Good. Democrats need to stand up for what is right, since Republicans never will.
During the 2013 shutdown, Chuck Schumer said:
I believe in immigration reform. What if I persuaded my caucus to say I’m going to shut the government down, I’m going to not pay our bills unless I get my way. It’s a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.
It’s fun to find examples of hypocrisy like this, even if one thinks Schumer is/was wrong.
Luckily Schumer has no power to shut the government down. Even if he convinces every Democrat to go along with him, the Republicans can keep the government running, if they want to. Such is the power of the minority party, post-filibuster.
The filibuster still exists. That’s why the funding bill isn’t progressing.
If it didn’t that wouldn’t excuse every single legislator from doing their job. Schumer once claimed what the Democrats are doing now to be wrong. If Democrats want to hold up government funding in order to try to force a compromise (or just headlines) on immigration, that’s fine. But pointing out the absolute hypocrisy is at least fun.