It’s nice to be right. 

My prediction from the beginning of the Democrats’ shutdown showdown was that their pathetic posturing would backfire on them. 

And it appears it has. 

A new CBS News and YouGov poll conducted after the shutdown ended shows that 55% of the country believes that President Donald Trump and Republicans “got more of what they wanted” from shutdown negotiations. Only 6% think the Democrats did. 

That’s not surprising considering there really weren’t a ton of negotiations involved. From the beginning, Republicans wanted a simple piece of legislation to keep the government funded and open – and work out other policy debates later. The Democrats wouldn’t have it, however, and tried to force an extension of costly

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