This analysis is just plain wrong. NO ONE in the GOP wanted to fund SNAP or pay federal workers or end the mass layoffs or CALL THE HOUSE BACK AND SWEAR-IN THE 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition ... just sayin'
It’s always nice to get inspired by a clip like this. My favorite when I need a little boost is that locker room scene from Rudy where the coach says “let’s try giving them the ball and letting them score.”
This is the insane MAGA cult's golden chance to end the ACA, and there was never going to be any vote, I think, on extending the premium subsidies. They will continue to refuse to extend the subsidies no matter how damaging it is to them to remain obstinate. The Democrats need to be out there every day treating this failure of humanity by the Republicans as an outright attack against our country. If what's past is prologue, though, they'll stay silent and watch the Republicans blame THEM for everything, hundreds of times a day until the most idiotic portion of the public starts believing it.
i've spent my last 15 (?) years with the aca (i was on the ground with the rollout in 2013. that's likely not 15 years but i'm mostly an actor so sue me...).
i'm cautiously optimistic that the ACA is like every good vampire: not. going. anywhere.
(also agree: this D outrage is overwrought. johnson was never going to extend the subsidies so the fucking shutdown was always going to end ugly and we never really had a plan).
It has a chance because it has become very popular. Republicans' goal was no doubt to kill it dead long before it really started catching on and came to seem like a fixture. Now, if they kill it, they will most likely face severe electoral consequences. So at least there's that. But refusing to extend the subsidies after they expired was a big step in the direction of ending "Obamacare." We'll see if the people convey their disapproval of that move strongly enough in 2026 to turn things around.
Lucy promised for the two-thousandth time that she would hold the football steady and eight Charlie Browns decided for the two-thousandth time to run up and kick it. Lucy whips the football away and eight Charlie Browns fall on their asses for the two-thousandth time. Yes, sir. Only the Charlie Brown Eight fell on the lives of millions of people and Lucy smugly walked away.
"Last night and long after the Sunday shows were done, Chuck Schumer’s eight (pre-approved?) senators helped him pull Senate Democrats from the brink of effectiveness by agreeing to end the longest shutdown in American history for nothing more than a vague promise of a vote on the ACA subsidies by December."
* I'm not so sure that you are correct in calling the seven Dems and one independent Sen Schumer's eight. Schumer might not be an effective leader these days -- something I've been saying for a long time now -- but he is still on the record that he opposes the CR. For some reason I doubt that he whispered to the surrender monkeys that he unofficially backs their move, I don't really care if Sen Shaheen claims otherwise (please see below).
* There is one overwhelming piece of evidence of the fuck-up:
If the Fulvous Fuckwad endorses the deal you can bet the farm that will screw Jane and John Doe on the street.
* Sen Shaheen is full of shit:
> “This was the only deal on the table. It was our best chance to reopen the government and immediately begin negotiations to extend the ACA tax credits that tens of millions of Americans rely on to keep costs down,” ibid
◾ Who gives a fuck if "[t]his was the only deal on the table[,]" there is no rule that says you have to accept it because there is no alternative at the moment. The deal sucks and is a tad lopsided on parties' priorities, IOW nothing for the Dems and everything for the RINOs.
> "For my friends everything, for my enemies the law" Oscar R. Benavides
-and
> "God Save Me From My Friends. I Can Protect Myself From My Enemies." attributed to many different people from King David to Voltaire
◾ Shaheen accepted an empty promise from Thune. As I noted at "The Fucking News" earlier today, this oath carries the same weight as the one given to Sen Schumer in March.
◾ "SHAHEEN: No. We kept leadership informed throughout." I'm not being an apologist for Schumer but keeping party leaders informed of the negotiations is not the same as blindsiding leadership by voting "yea" for moving a flawed CR one step closer to passing.
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"There are 47 Senate Democrats. Replacing Chuck Schumer as minority leader and Dick Durbin as whip would require just 24 votes.
Schumer and Durbin should have (long ago) taken a page from Speaker Emerita Pelosi's playbook: step aside as leaders for the young Turks and mentor them. Like with Ms Pelosi, this doesn't require resigning from Congress if your voters still think you can serve in office.
OMG i am so with tim miller's take on this and i can't even with the even.
This analysis is just plain wrong. NO ONE in the GOP wanted to fund SNAP or pay federal workers or end the mass layoffs or CALL THE HOUSE BACK AND SWEAR-IN THE 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition ... just sayin'
Eight living examples of Coitus Interruptus.
Ta, MM. I. Just. Can't. Even.
Yes, Schumer must go.
And no pension.
Does he need a pension? Isn't he fucking rich as it is?
I asked him. He said “I earned it “
It’s always nice to get inspired by a clip like this. My favorite when I need a little boost is that locker room scene from Rudy where the coach says “let’s try giving them the ball and letting them score.”
This is the insane MAGA cult's golden chance to end the ACA, and there was never going to be any vote, I think, on extending the premium subsidies. They will continue to refuse to extend the subsidies no matter how damaging it is to them to remain obstinate. The Democrats need to be out there every day treating this failure of humanity by the Republicans as an outright attack against our country. If what's past is prologue, though, they'll stay silent and watch the Republicans blame THEM for everything, hundreds of times a day until the most idiotic portion of the public starts believing it.
i've spent my last 15 (?) years with the aca (i was on the ground with the rollout in 2013. that's likely not 15 years but i'm mostly an actor so sue me...).
i'm cautiously optimistic that the ACA is like every good vampire: not. going. anywhere.
(also agree: this D outrage is overwrought. johnson was never going to extend the subsidies so the fucking shutdown was always going to end ugly and we never really had a plan).
It has a chance because it has become very popular. Republicans' goal was no doubt to kill it dead long before it really started catching on and came to seem like a fixture. Now, if they kill it, they will most likely face severe electoral consequences. So at least there's that. But refusing to extend the subsidies after they expired was a big step in the direction of ending "Obamacare." We'll see if the people convey their disapproval of that move strongly enough in 2026 to turn things around.
I am changing my motherfucking voter registration to independent. Fucking fuckers can fuck off.
If you do that, can you vote in the primaries? (In ny you can't, the primaries are for party members only)
If you're independent, you get to choose which primary to vote in, you can only vote in one though. Last I heard, that was the rule.
Lucy promised for the two-thousandth time that she would hold the football steady and eight Charlie Browns decided for the two-thousandth time to run up and kick it. Lucy whips the football away and eight Charlie Browns fall on their asses for the two-thousandth time. Yes, sir. Only the Charlie Brown Eight fell on the lives of millions of people and Lucy smugly walked away.
"Last night and long after the Sunday shows were done, Chuck Schumer’s eight (pre-approved?) senators helped him pull Senate Democrats from the brink of effectiveness by agreeing to end the longest shutdown in American history for nothing more than a vague promise of a vote on the ACA subsidies by December."
* I'm not so sure that you are correct in calling the seven Dems and one independent Sen Schumer's eight. Schumer might not be an effective leader these days -- something I've been saying for a long time now -- but he is still on the record that he opposes the CR. For some reason I doubt that he whispered to the surrender monkeys that he unofficially backs their move, I don't really care if Sen Shaheen claims otherwise (please see below).
* There is one overwhelming piece of evidence of the fuck-up:
> "Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana praised them Monday morning, saying they “decided to put principle over their personal politics.” https://whyy.org/articles/democratic-senators-vote-government-shutdown-deal/
and
> "advance a federal funding measure, which the White House endorsed, in exchange for a future vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care subsidies." https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-snap-flights-senate-11-10-25
If the Fulvous Fuckwad endorses the deal you can bet the farm that will screw Jane and John Doe on the street.
* Sen Shaheen is full of shit:
> “This was the only deal on the table. It was our best chance to reopen the government and immediately begin negotiations to extend the ACA tax credits that tens of millions of Americans rely on to keep costs down,” ibid
◾ Who gives a fuck if "[t]his was the only deal on the table[,]" there is no rule that says you have to accept it because there is no alternative at the moment. The deal sucks and is a tad lopsided on parties' priorities, IOW nothing for the Dems and everything for the RINOs.
> "For my friends everything, for my enemies the law" Oscar R. Benavides
-and
> "God Save Me From My Friends. I Can Protect Myself From My Enemies." attributed to many different people from King David to Voltaire
◾ Shaheen accepted an empty promise from Thune. As I noted at "The Fucking News" earlier today, this oath carries the same weight as the one given to Sen Schumer in March.
◾ "SHAHEEN: No. We kept leadership informed throughout." I'm not being an apologist for Schumer but keeping party leaders informed of the negotiations is not the same as blindsiding leadership by voting "yea" for moving a flawed CR one step closer to passing.
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"There are 47 Senate Democrats. Replacing Chuck Schumer as minority leader and Dick Durbin as whip would require just 24 votes.
Schumer and Durbin should have (long ago) taken a page from Speaker Emerita Pelosi's playbook: step aside as leaders for the young Turks and mentor them. Like with Ms Pelosi, this doesn't require resigning from Congress if your voters still think you can serve in office.
fnord
So depressing
What’s going on behind closed doors? There’s something they’re not telling us
Behind closed doors the Repubs are laughing their asses off that the Democrats (or at least enough of 'em) fell for it.
The Democratic Party is the answer to AI prompt " a group of Marco Rubios, but with professed progressive ideals"
Turncoats because they have corporate sponsors.
Well, they've earned their invites to Trump's Caligula-themed Christmmas party so it was obviously worth it.
The survival fight is not between progressive Dems and centrists like Spanburger. The fight is not even really between Dems and criminal republicans.
The fight is between the Oligarchs and the ‘have nots’ of both parties.
Maybe we will get lucky and the Shumer plan will backfire on the R’s and the mid terms will defeat the evil monsters.
Until then, buckle up and grab your wallets the Project 2025 ride is about to bumpier.
"The need to be loved, or at least liked, or at least let me think I am liked. It... it overwhelms me."