I don’t remember that, but everything they do is so transparent!

No, it’s the victims they need to protect and redact! Republicans always act like the biggest victims on earth, so we’ll start by redacting their names.

Is the idea that he knows the justice dept is going to delay, and if the house isn’t in session, they can’t do anything?

I wonder if the Republican voters recognize this is literally protecting pedophiles. There’s no way around it.

What if we became republicans? Then they’d have to vote for us!

If I had a dollar for every time a Republican friend told me, “how are we going to pay for these things” with it acknowledging the progressives have solutions for that.

Weird how these progressive candidates keep having very high approval ratings while the moderates/secret Republicans get much lower approvals. Maybe we need to pick more of the progressive candidates.

Good point, they either will, or they won’t.

And there’s no way for us to know if democrats were on the verge of over playing their hand. I would bet the party had internal polling that told them it was the right time to end the shutdown.

It’s also worth noting that many of the democrats that wanted to cave also cared about the people being harmed by the shutdown. Real people.

People on here do not care because, just like that other commenter, the shutdown served their best interests, so who cares. Well there are congress people that do care.

You see that S&P? It’s so big!

Yeah, it should be easy for rural voters to see the benefits of Dems and to see how republicans are actively harming them. Just need somebody to say it.

as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.

This dude is batshit fucking crazy.

Fatherless children.

What’s your point though? He’s was right, the party moved on and that was clearly a mistake. Now it seems like they’re recognizing that mistake and doing something about it.

I think it’s important to remember that different parts of the country require different types of candidates. Dems flipped out about Manchin, but he was the only Democrats would get elected in the region.

He was right, though.

I’ve heard that the guy leading the Democratic Party right now has been pushing for a 50 state approach as well as pushing for all levels of government, even state legislatures. Putting more money into state parties as well. Seems like the right approach at least.

Sounds like you’re looking for civil war basically.

Republicans have always been hypocrites.

I think the thing that people like you don’t realize is that government shutdowns almost never lead to legislation changes. It is basically just a political gesture that is meant to move public opinion only.

Dems maintained positive public opinion for a while, but it wasn’t going to last forever. Republicans were not going to cave on the issue, and after the longest shutdown in history, it’s possible their internal polling showed public opinion was starting to sour.

Your opinion (and a lot of others in this community) is to keep the government shut down forever and magically that’ll lead to all your legislations getting passed and nobody will be harmed by this shutdown and only republicans are viewed negatively. It’s a great fantasy, but in the real world, you don’t get everything, especially when you are not in control.

What I see here is the Republican Party voted to get rid of these subsidies, and you guys just want to blame Democrats because they didn’t want to shoot themselves in the foot on top of being smothered by the party in power.

The fact that we haven’t yet is only more proof that the people being picked up are not and have never been dangerous criminals.

Not that we needed proof of this.