CNN: How Democrats lost the shutdown

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31. Joe Madison had Corey Booker and Doug Jones on his show this morning

Corey voted against and Doug voted for. Yet both were pretty much on the same page.

Corey's argument was pretty much on par with what most DUers argue for.

However the issue that Jones had was more focused on CHIP and the fact that his state of AL (like some others - e.g., VA) have a good number of government workers who were being impacted. And the 2013 shutdown apparently had a major major impact on the state given their economic standing is already poor, particularly when compared to places like MD & VA & even PA, with large populations of government workers. Of course some of that has to do with what I call "spite" politics. He wants to see what the bipartisan group (I think there are something like 20 or 30) does with DACA and other issues. He is new so he will be learning....