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Furious Progressives Slam Democrats and Schumer For Caving On Shutdown


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2018 Jan 22, 2:18pm   5,746 views  25 comments

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“It’s official: Chuck Schumer is the worst negotiator in Washington – even worse than Trump,” said Murshed Zaheed, political director at CREDO, a progressive advocacy group, quoted by The Hill.

“Today's cave by Senate Democrats — led by weak-kneed, right-of-center Democrats — is why people don’t believe the Democratic Party stands for anything,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “These weak Democrats hurt the party brand for everyone and make it harder to elect Democrats everywhere in 2018.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/furious-progressives-slam-democrats-caving-shutdown

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1   RC2006   2018 Jan 22, 2:24pm  

Haha eating their own, they are thier own worse enemy.
2   Shaman   2018 Jan 22, 2:26pm  

Their Democrat constituents were calling in and asking when they could go back to work! Who do you think works in government jobs?
3   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2018 Jan 22, 3:15pm  

Seize the Politburo!!!

4   HeadSet   2018 Jan 22, 7:06pm  

Quigley says
Their Democrat constituents were calling in and asking when they could go back to work! Who do you think works in government jobs?


Are you sure? A government shutdown equals free leave for the "furloughed" workers, as they will get back pay for those days and it will not count against vacation time.
5   anonymous   2018 Jan 22, 7:55pm  

An Independent would tell the Republicans that he will vote against another C.R.
"You Republicans will have to balance the budget or no C.R."
"Your Republican constituents are not going to pay another dime of their hard earned tax dollars for interest on money that you borrow."
"You don't get anything that you can't pay for!"
6   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2018 Jan 22, 8:02pm  

Lol @ right of center Democrat Senators.

The blue dog democrats are unfortunately an extinct species.
7   lostand confused   2018 Jan 22, 8:09pm  

But, but, but Schumer caved because trump is a very bad negotiator -the right wing base was sold a bill of goods-but, but Trump-LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8   mell   2018 Jan 22, 9:24pm  

MAGA!
9   WatermelonUniversity   2018 Jan 23, 12:32am  

wake me up when the wall gets built.

keep on cheering pointless "victories" over problems Trump created for himself in the first place.
10   anonymous   2018 Jan 23, 7:43am  

Zerohedge king of fake & irrelevant news. No surprise here.
11   NDrLoR   2018 Jan 23, 8:26am  

Sniper says
Chuck Schumer
Those glasses!
12   Goran_K   2018 Jan 23, 8:37am  

lostand confused says
But, but, but Schumer caved because trump is a very bad negotiator -the right wing base was sold a bill of goods-but, but Trump-LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Schumer caved because the political cost of the shutdown were overwhelming. This is how the public saw the shutdown despite CNN's best efforts.

Democrats: Protecting 700,000 illegal aliens.
GOP: Trying to get US Service men and women paid.

I swear, the Democrats have become dumber as a whole in the past 10 years. It's like without Obama's smooth snake oil salesman voice, they've completely lost any semblance of a plan. Either that, or Trump has completely trolled them into being idiots.
13   anonymous   2018 Jan 23, 10:22am  

Goran_K says
Democrats: Protecting 700,000 illegal aliens.
GOP: Trying to get US Service men and women paid.


Trump protecting 320 million LEGAL American citizens.

Yes, I can see why the Dems would be upset with that.

Goran_K says
I swear, the Democrats have become dumber as a whole in the past 10 years. It's like without Obama's smooth snake oil salesman voice, they've completely lost any semblance of a plan.


That's what happens when they listen to Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Morning Joe, Jake Tapper, etc.

The Kool-Aid flows freely.
14   MrMagic   2018 Jan 23, 10:22am  

Goran_K says
Schumer caved because the political cost of the shutdown were overwhelming. This is how the public saw the shutdown despite CNN's best efforts.


Even some on the normal TDS crowd at NYT, WaPo and others saw that it was a bad move by Schumer.
15   anonymous   2018 Jan 23, 1:07pm  

"Tough Guy", Schumer, withdraws offer on Trump's wall.

After getting his head handed to him in a paper bag by Trump and by his base, the Tough Guy turns into a two faced liar.

Chuck Schumer is taking his big spending boost for Donald Trump’s border wall off the table.

The Senate minority leader, through an aide, informed the White House on Monday that he was retracting the offer he made last week to give Trump well north of the $1.6 billion in wall funding Trump had asked for this year, according to two Democrats. And now they say Trump will simply not get a better deal than that on his signature campaign promise.

Schumer “took it off,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat. “He called the White House yesterday and said it’s over.”


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/chuck-schumer-trump-wall-offer-359156
16   Shaman   2018 Jan 23, 2:07pm  

HeadSet says

Are you sure? A government shutdown equals free leave for the "furloughed" workers,


Yah that’s not what “furlough” defines to. Are YOU sure about that? Having survived the 2009 downturn, I know very well that you don’t get paid while on furlough
17   Goran_K   2018 Jan 23, 2:18pm  

anon_39881 says
"Tough Guy", Schumer, withdraws offer on Trump's wall.


This is stupid. Schumer literally has ZERO leverage. He's already shown that he can't get his party to force a shutdown as it took 2 days to literally cave in, and what did Schumer and Democrats get? ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL.

Schumer shutdown the government to get nothing in return. Does anyone think Schumer or Pelosi are stupid enough to try that again?

I hope they do, the 2018 midterms will be so one sided, it'll take a decade for the Democrats to recover.
18   Strategist   2018 Jan 23, 3:51pm  

Goran_K says

Schumer caved because the political cost of the shutdown were overwhelming. This is how the public saw the shutdown despite CNN's best efforts.

Democrats: Protecting 700,000 illegal aliens.
GOP: Trying to get US Service men and women paid.

I swear, the Democrats have become dumber as a whole in the past 10 years. It's like without Obama's smooth snake oil salesman voice, they've completely lost any semblance of a plan. Either that, or Trump has completely trolled them into being idiots.


Putting America first, is what works. Schumer put illegal aliens first. Idiot.
19   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Jan 23, 3:59pm  

Chuckie and the Ds surrendered faster than the French in 1940.

The polling came in, showed it was an absolute disaster.
20   Strategist   2018 Jan 23, 4:03pm  

Sniper says

Even some on the normal TDS crowd at NYT, WaPo and others saw that it was a bad move by Schumer.


I hope Schumer learnt his lesson.......Going up against Trump will leave you torn to shreds.
21   anonymous   2018 Jan 23, 10:11pm  

Zerohedge the Russian controlled anti American “news” outlet. I would question the intelligence of those who believe what they say.
22   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Jan 23, 10:32pm  

anon_c1f2b says
Zerohedge the Russian controlled anti American “news” outlet. I would question the intelligence of those who believe what they say.


So the Dems didn't shutdown the government then stopped their shutdown attempt mere hours later? It was all a Russian Lie?
23   Y   2018 Jan 24, 6:04am  

Definitely the latter...

Goran_K says
I swear, the Democrats have become dumber as a whole in the past 10 years. It's like without Obama's smooth snake oil salesman voice, they've completely lost any semblance of a plan. Either that, or Trump has completely trolled them into being idiots.
24   Y   2018 Jan 24, 6:10am  

Up until 2016, no politician on earth had been exposed to 17D Trolling...
This was a beautiful thing to behold...
BlueSardine says
Either that, or Trump has completely trolled them into being idiots.
25   anonymous   2018 Jan 24, 8:13am  

Goran_K says
ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL.

It seems to me that Democrats got CHIP funding, and Republicans got another few weeks of an operating government to figure out how to pay for their tax cuts. Next up, they will try again for DACA and the wall. It's funny that Trump sort of wants DACA and definitely wants the wall, but somehow cannot accept a compromise that gives him both. It will be interesting to see how long the Republicans continue to look for Trump's blessing before negotiating on bills.

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