And both should be being worked on simultaneously.

Great, so the Bulwark and the Democrats are on the same page, that is a great development, surely nothing wrong with that at all...can't wait for the follow up Fox piece about how a *few* Democrats are playing "smart politics" and leftists are attacking them for it.

Exactly, this is the one way that Democrats could both immediately take blame for the shutdown and look like absolute cowards. They literally chose the worst political option they could have and I just don't think that is incompetency.

Very true.

Hmmm, and yet the Democrats couldn't and still can't understand why Clinton-Kaine and their ilk were/are so unpopular. Sure, though, lets move more toward the center where they have their asses firmly planted just to the right of.

Are we sure that wouldn't be acting in "bad faith?"

They love me, they just get angry sometimes, it was my fault I made them angry. They love me and surely they won't hit me again...

Is the Senate leadership just a battered spouse now?

"bad faith" leftists? What the fuck? Progressives keep getting proven right about who the Democrat party really is, and that's bad faith? I still have to vote for these slimy fucks after they pull shit like this, given the alt, but when I call them slimy it is in "bad faith" & not them being slimy?

Yes, all of this, I am going to go ahead and assume any Democrat that isn't publicly calling for Senate leadership's heads is complicit in this and I am supporting their primary challenger. Also, I hope others take note that progressives keep being proven right about who the Democrats really are...

I don't care, if they aren't working to kick Schumer the fuck out of leadership then they are just as complicit and primary them too.

I look forward to supporting every primary challenger of this feckless fucking party that can't be bothered to fight for the people they represent.