Democrats Vow To Continue Shutdown For Sake Of The Party’s ‘Brand’

DailyCaller.com ^

[matt04]

Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday his party’s “brand” could undergo “substantial damage” if Democrats were to cave and reopen the federal government following their overwhelming election victories Tuesday night.

“There will be some pretty substantial damage done to a Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated, if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop fighting,” Murphy told Punchbowl News on Thursday morning. “We’re going to start operating on an increasingly short calendar. The 2026 election is just 12 months away. And if we surrender without having gotten anything, and we cause a lot of folks in this country who had started to believe in the Democratic Party to retreat again, I worry that it will be hard to sort of get them back up off the mat in time for next fall’s election cycle.”

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Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, told reporters Wednesday it would be “devastating” to the party if Democrats caved on the heels of the election and reopened the government for a “meaningless” subsidy extension vote.

“I think all over this country people are saying, ‘Please Democrats, you haven’t been strong in the past. Stand tall now, protect us,'” Sanders told reporters Wednesday. “The Democrats now are winning because they’re standing with working people. So, to answer your question, if they cave now and go forward with a meaningless vote, I think it will be a horrible policy decision, and I think politically, it will be devastating to Democrats.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; murphy; schumershutdown; shutdown

[matt04]

Got it. I's all about the Dems "brand" not the struggling air traffic controllers, military personnel, etc. They want misery, they don't care about peoples lives as long as it gives them power.

[dfwgator]

They are smart. Politics is the ultimate form of marketing. It’s something the GOP has no clue about.

[Williams]

Democrats are vile.

[No name given]

That’s how morally bankrupt the demonazis are.

[No name given]

And unholy abominations.

[Williams]

They can do this stuff because the media are batshit crazy marxists.

And by this stuff,I mean democrats literally get people killed and devastate our society.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Republicans need to suspend the gentleman’s filibuster and require the recalcitrant clowns to actually talk endlessly.

[quantim]

“...overwhelming election victories...”

In deep blue states. LOL

[Owen]

Two critical realities are out there, avoided by the MSM.

1) When “THE SUBSIDIES” expire 1 January, this does not mean the Obamacare programs have no subsidies. Those subsidies return to the value they had in 2019 — with inflation upward adjustment. The only thing expiring is the increase in those subsides voted in FOR COVID. Only for COVID. That is why they even had an expiration. The pre 2020 subsidies did NOT have an expiration.

2) This is actually more important than any other issue — the super magnets WERE NOT IN THE CHINA TRADE DEAL. Bissent tried to pretend that they were. China never signed anything saying they were and the export restrictions they imposed back in March/April remain. Without those magnets, our society will die, regardless of these trivial spats in Congress.

[iamgalt]

Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated,“

This is ridiculous. They won 2 blue states.

[matt04]

IMHO, they know letting them expire will show how bad ObamaCare is. Can’t allow that to happen.

[JennysCool]

Oh, please. Their “brand” is chaos. The only “marketing” they do is pandering to the completely-low-info, “entitled,” lazy, dissatisfied, disturbed, and violent. That is unfortunately quite a “market,” but it does sane society no good.

[RummyChick]

Sanders made a public post supporting horseshoe dealer strikers and a few hours later Caesars played hardball and tore down the strikers tent city and booted them off the property.

I am sure there will be some lawsuits.

[nwrep]

I think it is smart for them to not cave. Their base demands that.

[iamgalt]

It’s one of the reasons the rats actually want the filibuster killed it gives them an off ramp that won’t send their rabid base into a state of rage.

[vpintheak]

I know the populace is stupid and easily led by propaganda. But how can people accept that its the Republicans that are causing this? Seriously.

[CedarDave]

The headline and first two paragraphs appear as if the story was from the Bee. Reading the rest of the story makes it seem the demon Dems want to keep it up until next fall’s elections. Pubs need to jump on his comments and hard: Ads in print, TV and the Net. Make them appear as the “we don’t care” and evil party that they are.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Because the propaganda is called "news" and delivered in a suit with a straight face or its printed and thrown out into your front lawn in a clear plastic bag.

I personally think at this point, the GOP is going to cave.

The republicans are going to give the Democrats healthcare for illegal aliens. Watch. And then after the Republicans give democrats free healthcare for illegals, they'll blame Trump and they'll blame conservatives.

The republicans have done this basic McCain formula countless times over the decades and they have journalism to help them do it.

[Sarah Barracuda]

They are going to keep it closed til Jan when people’s health insurance premiums go up that way they can blame trump

[matt04]

I had a similar thought as well. Not so much the filibuster, but they want it to end and have a way to escape any blame from the socialists they now have to coddle.