Subject: Re: Joe Walsh
The GOP will message that it's all the Democrats' fault for holding the government "hostage" in the first place, as they have from the start.


And so belief will fall along the lines of current belief, as I can't see them changing. Yep.

I read Shumer as floating the ACA extension for one year because he saw (sensed) what was happening with the eight, and hoped that would underscore it was about the ACA extension and not the rest of the "bargaining chips". He likely saw the defection coming as the "less than eight" were out trying to find their 7th and 8th to make the defection complete. Am I missing something?