Comment by ranger_danger
3 months ago
No they didn't. Nobody has even voted yet. And it still must go to the House for a vote assuming it passes the Senate. The measly 8 democrats that were in favor of this were all literally who's and known traitors like Fetterman.
How it actually works, every single time:
A majority of (or at least, enough) Democrats decide they want something unpopular.
They calculate exactly how many Democrats need to vote for the thing they want to happen. Notice how it always passes by one vote.
They figure out which Democrats who want the unpopular thing and will suffer the fewest consequences by voting for it. Notice how the Democrats who voted for the unpopular thing are always ones who are either unable to be voted out soon, or are guaranteed to be voted out because they hit term limits soon, and in either case they have nothing to lose by being unpopular.
Only those Democrats vote for the unpopular thing, and the remaining Democrats and the party as a whole suffer minimal reputational damage.
In this case, the Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer, despite voting against the unpopular thing because his reputational damage would not be minimal, was almost certainly involved in organizing it.
They may or may not compensate them for being the fall guys. Possibly the thing itself is enough compensation. Politicians love when their private jets are allowed to take off because air traffic controllers are getting paid (or forced to work for no pay).