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It's the right time to form a tea party of the left. by Mischief Maker 01/25/2018, 4:45am PST
Budget talks progress, as Senate Dems drop Dreamer demand

“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!
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Holy fuck, primaries, primaries, and more primaries! by Mischief Maker 01/22/2018, 6:09pm PST NEW
    It extended CHIP for 6 years and expires in 3 weeks. by Fullofkittens 01/22/2018, 7:22pm PST NEW
        You're the only one who thinks this. Everyone else knows schumer just laid down NT by and let McConnell pee in his mouth 01/22/2018, 10:28pm PST NEW
        Re: It extended CHIP for 6 years and expires in 3 weeks. by Vested Id 01/22/2018, 10:47pm PST NEW
            "these guys are so fucking incompetent" NT by see me after class 01/23/2018, 11:56am PST NEW
                Oh it's because they're incompetent? by Vested Id 01/23/2018, 1:57pm PST NEW
        It's the right time to form a tea party of the left. by Mischief Maker 01/25/2018, 4:45am PST NEW
            You mean el chapo traphouse fans NT by They're fucking retards - like teap 01/25/2018, 12:40pm PST NEW
        If anything I think McConnell underplayed his hand a bit. NT by skip 01/25/2018, 11:35am PST NEW
 
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