don't need hard leftists, just ten in the senate (meaning schumer's aye is all it takes to flip enough)
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ded_ruckus
if dem leaders gave a shit about their radical wing they wouldn't have caved on the shutdown the very first business day it was in effect
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Replying to @alicemazzy
The shutdown wasn't being usefully instrumental in getting a DACA thing through anyway; Reps weren't ever going to cave to that (their base likes shutdowns, mostly), and optics were really bad for Dems.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @alicemazzy
But all Lefty organs I've seen say the WH plan is a no-go. Slogan "dreamers are not a bargaining chip". They won't accept any compromise at all.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus
media is significantly further left than senate dems, and senate dems know "clean dream" will never happen
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Replying to @alicemazzy
I suppose I can't rule out Schumer going for it. I find it kind of unlikely. The concessions to Reps are pretty painful. Note it'll also split the Reps; Cruz came out against any DACA amnesty at all.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus
cruz is a non-entity in this. moderate republicans will support whatever seems like it'll work (feather in cap mindset), and if trump gets cotton and goodlatte he has the hardliners
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ded_ruckus
the only ways this blows up is if trump in a fit of madness renegs or if dems try to extract concessions enough to make it unpalatable to anti-immig side
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Replying to @alicemazzy
My predictions: 1. this deal doesn't go through, 2. most blame Dems for this, 3. Dems don't get any more favorable deal. We'll see what happens.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus
imo whether it goes through or not is a coin toss but either way dems look bad
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the real question is whether the rose displaynames can organize to primary incumbents for their own hardliners
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