We just don't have the votes

[Hekate]

35. I can just hear the braying of "caving" and "spelunking" and "treason" already

What the GOP has in abundance that we never have had, is a well-oiled propaganda machine and believers to pass it along.

Make it your business to counter the GOP’s message every day in every way. Everybody who wants a different outcome could do that.

I’ve read that people want Dems to stand tall against MAGAGOP in Congress. Well, they are, and it’s damn painful, isn’t it? I have read this ad nauseam. I get the impression that my fellow DUers hold Schumer and Jeffries in utter contempt for not doing this sufficiently (in their eyes) and now that they are —

Many Dems are getting on the tv-machine to tell our side of it. Notice them! Encourage them! Have their backs! This shutdown, first promulgated by Newt Gingrich (R) is all on the GOP. Don’t say otherwise, and don’t let anyone else say otherwise.