As tempting as it is to say “Fucking Democrats” there wasn’t really any point in dragging the shutdown on much longer since Republicans have made it obvious that they don’t want to make healthcare more affordable for tens of millions of Americans. It was clear enough from Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson and it should be even clearer now from the Senate GOP who NBC reports want to add all sorts of abortion-related restrictions on the vote to extend the ACA subsidies.
The shutdown ended stupidly and abruptly, Chuck Schumer’s a wuss, and so on and so forth. The legislative part of this was never going to wind up differently. Democrats can now campaign on having tried to prevent the massive increase in health insurance costs while Republicans can just ramble their contradictory bullshit about Obamacare being flawed from the start and that they have a new plan they’ll implement if you vote for them next year, just wait, you’ll love it…
Dems tried and failed to save Republicans from a cataclysm of their own making. Fin.