Activists Demand That Democrats Set Themselves on Fire

When Democrats’ efforts to oppose a GOP-backed short-term government-funding bill collapsed, the most instructive reaction came not from the progressive Left but from the political reporters who were aghast at the incompetence on display.

The GOP dealt out to congressional Democrats “probably the best ‘jam’” that “I have seen in my entire career covering the Hill,” Politico’s Rachael Bade said. “Dems asked for something they were never gonna get — handcuffs on DOGE. And this made it kinda easy for the GOP to call their bluff and make them swallow something they wouldn’t have otherwise.”