Make no mistake, the Democrats CAVED on the shutdown.
This tweet from Brit Hume had to STING.
I doubted it was possible, but Dems have actually lost a shutdown fight. Schumer has agreed to end the filibuster in exchange for practically nothing. Make no mistake: Schumer & Dems caved. What a political fiasco.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 22, 2018
We honestly doubted it as well, considering they have the media on their side and were doing a bang-up job of pretending the GOP owned the shutdown even though in reality the Senate needed 60 votes to pass the CR.
But it seems Americans aren’t quite as dumb as the Democrats thought, so they caved.
They gave in.
They admitted defeat.
And it was EPIC.
The night is young, lad. It will be spun a win by morning light!
— John Ellis (@41jellis) January 22, 2018
Nope. But Joy Reid really tried.
No doubt some will try to spin it that way. But look at this from POLITICO: Democrats get rolled in shutdown standoff
(via POLITICO for iOS)https://t.co/6GlPYoJKjs— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 22, 2018
When you’ve lost POLITICO.
Well, didn’t take long for them to realize they had absolutely no foothold in this argument.
— Seth ⛳️? (@sfuller94) January 22, 2018
Three days and two of them were Saturday and Sunday.
We made Schumer cry again. #SchumerShutdown .@chuckschumer
— Di Grace (@DiGraceNY) January 22, 2018
McConnell did.
Oh, what the heck, we did too.
— Tom Thurman (@Tommm1954) January 23, 2018
Ha!
First it is for only a few weeks and the ball continues to be in the Republican court, there will be another battle and Americans have again clearly seen how evil and incompetent the President and the GOP are @RealDonaldTrump @KellyannePolls
— Keith Lanthier (@kpax35) January 23, 2018
Gosh, Keith seems mad.
Then again, if we were Democrats we’d be mad too, watching our party make a gigantic fool of itself in such a public way.
#DemsCaved
https://twitter.com/jasonsmook/status/955780650497380352
Almost.
Sad, sad Schumer.
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Embrace the SUCK: Joy Reid spins Schumer’s shutdown loss as a WIN and even Dems ain’t buyin’ it
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