QOTD -- The Democrats' Tea Party

 

"The Democrats’ Tea Party was born on Thursday night, when Chuck Schumer took the Senate floor to announce his grudging vote for a Republican spending bill. In the Capitol, senators from states far redder than Schumer’s announced that they would not follow their leader. Forty miles away, at their retreat in the DC exurbs, House Democrats who had overwhelmingly opposed the bill vented about Schumer’s weakness.

“'There is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,'” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters at the retreat. And there was, along with amazement that the party’s strategy to stop the continuing resolution was so outdated.  [snip]

"What president is going to take office and give up the powers that Congress and courts keep handing him? Joe Biden didn’t do it. For Democrats, the legacy of Schumer’s defeat may be a future majority ditching the legislative filibuster — a looming issue if Ocasio-Cortez runs for Schumer’s seat in 2028. Three years ago, when two moderate Democrats stopped a run at the filibuster, Mitch McConnell warned their party about what Republicans would do without it: Pass 'all kinds of conservative policies with zero input from the other side.' That’s exactly what happened with the continuing resolution." --  reporter Dave Weigel, in Semafor, on the Democratic Party's "Tea Party moment."   Hours ago, ten Democratic Senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted with Senate MAGA Republicans to pass the MAGA CR that all but one Democrat voted against in the House of Representatives.  In doing so, they handed the Malignant Loser not only a stunning, empowering victory (and an historic self-own for Democrats), but most importantly formally ceded Congressional power to him and co-President Musk to decide where appropriations go and how they're used, skipping the process of passing appropriations that are hammered out in committee.

These are the 10 Democratic Senators who joined with the MAGAts to make this happen rather than fight it out on the Senate floor:

 

Shame on them, and sign us up.

BONUS:  Speaker Emeritus Pelosi and other senior House Democrats spoke out against Schumer and the other cavers.

BONUS II:  Rebecca Traister says, with tongue firmly in cheek,