Now weeks later, all the effort and effect was wasted. Now the Democrats get to accept blame for the shutdown, because they wanted something they won't get, they capitulated and not the Republicans, and it shows that backroom deals mean more to the Senate than the will and fight of avg. Americans.

We could have gotten Single-Payer, we could have changed the ACA in more meaningful ways, but instead they held fast for over a month giving the American people hope that this time they finally meant business.

Those Democrats in the Senate that sold our future away because of some false hero complex, because of a worthless pinky swear by Johnson to extend an expensive subsidy program to insurance companies. They could have fought harder, for a better result.

You had a chance to put your foot down and demand that the Republicans do something, anything, to support the American people. Instead you took yet another pinky swear from Thune, Johnson, and Orange47 with the false hope of moving on. Hope you realize some day it was your political death warrant..

If you think she did something wrong, then how was she not charged with a single thing? Her dignity and constitutional rights violated in plain sight and it's happening to thousands of others across the country every day.