No. of Recommendations: 8
What’s the definition of insanity?
Repeating something and expecting different results.
Yet the result of the Clinton campaign was....the Democrats retook the White House, and had a governing trifecta. Which would be a pretty decent outcome.
Meanwhile, let's flip that back on claims that Schumer should have voted down the CR and precipitated a government shutdown. Each of the last times that a party has tried to use a looming shutdown as leverage, it's failed miserably. The Republicans tried it in 2018 to try to force border wall funding: they took the hit for the shutdown, got nothing, and just had to cave in the end. The GOP tried it in 2013 to try to force reductions in Obamacare funding - again, they were punished politically for the shutdown, got nothing, and just had to cave in the end and just accept the bill. The GOP tried it in 1995-1996 under Gingrich to change spending on health care and education: they also lost popularity due to the shutdown, got crushed by the pressure, and had to cave in the end and just accept Clinton's budget. Oh, and that one was so bad it helped propel Clinton to re-election in 1996.
So the big idea that Schumer's being criticized for not implementing is....using a looming shutdown as a leverage attempt? When that's worked out so horribly for everyone that's tried it?
Yeah, the definition of insanity....
