Politics gets dirty and I don't mind a Dem playing coy with their position as a negotiating tactic to extract more—that's how the sausage is made—but what happened here with those 10 Dems achieved nothing because it had just one objective: to deceive Democratic voters.
That cannot be tolerated.
That cannot be tolerated.
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my read: he was a yes the entire time, he lied, and we should assume many of those who were hemming and hawing and saying no position or talking about the amendment deal were potential yes’s too, and this lack of clarity was all about figuring out who was falling on the grenade for the rest of them
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They think they know better than their constituency.
Look at Schumer‘s arrogant, “They’re wrong” response about the very people affected by a shutdown.
Taken in isolation, the move is defensible. Within the whole picture, though, it's just a surrender in a career built on them.
No way you have leadership break from the caucus like that, upending the house stance, without real consequences.
But no matter what happened, it was handled so badly that Schumer has crossed the rubicon with the base.