Commentary: Democrats Crumble Like Cookies. Is This Really the Best They Can Do?

Don’t Lose Sleep Over the Shutdown Deal

Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200. Take your anger over the result of this shutdown directly to November, 2026, when we’re going to kick their asses and take back the House and Senate both. Republicans, following the instructions of Donald Trump as they always do, allowed Democrats to make the fight over financing the government about one issue: Health care subsidies for Affordable Care …

Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do?

Democrats broke ranks to reopen the government without securing a deal to protect health insurance subsidies for low and middle income Americans.

Democrats hold all the cards — and they're being really stupid

At this hour, enough Senate Democrats seem willing to cave to give Republicans the 60 votes they need to end the shutdown without agreeing to Democratic demands to restore Obamacare subsidies starting next January.IMHO, this is really stupid.Democrats hold all the cards. As even Trump admitted after...

Scott McKay Dissects Shutdown Fallout, Obamacare Vote, and the Future of the Filibuster

Political commentator Scott McKay, publisher of The Hayride, senior editor at The American Spectator, and author of the new novel Blockbusters, joined guest host Chris Krok on Chicago’s Morning Answer for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on the aftermath of the shutdown, the looming fight over Obamacare subsidies, and the internal struggles defining both parties as election season approaches. McKay opened by addressing the recent governme…

Four potential obstacles in House vote to end US shutdown

A day after the US Senate passed a spending bill to end the longest-ever government shutdown, the budget fight now moves to the House of Representatives.

‘Absolutely pathetic’: Senate Democrats denounced for caving to GOP in shutdown fight

“Let’s be clear – this proposal isn’t a compromise, it’s a capitulation,” said one progressive lawmaker in the US House. Fury on the progressive left and among lawmakers who opposed such “capitulation” to the Republican Party erupted overnight after a handful of Senate Democrats joined with their GOP counterparts in a procedural vote on Sunday night to end the […]