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In reply to the discussion: CNN: How Democrats lost the shutdown [View all]Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)33. sounds like bullshit to me when CNN had been saying all weekend that the Dems had
'overplayed' their hand. Fuck you CNN...Fox lite.
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Unbelievably, everyone is pretending CHIP did not happen! If they did then could not say this.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#11
No, CHIP was being used as a bargaining chip by Republicans, and funding was not guaranteed
BoneyardDem
Jan 2018
#49
It was ... NOT .... a clean bill on CHIP and you KNOW THAT !! Stop with the RWTP !!!
uponit7771
Jan 2018
#22
Funding was NO ISSUE for CHIP. The only question was: do it short term or long term?
Honeycombe8
Jan 2018
#55
nice of you to do Republican talking points for them...I happen to think you are both wrong
BoneyardDem
Jan 2018
#56
Got the GOP to free most of their child hostages; and a PUBLIC promise to vote on the rest.
lagomorph777
Jan 2018
#51
Nonsense. R refusing a reasonable thing like CHIP and caving makes us the winner.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#12
It was fine...it became quite clear over the weekend that we were not going to get DACA this way...
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#38
Search "Chris Cillizza on Clinton" and you will get my drift. But Chris does seem to have come
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#18
Because someone doesn't take a partisan stance does not mean they are opposite-partisan.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2018
#20
My opinion is based on history, all of it, not just recent history. Free country!
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#42
Cillizza was FAR worse a year ago. Shitler has changed him for the better.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#39
I'm not surprised the ratings-driven press is still trying to throw this narrative at the wall
LanternWaste
Jan 2018
#21
sounds like bullshit to me when CNN had been saying all weekend that the Dems had
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#33