- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
It sounds like a bunch of Democrats want to cave in exchange for no concessions whatsoever. Edit: Bloomberg has more details
Current likely Democratic votes for this:
- Shaheen - NH
- Hassan - NH
- King - ME
- Fetterman - PA
- Peters - MI
- Durbin - IL
- Warner - VA
- Kaine - VA
- Ossoff- GA
- Warnock - GA
If you want to change things, you need to call their DC office NOW, and leave an email if you can’t.
Edit 2: enough Democrats joined the Republicans to reopen the government with no real concessions.
The list:
- Durbin
- Hassan
- King
- Cortez Masto
- Kaine
- Shaheen
- Rosen
- Fetterman
- Schumer
- Gillibrand
There was a caucus meeting right before this, so the bulk of the Senate Democrats were likely OK with giving in, even if not willing to vote for it in public
Not sure how to feel about this, people were going hungry and planes were being stopped. Yes there is nothing stopping the GOP from doing this again, but it’s mostly a charade already - they could have abolished the filibuster and got what they wanted anyways.
The Dems have this attitude that if the people suffer enough they will learn they were wrong for not voting for them, but it feels like ground hog’s day with that strategy because misinformed people always learn the wrong lesson. At the end of the day it’s more important for our leaders to do good than to prove they were right.
Edit: It seems food stamps were back on, so now I’m just pissed they wasted everyone’s time and energy.
The American Voter, voted Republicans back in after starting TWO illegal wars, destroying our public standing and crashing the economy.
People relying on Americans learning anything need their heads examined.
“Doing good” means fighting back against the fascists, not rolling over and giving them everything they want just because they threatened to hurt innocent people. That’s all the more reason to fight.
I stg, are liberals really just that bad at negotiations? You can’t apply this extremely short term, base utilitarianism approach to the real world, it’s just fundamentally wrong.