There's certainly a chance but it's worth the risk. The right move would be send someone from a safe seat in the House or GA, with maybe a preference toward House of Delegates since Dems have such a large majority now.

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

Key point

Okay, anyway gongshow of this aside, a very important note:

there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Schumer's caucus is unified behind the deal Schumer orchestrated. These 8 are just the ones willing to take the heat for the rest of the caucus.

I just have to think the senators knew how much hot water this was going to be because we all had, what, an hour? to figure out what they were up to and call in, if we weren’t online on a Sunday evening we would have missed the whole thing

Not sold on the idea that this would shift the blame, since kind of the whole point is that when the news is bad, normal people just blame the president; what it would do is take a lot of bad things out of the news, creating the impression that the president must be handling things better now.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Shaheen is retiring; Virginia is solid enough Blue territory that Kaine shld be replaced by a Democrat who is serious about preserving American democracy.

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.

You look like an idiot doing this. You have no grasp of how political power works and your decision is an embarrassment.

They think we're stupid.

Not disagreeing with Sahil. But absurd for Team Cave to present full SNAP funding as part of a deal since that’s automatic if the govt reopens.

The senior Senator from Virginia is a no on the funding bill

Warner is up for re-election next year and imagine would like to avoid primary

Most of Yes votes for Dems will be retiring or don’t have to worry about primary any time soon

Tim Kaine is a chump who believes Republican promises.

Call him and yell at him if he's your senator.

Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...

Which Senators do the Schumer two-step this time and vote yes for cloture and then no on CR?

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

ACA subsidies extension is the floor. Anything less than that is a loss for the Dems. This is obvious to anyone with half a brain.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

This is insulting.