in “Godfather Part IIIMichael Corleone tells his nephew. It clouds your judgment. ” Corleone’s Wisdom is fully on display as he watched Democrats’ mist-bound performance in the recent fight for Continuous Budget Resolution (CR).
Why do politicians never learn Corleone’s lessons? It’s okay to make all your feelings public, and Democrats are good at this. But behind a closed room where Stratagem is decided and the decision is made, unchecked emotions cause disaster. Luckily for Democrats, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has limited the damage, but barely.
The fundamental reality about CR was that Democrats would be locked up if Republicans played simple straights and agreed to fund the government at the Biden administration level until the end of the year. After much internal conflict among Republicans, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson performed a small miracle that got a pretty “clean” CR through the house.
This seemed little like a victory for many Republicans looking for substantial spending cuts. But when you achieve the minimum and your opposition self-inflame a major defeat, another kind of victory occurs. With this score, Republicans got a big W.
Reality Check: If you don’t have a card, fold it early. Few Democrats still know this fact, but in the CR battle they held one small deuce. The deuce was to calm down by showing Democrats who could still act like adults in the room. Had they supported the clean CR from the start, Democrats’ adulthood would have been affirmed, and Republicans’ victory would have been minor.
But no! Democrats dressed in fever pitches, but attacked the CR as if short-term alternatives, which were government shutdowns, would serve their goals.
Certainly, the shutdown will ease the rabies left-wing base, but only temporarily. As Schumer observed in the interview“Three weeks now [had Democrats forced a shutdown] The same people who are so upset that we haven’t shut down the government say, “Why did they shut down the government and let them cut food stamps for children?” In other words, although unreliable, the tail was pushed tightly between the legs to support the CR that we previously opposed.
Schumer saved the Democrats from their worst tendencies, including his weak sister counterpart Hakem Jeffries in the House, but he still holds part of the blame for their defeat.
Once House Republicans passed the CR, the focus of the battle was whether Democrats would support the Senate filibuster. For a few weeks, and more recently, Schumer has been supporting the filibuster, implying blocking CR and generating a shutdown.
Schumer would be stupid if he was just bluffing against the cards that the terrible cards were holding. That doesn’t seem likely. More likely, at the last moment, Schumer realized that he had been piecing together a cloud of rage, leading the Democrats into political depths by.
As Schumer observed, Leaders “have to look beyond the curve.” He left a lot of paint on the guardrail at the very end. Schumers are usually well above the curve. He didn’t do that this time, strengthening the Republican victory and undermining his leadership position.
Republicans should feel very good about victory, but they can’t be cocky. This was a warm-up like a spring training baseball game. The World Series will be when it passes the “big and beautiful bill” of spending cuts and tax deadlines and cuts. Absurdly upsetting Democrats helps to put another big, beautiful W on the board. Without a doubt, Trump can barely wait.
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