Who the hell can read 6000 pages in 6 hours and actually understand any of it? Congress should have to come up with and write their own bills. I think it's ridiculous that they can just accept a bill from anyone. Also why do they have such a time limit?
The answer to both of your questions is "to bring about precisely this situation".
Her voting no does nothing materially. Only a disciplined movement from below willing to strike could have changed the bill significantly. The choices she can make in office must both balance long term strategy, short term immediate relief however meager, and whatever power plays there are in congress and she weighed each of those and decided voting no was worse. Was it, idk, maybe. The only case for a no vote is as propaganda value and imo that case is weak here. Consider the defense budget, a good chunk of progressive dems vote no on it every time and it never goes anywhere as propaganda. Either way she's not being a hypocrite making these statements imo.
Thats why she's coming out with the COPE statement in the OP!
They have the time limit because the government becomes insolvent if a budget isn't decided at the end of the year. Some form of the omnibus bill has to pass - quickly! - to avoid a fiscal crisis, which makes it incredibly easy for lobbyists to sneak shit in there without most of congress even noticing. Most elected officials in congress have significantly less power than committees, the corporate lobbyists who pay for their campaigns, and unelected government bureaucrats who actually implement policy.
Keanu Reeves lays it all out in the beginning of Speed: shoot the hostage
Considering that the biggest sticking point was the stimulus check and unemployment benefits and those points were well know for a week or so now I don't know if I really care for this all that much. It was almost guaranteed that there was going to be a lot more fucked up shit hidden in those 6000 pages.
No one wants to be the "bad person" because they don't care for flipping the narrative. Rather than making the narrative more about getting people much needed benefits they let the narrative be about "bipartisanism" and "getting things done".
