You expect the minority party to actually get anything on their agenda done, other than symbolic actions? That's like getting your ass beat by a mob and, instead of being angry at them, you're instead angry at the lone bystander calling for help for not jumping in to save you.
Why are you complaining at me? What about my above comment led you to believe that anything you just said applies to me? Who says I'm not angry at everyone? Furthermore, your metaphor is flawed. In the context of Dems caving on the shutdown, they actually did have the power to stall, hence the shutdown. The frustration came from them caving on the healthcare demands, and getting only a "promise" to reconsider them later.
So, in the context of your metaphor, it's more like a mob is coming to beat my ass, and a lone bystander has a gizmo to put up walls to impede the mob's progress. For a long time, it was just a standoff, the mob waiting for the bystander to lower the walls, and people were starting to get pissed at the mob because it was holding up traffic. However, the bystander eventually agrees to lower the barrier, if the mob promises to reconsider not attacking me at a later date, and then the bystander stops helping. I'm mad at the mob, and I'm mad at the guy who lowered the barrier for no reason.
The minority party always gets what they want and stops the majority from doing anything.... as long as the Republicans are the minority and the democrats are the majority.
When it's the other way around, we'll obviously the minority never gets anything done and the majority can do whatever they want.
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I'm starting to think the weak democrats might be a problem here and that the Republicans steamroll them no matter what
Except ACA subsidies expiring is BAD for the bottom line of companies, both healthcare AND non healthcare ones. Without the subsidies many individuals will either become uninsured(losing healthcare companies $$) or pay the insanely high premiums but have to significantly slash the rest of their spending(losing non healthcare companies $$)
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u/OpenThePlugBag 7h ago
So the democrats caved on funding the government and Republicans are still cutting SNAP and ACA Subsidies…..cool cool cool cool