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Posted on: March 21, 2017 at 09:19:56 CT

Hypocritical Dems threaten to shut down government — a move they once called ‘hostage taking’

The Democrats, or rather party of resistance, are becoming desperate.

After lamenting Republicans for shutting down the government in 2014, they are now contemplating the same scorched-earth strategy they once scorned: Threatening a government shutdown in upcoming debt ceiling negotiations.

“That’s our ultimate card — is to threaten to shut down the government when we get to the end of the funding, that’s coming up fairly soon, the end of the continuing resolution,” Democratic Sen. Chris Coons explained in a local radio interview last week. “That’s really the only card we’ve got.”
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer formally warned the GOP in a letter that if President Trump’s southern border wall was funded in an upcoming spending package, along with other “poison pills” such as defunding Planned Parenthood, the Democrats may turn the lights off in the nation’s capital.

“If Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement.
It’s an ironic turn for Democrats, who — along with the mainstream media — went into hysterics over Republicans using the same tactic a few years ago in an effort to defund Obamacare.