Schumer Shutdown Now in THIRD Day

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Minority Leader Schumer has essentially buckled to AOC (Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and the radical left.

The shutdown is the gift that keeps on giving… to the Republicans.

The live government shutdown clock: (White House).

Senator Thune: It’s just such the narrative they’ve tried to construct out there that this is somehow they’re trying to manufacture this huge healthcare crisis and then they come up with this crazy bill, which loaded up with a trillion and a half dollars of new spending and free healthcare for illegals ….  And clearly he has to, I guess … bow at the altar of the far left. And I don’t know, maybe for political survival, but I don’t know how this washes in the long term with the American public. And the American people see through it….  And most of ’em realize what we’re talking about here is a short-term extension to fund the government and then to get back and do the other work. He’s tried to hijack this short-term funding resolution to do a whole bunch of the liberal left-wing wishlist. And I think the American people are seeing through it (Hewitt).

DEMOCRATS SHUTDOWN THE GOVERNMENT

It’s a risky move for Democrats—and none more so than Schumer himself, who took a beating from his base in the last shutdown.

Matthew Continetti: Schumer’s pose as an MMA fighter may backfire spectacularly, with Democrats taking the blame for a shutdown, federal workers fired, and no policy gains to show for it…. Suddenly Schumer has discovered his inner Rocky Balboa. He’s taking a much different approach to this pending fiscal cliff. In exchange for votes to keep the government open, Democrats are demanding a renewal of Obamacare subsidies, more money for Medicaid, and a reversal of spending cuts. And the party is sticking together—for now. Democrats believe, with reason, that some Republicans would also like to extend the Obamacare subsidies. They’re committed to the same posturing as Schumer. Rather than work with Republicans, they seek to appease progressives lurching to the left… Whatever happens, when the history of this spending fight is written, it will be seen less as a substantive policy dispute than another stage in the Democrats’ evolution into a socialist party(Free Press).

Hugh Hewitt: So Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have done it: The minority leaders in both the Senate and the House and have rallied their Democrat colleagues to not support a Continuing Resolution that would keep the government running…. John Thune had said to Democrats, clearly and unequivocally: “Here’s my offer.” They’ve done it dozens of times in the past where you’ve just got to get to the appropriations process and get that done. But Chuck Schumer chose a shutdown and that’s why it’s called the Schumer shutdown. As a matter of principle, this is also a Seinfeld shutdown, because—like a Seinfeld episode—it’s really about nothing. And: It’s episode that the American people did not ask for. Democrats should end the Schumer shutdown episode now (Townhall Review).