Dick Durbin is the minority whip. There is no chance that the whip votes against the wishes of the senate minority leader. Despite Schumer’s no vote, he supported the capitulation.
Since last November, his entire office/campaign has been heavy on optics throughout the state, all with a heavy lean towards business as usual. Only recently (late October) did he write about “challenging trump’s reckless tariff policies”, which was little more than a statement of fact than any actual coherent plan to solve anything. Most shockingly, this communique had ZERO mention about DOGE, and the thousands out of work right now in his state, let alone the government shutdown and the hungry poor people out there right now. Or any of the other politically relevant horrors we have going right now. It was easily one of the best written, carefully crafted, barely educational, worthless, tone-deaf, rage-inducing pieces of literature to hit my inbox, and includes a bottomless cornucopia of spam mail.
There’s an old saying in politics: “never waste a good crisis.” Well, this is a big one, and opportunities to be a hero with accolades and job security for life can be had at minimal effort. I can only conclude that the man’s brain is located somewhere in the vicinity of his spine, both of which went missing back in 2024.
While I’m no longer a Virginian, I emplore those of you who are to vote this trash out.
I left a voicemail demanding his resignation. Wtf else can we do? He’s not up for reelection until 2030. These fuckers, as usual, can betray us with no repercussions. And they know it.
Thats just an oppurtunity to build up a base of support and rally atound someone who can beat him in a primary. 4 years is a long time yo build a coalition. Take advantage of it
Same, but email instead. I said that he must be fucking braindead to have done this, and I explained how every supposed “win” of this deal was worth nothing and that he should’ve been suing on our behalf instead. I also told him that all he bought was up to 7 weeks of relief and the ability for people to fly home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, just in time to spread a flu/covid epidemic at the exact time he torched people’s access to healthcare.
Between the DNC leadership overhaul, how united Dems in Congress were over this, and then the huge election wins last week, there are just no words for how goddamn disappointed I am in these greasy, traitorous cowards.
Of those eight seats, only two are up in 2026, and those two Senators (Durbin, Shaheen) are not running for reelection. The others aren’t up until 2028 or 2030. That’s how they do these things. No one up in 2026 would have voted for it.
“Senator Chuck Schumer, your leader in the Senate, said ‘I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address health care, I am voting no.’ Did you do this outside leadership, and was there a big push for you not to join the others and break the 60 threshold?” Kilmeade asked.
“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded.
Here are the POS all lined up in a row.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-who-voted-to-end-shutdown-b2861979.html
Dick Durbin is the minority whip. There is no chance that the whip votes against the wishes of the senate minority leader. Despite Schumer’s no vote, he supported the capitulation.
Again, unsubstantiated opinion.
Is this Schumer’s fediverse alt?
I can only assume you don’t know what the whips job is.
Shaheen just came out and said that Schumer knew about the deal. In other words he approved it.
I’m on Tim Kaine’s mailing list.
Since last November, his entire office/campaign has been heavy on optics throughout the state, all with a heavy lean towards business as usual. Only recently (late October) did he write about “challenging trump’s reckless tariff policies”, which was little more than a statement of fact than any actual coherent plan to solve anything. Most shockingly, this communique had ZERO mention about DOGE, and the thousands out of work right now in his state, let alone the government shutdown and the hungry poor people out there right now. Or any of the other politically relevant horrors we have going right now. It was easily one of the best written, carefully crafted, barely educational, worthless, tone-deaf, rage-inducing pieces of literature to hit my inbox, and includes a bottomless cornucopia of spam mail.
There’s an old saying in politics: “never waste a good crisis.” Well, this is a big one, and opportunities to be a hero with accolades and job security for life can be had at minimal effort. I can only conclude that the man’s brain is located somewhere in the vicinity of his spine, both of which went missing back in 2024.
While I’m no longer a Virginian, I emplore those of you who are to vote this trash out.
I left a voicemail demanding his resignation. Wtf else can we do? He’s not up for reelection until 2030. These fuckers, as usual, can betray us with no repercussions. And they know it.
Thats just an oppurtunity to build up a base of support and rally atound someone who can beat him in a primary. 4 years is a long time yo build a coalition. Take advantage of it
Same, but email instead. I said that he must be fucking braindead to have done this, and I explained how every supposed “win” of this deal was worth nothing and that he should’ve been suing on our behalf instead. I also told him that all he bought was up to 7 weeks of relief and the ability for people to fly home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, just in time to spread a flu/covid epidemic at the exact time he torched people’s access to healthcare.
Between the DNC leadership overhaul, how united Dems in Congress were over this, and then the huge election wins last week, there are just no words for how goddamn disappointed I am in these greasy, traitorous cowards.
Of those eight seats, only two are up in 2026, and those two Senators (Durbin, Shaheen) are not running for reelection. The others aren’t up until 2028 or 2030. That’s how they do these things. No one up in 2026 would have voted for it.
In all fairness, you know they had the full support of the Democratic Party.
That is not true. You’ll have to prove your point.
From TNR: Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
You know it’s true. They aren’t going to go against the party on this.
I do not know that it’s true, you’re going to have to convince me.
Come on bro you know it’s true!