Senate advances plan to end historic shutdown in bipartisan breakthrough

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68. I read the article. And summarized what I read.

There really isn’t anything much in the deal.

Guaranteeing people the pay and jobs they had before the shutdown (yes, a good thing), but that is just the “status quo ante,” meaning what people would have had anyway, had there been no shut down. And a vague promise of a vote on subsidies, which I guess you can argue has potential, but any successful action is remote in time and not guaranteed to pass either house of Congress, much less be signed by the President. In your view, what have I left out?

Don’t get me wrong, I would not oppose a real deal in which the Dems got something real and tangible even if it what short of their goal of a one year extension of the current level of ACA subsidies. They even could have traded for something else *meaningful* in the health care space and spun that as an achievement.

But this particular deal looks like a full cave in and will be spun as a full cave in. One reason I am angry about it is that this kind of capitulating behavior is what makes those who do not follow politics and government as closely as we on DU do feel that the Dems are feckless cowards. IMHO: We cannot afford to feed that perception if we want to win future elections.