They caved. They tore down the Democrat wall of resistance against the criminals running the country. Some say they did it because they are not running again for office. Others say they are after egotistical personal gains. Whatever the reason, they had no gonads to stand firm.
Generally speaking, Republicans claim the higher ground of fake patriotism (they use the flag like a rag), machismo (Anyone who is not white and Christian, as well as other countries, are our enemy), and religion (a bigoted form of a degraded Christianity stripped of its essence), which seduces the moronic half of the country. Democrats, on the other hand, claim the much higher ground of solidarity, justice, equal rights and science, and uphold the constitution and the laws. In the end, the latter are what drives the country forward, while the former take it back to the 1700s.
Those Democrats who broke rank and joined the MAGA thugs in denying 20 million Americans health care coverage are stupid traitors. Stupid, because they trrusted the Republican lies and promises to "visit" health care at some point in the future. They thus surrendered the only card they had to force the Republicans to kneel. Traitors, because they broke the ranks of a unified resistance against the Fascists.
Good job, Tim Kaine, Jeanne Shaheen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, Angus King, and Jacky Rosen.
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‘Oh My God’: Seth Meyers Totally Destroys Democrats’ ‘Absurd’ GOP Expectations
Ben Blanchet
Updated Tue, November 11, 2025
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers scorched Senate Democrats on Monday for caving to Republicans to advance a deal to end the government shutdown.
Meyers argued that Republicans won’t work with Democrats despite a number of lawmakers in the latter party who are “still capable of deluding themselves into thinking cooperation is possible.”
The comedian played a clip of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), one of the moderate Democrats who cut the deal with Republicans, claiming that she has “heard” the White House say it’s “willing to work” with Democrats once the government is open.
“Oh my God, you did? Well, I didn’t know you heard it from the White House. Wait, did you hear it from the East Wing? Because that might’ve just been demolition noise,” Meyers quipped.
“No? It came straight from the Oval Office Bar and Grill?” he joked in a nod to the administration’s new gold-colored, cursive signage.
He further roasted Shaheen for holding up a claim “straight from the White House.”
“And if you can’t trust this president to keep his word, who can you trust — don’t laugh,” Meyers advised his audience before he continued taking on her party’s “absurd” expectations for the GOP to pass a Democratic health care bill.
Moments earlier, Meyers ripped Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats and also folded on the shutdown, for telling MSNBC that while a vote to restore the health care subsidies “may not succeed, a “reasonable chance” of success between 10-30% is “a lot better than 0%.”
“You guys caved for a 10% chance of success?” he quipped. “You’re supposed to be senators, not Lloyd Christmas.”
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Mike Johnson Waffles When Jake Tapper Presses Him On Committing to Bringing Up a Bill on Obamacare Subsidies
Jennifer Bowers Bahney
Tue, November 11, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would not commit Monday when CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed him on bringing a vote to the floor to address health care affordability before the ACA tax subsidies expire.
The eight Senate Democrats who voted in favor of the continuing resolution Sunday night to help reopen the government did so with the belief that Republicans would begin healthcare talks. Under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act, tax subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year and cause premiums to skyrocket.
“The problem is when you’re subsidizing insurance companies, they just jack the rates up even higher,” Johnson said. “I mean, we’ve been seeing this over and over and over. So the solution is to get …at the root causes.”
Johnson said House Republicans have “a lot of ideas that we’d like to bring back to the table, because that will actually solve the problem and not just subsidize insurance companies.”
Tapper asked, “So you’re not committing to bringing up a bill that deals with the Obamacare subsidies before they expire?”
“I’m not committing to it or not committing to it!” Johnson said. “What I’m saying is that we do a deliberative process. That’s the way this always works, and we have to have time to do that. And we will in a bipartisan fashion.”
Tapper asked, “If something passes the Senate, it would only pass on a bipartisan basis. Would you bring it up to extend the subsidies?”
“I can’t commit to anything that hasn’t even passed through the Senate yet,” Johnson said. “I mean, I never done that. I’m very consistent. I’ve been Speaker for over two years, and one of the reasons I’ve held the gavel is because I don’t go out and predetermine outcomes. It’s a member driven institution, as it should be, and I’m really insistent about that. We’ve got to get back to regular order, and that’s what we’re doing.
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Schiff says Republicans may 'cheat' on any shutdown compromise
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., suggested on Sunday that Republicans would "cheat" on any agreement Democrats ultimately reach with them in order to end the government shutdown, saying his party needs assurances that GOP leaders wouldn't renege on any legislative promises should a compromise be reached.
Following the Democratic proposal made on Friday by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that asks for a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies in order to reopen the government -- an offer that Republicans have called a non-starter -- Schiff told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos that any agreement Democrats eventually reach to end the stalemate would require "really solid guarantees" drafted in legislation that wouldn't be able to be defaulted on.
"We have the president telling us now, Republicans telling us now, they're not going to honor any agreement we reach with them. They're telling us 'we'll put money in whatever, money we agree on for a continued resolution to fund the government. But were telling you in advance, we are going to rescind the funding you want,'" Schiff said.
"They're telling us they're going to cheat on an agreement, and we need in whatever agreement we reach, to have some really solid guarantees in that legislation that they simply can't go and renege after it's done," he added, noting that there have been "some talks" in the Senate between members of both parties on a possible compromise.
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