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As quickly as Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made it clear that Democrats could be voting towards the Trump CR, the sycophantic company media went into overdrive, proclaiming that Democrats would personal a shutdown.
This despatched some Senate Democrats right into a tizzy as a result of approach too many Democrats, each voters and elected officers, take note of the media institution that hardly hides its contempt for them, so now some Senate Democrats seem like on the lookout for a strategy to weasel out and help Trump’s CR.
The Trump White Home appears to assume that sufficient Senate Democrats will cave and cross it, as a result of Republicans want eight Democratic Senators to hitch them.
“They’re 100% gonna swallow it,” one White Home official instructed me. “They’re completely screwed.”
The arrogance is particularly noteworthy provided that Schumer has but to element his plans. Many lawmakers in each events are privately predicting that some kind of deal will likely be reached by which Senate Democrats get modification votes in return for permitting the Home-passed “persevering with decision” to advance and finally cross.
If such a deal occurs, it is going to be a catastrophe for the Democratic Celebration and one more self-inflicted wound by cowardly leaders who refuse to take heed to what their very own voters need.
Voters need to battle.
Some, not all, Senate Democrats need to turtle up and do nothing.
The simple place to place the blame could be on Chuck Schumer, however Schumer will solely go the place his caucus desires. If Senate Democrats have been unified and wished to close it down, Schumer would go together with it.
The issue is that there’s a group of Senate Democrats who’re fearful of a shutdown as a result of they take heed to the company media, and the mainstream is echoing Trump/GOP speaking factors.
Neera Tanden of the Heart For American Progress is sending round a memo telling Senate Democrats that momentum is constructing towards Trump and they should maintain the road on the CR, or else they are going to kill what’s rising within the nation proper now.
Trump thinks he’ll win a authorities shutdown, however he’s improper. Identical to he was improper when he thought he would win a shutdown.
He didn’t.
Republicans gained’t win this shutdown as a result of they management your complete federal authorities, and public opinion has already turned towards them on the economic system.
Democrats have a simple argument to make. Voters put Republicans in cost, and so they have to manipulate. Democrats gained’t govern for them. If they need Democratic votes to cross a CR, they need to come to Democrats and negotiate.
Senate Democrats are taking their supporters with no consideration.
It isn’t sufficient to name them and inform them to vote towards the CR. Name them and inform them {that a} vote for the CR will price them their jobs.
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