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Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds

https://lemmy.world/post/37198590

Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds - Lemmy.World

Party sticks to its guns on healthcare and says it’s willing to hold out – much to the delight of its progressive supporters When he sat down to talk about the US government shutdown with reporters from a closely read political newsletter this week, Chuck Schumer sounded as if he was relishing his standoff with the Republicans. “Every day gets better for us,” he told Punchbowl News. As the shutdown got under way, Schumer explained, the Republican part believed that Democrats would quickly fold and vote to reopen the government, but instead they had stuck to their guns for a week and a half, demanding an array of concessions on healthcare and other issues. Outrage followed from Republicans, who printed out the Senate minority leader’s remark on posters and condemned it before press conferences. The shutdown has prompted federal agencies to close or curtail operations nationwide, and forced hundreds of thousands of employees to stay home without immediate pay. Schumer, Republicans argued, was being callous.

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manxu Oct 11

I think the Democratic leadership learned from the last debt ceiling debacle, where they did whatever the GOP and Trump wanted and got pelted with figurative rotten eggs by everyone who was paying attention.

The Obamacare subsidies are an easy hill to die on. They are available to anyone who makes less than a high middle class income, and for a great many Americans, they are the absolutely only way they can afford health insurance.

A self-declaredly populist movement like MAGA should know better than making health care unaffordable to millions to pay for billionaire tax cuts and corruption.

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givesomefucks Oct 11

I think the Democratic leadership learned from the last debt ceiling debacle

No, they dont have the backing of a biased DNC anymore. So they’re trying to paint themselves as progressive warriors.

Newsom was the most noticable, but Schumer and Jeffries are doing the same thing. They realized they’re actually going to have competitive primaries, and that negotiating with trump virtually guarantees they lose their next primary.

It’s pure self preservation, they still need replaced. And we absolutely can not afford to keep them in office, let alone leadership positions.

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BarneyPiccolo

The most cowardly creature on the planet is an American politician - every last one of them. They are feral animals, and the only thing they understand is fear, which is why they attempt to use it on us so often. They think we are just as cowardly as they are.

So put the pressure on them, and they will back down every single time, and if they don’t, then pressure them harder, and then you vote them out, and if they don’t leave, you CRUSH them mercilessly.

These people work for US, and that is not rhetoric, it is literally the truth. They need to know that we expect them to do what they are told, because if we are forced to do their jobs for them, it will be very, very bad for them.

The biggest losers are Schmuck Schumer and Jeffries, who are at least 50% responsible for Trump regaining office. They sat back and let the MAGAs steal the election right before their eyes, and then immediately declared it “Fair & Square,” with no investigation at all.

Sure, the guy has cheated at literally EVERYTHING he has ever done for his entire life, but the ONLY time in his life that he didn’t cheat was the one election that would literally keep him out of prison for the rest of his life? How does that make any sense at all. We KNOW this guy extremely well, and we are supposed to believe that he did any honorably and in good faith. The Dem leadership may be that stupid, or weak, or scared, but I’m not.

If they were doing their most basic jobs of defending America from its enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, they could have had Trump and his henchman arrested the moment that Biden was sworn in, but they let those jackals run free, and steal the next election.

IF we regain our country, we obviously have to crush, purge, and imprison MAGA Nazis for their crimes, but we should also ruthlessly purge these simpering weak ass Democrats who didn’t do their jobs, and ran away from those mean old scary MAGA twerps when we needed them most.