The one year extension was a genuinely good strategy. It is a very reasonable way to discuss this when there is more time and people aren’t starving… that would have put us exactly back where we were on Tuesday for the “real” midterms.
A one month extension… would have let the democrats go home for thanksgiving, I guess? But would also be immediately abandoned because it’s xmas!
But this was getting absolutely nothing. johnson is already saying he won’t call a vote for the ACA.
The one year strategy was fucking terrible. They already had the Republicans owning their own goal and offered to let them win for a single year’s reprieve. It was caving in right after massive election wins showing that the public was blaming the right people for once.
This is worse, but that was terrible and opened the doors for completely undermining the entire reason for the shutdown.
The one year extension was a genuinely good strategy. It is a very reasonable way to discuss this when there is more time and people aren’t starving… that would have put us exactly back where we were on Tuesday for the “real” midterms.
A one month extension… would have let the democrats go home for thanksgiving, I guess? But would also be immediately abandoned because it’s xmas!
But this was getting absolutely nothing. johnson is already saying he won’t call a vote for the ACA.
The one year strategy was fucking terrible. They already had the Republicans owning their own goal and offered to let them win for a single year’s reprieve. It was caving in right after massive election wins showing that the public was blaming the right people for once.
This is worse, but that was terrible and opened the doors for completely undermining the entire reason for the shutdown.