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'They own what happens next': Enraged AOC slams Senate Dems over 'inexplicable abdication' (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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An enraged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) again lashed out at Senate Democrats over what she called Friday evening an "inexplicable abdication."

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Chuck you fuckin fuck you. Always plenty of Democrats to give Republicans what they want, and then when the shoe is on the foot they pretend to be overpowered at every step. Ohh won't someone not think of the Senate parlitarian. Fucking worthless sobs.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

And the consequences to them will be...???

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well her ire is welcomed despite it being late as fuck

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I honestly feel like they did it on purpose because they know the cuts are gonna hurt rural states more, which sucks if you're not heartless. But hey buyer beware.

[+] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com -16 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

I have been thinking about this and im no longer sure this was a bad move. With what trump is doing now in tearing apart the government. It can be fought in the courts. With a shutdown he would have cart blanche to furlough anyone he wants and keep paying his insiders and the courts could not say boo because shutdown. Further he could say all bad effects are because of the democrats because shutdown. At least now the courts can fight it and the bad effects are all from his poor decisions.

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if the right move was "give up and do what the Republicans want," they still did a terrible job. House Democrats held the line and stuck their necks out, only to get blindsided, and Schumer shouldn't have signaled that there'd be a fight right before he caved. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and only a handful of people in the party seem to even be trying to do anything.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can agree with the second part but the first part is just a phrasing to make it sound bad. I mean the move to use the republicans blunder against them sounds a lot better. I don't really know what internal talk went with the democrats but I would not be surprised if it was somewhat like what we see online but with the membership with some saying we can't go with anything they do on principle and others saying wait a second doing that will be overall worse.

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