Political Memes

A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

Then there would be two options:

• Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
• government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What's happening right now is not normal, it won't be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what's happening.