Gregory

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

this is another data point for “Bari will run this place into the ground in embarrassing fashion”

yes, obviously, her turning CBS into a propaganda rag is terrible, but the main thing this is going to do is lead to humiliating retractions and lawsuits and endless high profile bungling

I didn’t know Lindsey Graham was broke.

it's almost as if you shouldn't and can't negotiate with completely amoral vacuous shitgoblins

Yes. There was no victory to be had. I never said as much. But the political pain was just beginning to be felt. Trump was pressing to kill the filibuster. Make them do that. It’s not a victory but it’s a sword up for grabs.

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Take the Democratic Party away from Democratic leadership.

This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.

The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.

Sorry, it's true.

If Durbin said, "The GOP was just too dug in on ACA subsidies, and we felt it was too important to get people's SNAP going and atcs back to work," fine. I don't like it, but fine. But to pretend getting a show vote on the subsidies is some huge risk deserving of huzzahs ... man, just stop talking.

Piss baby Nate Silver will never let us forget that he was radicalized by a cultural desire to protect teachers from a deadly pathogen.

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman

ah, the institutionalist view.

Classic congressional kabuki theatre. Kaine isnt up until 2030 so he's giving cover to one of the actual cavers because he's a 'team player'. His statement means less than nothing.

There is no other explanation. Chuck Schumer wants to be Pétain and we are supposed to pretend there is nothing he could have done.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Why do you think he couldn't bring the house back for one vote and then immediately adjourn again?

Chuck Schumer thinks the Senate majority leadership is his until he decides to relinquish it. His more principled colleagues should prove him wrong.

Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point

Throw Fetterman out of the caucus at this point.

I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.

4/ My hunch is that the real dynamic is there. There are already enough cave votes to throw in the towel. But the cavers desperately want cover from the rest of the caucus. So everyone jumps together or enough join them to make it look like the caucus was ready to cave.

Chuck Schumer wants to be the Vichy ruler of a conquered people. I disagree that this is a viable strategy for a functioning nation.

a lot of these people are dead enders or planning not to run for reelection but Jon Ossoff wants to be president someday and he should hear firsthand how that’s going to play with a primary electorate that wants heads on pikes

Trump repeatedly fell asleep during his criminal trial in New York last year. You may not have heard about it much because the media decided that Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard 20 years ago merited more prominent coverage

I thought Candace was trying to do the lifestyle mama pivot but guess that is not where the money is

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

The shutdown is an excuse; not a reason.

The shutdown is an excuse for Trump to fire employees, pay some employees but not others when no fund exists, cut federal projects in blue states, and to defund SNAP. None of these actions are required by the law. In some cases they are illegal.

Washington Post Editorial Page: praising Elon Musk trillion dollar payout, berating Dems or downplaying their successes