General Discussion

Three were never on board

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada was almost always a yes

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was always a yes

Sen. Angus King of Maine went back and forth and was part of the group pushing for a deal.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire were working on the minibus part of this deal, along with some other senior Dems on relevant committees, for some time.

Jeanne Shaheen was the driving force, with her enormous power and utterly wrongheaded, downright deluded dedication to the insanity of "working to find solutions" with evil, immoral, Un-American traitors to their oaths.

If only she had retired before her current term.

Those who share her delusion are damaging the ability of others in the party to accomplish goals, whether those are moderate, liberal, or whatever. It is delusion about the realities of what we face, not where a Democratic elected is on the political spectrum, that is the true bane of our party.

I have no idea if the other three were in on negotiations, or just found the pain inflicted on their constituents unbearable, but either way, just as the Democratic Party scored enormous wins against the strong and wrong Trumpublicans by being Strong and Right, they declared "nope, let's stop this. It is far less painful to be weak and right."

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia

Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada