Subject: Re: Joe Walsh
The Democrats weren't trading off between the people who were suffering in the shutdown versus the people who will suffer with the ACA subsidy expiration.

And, so now, they are going to receive the ire of the ACA subscribers because they blinked first. If is was truly 1/3 1/3 1/3, as you asserted, then the Dems would still have the edge from the ACA folks. Having caved, the ACA folks are as likely to be angry with the Dems as the Reps. Also, I think the Reps would have had to cave because so many of their members represent people who rely on SNAP. Red states take the lion's share of social benefits. MTG was feeling it, as were some others.

I think the Dems could have, and probably should have, held out a bit longer to force the Reps to make some hard votes to prevent food riots in their districts.

If you fight a war with one hand tied behind your back, you lose. You have to use the enemy's tactics (where they are successful) or you'll get your head handed to you. As the Dems just did.