Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is done with being the Charlie Brown to the GOP’s Lucy and their football.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1364155
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1364155
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Yep: this is how it is supposed to work. You learn from your mistakes and make the necessary adjustments. Joe Biden may become the most consequential POTUS since FDR.
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I do hope this is lessons learned
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Good!
There’s no point in trying to make an agreement with a party whose primary goals are insuring your failure and maintaining the myth that ‘government can do no good.’
The approach can be reconsidered when the reactionaries no longer put their perceived benefit ahead of the welfare of the country AND become willing to work on actual solutions to the problems the nation faces.
From here, that looks to be never.
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Thank you, Schumer. Screw them until they get a bloody clue or are thrown out of office. They have no intention of trying to help anyone except for the rich and their big donors.
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Cancel the filibuster.
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Do not negotiate with people negotiating in bad faith. Seems reasonable to me.
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Never negotiate with terrorists.
Dems are finding out that the R’s really are trying to do away with us forever. Even the moderate R’s. And not merely in a political way.
They want us dead.
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Yeah, Chuck! If Republicans want “bipartisanship”, they can start giving it. No longer will “bipartisan” mean “Democrats lose.”
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The GOP’s only policy goal is to retain power. The GOP has only two tactics to do that - cruelty and voter suppression. What Schumer is saying is that neither of those will work in the Senate any longer. He has learned the lessons of the past and it seems Uncle Joe is fine with him running the ship that way.
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Hey, #MoscowMitch? Having fun yet, bitch? Retirement & K Street looking a little better every day, you wattled asshole?
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2009 - 2010? Giving them any quarter has been a mistake since about 1964.
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Truth. January 6th silver lining: the scales have fallen from most* of the Dems’ eyes.
*Lookin’ at you Manchin and Sinema.
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Remembering history means your not going to repeat history.
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“… Susan Collins was part of that mistake…”
I can’t even begin to imagine the number of cracks that remark caused in Senator Concern Troll’s clown makeup. Expect a 45-minute presser about how Schumer’s remarks were oh-so-terribly sexist. I am sure some of her fellow anti-woman women of the GOP - like phonies Murkowski, Capito, Ernst, etc. - will back her up, along with the usual anti-everything male GOP traitors like Graham, Rubio, Hawley, Cruz, and the rest.
Major props to Schumer for finally shining the light on these assholes who don’t give a shit about the average American, especially Collins. I am really tired of the media always letting her get away with her bullshit.
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The Dems have a pretty small window to accomplish a lot that will push the GOP to the curb until that party either dies or comes to their senses. There is no compromising with them, they want oligarchic rule and the suppression of non-white voters. The new Voting Rights Act and infrastructure bills must be passed and when they do, it will prevent the Republicans from taking over again.
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This looks like the biggest wake-up moment since Neville Chamberlain on September 1, 1939.
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Yep: this is how it is supposed to work. You learn from your mistakes and make the necessary adjustments.
I didn’t see it as a “big mistake”. It was a catastrophic failure, the greatest financial fraud in modern American history. Chuckster should keep his mouth shut. It was his biggest donors who were responsible. He was MIA during the GR. And worst of all it opened the doors for monsters like Trump.
I don’t get it, why he goes negative at all? Let’s not rehash past historic failures. Biden had to live through it and got the message loud and clear. He gave Collins and the GOP their ten minutes - and moved on. More great achievements to come.
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This isn’t the first time he’s said this, Biden has said it was well. I believe it’s at the core of the Dems policy right now. We want bipartisanship but, we won’t give into GQP only for them to vote against it in the end.
Mitch and GQP are running their Obama gameplan, vote no one everything, block everything and, in 2 years take the Senate/House.
That only works if Dems allow it and so far Dems have been, sticking to Biden’s plan of heads down, do the work, get stuff passed and ignore everything else.
Clyburn was on Hayes last night, saying we don’t have to nuke the Filibuster just reform it. We’re now seeing more talking points about reforming it which makes me think there’s a plan in motion and it will happen soon
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