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TheFarseer

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34. Unless I misunderstood the deal

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 08:25 AM

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

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Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? [View all] Celerity Saturday OP

B/c he is never punished for his failures and capitulations with a loss of position. RockRaven Saturday #1

Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along Celerity Monday #60

Because he's weak. Chuck is no Harry Reid Historic NY Saturday #2

Reid caved to Mitch and we did not get legislation through. GreenWave Sunday #38

Reid got Obamacare ACA through Historic NY Sunday #40

5 yrs of pachyderm filbusters and then he changed the rules 2013 5th yr of Obama's presidency. GreenWave Sunday #53

Well that is certainly a creative re-write of history. tritsofme Sunday #42

60 votes or bust was in vogue too long. GreenWave Sunday #52

I don't know what that is supposed to mean. tritsofme Sunday #55

Schumer is not the leader for this moment. yellow dahlia Saturday #3

He wants a deal , even a bad deal to pretend that he still knows what he's doing Bread and Circuses Saturday #4

... orangecrush Saturday #5

There's talk from House reps that he's more concerned for the airline industry that are screaming to end the shutdown pecosbob Saturday #6

Maybe contributions are down. AltairIV Sunday #56

This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Saturday #7

This propaganda piece from the left damn near has me breaking my pledge to never link to a certain website. W_HAMILTON Saturday #8

the article discusses that Celerity Saturday #10

The article is a biased piece of shit. It was not a negotiated deal by Democrats, much less Schumer. W_HAMILTON Saturday #11

disagree with your framing attempts, as it was a group of centrist Dems who floated the idea (most Dems said NO) to Celerity Saturday #12

WRONG. And the article is outdated, but since we are linking the previously referenced fascist friendly outlet: W_HAMILTON Sunday #44

Message auto-removed Name removed Sunday #59

TY.. it is a really sad shame. Cha Saturday #17

So damn tiring. MorbidButterflyTat Sunday #49

I really Appreciate your Cha Sunday #57

Why does this surprise anyone? gab13by13 Saturday #9

Good fuckin question!! We're FINALLY startin to win again and Schumer is lookin to capitulate?? HELL NO!!! InAbLuEsTaTe Saturday #13

he needs to follow Pelosi's lead Skittles Saturday #14

Post removed Post removed Saturday #15

No Sen Schumer is Not that at All. Cha Saturday #18

We'll have to agree to disagree. Grim Chieftain Saturday #19

Why should I believe a word of this? Wiz Imp Saturday #16

The assignment is to put "cave" in as many headlines about Democrats, especially Schumer, as possible. betsuni Saturday #20

lol Cha Saturday #21

Because the American Prospect has a high Factual and Credibility rating. Emile Sunday #22

No... it also says they have a LEFT BIAS. QueerDuck Sunday #25

I don't post links to right-wing bias publications. Emile Sunday #27

Nobody said otherwise. QueerDuck Sunday #31

Good to know. I hate to think a left-wing bias publication Emile Sunday #32

You're welcome. QueerDuck Sunday #33

Your very oddly edited first paragraph is extremely misleading, at best. sl8 Sunday #29

Thanks for the update. QueerDuck Sunday #30

Why? Because you left out the "may", which made your claim untrue muriel_volestrangler Sunday #54

Their anti-Dem agenda is obvious. Many things are obvious about this thread... QueerDuck Sunday #23

CNN reported on the same story too. Emile Sunday #24

No that's not the same story. Please. QueerDuck Sunday #26

Did you read that article? Because even it directly refutes the bullshit article in the OP. W_HAMILTON Sunday #47

THANK YOU MorbidButterflyTat Sunday #50

Mahalo For Explaining! I Know It's Cha Sunday #58

Last Tuesday screamed the following message, gab13by13 Sunday #28

Unless I misunderstood the deal TheFarseer Sunday #34

"Capitulation in exchange for nothing." Paladin Sunday #35

Long past time for Chuck to pass the baton johnnyfins Sunday #36

Good article, thanks for posting SocialDemocrat61 Sunday #37

"The sort of players who would fold a royal flush." Kid Berwyn Sunday #39

Useless VanceFan Sunday #41

Because millions of US citizens are starting to starve? krawhitham Sunday #43

I've seen posts on DU where people seem to have this fantasy that we can keep the government shut down for several more Midwestern Democrat Sunday #45

Excuse me, it's the majority party that shut down Emile Sunday #48

He is a member of the democrat's old guard. republianmushroom Sunday #46

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