The hosts of Pod Save America ripped Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for supposedly orchestrating the Democrats’ shutdown surrender from the shadows.

Co-host Tommy Vietor compared Schumer’s maneuvering to a popular internet meme from the sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson in which Robinson drives a hotdog-shaped car into a building, then tries to act as though he wasn’t the culprit, though he’s dressed as a hotdog.

“Chuck Schumer is Tim Robinson in the hotdog costume saying, ‘We’re all trying to figure out who did this,’” said host Tommy Vietor, a 45-year-old former Obama spokesman, in Tuesday’s episode.

“He voted against the bill, sure, but I think he orchestrated it with senators he knew were gonna retire or weren’t up. I don’t believe this spin for a

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