Senate Votes To End Shutdown, NY Times Apoplectic Over Trump’s Action

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Senate Passes Funding Bill to End Schumer Shutdown

The Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government Monday night, 40 days after Democrats triggered what is now the longest government shutdown in history.

The vote ends a disastrous shutdown for Democrats, but the civil war for the soul and direction of the party is just beginning.

The vote was 60-40. Only a majority was necessary.

Senators reached a time agreement Monday evening to bypass Senate procedures that would have prolonged the passage of the bill by as long as several days.

And, really, it next goes to the House, which will pass it along party lines, get reconciled, then go to Trump’s desk

As shutdown ends, furious Democrats eat their own

The Schumer Shutdown appears to be ending. It’s about time. By refusing to vote for a “clean” continuing resolution which would have kept government spending at levels they themselves approved earlier, Democrats have held the country hostage for a record-breaking 41 days. They have hurt Americans, angered their union allies and dampened consumer sentiment. For what?

What did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues gain from throwing hundreds of thousands out of work, endangering American air travelers, causing great hardship and anxiety for those dependent on SNAP benefits, and slowing the growth of the U.S. economy?

Nothing. They did not win an extension of Obamacare premium subsidies, they did not undo the Medicaid reforms that they fought tooth and nail and – worst of all for Schumer – the shutdown in no way endeared him to the democratic socialists who are tearing his party in two. Far from it.

Well, they did get their Humpty Dumpty base out for the elections, but, then, in most cases the Democrat would have won most likely.

For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown

The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing — in part because President Trump has taken actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.

Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration cut food stamps for millions of low-income Americans. It tried to fire thousands of government workers and withhold back pay from others, while freezing or canceling money for projects in Democratic-led states.

It remains to be seen whether there will be a political price to pay for Mr. Trump or his party, with polls showing that voters generally blamed Republicans more for the shutdown. But for now, the tactics appear to have worked, after a group of Democrats agreed to support a bill to end the shutdown and drop the concessions their party had demanded.

“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work,” said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, said on MSNBC Monday. “It actually gave him more power.”

The bare-knuckle politics the Trump administration employed during the shutdown — often coming from his budget director Russell T. Vought, whom Mr. Trump refers to as Darth Vader — became too brutal for the handful of centrist Senate Democrats, who never liked the idea of the shutdown much anyway.

Democrats are used to the GOP collapsing in the face of the withering media assault. Trump don’t care. He doesn’t care about the Credentialed Media and their insane bias. He revels in it, and that puts some backbone in the elected Republicans. Perhaps the NY Times forgot what happened during the 17 day Obama shutdown in 2013 (below the fold)

The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain

Although Barack Obama’s chefs have been deemed “essential,” employees at the National Institutes of Health who offer last-chance experimental cancer treatments for children suffering from cancer have not. Worse still, House Republicans have offered to compromise with the president and single the NIH out for funding. The White House has threatened a veto.

I guess the NY Times forgot that the Internet is forever. Except on their own pages, where they tended to ignore much of what Obama did, such as

• Closing the The World War II Memorial, D-Day Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, and many other open air memorials with his barricades (Barrycades)
• Furloughed Military Chaplains Not Allowed to Work for Free
• Obama Blacks Out Sports, Entertainment Programming to Overseas Troops
• Obama Tries to Close Privately-Funded Mt. Vernon
• Obama Closes Over 100 Privately-Managed Parks That Cost No Money to Run
• Park Service Ranger: ‘We’ve Been Told to Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can’
• Obama Forces Residents Out of Private Homes
• Man Jogging in National Park Fined $100
• Amber Alert Website Taken Offline

It’s actually a pretty long list. I wonder why the NY Times, and other leftist media outlets, have ignore this? Let’s not forget that air traffic controllers rallied on Capital Hill in 2013, worrying about the Obama shutdown.