Ezra Klein: “If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention. If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down…

Narrator: They gave away any leverage they had to lower healthcare costs.

📌I can't stop banging this drum: Democrats had a spectacular Tuesday at the polls, the wind at their backs, and basically punched themselves and their voters in the face five days later. This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Do not vote into office people who literally do not understand how negotiations work What an utter embarrassment Shaheen is to the entire state of New Hampshire

She’s gonna Manchin her way into history.

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party. They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word. Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

I'm going to make so many calls this week I hope my phone burns its circuits out because it got so hot. Consider doing the same. Have a sensible "script" written out...so you make sense, but do it while you're pissed off. It feels better, and the person taking your message WILL feel your intensity.

None of the Dem Senators (or Democratic-caucusing) who voted yes on the CR are worried about reelection: • Dick Durbin – IL – Retiring 2026 • Catherine Cortez Masto – NV – Up 2028 • Jacky Rosen – NV – Up 2030 • John Fetterman – PA – Up 2028 • Maggie Hassan – NH – Up 2028 1/2

@kaine.senate.gov just on MSNBC doubling down. He’s hoping we forget his vote because he’s are and not up for reelection for a long time😡 He just sold us ALL out and his arrogance about it really did it for me 😡

This wasn’t a vote. It was a fault line giving way. Eight Democrats broke ranks… and the political aftershock hasn’t even started.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Who feels politically-homeless today? Who is an angry Democrat?

“We’ve got them right where we want them.” “Where is that Chuckles?” “Same place we had them 40 days ago.”

fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends

This is your Democratic Party. They caved. They abandoned us. They let the fascists win. No guts, no fight, no backbone, no vision. Effectively useless. I am so disgusted. @schumer.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov

Absolutely correct

The worst part about last night is that we now know for sure that @democrats.senate.gov do not have solidarity. I thought they were FINALLY together and fighting FOR us. The party has suffered a BIG blow.

This is exactly correct.

Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.

I finally believed the Democrats were fighting for us… not anymore. @democrats.senate.gov are so out of touch, they have no idea how much damage to the party they have just caused.

I feel betrayed. I am livid. I don't consider @schumer.senate.gov to be on my side -- the side of American democracy and those willing to do what's necessary to stop the fascist movement, no matter the personal sacrifice. Step down and GTFO of the way. The surrendering 8 are dead to me. Cowards.

And @shaheen.senate.gov then YOU say “I’m sorry, I can’t work together with Republicans who passed a Big Ugly Bill to double & triple your health care premiums without ever even consulting me. I will play hardball with them now that they need my vote.” See, it’s easy.

@schumer.senate.gov @chuckschumer.com You couldn’t even keep your people in line. It shows yet again how incompetent of a leader you are. Follow in Pelosi’s step, but resign & retire NOW. #TrumpShutdown #GOPShutdown #SchumerResign

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.

While you were sleeping and worried about how to feed your family... trump has pardoned 77 of his J6 co-conspirators...

Why doesn’t Shaheen @shaheen.senate.gov (and Hassan @hassan.senate.gov ) listen to her constituents who are furious that she caved to the GOP for nothing?

Is it really that hard to explain to your constituents that the GOP is an authoritarian movement that doesn't want to "work together"? @shaheen.senate.gov

Ask Trump

If you can't find @kaine.senate.gov in the Virginia flag, he's the guy on the bottom. Shame on every Democratic senator who sold out Democrats who worked so hard to fight fascism and win last Tuesday.

CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message. “Fight for us” “Fight for working class Americans” “Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty” 5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message. “Nah”

Sens. Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen are my senators and I voted for them. Unfortunately they aren't up for reelection until 2028 & 2030 respectively. However, we can remind them daily (on social media and via emails & calls to their offices) just how UNHAPPY we are with them. Every. Damn. Day.

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

Dear @schumer.senate.gov Resign. Resign immediately you Limp-Dick MAGA-Rimming Piece of Shit. Thanks for your immediate attention to this.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

WE held the line. We always hold the line. And hell hath no fury than an American citizen’s rights scorned. No one’s coming to save us. WE are the cavalry. WE are the resistance. Fuck the establishment. Regroup. Breathe. Onward. ✊🏽

GET READY TO LOSE THE PRIMARY WHEN YOU'RE UP FOR RE-ELECTION

BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”

“This was a very very bad vote”

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.