I have no love for Schumer and would love to see him replaced, but to play devil’s advocate for a sec, isn’t shutting down the government what Trump and his cronies want? Say the government does shut down, what would prevent Republicans just leaving it shut down indefinitely until all the furloughed employees quit (the same people they’ve been trying to fire unsuccessfully)? Or passing bills to selectively fund only the programs they like while leaving the Dept of Education and others unfunded?
because in the
longmedium termsooner than I imagine, those things are going to happen anyway. Presenting it as a choice between “saving (some) fed employees” vs “fucking them over” is disingenuous. The actual choice is between “ceding power and the news narrative” vs not. People are upset that the Dems keep doing this, despite the long history of “working across the aisle” not working.To address your specific points: just because there are things the Republicans want, doesn’t mean they’re “good” for them (see: all? of their policies). In the case of federal employees, passing the “CR”* isn’t going to get them paid–the GOP doesn’t care what the laws say (obviously). The Dems should be obstructing other ridiculous funding bills as well, because the only thing they can do is be in the news cycle for obstruction (and then using that time to sell progressive policies that most people agree with). That’s the only leverage they have. This appeasement threw that away. The hive of scum and villainy is only going to continue their illegal cuts, and the correct response is to fight back, not to lend them more legitimacy. Dems have tried that for decades and this is what it’s gotten us.
*: it’s not really a “continuing” resolution, as it has a bunch of Trumpian garbage in it that wasn’t in the previous appropriations bill. They’re just… calling it that, and Senate Dems have tacitly endorsed it as such.
It would be great if our legislators would serve reasonable term lengths instead of coasting on name recognition and being the lesser of two evils in reelections and literally stroking out at press conferences.
He was always a useless shill and so deep in the pockets of fossil fuel interests that he needs a 12 foot snorkel to breathe.
In other words, an absolute disgrace and COMPLETELY typical of Dem leadership of the past 40+ years
That would explain the absolute brain-dead takes he presents - beyond ~1 ft, the air exchange in snorkels doesn’t work right and you end up breathing less oxygen.
He looks like a caricature
But, he hadn’t sold his stocks yet! What do you expect to do?
Throw his body into the pit with the MAGAts then cover it with a few metric tons of dirt and wait for the muffled screams to die down
lol R2O is showing the old stripes
