The difference is they forced Turtle, on the congressional record, to object to emergency clean votes on military paychecks, 1 and 3 day stays on the shutdown, as well commit to working on immigration, albeit weakly.
There was nothing to gain other than bad optics if the dems continued the shutdown.
You mean other than actually forcing the GOP to address legislation regarding DACA? Or maybe a Net Neutrality compromise? Or legislation for the opioid crisis? Or addressing Gillebrand's women's legislation? Or really, any issue that is actually a concern to liberals? Or not looking completely spineless?
The attitude you're showing is exactly how Donald Trump won the presidency. Liberals sat around thinking "the obstructionist party" had done irreparable damage to itself and was vulnerable. Instead, Trump got up on his tree stump, spilled a bunch of verbal diarrhea that basically amounted to "the brown people took your jobs and now they're coming for your lives" and stole the election. And now Senate Republicans are claiming victory over a Democratic attempt at a government shutdown--that Trump was mostly responsible for.
I'm pretty freaking liberal, but I spent months saying not "Donald Trump might win the election" but rather "Donald Trump is
going to win the election." Liberals can't seem to grasp that conservatives will literally vote for a child molester over any candidate that leans even a little bit left.
If the Democratic leadership had even an ounce of sense, they'd have continued the shutdown with cries of "The GOP is willing to let the children of men and women deployed to the most dangerous areas on the planet to starve. All because they want to deport children who were born here through no fault of their own." But the Dems have no concept of spin.
I used to like Chuck Shumer. He's a spineless weasel.
