People think that they have better insight into what the Rs were going to do than the senate democrats do.

Great thread. What about the risks of owning the travel headaches a shutdown imposes? Why can they not shutdown again at end of January when terrain might be considered more favorable for various reasons, in particular lower political risk.

Tbh I think the D are playing a horrible hand ok. Considering where they are and where they mightve been after a march shutdown, I’m not too sure they’re worse off. In April Trump did the tariffs, a huge own goal. A long leash would be a mistake, but short leash like this? Not sure it’s a mistake.

More likely, they still are working as a block and sorted so the ones best positioned to compromise electorally did so. If so, I think they can do a shutdown again on Jan 30 and solve with another 90 day CR. The Rs are wasting their majority on this nonsense, Dems can keep stringing it along.

Well we don’t really know what is going on inside the coalition, if there’s reporting on it I would love to see it. One possibility is that they could not control the moderates who wanted to cave. If that’s so, then the outrage now could strengthen the Ds hand.

Worth considering every time one writes Word,

The banner above, all the news that’s fit to print, really accentuates the dystopian notes

Cuomo was drummed out of office 4 years ago for sexual harassment. He then lost the mayoral Dem primary. He then employed rank gutter racism to win as an independent -- winning Trump's endorsement! -- and that didn't work either. Few modern politicians so richly deserve obscurity and exile.

Quite a lot of Obama.