1. The ability to sue over their phone records in relation to the Jan 6 investigations.

2. Additional taxpayer money for their personal security.

Hell of a win.

This other thing is that Democrats aren’t playing 3-D chess here. They were driving a semi and lost a game of chicken to an opponent that was riding a Big Wheel. Only this time, everyone gets to foot the bill. Here’s what they did get:

The administration was ordered by the court to release SNAP payments from the funds held in reserve by Dept. of Agriculture. I’m not giving credit for that either. The only lesson anyone learned is that mass starvation is a useful political tool.

Back pay for federal workers in a shutdown furlough was already the law from the 2018-2019 shutdown, iirc. So I’m not willing to give credit for that.

Wait…you mean to tell me Senate Democrats surrendered for…(checks notes)..nothing?

Being in the majority does not do much to keep Senate Dems from giving up either. I’m trying this morning to understand what is even the point of the Democratic Party.

I see your point.

Awesome. All that fanfare, and Democrats walk away with another participation trophy. 🙄

If the Democrats advance this bill, I will leave the Democratic Party.

I would be okay with a motion to vacate when he gavels the House back into session.

If it upsets a billionaire, it’s probably good for me.

4/ Arendt wrote this in 1950 in her preface to *The Origin Of Totalitarianism*. It’s still true to today.

3/ “Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.” — Hannah Arendt

2/ “…the impact of reality and the shock of experience are no longer felt. It means, rather, examining and bearing consciously the burden which our century has placed on us—neither denying its existence nor submitting meekly to its weight.”

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