Jeffries: "I'm not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr Oz who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke."

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

such a classic! ⚛️

hell YES 💙💙💙🔥

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week

Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Coward

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me 2,379 times, hi, I'm @schumer.senate.gov.

I can tell you right now. In past election cycles, I've given hundreds of dollars to Dem office seekers.
Not one fucking dime from me for anyone running for office anywhere as a Democrat as long as Chuck Schumer is the party leader in the Senate.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Right??!?

PRIMARY THEM ALL INTO OBLIVION

RIGHT??!?

It’s like playing 11-dimensional chess against um against our early morning selves before the coffee kicks in

Or something 🤨

Something incredibly stupid

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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.

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Seems like one of the important lessons of the past week is that the Democratic Party is big enough for a wide range of views…so long as all are willing to do whatever it takes to fight for the American people, the Constitution & stand up to Trump. That’s not negotiable. And some folks don’t get it

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Yep!

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

Seriously.

Republicans had predicted that Democrats would cave on the government shutdown as soon as the election was over because they were only keeping the standoff going to motivate their base.

a disgraceful end to an otherwise stellar career, Tim Kaine 👎

One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Virginia, you have your assignment.

Let's review, shall we?

Republicans are taking the blame for the shutdown.

We cremated them on Tuesday.

ACA has never been more popular.

Rs own the famine by ending SNAP

EVERYONE wants the #EpsteinFiles released.

But it's the Dems that have to go groveling for a deal to end the shutdown?