He's not going to change.

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Harry would outsmart you and make you think it was your idea.

60 or bust!

with a hostile Senate and Rep Scott Brown the Republican elected to fill Sen Ted Kennedy's seat. Brown campaigned on being the 41st vote for filibusters.

Yes ACA is a notable exception.

I can hardly think of a time Harry Reid “caved” to McConnell.

Aside from passing the ACA, the most historic and consequential piece of legislation in the last 50 years, Reid went nuclear on McConnell and shut down his obstruction of Obama’s appellate court nominees. Seems quite the opposite of “caving”

Reid was a fighter and a great leader.

No way does Mitch get a pass on trustworthiness.

Reid was a fighter, that description of him as a “caver” was bullshit.

I have said it many times, in recent months.

Strong moments are happening around him. Momentum and visibility increase. A paradigm shift is called for. And yet he doesn't "get it". He doesn't see it. He doesn't feel it. He can't rise to the occasion. He continues to play by the old rule book. He continues to be formulaic and ineffective.

He needs to yield to better leadership. Egos need to step aside in these times. The talent for the moment is right there. Chris van Hollen comes to mind, but there are others.

What is needed is the creativity of van Hollen. What is needed is someone who can embrace a paradigm shift.

Chuck, with all due respect - what matters more? Your ego or saving Democracy?

I would assume this implies that he gets a lot of contributions from the airline industry.

He's also very cozy with the banking industry.

Let's just say anyone that wants to know the truth can freely search for it on their own. It's pretty damn sad when fascist friendly mainstream outlets are more truthful about this topic than unabashedly leftwing outlets.

The deal Democrats offered was essentially a bill that SIMULTANEOUSLY extended healthcare credits for one year while funding the government for one year.

THUNE was the fucking one that made the "fund the government till January and we'll see about extending healthcare credits."

The Democrats met behind closed doors and agreed that Thune's offer was a non-starter and they unified behind the simultaneous one-year extension offer.

EDIT - The offer, straight from Schumer's damn mouth on the Senate floor:

At Thursday’s meeting, they told their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to re-open the government in exchange for no real Republican concessions. At that, much of the rest of the caucus went ballistic, and some of the supposed ten said that, in fact, they were not willing to vote for any such deal. The leaders of the proposed Democratic cave-in, Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire, and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, then backed down.

It was THUNE'S offer that the Democrats heading the negotiation brought back to their conference and all agreed it was a non-starter.

That's when Democrats unified under SCHUMER'S offer to fund the government for essentially a year in exchange for a one-year extension of the ACA credits.

end the shutdown in exchange for the 'promise' of a vote:

What Sen Schumer Proposes is not something to be Ridiculed, mocked, and insulted.

It sounds reasonable to extend ACA for a year and Open the Gov.. so all those people can get paid and hopefully SNAP can go into Effect for Millions of American Families who Need it to supplement their income.

He's trying to Help Americans.. the Fascists under the Traitor are NOT.

This is Democratic Underground, where Dems support each other, NOT for trashing Dems or misrepresenting truth and reality, then doubling and tripling down when presented with the truth.

It seems Sen. Schumer is the favorite punching bag now that President Biden's been knocked out of the picture.

standing up for our Hard Woking Dems, MorbidButterflyTat.

We Have More Elections and Fights to Win... The Divisiveness has Already Proven to be A Losing Strategy.. it's how the Treasonous Traitor got into OUR WH in the 1st Place.

Congressional Democrats were ready to take a stand back in March and vote for the CR, before the Big Beautiful Bill became law Democrats wanted protections for our social safety net. Schumer gave Democrats on the committee permission to nuke the filibuster and so a minority of Senate Democrats gave Krasnov everything he wanted and got absolutely nothing in return, leaving Democrats with subsidies for Obamacare as bargaining chip today.

yes indeed

The writer doesn't even pretend to claim he has any sources for this. He very well could just be making the whole thing up. He doesn't even claim to have anonymous sources. He claims no source. I call bullshit.

Then use your cats as sources, doesn't matter.

It also says they "... utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy."

If anyone wants to use the "appeal to authority" fallacy, let's at least be fully honest and transparent, and provide a complete picture of the evaluation... warts and all. Nobody is perfect.

The MBFC is not the be-all/end-all arbiter of all things true or all things false. They put together an overall picture of a website or outlet's overall reputation (and even THAT is subjective and opinion.) But even taking that into consideration, it's fair to ask why this org is one click above "mostly factual" ... they fail to achieve the highest rating. Why? Because they are flawed, just like anyone else... and anti-Dem agenda-driven BS like the one featured here is the reason why.

Also, opinion pieces are just that... OPINIONS. This is not a news story, it's an editorial, a hit-piece that's presented as "news".

is not welcome on DU.

You imply that that's how Media Bias characterizes "American Prospect". That's false, your edited quote is from their generic description of left bias. Just as bad, you left out the very important "may" from the original description. Why?

Here's the original paragraph:

They remain within that category and that overall description. The rest of my post makes that point clear as well. But your "oddly edited" response neglected to include that as well and took everything out of context. Why?

There is a world of difference between claiming a site does something, and saying they are in a group that may do those things.

It was you that purposely altered the context.

starting with the writer of this opinion piece. You're right, it is BS all the way.

Most notably, the entire headline of the article about Schumer """capitulating""" when YOUR article reports:

for your dedication to truth and reality.

I don't have the temperament or the patience for this never ending CRAP against Democrats, especially on this site!!

So Frustrating.. and I really Do Appreciate your Assisting Reality like you do.

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Democratic voters are looking for fighters. Mamdani is Magats' worst nightmare, a progressive populist with charisma who fights like hell.

Chuck Schumer has a history of kneecapping the majority of Congressional Democrats, he did it back in March when he gave a handful of Senators permission to kill the filibuster to enable Magats to pass the CR. That isn't conjecture, or a lie. The vast majority of Democrats wanted to take a stand back in March before Krasnov's Big Ugly Death Bill became law.

Back in March Senator Schumer caved, gave Krasnov everything he wanted and got absolutely nothing in exchange, quite the negotiation.

If a handful of Democrats cave and vote for a clean CR without getting subsidies for Obamacare, the Kaiser Family Foundation said that 50,000 Americans will die. I don't know why Democrats don't just say that?

It sounds pretty reasonable. Reopen the government and extend subsidies for one year in the same vote. Why is that caving?

Good summary of Democratic leadership strategy, for the last few decades. If Schumer continues to be an obstacle, he needs to be replaced. With forceful, articulate alternatives like Newsom and Pritzker, and with trump appearing weaker by the day, there's no excuse for Democrats reverting to wimpy, losing tactics. Too much is at stake.

I think we should acknowledge that Schumer is not a wartime consigliere (points if you get the reference). He should consider stepping down as senate leader after the midterms or sooner. Then retire when his term is up in 28.

However, I do think his offer of a one year extension of the ACA subsidies was a brilliant move, even more so now. That made Democrats look reasonable and put republicans in a bind. But saying no, they look unreasonable and own the shutdown even more. If they accepted the extension, democrats would have had a great issue to run on in the midterms next year.

Additionally, Schumer can now go back to the wavering 'gang of eight' and show that he tried to make a reasonable compromise but republicans rejected it.

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It is a mystery.

Because he is useless and needs to go away.

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months - maybe even all the way to the midterms - until the GOP caves to the Democrats. It's not going to happen - the GOP knows at least 8 to 10 Democratic Senators have already reached their pain point (and there's probably several more that have secretly reached that point or are coming damn close to it) - all they have to do is wait about another week until these 8 to 10 Senators cave - which is why shutting down the government is a very unwise strategy - it simply doesn't work.

the government.