Oh it is far worse than that man. If this was just a simple stop gap funding bill and the Democrats simply failed to extract any concessions from this situation that would be one thing. That would be shameful.
But this is not that situation. The Republicans are extracting massive concessions to the Democrats and threatening them to get them to accept those concessions and vote yes. The Republicans are going to slash funding to benefits including Medicaid, they are unconstitutionally transferring taxing authority to the President. And if the Democrats do not vote for this, they are threatening that DOGE and Musk will dismantle the Federal Government while it is shutdown because the courts will not be functional. But Musk and Trump are going to do that anyway and the courts are always two steps behind.
I mean with a threat that dire the Democrats absolutely should refuse to play ball and demand all the unconstitutional shit and all the benefit reductions are removed. Those aren't concessions, just a demand for the status quo which is insane when the status quo is Trump and Musk destroying the government unconstitutionally anyway. But they aren't even getting the current status quo. They have been outplayed, outflanked, and totally politically crushed. They have no plan, no fight, no nothing. So they are going to give concessions to the Republicans and fold. And now when Trump is doing all this shit, he will have Democratic votes supporting him.
And for what? For Trump to do all this shit anyway? Let him gut the government. Don't vote for unconstitutional bills. Don't vote to slash benefits. This is important enough to take a stand on.
Granted, they haven't even done it yet AFAIK. So I will hold back my outrage just a bit.