'Next Step Is Primaries': Calls for Schumer Ouster After Leading Shutdown Surrender | Common Dreams
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The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52806677

The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
    26·
    22 hours ago

    The eight senators were Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Angus King of Maine, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, but Levin said many more centrist lawmakers were likely “in on the play.”

    On **MSNBC Monday, Shaheen acknowledged that Schumer was “kept informed” of the eight senators’ negotiations with the GOP regarding reopening the government.

    […]

    “The coordinated nature of this—none [of the lawmakers who voted yes] are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate [minority] leader to stop it,”

    (emphasis added)

    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Okay, so, someone remind me… what’s the name of the political ideology for when you want libertarian left life-cherishing hippie policies for almost everything, but with the exception of tankie Stalin deathsquads only for establishment dems?