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Schumer Blinks – HotAir

I think we all knew this was coming. As Ed pointed out a few hours ago, Schumer had already signaled he was caving by lunchtime today. So this afternoon he made it official in another speech.





“Republican rejection leads us to a decision, and it’s not really a decision it’s a Hobson’s choice,” Schumer said. He continued, “Either proceed with the bill before us or risk Donald Trump throwing America into the chaos of a shutdown. This is my view is no choice at all.

“While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse.”

Here’s a portion of his speech.

Schumer is really working hard to blame Republicans for everything that happened but this is really a disaster of Democrats’ own making. It was only yesterday that Senate Dems held a lunch meeting (which reportedly included some shouting) and came out of the room announcing they would not vote to move the House CR forward in the Senate but would instead play chicken with a government shutdown. Here’s what Schumer was saying about 24-hours ago.

“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,” he said. “”I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.”





So ask yourself: What has changed in the last 24-hours? The answer is nothing. The situation is exactly the same as it was yesterday. The looming shutdown Schumer says convinced him to choose the least bad option today was looming just the same yesterday. If Dems had never come out opposing this in the first place the walk back today wouldn’t be so painful.

Democrats somehow managed to be both Charlie Brown charging at the football and Lucy pulling it away. They set up their own public failure. And Schumer is clearly mad about it.

Some Democrats get that this probably was the least bad option for the party.

Others not so much.





AOC is clearly in the not happy camp and is already out there suggesting that Democrats might change their minds yet again by tomorrow.

This is probably over no matter what AOC wants. As usual she’s a big talker when she knows her opinions won’t result in any action she might be held accountable for later. But stay tuned tomorrow to see if there’s more backlash to Sen. Schumer folding like a cheap suit. Here’s the full video of his speech.







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