Here are the POS all lined up in a row.
- Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
- Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
- Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
- Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
- Senator Angus King of Maine
- Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
- Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada
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.
Shaheen just came out and said that Schumer knew about the deal. In other words he approved it.
Is this Schumer’s fediverse alt?
I can only assume you don’t know what the whips job is.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.
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!
WTF. Senate Dems got rewarded in the elections for showing some spine and holding out for healthcare, then as soon as the elections were over, in spite of voters putting them in an even stronger position with the wide margins of victory, what did they do? they fucking caved like the weak little bitches they are.
All the suffering people have been going through during the shutdown has been for absolutely nothing. They didn’t even get a damn one-year extension on subsidies (which BTW are windfalls for insurance companies but until we reform healthcare it’s the best we have for now). It was suppoosed to be not just about the ACA subsidies, but also the Medicaid cuts.
Jeffries wants the House to reject the bill and most House Dems seem to be ready to do that. Keep screaming and contact your rep (politely). There are some repubs also against it, so this shit deal can still be prevented by the House, if the Dems stick together and a few repubs also vote No.
I think the Senate literally exists to keep democracy in check and prevent the people from voting away the rights of the wealthy.
So the Senate Democrats jump the moment that money is on the line. When it was apparent they would get more fundraising and support with the shutdown and then as soon as they stood to make more from ending the shutdown. Follow the money.
It was never about principle.
fighting trump gives them votes, bowing to kiss his ass gives them corporate donations.
I guess it’s good that people paying double for shitty healthcare causes “frustration” but I would hope for a bit stronger reaction than that.
Chuck Schumer and the rest of the establishment democrats deserve to be tossed in the dumpster like the trash they are, but I don’t think any of us want to rot in a gulag for attempting and failing.
Technically, Chuck voted to keep the government shut down. According to some people other than Chuck he was in constant contact with the group who crossed the aisle for nothing in return, but he didn’t vote with them.
Yeah, the consensus seems to be that Chuck essentially engineered this new “deal” but he knew it would be wildly unpopular so he had only the senators who aren’t up for election next year vote yes, while he voted no to keep his hands clean. Classic slimy bullshit from a classic slimy bullshitter.
I’ve been following how the senate has voted on shit from the beginning of Trump’s second presidency. What I’m finding is that they all take turns crossing the aisle to spread out the hate they would get from their own party for doing so. Schumer, and Gillibrand, who are senators for my state both voted to confirm his cabinet picks. I’ve been pissed with them since day one.
That just means he found enough Dem Senators to take the heat so he didn’t have to also vote for it. It’s not like he said “Hold the line” and those 8 defied him. No, it was all agreed to between him and them. This is what he wanted. As minority leader the blame is on him in spite of his ‘no’ vote.
Disgusting fetterman and the lot of traitors. Whatever. Honestly surprised I actually got my hopes up this time for Republican capitulation.
Anyways…
Let’s appoint the Arizona senator now and call a vote to release the Epstein files.
She’s a Representative, not a Senator.
This is a bit of a tangent, I know but fuck does this irk me…
ballistic
I don’t think you know what this word means. You use words like these in every fucking news header now, and not one of them was warranted.
Fuck your clickbait titles, can all of you journalists PLEASE become real journalists again and start covering actual news that you present to us with actual real headlines instead of this made up clickbait slop?
Not sure if it’s a colloquialism but “going ballistic” where I live means being really angry.
That is for sure what it means in America.
It’s how “slam” can mean “to say something negative” and yet everyone complains about it too. I don’t have a strong opinion on how valid complaints on either use are, but I see them as comparable.
What do you mean I heard someone was SLAMMED for this
They held government closed to win a handful of elections
I have a bad feeling this might actually be bait.
Like they know the progressives are going to burn it down now, and do everything they can to block this deal. And what that does is let them blame the Democrats more clearly for the shutdown.
If ending the shutdown actually leads to the Epstein files being released, it might actually work in the Democrats’ favor. I can’t see them letting the files get released, so this is the only thing that makes sense to me.
Yeah but people are sick of the dems consistently just letting republicans control the government. That’s a decent chunk of frustration with them, and it’s a regular propaganda tool of the republicans
this shit better make sure orange jenus(on purpose) is dead or prison with Epstein files
