Changing the majority party means even if there are shit heads, we won’t be having votes to make everything worse. The reason Trump gets away with all his shit is because Johnson is there to cover for him in the house and Thune in the Senate. Even Schumer would do a better job than Thune, with a few assholes in the party.
Even if you don’t like the shit heads like Fetterman, Manchin or Lieberman, they give the party a majority to put a stop to the rightward ratcheting of our politics. The time to get rid of them is during primaries, that’s how you turn the ratchet back.
But they don’t. They don’t give the democrats a majority if they keep voting with republicans.
And we saw how Obama sat on his hands for two years while Dems had a supermajority. Then when republicans had control of congress, gee golly gosh, the mean republicans won’t let us have single payer. Now take this health care plan written by The Heritage Institute and like it.
And NAFTA. And the Biden crime bill. And the Clinton welfare reform.
They’re just republicans with blue ties and pride flag pins.
It doesn’t matter how they vote, being in the Dem Caucus gives Dems the majority. It may not allow the Dems to win new policy, but it stops the GoP from making things worse.
As opposed to another Cruz, Graham, or McConnell? Yeah Ill even put up with Fetterman.
What’s the difference?
Changing the majority party means even if there are shit heads, we won’t be having votes to make everything worse. The reason Trump gets away with all his shit is because Johnson is there to cover for him in the house and Thune in the Senate. Even Schumer would do a better job than Thune, with a few assholes in the party.
Even if you don’t like the shit heads like Fetterman, Manchin or Lieberman, they give the party a majority to put a stop to the rightward ratcheting of our politics. The time to get rid of them is during primaries, that’s how you turn the ratchet back.
But they don’t. They don’t give the democrats a majority if they keep voting with republicans.
And we saw how Obama sat on his hands for two years while Dems had a supermajority. Then when republicans had control of congress, gee golly gosh, the mean republicans won’t let us have single payer. Now take this health care plan written by The Heritage Institute and like it.
And NAFTA. And the Biden crime bill. And the Clinton welfare reform.
They’re just republicans with blue ties and pride flag pins.
It doesn’t matter how they vote, being in the Dem Caucus gives Dems the majority. It may not allow the Dems to win new policy, but it stops the GoP from making things worse.
As though any centrist wouldn’t gleefully vote for any of those as long as they were running against someone who wanted to raise the minimum wage.