I would, however, explain the reasoning for reopening the government right now.

Letting them off the hook encourages them and their ilk to cave next time. We need unity.

the ACA wasn’t going to be extended and fed workers weren’t getting paid.

Gov opens Fed workers get pain and ACA extensibg will end or be voted down.

Now the Democrats are no longer tied to that eventuality at all. The ball is 100% in repugs court.

... the message is that either leadership supports this deal, or is ineffective in implementing coherent policy.

Ya want people to blame the entire party? That's how people blame the entire party.

I don't think blaming those 8 gets us anywhere, but that won't stop us from eating them.

This is putting the ball in repubs court to do the thing that they were going to do no matter what.

Now they get to come to the table and vote it down or let them expire and there is mo blaming the democrats for shutting down the government.

Gov open or closed this was happening no matter what. Anyone who didn’t know that one year ago today wasn’t paying attention.

exactly what trump is doing to the supreme court right now.: remind them of who they owe and how much is expected or appeal to their greed and ambition, or show them the videotape of themselves in flagrante with farm animals. whatever he has, they will do what he wants.

The funding part would be very convincing in my opinion.

And there is no simple way for a Senate leader to remove a Senator from a committee.

He or she made a statement.

Think about the old western movies where Cavalry officers would be taken outside the fort and their uniform buttons would be cut off before they were released into the desert with hordes of wild Indians waiting for them. They wouldn't like that very much.

assignments.

These aren’t reasonable demands.

A Senate leader who tried to undertake such an action after this vote would likely be sacked himself.

Maybe that’s a roadmap.

for more.

Let's be clear on that. The Senate leadership has to be purged ASAP for people who recognize the threat and how to deal with it.

we need discipline! we need people to toe the line! no independent thinkers! color within the lines!

(and, yes - I'm caricaturing and being sarcastic in effort to make the point.)

Did you notice that this deal needed the support of eight Democratic Senators, and exactly eight Senators voted for it. Quite the coincidence.