Posted on 10/25/2025 11:09:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The government shutdown will end soon. How do I know? Because whatever political advantage Democrats had a few weeks ago by “standing strong!” and “confronting Trump!” is quickly evaporating. When the polls flip, so will the party that has lost its way.
Voters have a way of sniffing out the truth. They are beginning to understand that Democrats are rudderless, and are voting to keep the government closed out of confusion, not conviction.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and their colleagues claim they desperately want Obamacare premium subsidies extended, but they have not been holding talks with Republicans, the majority party, to make that happen. They have no proposal on the table that would incorporate a subsidy extension into next year’s budget.
They have, in short, no plan.
Meanwhile, although it was smart to target health care as the battleground for their resistance efforts — Democrats traditionally poll better than Republicans on that issue — the conversation has gone awry. Americans have read, maybe for the first time, just how heavily taxpayers have been subsidizing Obamacare premiums. The numbers are shocking and sow doubt about the program’s viability.
The Affordable Care Act was meant to make health insurance more affordable; it turns out that, without the huge subsidies tacked on during the pandemic, it is not affordable for many people. Should they expire, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports, premiums would more than double next year.
The program was also expected to lead to universal coverage; Obamacare was going to be so great, Dems thought, that everyone in the country could finally be covered. The fact that only 24 million people, or about 7 percent of the country, are covered by ACA plans stuns those...
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Oh yes they can...and the stick is now getting on the GOP...
It was a horribly ineffective system for health care. For a corruption machine siphoning money from taxpayers into a bloated lobby and Healthcare bureaucracy, its just fine.
THIS IS FROM THE HILL????????????????????
Is someone FINALLY waking up?
All they want is their way or nothing. An infantile entitled mindset. Of course, they are mentally stunted. Of, they may be smart, but far from wise.
Their definition of “compromise” is “you compromise.”
Jeffries is a Neanderthal fool, dumb as a stump.
Schumer is cowing to the radical left wing socialists, in a fight for his job.
There is no conviction, principles, dedication, nothing, except greed & power involved in their actions.
It will be a huge mistake for them to continue.
I didn’t know The Hill had a right winger writing for them!
“They are beginning to understand that Democrats are rudderless”
Better late than never. Dems have been rudderless since Trump came down the escalator.
Jeffries is out of his element. He’s a rapper at heart.
When black men start posting common sense videos against the democrat shutdown it is lost.
The Democrat Party lost its way a long time ago. Remember: it's the party of the Trail of Tears (1830), slavery (abolished by Republicans in 1864), and the ku klux klan (still going on?)!
Death to the Obominal Communism Act!
If he folds again, this may be the end of Chuckles’ career. He got CREAMED by his own commies last time.
Nice try. Schumer shutdown sticks solely to socialists.
Yep. And usually the weak Repubs squeal when they do that, and capitulate. But this time even Murky and Collins aren’t wimping out.
From The Hill today:
“...An Oct. 15-20 Reuters/Ipsos poll found 50 percent of adults blaming Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, and 43 percent blaming Democrats in Congress.”
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