As much as I dislike the guy, it's a smart decision by Schumer. Approve the temp measure and take a victory lap for working across the aisle (see Dems are wiling to work together). Scoring brownie points with voters, then he can dig in when the real budget talks begin.
Which voters is Schumer winning over?
Schumer is a bitch.
People on the fence? Those that aren’t sure if they side more with him or AOC? It’s a good strategy IMO.
I just feel like Schumer is a known quantity. Does more damage to his Dem base than getting new supporters.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I agree. Lol
lol I don't think people on the Left like the Dems as much as the Trump cult has taken over the GOP.
The entire government was set up to be pretty slow and require consensus to get anything done. From Lincoln to FDR to the entire post-war concept of the role of the federal government, the system does not work to tackle the large tasks that we've envisioned Washington to be able to accomplish. The Filibuster is one of those things that gets in the way. But I think the Filibuster is only a problem in light of the fundamental problem that our federal government is too large and unwieldly.
We're only a few years removed from being told it was necessary to eliminate the Jim Crow Filibuster so we could reform all of our election laws in favor of one party. Few rationale D's still exist, but glad to see one, Sinema, roasting the crazies.
This was the topic on Megyn Kelly today.
Their identity is to try and be the GOP-lite, it's pathetic and they deserve to lose until they actually listen. They trotted out crime bill Joe in 2020 after the whole George Floyd thing, and then decided to run his historically unpopular VP as like one of a handful of people that could lose to an incredibly unpopular person in Trump. Now, they have decided to have Cuck Schumer shit his pants and give the senate GOP an easy win.
I would argue their identity is not GOP-Lite, it's just anti-Trump. The problem there is that puts them in hot water on some very easy issues, because being anti-*everything* Donald supports means you are ceding everything, even his good/popular ideas.
I mean...it worked and he got more votes than any candidate in history.
Yeah, but you could have dressed any pig up with the anti-Trump stuff and gotten the same result IMO.
A lot of what it comes down to is Democrats haven't figured out how to solve their "big tent" problem.
I really doubt that. Kamala wasn't going to win 81 million votes. Bernies wasn't. Pete wasn't. Warren wasn't. If that was true, the democrats wouldn't have bailed and banded behind Biden so quickly in 2019/2020. Biden had the chops to preach stability. Most of the other candidates were seen as too progressive or didn't have the pelts on the wall to point to in the executive to prove they could settle shit down. I get you're being a bit hyperbolic but I think that ignores the slight panic in the party in 2020 when the primary was such a cluster fuck
Kamala had tons of policy positions. Many of which would have been popular if she had the ability to articulate a single one of them.
Part of having a position is being able to tell folks about it. I think people caught onto that. She either couldn't do it or she was afraid of doing it.
