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Total drag when you can't escape when your constituents either
A. Need you most
or
B. Make you feel as uncomfortable as they are.

…(as Trump has proposed) in time for his next trip to Cancun.

...maybe this may be an off ramp.

HOWEVER.

ALL of the demands of ICE reforms REMAIN IN PLACE. This would only allow TSA to get back to work to end inconveniencing MILLIONS of Americans at the airports.
But ICE funding to remain STOPPED until the Gestapo is NEUTERED.

That being said, how long before Schumer CAVES for ...............................................NOTHING?????

He has pragmatic elements, even if it's escaping to Mexico at times

…why don’t you move permanently to Cancun!

Fukkkem

to fund TSA agents & have been blocked all NINE TIMES by the GOP
There's NO way for the GOP to spin their way out of that fact but I'm not seeing it on the news at all. And no, I'm not watching Fox. I've seen one clip mentioning Sen Murray but none of the other attempts.
Scream it from the mountaintops.
I'm flying out of the country on Tuesday & I'm not looking forward to it because of the uncertainty. But we'll see.

The Ellisons (CBS and soon CNN)? Disney (ABC)? Comcast (NBC/MS NOW/CNBC)? The Murdochs (Faux)?



We own NOTHING except (finally) AUDACY (With 200+ radio stations and some podcasts).

and "shadow hearings" but the rest? Forgedabouddit.

... when the universe is ignoring him, he feels compelled to remind everyone why he's truly as useless as teats on a bull.

Just take the money out of ICE's bloated budget and pay the TSA workers and Coast Guard and other impacted workers.

That's very well known at this point, thank you. But did you also notice that Dems held firm and relatively united on this? And may get exactly what they want. That's the real story here. Carve out CBP and ICE. Fund everything else. Then, funding for the agencies that blatantly kill Americans on the street like they're the fucking Gestapo is ALL on Pukes. ALL on the Pukes. None of that "well, Dems voted to fund ICE too!" bullshit. How often has that happened with total and partial government shutdowns since that became a thing in the mid 90's? How often do Dems blink first? Not this time.

And don't be so sure Pukes lost the narrative. TSA folks are quitting in droves and travelers are pissed and blaming Congress in general. But this time, finally, Dems aren't going to budge one damn inch and Cruz and the rest of the Senate Republicans know that.

They HAVE because you are already seeing the "negotiating" moving towards what our demands are, despite all their bullshit rhetoric that their wholly RW-owned mass media are amplifying in order to drown out the reality.

The GOP's own leader has begged and then demanded that they "end the filibuster" (cloture) for legislation, which they can easily do and make this all a "non-issue" (except if we take over and then pass all the stuff that we tried to pass back in 2021 - i.e., codifying Roe and implementing 2 voting rights bills ).

doesn't lead me to believe the Pukes have lost the narrative. Certainly not on the TSA debacle. People I know who travel a lot for work are pissed. Even those who get what congressional Dems are trying to do. The fastest way to piss off Americans is to inconvenience them. Even just a little bit. Folks aren't just blaming Republicans for that. They're blaming Dems as well. Yet, the Pukes are now signaling a move towards a compromise that favors the Dems. That means Dems aren't budging an inch and that's unusual for those who always try to be "the adults in the room." Not to the goal line yet with that. If we get there, I'd call that a win.

I argued that last bit with my better half yesterday. I don't think Republicans will ever blow up the filibuster. And for exactly the reasons you bring up. Senators generally operate on a different time scale than House members. Most Senators have been there a long time and are firmly entrenched. They've have seen presidents come and go. My former Senator, Pat Leahy's term stretched all the way back to Gerald Ford. And they know this president will go too. Hell, he may not live out his term. But the filibuster lives on. Monumental change for good or ill (depending on one's perspective) cannot be avoided without it.

is that they blame "Congress"... but a number of them recognize what Democrats are trying to do. This may be an artifact of living in the deep blue city where the country was founded (Philly), but I think most are aware and/or have actually experienced (even here) the brutal tactics of ICE - even if down on the level of having their favorite restaurants or vendors close down due to ICE raids.

What they probably don't understand is how the different federal departments are constituted and what all those different agencies do and their unfortunate lumping under DHS - particularly not understanding what ICE and CBP has to do with TSA - but this mess is ALL thanks to Shrub!

Cancun Cruz is a fascist................why don't you stand in with a ice badge on and do the job Cruz, since you have nothing else better to do from the side lines ..........you really are worthless............