Liberal Fury Rising, as Democrat's Call for Schumer to ‘Be Replaced’

The "Schumer Shutdown" Did Not Go Well for Him

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — Apparently, the restrooms on Capitol Hill and at the nation’s National Parks will soon be open again. And according to the first responses by some members of the U.S. House, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer needs to be one of the first things flushed after Senate Democrats folded like a cheap lawn chair following weeks of posturing — without giving Chuck Schumer and his caucus anything close to a win.

This is what capitulation looks like, and Democrat know it.

The stunning development Sunday night has infuriated liberals in and out of Congress, who had cheered throughout the weeks-long Democrat shutdown.

Tensions in the Democrat Party are boiling over – and growing Monday – after a group of Democrat senators joined Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government.

The move by Senate Democrats was “an absolute failure – voters expected their leaders to hold the line for their basic health care needs and instead, a handful of corporate Democrats surrendered to the GOP to let them raise premiums for millions of people,” said Usamah Andrabi, spokesperson for Socialist[leaning group Justice Democrats.

“This is exactly why we need Democrat primaries nationwide to build an opposition party that actually fights for working people, not selling the American people out when they get too tired to work for them,” he added.
 
The Democrats’ support for the spending bill all but ensures that the history-making shutdown will end without Republicans giving any ground on the Democrats’ central demands.

The deal is simple. Schumer’s Senate Democrat Caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that reopens the government, and extends funding through January.

That’s it.

It went on for far too long because Chuck Schumer thought he could use his flying monkeys in the mainstream media to spin it as “the Republicans' fault.”

And it didn’t work.

Democrats were hoping that Senate Republicans would do what the old GOP would typically do – blink. But it didn't work out that way, and The Chuckster’s team’s arguments to allow them to (first) keep spending money on COVID-level Obamacare Subsidies, (then) to open the nation’s airways, and finally to pay American’s poor the Supplemental SNAP Benefits finally ran out of runway.

Wasn’t Obamacare itself supposed to reduce American’s healthcare bills by $250 dollars, allow them to keep their doctor – and their healthcare plans too? Why did Democrats continue to focus on the still-controversial “Affordable Healthcare Act” when price increases were the problem voters faced?

It was disastrous strategy and tactics – based not on legitimate legislative procedure, but on Democrats latest efforts to deny President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans their majorities in governing the nation.

As Barack Obama once said, “Elections have consequences.”

Upon learning of the Senate Democrats failure, Cong. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) immediately called on Senate Democrats to replace Schumer as eight Democrat Caucus members voted late Sunday to begin the process of reopening the federal government.

Khanna, a liberal-left Democrat who represents Silicon Valley, argued on social media that if Schumer can’t keep his caucus unified to back a funding bill that extended enhanced health insurance subsidies, then he shouldn’t lead Senate Democrats.
 
Progressive Cong. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) also took a shot at Schumer, noting that he did not endorse the Democrat’s nominee for mayor in New York, self-described Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani, nor would he disclose who he cast his ballot for.
 
Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) have been the leaders of the Democrat’s messaging effort during the shutdown, repeatedly warning that Democrats had to take a stand against a clean continuing resolution passed by the House because it didn’t extend the insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.

While persuasive for the majority of Democrat senators for most of the 41-day government shutdown, by late Sunday, five more Democrats joined three of their colleagues in voting for a House-passed bill to reopen federal departments and agencies.

The criticisms also came from liberal activist groups, which have accused Democrats of not fighting hard enough against President Trump since his return to the White House this year.

“We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party,”said Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, after the deal was announced.

“We hope to celebrate the Democratic Party for fighting back. But if they surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. 

Over on the House side of things, Hakeem Jefferies’s media appearances weren’t going over well either.

Democrats there rushed into this shutdown, as if not having any agreed upon strategy with the Senate, and as commentators described it, Democrats "lit the fire, watched it burn, and then walked out pretending it was all part of the plan."

Democrat senators who voted with the Republicans likely knew for weeks – despite left-wing media attempts to say otherwise – they were losing the political optics with each passing Senate vote to reopen the government, and realized this wasn't going to end well for them.

One of them was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who's been fed up with the shutdown – and stating so visibly during national media interviews – for well over a week. 

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) joined Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, in voting for the House bill.

Democrats had previously rejected it 14 times on the Senate floor.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune handled the shutdown masterfully, running circles around Chuck Schumer. Even if the major players in the MSM wanted to spin this for the Democrats, they haven't been given much to work with.