\u201cIt\u2019s official: Chuck Schumer is the worst negotiator in Washington \u2013 even worse than Trump,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said Murshed Zaheed, political director at Credo, a progressive advocacy group.<\/p>\n\u201cWe went in with a very weak set of cards, with [25] people up for re-election,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said one Democratic senator, one of several lawmakers who requested anonymity to assess Schumer\u2019s performance frankly.<\/p>\nAnother Democratic senator said almost every local news channel he spoke to over the weekend began its interview with the same question, \u201cWhy did Democrats shut down the government?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nFrank Sharry, executive director of the liberal immigration advocacy organization, America’s Voice, added in a scathing statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week, I was moved to tears of joy when Democrats stood up and fought for progressive values and for Dreamers.\u00a0Today, I am moved to tears of disappointment and anger that Democrats blinked.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nRepublicans reveled in what they saw as a definite political win.<\/p>\n
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the shutdown\u00a0a \u201cmassive political blunder\u201d for Democrats,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0adding that McConnell had not changed his position on bringing an immigration bill to the floor \u201cat the right time.\u201d<\/p>\nSen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a moderate, called ita \u201cno-win\u201d situation for the other side.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSeveral Senate Democrats felt the same way,\u00a0<\/strong>pronouncing themselves disappointed with the deal Schumer accepted to end the shutdown.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great disappointment to me\u00a0<\/strong>and it\u2019s a great disappointment to the more than 300,000 DACA young people in the state of California,\u201d said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).<\/p>\n\u201cThe strategy was to keep it fixed to a must-pass vehicle\u00a0<\/strong>because there was great worry that the House was not going to pass it,\u201d she said of any immigration legislation that might pass the Senate.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m just very disappointed,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHouse Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) who had been in lockstep with Schumer throughout the shutdown, panned the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t see that there\u2019s any reason \u2014 I\u2019m speaking personally and hearing from my members \u2014 to support what was put forth,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0she told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nA fourth Democratic senator, who requested anonymity, said his colleagues didn\u2019t want to prolong the standoff because they saw it as getting worse and worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was inexorable trajectory toward, \u2018Now my anxiety is officially high, it\u2019s a week later and what are we doing here?\u2019\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0the lawmaker said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHowever, despite all the naysayers, there was one Democrat willing to defend Schumer…<\/p>\n
Florida Rep.\u00a0Debbie Wasserman Schultz who went on CNN Monday afternoon to try to spin the Democrats’ loss over the government shutdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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