{"id":31175,"date":"2018-01-24T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31175"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:24:39","slug":"on-shooting-senate-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/on-shooting-senate-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"On Shooting Senate Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Senate Democrats agrees to end the Republican Shutdown without passing a fix for dreamers, my initial action was anger.  I considered the Senators who voted against ending the Republican Shutdown heroes and still do.  How those Democrats who voted for the deal were not traitors, and the did not abandon the Dreamers.  They employed what they considered the best strategy, so before we consider shooting them (in jest), we should see how it works out.<\/font><\/p>\n

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[L]iberal Democrats and progressive activists reacted angrily on Monday after a majority of Senate Democrats voted to enable the federal government to reopen after a three-day shutdown. \u201cIt\u2019s morally reprehensible and it\u2019s political malpractice,\u201d Ezra Levin, a former Capitol Hill staffer who co-founded the anti-Trump Indivisible Group, declared<\/a>. \u201cSchumer led the [Senate] caucus off the cliff.\u201d Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the Daily Kos, accused the Senate Democrats<\/a> of aiding Republican efforts to block an immigration deal that would protect the Dreamers.<\/p>\n

The critics\u2019 arguments merit serious consideration. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s promise to take up immigration legislation when the spending bill expires in three weeks hardly amounted to a firm commitment to extend legal protections for the Dreamers, which will begin to lapse at the start of March. \u201cThe idea that they are gonna take a pinky-swear promise from Senator McConnell after he\u2019s broken so many promises, it\u2019s political malpractice\u2014it\u2019s absurd to believe that,\u201d Levin said<\/a>. \u201cThe only answer is that [they] aren\u2019t actually interested in fighting for the Dreamers.\u201d<\/p>\n

That last comment was unfair. In their pursuit of a legislative deal for the Dreamers, Schumer and other Democratic senators took the highly contentious step of shutting down the government. If McConnell doesn\u2019t follow through on his promises, they may well do the same thing again in three weeks\u2019 time. Reopening the government was a tactical move, not a betrayal of the Dreamers. Whether it was the right tactical move won\u2019t be clear for a while, but it was certainly a defensible one, especially in view of the broader political environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Progressives worry that Schumer and his colleagues will capitulate again in February, which could happen. But a number of things will be different then. For one thing, they will already have assured six years of funding for chip, the public health-insurance program that serves six million children. As my colleague Amy Davidson Sorkin<\/a> pointed out yesterday, the inclusion of long-term funding in the new short-term spending resolution amounts to a \u201csolid victory\u201d for Democrats… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The New Yorker<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

I urge you to click through and finish the New Yorker article for an in depth explanation of their assertion.<\/font><\/p>\n

One thing that the article does not cover is that, while the polls taken at the time of the shutdown blamed Republicans more than Democrats, Democrats were getting more blame for it with each passing day.  In addition, voters favored ending the shutdown over holding out for an immediate fix for Dreamers by an almost two to one margin.<\/font><\/p>\n

Continuing the shutdown had no chance of success for Dreamers, because Republicans are happy to let Americans suffer.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Senate Democrats agrees to end the Republican Shutdown without passing a fix for dreamers, my initial action was anger.  I considered the Senators who voted against ending the Republican Shutdown heroes and still do.  How those Democrats who voted for the deal were not traitors, and the did not abandon the Dreamers.  They employed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}