“We’re viewing [immigration and spending] on separate terms because they are on separate paths,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “procedural concession means we’ve got a deadline and a process,” Durbin added. “That to me is a significant step forward. It’s not everything I wanted, that’s for sure, but it’s a step forward.”
In other words, they're giving up the ONLY leverage they have left, the budget, and putting their full trust in the promise of Mitch McConnell. (Because their wealthy donors don't want the threat of another shutdown to fuck with the stock market.) Something tells me this is how McConnell will treat dreamers when the time comes to hold up his end of the bargain:
Bear in mind this is right on the backs of the massive women's march protests and massive public outcry to families being torn apart by Trump's ICE like this one:
Can we PLEASE dispense with the notion that these are the "adults in the room?" Just like Hillary's campaign squandered a billion dollars, the democrats are now going to squander their only leverage and squander the current grassroots enthusiasm behind them when the republicans inevitably spike the football.
That blue wave is not at all guaranteed, folks. Settling aside the silly implication that progressives are just as racist and sexist as MAGA voters, it's worth noting that the Tea Party was a massive political success that is currently within spitting distance of a constitutional convention. Primary these fucking losers already!