But the whole point of shutdown negotiations is that you can't afford to get the blame for the shutdown. Every party that's been blamed for a shutdown in the last fifteen years has eventually caved. Making extortionate demands like that just doesn't work.
That's an absolutely impossible demand for the Republicans to meet. I support using leverage to gain possible concessions, and necessary ones like I outlined, not to absolutely refuse to participate, no matter what, and come across as total obstructionist extremists, which is what your approach would have done. Unfortunately, it's moot.
Even if the Republicans were willing to pass a clean CR our demands to keep the government open should have been:
Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker+Resignation of Trump/Vance.
But the whole point of shutdown negotiations is that you can't afford to get the blame for the shutdown. Every party that's been blamed for a shutdown in the last fifteen years has eventually caved. Making extortionate demands like that just doesn't work.
We shouldn't have been negotiating to begin with.
I repeat, even if Republicans were willing to pass a clean CR, the better strategy to me was to shut the government down regardless.
I don't agree. End to rescissions and firings without due process, rehirings of everyone thus fired.
Again, the minimum demand should have been Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker + Resignation of Trump/Vance to keep the Governmenr open.
That's an absolutely impossible demand for the Republicans to meet. I support using leverage to gain possible concessions, and necessary ones like I outlined, not to absolutely refuse to participate, no matter what, and come across as total obstructionist extremists, which is what your approach would have done. Unfortunately, it's moot.