about to have their pensions more than halved, ditto coal miners, and addiction sufferers who need treatment as part of a broader, national coalition to strengthen our position if we have to resort to a shutdown again.

Actually he said this should have been the case with the first shutdown.
Good points.

And it's Tim Ryan, the Dem from Ohio, not that soulless creep from WI.

One thing though, isn't he the one who was trying to get Nancy Pelosi out?

"We are a party who went in without a plan"...more ammunition for the republicans who would never admit at incompetence and ignorance, traits that abound in the republican party.

Democrats need to stop saying things that are negative to the Democratic party. For one, the democrats did have a plan, and that is why the shutdown occurred, and part of the plan was to not accept the garbage the republicans were presenting. This is not a democratic fault, it is a republican issue because their only ideas are to hurt the country, their only ideas are those that benefit them financially while the rest get screwed.

Democrats, stop bashing your own party, republicans do it all the time, why give them talking points?