Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
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On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart raged, “I cannot [bleep] believe it! You had the wind at your back! Election victories all over the country… Democrats, you sold out the entire shutdown not to get what you wanted, but for a promise to not get what you wanted later. Where in The Art of War—where—hold on—where in The Art of—okay, here it is: I got it. Sun Tzu said, ‘Never press your advantage. It's unseemly! Fighting's hard. How 'bout a snack?’”
Stewart also attacked the deal, “I can't [bleep] believe it. And by the way, what good does a promise of a Senate vote even do for you? Democrats, you don't control the Senate. Do you even know how this shit works?”
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