My guess is they have internal polling that showed people were going to start turning against them.
Worst possible outcome is people blamed democrats and not republicans. As government shutdowns go, this is probably literally the best possible outcome for democrats.
lol. It was right there.
I just feel like she’s being supported financially by the bigots.
I don’t believe that’s organic or whole wheat.
People on here act like shutting the government down is some magic path to get anything you want.
If you look at all the previous government shutdowns the only thing that is ever really gained is one party is blamed and the other party is not. It is a political spectacle, and that’s all anybody should expect from it.
Did they get zilch? The only way to tell is by looking at polling numbers. If the democrats are seen as more popular and republican seen as less popular, then that’s literally the best case scenario from a government shutdown.
In all your days had a government shutdown ever resulted in anything substantial?
I’m talking politics here. Democrats definitely suck in many ways. But in this specific interaction, I think they’ve reached the limit on what they’re going to gain from the government shutdown.
And if you think they’ve gained nothing, well that’s about what you get from government shutdowns.
Well, I certainly disagree that they would have caved.
As for losing the judicial branch. Not sure what a government shutdown would have done there. I don’t think saving that was ever in the cards.
That makes sense. The typos didn’t help me understand…
Raising awareness is literally politics, through. Republicans aren’t going to follow laws, but they do have to worry about midterms. They can’t fully cheat to win.
I certainly don’t believe republicans were going to give in. Maybe they end the filibuster to “save america” or some bullshit.
Either way, if you believe republicans were going to cave, then it makes sense to want to keep the shutdown going.
In the past 50 years of government shutdowns, how many have resulted in legislation being passed?
Best case scenario for a government shutdown is one party is seen as “to blame” and loses popularity. And the other is not blamed. Fact that republicans have agreed to a vote is honestly the best democrats could have hoped for when going into this.
Now that’s a stupid fucking hypothetical!
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Yeah, if that were happen, when I agree. But I believe they would be the last ones to lose pay. Just out of spite.
How many innocent people would be negatively impacted before ICE lost a paycheck?
I wish it was worse. I feel like she is probably still profiting from her bigotry.
Come on bro you know it’s true!
And you think Republicans would cave?
Personally I do not. But I could also see the end killing the filibuster. Which would have been even worse for everybody.
You know it’s true. They aren’t going to go against the party on this.
You sure they weren’t still getting paid? This article was from a few weeks ago. Maybe it’s changed since then.
You do realize that politicians use internal polling to understand how effective their strategies are, right? It’s not the only thing they use, but it’s a big part of it.