Don't get your knickers in a twist

Let’s abandon all this talk about “We’ll get you in the primary,” or “those eight Dems were traitors,” or “we were winning, and they caved.”

How many people went hungry tonight because they couldn’t get their food stamps?  How many people couldn’t fly home to see a dying relative because their flight was cancelled?  How many people faced eviction because they couldn’t pay the rent?

When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.  Yes, the Dems were winning the public relations battle, but is that the kind of battle the Dems want to win.  If the Republicans refuse to extend the medical payments, people will suffer, but at least then we will know who caused the suffering, and the voters can punish them, which they will.  

Those eight Democrats, I’m sure, did not take that step lightly.  I’m know they agonized over what they did and came to the conclusion that their vote was the right thing to do.

OK, maybe not Fetterman.