Being a democrat is like having commanding officers most of which cannot grasp which end of a gun the bullets come from.
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It's not stupidity or cowardice, the dems who voted to reopen are doing this on purpose. Their interests dont align with the well being of the vast majority of Americans.
Ok...after today, It's possible I may need to retract that a little.
Unfit for office.
"Standing Up to Trump Didn't Work...so I took the money and decided to get out of politics" FTFY
Nothing says "journalism" like repeating the content of a televised interview and getting the name of Maine's governor wrong.
And giving him what he wants will. Goodbye and good riddance you braindead meatbags
I've heard this argument that the deal they got wasn't going to get any better in a few places. What are the counter arguments to that?
Because it was working, trumps numbers are down a bit, the election losses. But those didn't phase the Republicans at all seemingly. I personally think they still should have held out, but I don't have any logic for my stance. Is there any?
Their corporate overlords (amazon mostly I bet) were going to start losing money from the holiday air shipping and travel closures so they called up Schumer and told him to rap it up.
Schumer voted no. I'm looking for real reasons that won't get me laughed out of the room for being uninformed.
Schumer was in on it and voted no because he wanted the plausible deniability because he knows he's in hot water for all his previous collaborationist deals. The yes voters are loyal sacrificial patsies who (all but one I think) aren't up for reelection. It's backfired on him because one of the patsies chickened out while being grilled on camera and blabbed on him. That's the consensus.
As to why now, yeah I'm pretty sure the air traffic closures were going to inconvenience their corporate donors.
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Caving to Trump, though, works just great -- for Trump and GOP, Certainly not for amyone else, such as theUS public,
He's 81 and in for reelection in 2030?
(Last year he won over two other candidates like 15 years younger than him, still over retirement age.)
Who are his sponsors/who does he work for?
Was it about air travel?
If Olympic games/basketball/hockey/etc would be chosen by vote USA teams would all be over 80 probably.
In my mind it was 100% either pressure from the air travel lobby, or because they thought Trump might actually get the votes to nuke the filibuster.
He has to go. POS.
What the fuck is with this article? All over the place. Horrible read. Two relevant paragraphs.
Eight Senate Democrats caved to Donald Trump and voted to approve a budget deal with Republicans to end the government shutdown, angering their colleagues in Congress as well as their own party’s base.
These eight senators, including independent Angus King who caucuses with the party, are all either retiring or up for reelection years from now. They likely feel that they won’t have to pay an electoral cost for failing to stand up for Democrats’ goal of extending health care subsidies, instead settling for a future vote on the matter.
The full list of these Democrats is below:
Senator Richard Durbin (Illinois, retiring) Senator Angus King (Maine, term ends in 2030) Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada, term ends in 2028) Senator Jacky Rosen (Nevada, term ends in 2030) Senator Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire, term ends in 2028) Senator Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire, retiring) Senator John Fetterman (Pennsylvania, 2028) Senator Tim Kaine (Virginia, 2030)
As a resident of Nevada, I sure wish we could recall federal offices the same way we could recall state ones right about now...
These traitors need to be removed from office.
Fucking christ, I hate Neoliberals
While King does caucus with Democrats, he isn’t an explicit member of the party anymore and hasn’t been since the 90’s