumer said, making a spending deal less of a compromise and more of a capitulation to immigration hardliners.

As of Saturday evening, there is no tangible alternative proposal to fund the government.

— CBS News' Kathryn Watson, Alan He and Nancy Cordes contributed to this post