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Ed: Hey, now, that’s unfair. I actually liked the film “Trainwreck.” It’s the most entertaining thing Amy Schumer ever did (by a long shot). Let us not sully that film’s legacy by tying it to her uncle. (And yeah, this is also pretty funny, and may be the only intentionally funny response from Democrats today.)





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Axios: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expressed confidence Monday that the votes are there in the House to pass the Senate’s funding package to reopen the government.

Why it matters: House lawmakers, who haven’t been in session for over 50 days, will need to approve the measure to end the shutdown once it passes the Senate.

“I think we will,” Johnson told reporters when asked if he has the votes to pass the package.

Ed: Why wouldn’t they? It’s a clear win for the GOP. They gave up nothing to get it. I suspect 30-40 House Democrats in purple-to-red districts will vote for it, too. They won’t want to be responsible for the debacle of the Schumer Shutdown. 

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Ed: As I wrote earlier, the donor base created the push for the shutdown. They demanded that Chuck Schumer march the party into a canyon for a frontal assault on the budget. This is like blaming the commander of the Light Brigade for following inept orders in the Battle of Sebastopol, which Alfred Lord Tennyson so poetically captured for history. Or, if you prefer American history, it’s akin to the injustice of the naming of Pickett’s Charge, when it was Robert E. Lee who ordered the single most disastrous strategy of his doomed command. 





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NY Times: Stefany Shaheen is running for a House seat in New Hampshire on a health care platform and with a boost from her family name and the legacy of her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, the state’s former governor and now its senior senator.

So when the elder Ms. Shaheen negotiated to move toward ending the government shutdown without a Republican agreement to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have demanded, the younger Ms. Shaheen had a problem.

“Clearly we had different approaches here,” Stefany Shaheen said in an interview on Monday morning. “I can’t speak for her. I think she did what she believes is right.”

Ed: How do you know Democrats lost this fight? They’re busy trying to feed each other to the lions to protect themselves from the disaster — even when it’s their own mother being forced into the trough. 

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Ed: I’m curious to know what “moment” Rep. Levin thinks Schumer ever met. Schumer played a key role in Harry Reid’s “nuclear option,” which enabled Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump to push three Supreme Court justices through to confirmation over lockstep Democrat opposition. Schumer has never succeeded in a strategic sense. 

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Jim Geraghty at NRO: I hear that if you call Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office, the hold music is Cheap Trick’s “Surrender.”

Last Tuesday night, Democrats were jubilant, convinced they had just inflicted the first of many consequential defeats upon their detested foes, President Trump and the Republican Party. And now here we are, six days later, and Democrats are once again disappointed, infuriated, and at each other’s throats.





Ed: Not to mention ready to push their mothers off the cliff. 

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Ed: I don’t think anyone should be surprised that the Congresswoman from Dearbonistan opposes a Jewish leader in Congress who supports Israel. Even one as weak-kneed on the subject as Schumer.  

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Off the Press: President Donald Trump on Monday said he approves of a pending deal in the Senate that would bring the record-breaking U.S. government shutdown to an end.

“I would say so,” Trump said in the Oval Office, “based on everything I’m hearing” about the deal, which cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Sunday night.

Ed: Again … why wouldn’t he? He just won, broke Chuck Schumer, and has Democrats revving up for a purge. No need to interrupt that process by shifting the conflict back to an internecine fight in the GOP. Let’s hope House Republicans make that same calculation; Trump’s endorsement should help cement it. 

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… driving up premiums and costs for tens of millions of Americans already struggling to make ends meet. 

We must continue to fight for a responsible, bipartisan path forward that reopens the government and keeps health care affordable for the American people.

Ed: Okay, this one made me laugh out loud. Pelosi’s final strategic gifts to her party have been to perpetrate an electoral fraud on the American public to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive incapacity, and then to force her party to anoint Kamala Harris as his replacement in the election. Maybe Pelosi ought to take this very clear opportunity to sit down and shut up. 

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Mediaite: Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine Pelosi, is tossing her hat into the ring for the California state senate, just days after her mom announced her retirement from Congress.

The younger Pelosi, a longtime political consultant and former chairperson of the California Democratic Women’s Caucus, announced her campaign on social media on Monday morning.

Ed: No Kings. Just Dynasties. 

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Hollywood in Toto: Yet for all the conservative social media love, it didn’t translate into movie ticket sales. Did the film’s marketing team fail? Are audiences bored with boxing biopics?

No matter.

Where are Sweeney’s Red State admirers? Shouldn’t they stand up for the starlet, especially after she stared down the woke mob?

This isn’t a sympathy ploy. “Christy,” a moderately well-reviewed film that deserves awards season consideration, is worth the price of admission. Sweeney’s first meaty performance is a winner, too.





Ed: I’m not sure it’s playing in my area, but I’ll check. My understanding is that it’s pretty harrowing when it delves into the real-life back story of Christy Martin, and that may be scaring off some potential moviegoers. 

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Tyler Cowen at The Free Press: One final element of this equation is the political one. It used to be that you could be canceled—at significant economic cost—if you had the wrong politics or said the wrong thing. But both Sweeney and American Eagle refused to apologize for the ad. And in last week’s interview with GQ, when asked whether “in this political climate, white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority,” Sweeney responded: “I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”

And the world seems to love her and the company all the more for it. This has only further increased the power of celebrity: Woke social media mobs can no longer put the reputation or profitability of potential superstars at risk.

Ed: The real quality that appeals to the masses with Sweeney is that she fights back when attacked, and does so with dignity and integrity. She won’t let people push her around. That is why her latest role is actually very fitting in the moment, and hopefully more people will watch her performance in it. 





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Ed: Yup. 


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