from NYT interview w/Schumer: 1. no plan beyond hoping it wouldn't pass the Senate. 2. never understood it was a leverage time not a binary choice 3. sounded old and cranky. Conclusion: Time to go. Biden realized he had to step aside but too late. Schumer shouldn't wait for the Const to implode.
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“Ok, what is the long game?”
“Uh….Keep the money flowing?”
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We knew this was coming and flat footed.
Poor overall leadership.
Totally unprepared to run an opposition party against an authoritarian coup. Chuck can't even verbalize what is happening to the USA.
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Hoping is NOT a plan.
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Wouldn’t the government not have appropriated funds to operate? So with what funding would Trump/DOGE pick and choose?
When has the electorate ever rewarded a party for a government shutdown?
After a 30-day furlough Federal workers lose employment protections being defended in court today—how does that help anyone but Musk?
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Biden has only himself to blame.
Nancy and he worked hard to make President Biden step aside, now he needs to reap karma!
Trump doesn’t want to play by anyone’s rules except his own. That’s why his Administration will continue to ignore court orders. They know the courts can’t force compliance with any significant enforcement.
He’ll cry immunity from now on.
It is not hard to anticipate the horrors Trump will brin in a shutdown. What is your plan, Jen?
Dear Mr. Schumer,
1: Don’t communicate one thing on a Wednesday and the opposite on Thursday.
2: Don’t delay making a plan on a prayer that the House will rescue you.
3. Show that you know we are under an existential threat to democracy and not business as usual.
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I am not sure of the point in #2. He saw that the House did not bring the votes to return the budget to regular order.
Schumer's admittedly reactive choice was to not go to shutdown. I agree that not going to shutdown, with a psycho getting the keys in that shutdown, is the right choice.
If the pressure tactic would work, for a clean CR, then yes. But how to deal with shutdown? The rub.