5 Thoughts on Donald's Deal With Chuck and Nancy

1. Art of the Fold: Donald, despite his braggadocio, is just not very good at making deals. Instead, it seems that he's built up the art of the fold -- something which he apparently considers to be strategic. The problem is, his strategy is superficial, thinking just one move ahead and not cognizant that his opponents have a multitude of moves to respond with. He's not even playing checkers; he's basically playing the simple card game of War. Ask him about something odious that he'd done yesterday and he'd literally respond, "But that was yesterday!" He's pretended to act tough against NK, but he could not foresee that his actions would result in NK ramping up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
2. Capriciousness: This pseudo strategy conceals Donald's capricious decision-making -- and it's something he's shown over and over again. Insiders pointed to the uncertainty of his DACA decision right up to the hour before he was set to announce it. What's feeding into his mood swings is that he lacks a basic moral code; what limited set of moral positions he has, most of them are still transactionally relative. There is a word to describe a person like Donald: Amoral.
3. Donald 2.0: The effects of John Kelly are discernable -- he's spending less time directly going on the attack of people, instead, letting others do the attacking and then amplifying those attacks by pointing to them. Meanwhile, he's getting directly involved instead of just sitting around for hours stewing about something that's gotten him upset. When he tweeted "no rest for the weary", he was inherently referring to himself. Donald is still Donald, of course (he's still a corrupt asshole), but much of his energy is being redirected by Kelly towards involvement in getting things done. 
4. Chuck and Nancy Show: Axios grabbed a quote from a midwest GOP operative stating,  "Democrats got more done in a single Oval Office visit in one afternoon than the congressional Republicans have achieved all year." It seems that Chuck and Nancy still wield more power than their GOP majority counterparts and use that power fairly effectively. I can't resolve, however, what signal they're trying to send.
5. Democratic Signals: Are Democrats trying to strategically position Donald against congressional GOP to get them to finally open their eyes to Donald's capricious and ineffectual leadership, eventually leading to Republican support for impeachment? Or are they afraid of the consequences of a President Pence, therefore, seek to make a strategic wedge to prevent this, in hopes that they can walk this line to 2020 and clear out both Donald and Pence? Or perhaps their hope was to show that they know how to get things done in Congress, regardless of who (or what) was in the White House, as a selling point to substantiate their wave election drive?