He offered the first shit sandwich by floating the idea of only a one year extension instead of permanent and these 8 doubled down. That was after he rolled over this past spring.
The one year extension was a genuinely good strategy. It is a very reasonable way to discuss this when there is more time and people aren’t starving… that would have put us exactly back where we were on Tuesday for the “real” midterms.
A one month extension… would have let the democrats go home for thanksgiving, I guess? But would also be immediately abandoned because it’s xmas!
But this was getting absolutely nothing. johnson is already saying he won’t call a vote for the ACA.
The one year strategy was fucking terrible. They already had the Republicans owning their own goal and offered to let them win for a single year’s reprieve. It was caving in right after massive election wins showing that the public was blaming the right people for once.
This is worse, but that was terrible and opened the doors for completely undermining the entire reason for the shutdown.
He offered the first shit sandwich by floating the idea of only a one year extension instead of permanent and these 8 doubled down. That was after he rolled over this past spring.
He shares a lot of the blame.
Not just that; he’s the fucking minority leader. It’s his job to coerce Democrats to vote in a unified manner.
Well, no — it’s his job to lead them in a unified vision. It’s then the whip’s job to coerce them. And Durbin, who capitulated this time, is the whip.
So Schumer is directly responsible for Durbin, and the two of them together are responsible for all the rolling over.
Convince, not coerce. But otherwise spot on.
Either would have been fine.
The one year extension was a genuinely good strategy. It is a very reasonable way to discuss this when there is more time and people aren’t starving… that would have put us exactly back where we were on Tuesday for the “real” midterms.
A one month extension… would have let the democrats go home for thanksgiving, I guess? But would also be immediately abandoned because it’s xmas!
But this was getting absolutely nothing. johnson is already saying he won’t call a vote for the ACA.
The one year strategy was fucking terrible. They already had the Republicans owning their own goal and offered to let them win for a single year’s reprieve. It was caving in right after massive election wins showing that the public was blaming the right people for once.
This is worse, but that was terrible and opened the doors for completely undermining the entire reason for the shutdown.