Senate advances plan to end historic shutdown in bipartisan breakthrough

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51. You suspect *WHAT* will pass?

There is no bill for restoring the ACA subsidies. There is zero chance that ever comes back. Republicans have been fighting for this day for 16 years.

Sure, Thune will let Schumer write a bill and put it to a vote. And there will be plenty of Republicans voting against it to kill it, and maybe they will joined by their 8 new pals.

I don't know if Schumer lost control of his caucus or if this was his extra clever plan all along. But I do know that in sports parlance, you can't fire the whole team so you have to fire the coach. And in Schumer's case, he has fought against primary opponents all along. I stopped donating to the DNC years ago, and I will not give them a penny until they get behind the idea of a unified party with a common vision and a commitment to achieving major progress, including the willingness to push out the Senators and Representatives that are working against us. This process should start with replacing Schumer. And at this point, I'm planning to allocate a major portion of my political donations to AOC to get Schumer out of the Senate altogether.

We should be talking openly about who would be a better person to have in the Minority Leader position. I'm thinking Markey, Merkeley, Van Hollen. People who aren't afraid to talk plainly and forcefully. Definitely not people like Booker, Schiff and others who obfuscate everything they say. Maybe Hirono. She might kick some real ass.