@maureendowd Is there no one in your orbit who can burst your hermetically sealed pod of delusion and denial. Deal with your godamn daddy/mommy/self-loathing/Irish-Catholic bullshit or whatever the fk issues drive you to gain attention at any cost. Find a honest person who left the pod.
@americamag Dolan knows who butters his bread. Looks like Dolan been commissioned by his Napa Institute bros to apply some dispensation to their investment. He'll get a room upgrade at their resort and await his next assignment.
@ChrisCuomo I've figured it out. You are mentally incapable of realizing your mother convinced you (and your brother) that you were special, brilliant, destined for greatness, and entitled to privileges, and although she believed it was true, it was a delusion, as you've demonstrated daily.
Tonight is another example of why we need new leadership. If @ChuckSchumer were an effective leader, he would have united his caucus to vote ‘No’ tonight and hold the line on healthcare. Maybe now @EdMarkey will finally join me in pledging not to vote for Schumer?
Just pointing out that Hakeem Jeffries got TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE House Democrats to hold the line.
Not one House Democrat cracked.
Not one House Democrat caved.
I’m going to remember that.
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.
I'm voting no. In the richest country in the world, families shouldn’t have to choose between putting food on the table and their health care. But that’s exactly what Donald Trump has done to Americans with this shutdown.
There should’ve never been a shutdown in the first place, and I worked to find a solution with Republicans and this administration. But Donald Trump has proven he doesn’t care about rising costs, skyrocketing health care premiums, or working families struggling to put food on the table. He has spent more time working on his ballroom than working to open the government. He sued to block food assistance for hungry families.
I’ve spent the last month hearing from Arizonans worried they can’t afford health care and families who were going broke and hungry because the government was shut down. That’s who I’m fighting for. But Donald Trump rejected a straightforward compromise that would have best served all Americans by reopening the government and keeping health care from becoming unaffordable and out of reach for millions, including thousands of Arizonans. If he’s ready to get serious on a solution to keep health care premiums from spiking, I'm ready to work, but everything he’s done suggests he just doesn’t care.
Chuck it doesn’t matter how you vote.
You failed to lead this caucus.
Stand down as minority leader, pass the torch gracefully, or expect to be pushed out.
You have a chance to salvage the last shred of dignity left in your legacy.
Take it.
@SenatorBaldwin Right call, Tammy. Stay the course as your cowardly, capitulating Dem colleagues feel a tsunami of contempt before they are permanently shamed, shunned, and removed by the people they betrayed.
If they don’t get anything, but a promise to vote later then how do Senate Democrats explain the last 40 days to the people who have suffered? The people were supportive of Dems efforts to fight for something, but what happens if the fight ends with nothing for the people?