I was willing to give Schumer the benefit of the doubt because of how he handled passing Biden's agenda but hell naw, this is an out and out betrayal by senate leadership out of step with the party and its members, all to pass a poison pill CR
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Low-info voters who aren’t paying attention won’t have any idea and your highly engaged base that has been following this closely is furious at *you*—incredible 4d chess happening here
Schumer believes, probably correctly, that the Dems will get blamed for the shutdown. Their strategy is to lie low and let Trump/musk get unpopular and wait for the difficult midterms, and block what we can in the courts
Seconding tehmud that Donald and MAGA already blame Democrats for everything under the sun. Their strategy sucks. 20 months until the midterms is way too long to put up with Donald's antics.
This is a valid question that needs to be asked. They’re in the minority, they don’t have a lot of levers, but this was one of them and they reneged. If they think playing possum is a better strategy than they should actually pay possum and just not even show up to congress
Honestly, yeah. They don’t have the votes to stop nominees and they can’t set the floor agenda. GOP could kill filibuster. Carville is correct that playing dead could work but then they should actually play dead
Don’t show up to committees, communicate that to their voters from day one. Just go on TV and say “this shit is crazy, call your GOP rep 24/7”, do the town halls in red districts idea that Walz is doing. Provide constituent services how you can and just 24/7 message the GOP owns everything
huffing a big bag of copium here, but what happens if Schumer and other senate D leadership votes for cloture but they only get 6 defectors, and the CR fails in cloture?
Then we have a shutdown & Schumer looks like a complete failure. That's not happening, & if it does it's still catastrophic for Senate Democratic leadership
And of course Congress continuing to appropriate money while the executive is EXPLICITLY PROMISING ANTI CONSTITUTIONAL IMPOUNDMENT is as good as surrendering the power of the purse
yeah i feel like this is a big burning of his leadership cred rn. If battleground senators and moderate senators can be a no on this, then wtf is he doing
I'm so sick of Democrats bailing out Republicans. The House Democrats did it by saving Mike Johnson and now the Senate Democrats continue to bend the knee for Trump. Absolutely pathetic party.
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"If you don't let us pass a bill allowing Trump to do whatever he wants, Trump will just do whatever he wants."
But now you KNOW they won't deal. What are you even doing?
which is really, really not saying much!
Not jobs. Not construction. Not protections for some minority group. Limos.
Sorry I'm angry and not checking my text before posting right now...
They're still blaming Biden for Trump trashing the economy.
Fucking nothing.
Burn it down.
Clearly, we aren't alone given what we've already heard from the House.
insanity
And knowing just how furious pretty much the entire base is gonna be, the reckoning is a matter of When, not If.