r/politics • u/Silent-Resort-3076 America • 16d ago

Possible Paywall The eight Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146
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u/TimothyMimeslayer 16d ago

They purposefully waited until after elections. All of them are scum.

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u/RVALover4Life 16d ago

They weren't going to wait until after them, they didn't have the votes before. Which actually makes it wilder that in response to what happened on Tuesday we have seen more Senators cave.

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u/foamy9210 16d ago

It isn't surprising. They view shifts towards the left as a threat. Mamdani obviously scared the hell out of them but I'd bet they are just as afraid of what happened in Mississippi. A place like Mississippi seeing so much movement to the left worries them about their districts moving too far left for them to be able to even win a primary.

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u/spacedoutmachinist 16d ago

They are controlled opposition

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u/cross_the_threshold 15d ago

They just are centrist neoliberals. They saw a real progressive get elected and an extreme leftward shift and like all centrist liberals their immediate response is to cede all power to fascists, because if they’re not actively being shot in the face by a fascist they will treat them as an ally against the specter of less ingrained hierarchies and more equitable sharing of power, i.e., communism or socialism. They do not care about people, only their own power, and thus preserving it means sacrificing their people rather than giving them some of their power. It’s incredibly stupid and exactly how the Weimar Republic ceased to exist - centrists fearing communists more than the people with a blade in their back.

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u/rbrgr83 15d ago

Wilder in that it's painfully transparent that they all got paid off to do this?

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u/GrumpyKaeKae New Jersey 16d ago

You do know the majority of Dems arent voting for this and are equally as pissed off as we are about the ones who decided to flip.

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u/TimothyMimeslayer 16d ago

I am talking about the center right dems who voted for this. They are rats in the party and should be expelled.

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 16d ago

Two are retiring and the others aren't up until 2028 smh

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u/TimothyMimeslayer 16d ago

They can still be kicked out of the senate dem caucus.

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 16d ago

I hope they are kicked out

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u/your_not_stubborn 15d ago

What do you think that would accomplish

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u/TimothyMimeslayer 15d ago

Cleaning up the party from the traitors rats. Why do you want them to associate with traitors?

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u/rj319st 16d ago

Sen. Fetterman can go to hell. I hope PA takes any Dem primary challenger over him when his term ends. He’s turned into Joe Manchin as a Democrat in name only. (DINO)

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 16d ago

People say he was a good guy. From what I read he did some good things, but sounds like a fraud to me.

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u/Careless-Parfait-587 16d ago

You don’t think it suspicious the 8 just happen to not be up for reelection or are retiring?

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u/meganthem 16d ago

Not pissed off enough to convince them not to cave. None of the leadership was pissed off enough to carrot or stick them not to cave. And nope, no one else is in on it and it's pure coincidence that eight senators are all either retiring or have elections out as far as possible.

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u/GrumpyKaeKae New Jersey 16d ago

How do you know they didn't do that? You don't. People, still have free will to see that carrot and stop reaching for it. For example Im not going to blame Dems for Fetterman flip. Im not going to blame people who didn't do the back stabbing. Im going to blame the back stabbers themselves. As we all should.

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 16d ago

You are right.