Dems Cave

It looks like 8 Senate Democrats flipped and voted to end end the government shutdown.

What they got in return was a promise to hold a vote on extending the Obamacare subsidies in December in the Senate.

The House is not a part of this deal, and so the House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that there will be no vote there.

Short version, they caved.

The Quislings?  Catherine Cortez Masto, Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan , Jacky Rosen, Jeanne Shaheen, and Angus King.

They got nothing for their betrayal of the American people.

A key group of Senate Democrats joined Republicans on Sunday night to advance an agreement to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

After bipartisan negotiators struck a deal during a rare weekend session, seven Democratic senators and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) voted with almost all of the chamber’s Republicans to take the first step toward reopening the government. Sunday’s vote, which needed 60 votes to pass, is the first of many that will be necessary to pass the agreement in the upper chamber.

But the deal split the party. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) came out against it.

I'm sure that Schumer will be writing a very strong letter to the Traitorous Eight.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) told reporters as she left a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats that lasted more than two hours Sunday evening. “The American people want us to stand and fight for health care, and that’s what I believe we should do.”

Senator Warren is right. It is bad policy and bad politics.

I would argue that it is worse politics than it is policy, because it shows that when push comes to shove, Democrats cannot be relied upon to fight for the American people.

The bipartisan compromise combines three full-year funding measures into one package with a stopgap funding bill that would reopen the government through Jan. 30.

But the deal would not extend Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, which Democrats have warned will cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket for millions of Americans.

They just capitulated completely.  They are the Washington Generals of politics. 

Instead, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) committed to holding a separate vote on legislation to extend the subsidies by the second week of December, after the government reopens.

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The promise to vote on ACA subsidies at a later date is unlikely to be enough for most House Democrats, who have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the subsidies before they agree to reopen the government. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has not committed to holding a vote on a bill to extend the subsidies, which many Republicans would prefer to see expire.

We already know that, "Vote blue no matter who," is a lie, Charles Schumer never endorsed Mamdami.

That being the case, don't vote for any of these 8.  They are bad for the country and bad for the party.