Sen. Chuck Schumer did what he thought was right for the country and his party in avoiding a government shutdown last week; naturally, the selfish showboaters are slamming him for it.
He quite rightly saw it would be a triple loss for his party had Senate Democrats used the filibuster to stop the bill to fund the government through September.
- People would get hurt, as they do in any shutdown.
- Most voters would blame the Democrats.
- And a shutdown would’ve further empowered President Trump’s drive to close agencies and fire federal workers, an effort that Schumer’s progressive critics join in despising.
Senate MInority Leader Chuck Schumer gives a television interview on Friday, March 14, as the Senate worked to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline. AP
The left’s course was wrong on tactics, strategy and its own principles; all it would have “won” was a chance to wallow in supposed moral purity — which it still gets to do now by denouncing Schumer.
Look: The latest polling for Newsweek and CNN shows Democrats with their lowest public approval in decades, well under 30%; less than one American in 10 strongly approves of the party.
Playing exclusively to that 10% can only dig Dems a deeper hole with everyone else.
Schumer sees that; his critics either won’t admit it or just don’t care.
