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.
So now fighting over Obamacare that was not really public health insurance but a scam designed to sell more insurance for private insurance companies
Both parties are just keeping our country hostage at the whims of the owner class now
Fuck this horseshit can no one see that neither party gives any shits about any of us
People love to forget what we ended up with was a more conservative version of Mitt Romney’s plan.
All those fucking “moderates” said we had to start small and improve it. And over 15 years later no improvements have happened and we might lose what little we had.
Dems had a majority for 2 years with Biden, but the neoliberals still controlled the DNC and the purse strings, so nothing happened.
They no longer have the DNC, so we got a shot at actually fixing shit next time.
BooOOoOOoOoOoTtTthHHhhh sIiiIIiIiDDdDDdDeEeeeEsssSsSS
walz teamed up with trump to end the protests of pipelines and that construction means poorer health for all of us and future generation on the whole planet we currently have no way to fix or to leave
and that is just one very recent example but at least one side likes blue and uses different letters am right?
One (unsourced) example doesn’t disprove the extremely obvious night and day difference that your trump campaigning seeks to erase. I have to start blocking every person like you for my own mental health. It’s disgusting what you’re doing
and that is how we ended up here
football politics
‘both sides are not the same and my team with their combination of letters and colors dominates your bad team voting yay my side won we have freedom who needs facts’ red or blue maga attitude has ruined this country
Yes indeed we ended up in fascism because of lazy fucks who don’t care to see the difference in coordinated active harm and a mix of good bad and neutral
Every both sideser is either extraordinarily lazy or a closeted right winger
or have been burned every four years by the ‘not’ same party democrats who go to bed with republicans while shouting they’re on our side
our laws and policies and who is writing our politicians checks say otherwise to the ‘both sides are not the same argument’
this years dnc had protesters wanting end to war, have living wages, healthcare, ecetera forced to be outside the building begging to be heard while republicans were allowed in along with celebrities for fun filled night of celebrations for their collaborations
how loud does something need to be to be considered noise?
I hope your campaign to whitewash Republicans goes extremely poorly. Bye.
Thank you for your service.