Rick Wilson is incensed about the cowardice of what he calls The Hateful Eight or Chuck Schumer’s eight proxies. He accuses Dems of ignoring last week’s incredible off-year election victories (emphais on plural, victorieS) and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. More will be known as Washington gears up for another day’s work but we are here to provide you with telephone numbers for the defecting senators. I’m calling both of mine. Both Nevada senators, Jackie Rosen and Catherine Cortez-Masto, are part of this hall of shame, which puts us in a league with Maine, where Angus King and Susan Collins are there to do Trump’s bidding. Not a good thing. Listen to Rick rant for a while, it will do you some good.
Last night, eight “moderate” Democrats got played.
Conned. Rooked. Pantsed. Pumped and dumped. Rode hard and put away wet.
It was a colossal leadership failure, and Chuck Schumer should resign as Minority Leader immediately if he had a shred of honor or shame.
And by the way, Schumer may be voting “no,” but this travesty happened because he wanted it to happen.
If Schumer were Mitch McConnell, he’d tell these Senators that supporting Trump (because that’s what this is) will lead to their immediate removal from committees, elimination of their staff down to minimal levels, taking away their “hideaway” offices, and a portfolio of other large and small cruelties. Cocaine Mitch, say what you will, was stronger as a Minority Leader with his caucus than Chuck Schumer was as Majority Leader.
A shutdown that was bleeding the MAGA GOP dry will end because the Hateful Eight were suckers who make Neville Chamberlain look like Genghis Khan. Patsys. Petains. Fools. Mooks.
The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, “We killed Obamacare at last!”
How many damn times does it take for people to learn to learn that the more transparently the GOP is acting in bad faith (shutdown brinkmanship, hostage-taking, “we’ll just renege later”), the more likely Democrats are to concede “to show we’re the adults in the room.”
If you want to know why this is a con job by John Thune and Donald Trump, observe one key aspect of the MAGA message machine in the last 24 hours: its silence. The same Mighty Wurlitzer of right-wing agitprop that roars like a rabid dragon 24/7 at every Democrat, spewing fire and bile, was…awfully quiet. Last night, big MAGA social media accounts were praising the Hateful Eight for “putting country over party.”
When MAGA is praising you, you know you have effed up pyrotechnically. As promised, here are the phone numbers of the eight senators. Maybe if we ring the phones off the hooks they’ll get the idea, ya spose?
Sen. Dick Durbin (D–IL) (202) 224-2152
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–NV) (202) 224-3542
Sen. John Fetterman (D–PA) (202) 224-4254
Sen. Tim Kaine (D–VA) (202) 224-4024
Sen. Angus King (I–ME) (202) 224-5344
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D–NV) (202) 224-6244
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D–NH) — (202) 224-3324
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH) — (202) 224-2841
Lastly, I know how depressing Rick’s rant is. But get this situation squarely in focus. The eradication of the ACA subsidies, should they indeed manifest in 42 days, is still happening on Trump’s watch and will still be blamed on Trump and this iteration of Congress. We don’t know all the details yet of what forced these peoples’ hands. More will be revealed as the day(s) progress this week.
But there is no way, I repeat No.Way. that peoples’ health insurance costs are going to skyrocket, forcing many people into cancellation, without it being blamed on Trump and his unified government. What we need to do is make sure our messaging is straight but then that’s always the issue, now isn’t it?
It ain’t over until it’s over. Let’s see what develops by the end of today, at least.
Durbin’s line is basically down “due to high call volume.”
We’ve NEVER won a war with cowards in the foxhole.
There are times when Rick Wilson can’t help reminding us that he is not a Democrat, but rather a Republican without a party. This is now of those times. The Democratic strategy of holding the line was a success for as long as it could be. It was central in bringing a devastating election blowout to the Republicans, and it wascentral in showing the American public what MAGA is, heartless, shameless bastards that don’t give a damn about the American people. Schumer did not cave nor was he the cause of these defections. In fact he helped keep the fight going as long as it did. The real cause was this: although the strategy was powerful, it did not have an unlimited shelf life. The Democratic constituency does not consist solely of people who are being screwed on medical care. It consists also of federal employees who were not being paid, and of the sectors they serve that were left high and dry. We need to stay united because we have to continue fighting for ACA and everything else, and to do that we need to keep things in proportion.
So let me get this straight. democrats who were crying that the Republicans were using poor families as political tools are now crying about the agreement that resumes snap payments?? Can’t make this shit up!