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In reply to the discussion: OK, I'm gonna go out on a limb here.... [View all]orleans
(36,529 posts)63. durbin isn't running again nt
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Isn't there always when you get down to it, but we rarely have the inside track.Thanks for the perspective.
Amaryllis
Monday
#62
Those eight Senators were chosen for a reason, and it's nothing to do with brain damage
FakeNoose
Monday
#23
From a long range strategic perspective, for reasons too numerous to go into here, I don't think it was all that bad.
Fil1957
Monday
#10
I was awake till 4:30, got a few hours' sleep. I would like to think yesterday's cave was possibly strategic in some
highplainsdem
Monday
#17
Are you forgetting that Rs will have to face an actual vote in December to extend or not the ACA?
Sogo
Monday
#19
We were told that for the documents case. We were told that for the Mueller decision. We were told that
Scrivener7
Monday
#28
In my view, the "capitulation" boils down to this: was there ANY CHANCE Republicans would restore the ACA subsidies?
Martin Eden
Monday
#32
IMHO the repukes need to see how close they are to abject failure yet again
dickthegrouch
Monday
#53
So then, you think there was a reasonable chance all 3 things would happen to restore ACA subsidies?
Martin Eden
Monday
#56
Newsom also used the word PATHETIC. Olbermann called the sell out Senators Quislings.
flashman13
Monday
#49
I can think of many caring and principled reasons to vote to end the shutdown.
summer_in_TX
Tuesday
#65