Democrats are in a downward spiral…
MSNBC’s The Weekend piled on Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) over his support for the bill that keeps the government open and avoids a shutdown with one pundit saying she’s ready to abandon the party altogether.
MSNBC host Michael Steele asked his panel, “What are Republicans thinking right now about their ability to absolutely punk Schumer into making this move the way he did, when he knew that that’s not where his party was?”
“I’m pissed,” MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend said, referring to the contents of the spending bill. “There’s actually little that the Senate Minority Leader can say, and the 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans can say, to appease somebody like me. I’m going to change my registration to Independent.”
The government averted a shutdown on Friday just before the deadline.
Senators voted 54-46 to pass the stopgap spending bill, which only needed 51 votes to be approved. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted against the bill along with nearly all the Democrats, except Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine.
Townsend went on to read an excerpt from journalist Rebecca Traister’s Substack, which argued that the same Democratic politicians who were sounding the alarm on Trump being a threat to democracy were “questioning whether or not to stand up to him and his party.”
“There’s not another option for Senate Democrats or House Democrats to effectively push back. This was it. They blew it. The Democratic Tea Party was born the same day that Chuck Schumer took to that podium to read that very well-crafted statement that told us he folded like a paper napkin,” Townsend continued.
MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez said that members of the Democrat caucus were privately encouraging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to primary Schumer.
“Anyone can primary him,” Townsend added, reacting to Menendez’s statement. “Anyone.”
On Sunday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union”asked if Senate Democrats should replace Schumer, to which Crockett responded, “I think Senate Democrats have to sit down and take a look and decide whether or not Chuck Schumer is the one to lead in this moment.”
Schumer called Republican lawmakers “b*****ds” during an MSNBC interview on Friday, explaining his support.
“It’s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which [would] divert people from the number one issue we have against these b*****ds,” Schumer said. “Sorry, these people.”
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