Summary
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces mounting pressure from House Democrats to resign his leadership position after supporting a Republican government funding bill that most House Democrats opposed.
Representatives Delia Ramirez, Glenn Ivey, and the liberal group Indivisible have publicly called for his resignation, with more lawmakers potentially following suit.
Critics argue Schumer betrayed House Democrats by not fighting against a bill that failed to protect agencies from DOGE cuts, while Schumer maintains avoiding a shutdown was necessary to prevent Trump from downsizing government more rapidly.
He’s a loser. The Democratic party is full of losers. They lose election after election and still the same losers keep running the ship.
I’d like to see him step up to a guillotine. We can’t all get all the things we’d like.
However seeing as he couldn’t give less of a shit what democrats want will choose to remain in office as Republicans request
Wondering, could it be some high stakes gamble by Schumer - let the Republicans gut SS and Medicare in the hopes of picking up massive support in the midterms? If it goes wrong and there isn’t a surge in support, then only 10 Dems ate exposed to voter wrath, and how many of the 10 are up for re-election soon?
The thing is, he’s playing chess while the Republicans don’t give a fuck what chess is and are just flipping all the tables with games on them.
Well, that certainly would be the typical Democratic strategy: concede the game hoping that they get a good sportsmanship award.
Only 10 dems. And a population now struggling with health an retirement concerns.
Not saying I agree with the strategy, just wondering if that was his thinking.
I would say that is unlikely.
I work with a lot of really really old CPAs and lawyers, and they are just completely delusional about how hard things really are for younger generations.
“Have you tried working harder?”
“How come you haven’t bought a house? We pay you [not] well!”
“My children are struggling too, I had to buy each of them their homes. Maybe ask your [destitute] parents for help?”
“Back in my day, we worked so much harder. You guys have it so easy! By the way, I cannot open this PDF and I need you to work 70hrs this week.”
“There is a right way to doing things-- even if that way completely fucks you over because you have no labor protections.”
All the other assholes who are comparable to him tell him to gtfo because he said the quiet part a little to loud.
That’s the worst part. Unless a radical replaces him, the normal program will continue. A radical who is able to whip the rest of them in shape by whatever means necessary, even if it contradicts the desires of some of their donors.
Schumer is right. A shut down would have allowed trump to enact emergency powers and then there would be no further votes.
trump is going ahead and doing whatever he wants anyway, regardless of laws or court orders, with the full support of the R party which is in the majority in both Houses anyway.
Schumer was faced with a lose-lose, so he chose the losier-lose of agreeing with the Pricktator rather than the winner-won of fighting fascism.
I think I alliterated myself.
" they were not fooled by the vote for it on cloture and vote against it on final passage."
I love how they’re openly admitting this is a trick now, when so many Blue MAGA people fell all over themselves to justify it when they’ve done it in the past.
If we are deporting random people for nonsense reasons, how do we add Schumer to that list? I heard him utter some antisemitic things, I swear. I felt threatened on semites behalf and laws are laws, right.
/s I’m just kidding, about “laws being laws”
It’s worth discussing what Trump would do with a government shutdown, but Schumer seems so out of touch.
Why can’t AOC’s politics take hold 😞
because AOC’s politics would mean Schumer’s
book salesbribes start falling.
And growing calls from citizens to drop dead.
“SENATE leader faces pressure from HOUSE Democrats” sounds great until you realize they have no means to force it to happen because they’re in the other chamber of Congress.
I want to know where the fuck is the “pressure” from other Democratic Senators who could actually apply consequences!
Especially the ones who voted with Schumer. He could’ve “urged” people to pass the CR all he wanted but he needed people complicit in voting with him.
It’s still good for the House Dems to be doing this, though, calling attention to the problem so more people will call their Dem senators demanding that they take action as well.
Sure, it doesn’t hurt, but House Democrats’ focus should be on denouncing the quislings in their own chamber, since those are the ones they have the power to apply consequences to.
If that’s happening, I haven’t read any news about it.
Otherwise, having the Democrats criticize only across chambers while remaining silent within them starts to feel more like a tactic of avoiding accountability than one of applying it.
Only one House Dem voted yes on it (Jared Golden of Maine). So it passed 217-213 because R’s have the majority and one of them defected as well. So House Dems are holding together pretty well, but as long as the R’s also hold together there’s nothing they can do to stop them.
Only the Senate D’s could have stopped the bill, by voting against cloture (even though Dems are in the minority, cloture requires 60 votes). But not only Schumer but 9 other quislings (8 D’s and 1 I) voted with the fascists. List of them here. But Schumer is Leader so if he had taken a stand against it, probably some of those other 9 would have followed his lead and it could have been stopped.
I want to know where the fuck is the “pressure” from other Democratic Senators who could actually apply consequences!
too busy clutching pearls and massaging their stock portfolios
I am not voting for him or gilibrand again
Motherfucker is geriatric anyway. Retirement should be required.
chuck Chuck.
