Good, give away two supreme Court seats, neglect to put protections into law and abdicate congressional authority to the executive is solidly on their shoulders. The Republicans have been very public with their goals for decades and the Democrats still insisted they could negotiate.
This is why you don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Dealing with an emergency and all they have is old men who don’t have what it takes to take on the rabid GOP. Never understood why the US system is dominated by such old people.
Seats on committees and chairmanships are determined by seniority.
Only because that’s the way the Democratic party decides it is. Republicans don’t follow the same practice. These are informal rules agreed upon internally, not anything legally binding
One of the great “traditions” that’s been holding our government together like duct tape and bailing wire
And to get seniority you need to stay in office and to stay in office you need money and to get stable money you need corporate money and there’s always something they want in return.
Committees need to have more formal rules involved… The way they’re currently set up is poor at best
They should just gate the whole American leadership and treat it like a giant old age home at this point
Tell them all that they’ve been sworn in for a lifetime and just pump them all with anti psychotic drugs, pretend that they are actually doing things and having meetings and just contain them all for the rest of their lives.
Maybe in Order to get BETTER Polling they should Slide FURTHER Right? They MIGHT be able To Get Democrats BACK if they just go FURTHER Right!
They just haven’t reached out to moderates and Republicans hard enough!!!
Maybe if they support genocide even harder, do even less to hold wealthy criminals accountable, throw even more minorities under the bus, and get a few more Cheneys on board, they will peel off exactly one republican vote.
Aw, who am I kidding? They would happily do that regardless of how few votes they got.
That’s what happens when the country is being turned into a fascist state and people being sent to camps, while the majority of them are mumbling about midterms and trying not to rock the boat.
At this point they are complicit in the downfall of America. Although I’m sure they’ll be happy when they retire somewhere else in the world with a big bank account.
US fealty to other countries over American interests every time. Israel, China, EU states, it doesn’t matter. If it’s good for the corporate hegemon - and because money is speech now - you get a predictable result. We’re living through corporate oligarchy. One of the biggest corporations (by value) in the history of the world has its CEO siting in the Whitehouse directing our government functions. He’s in charge of firing federal employees. It’s clear as day, corporations run our government. Not reven a recent phenomena - lobbyist have been doing it forever with increasing success since Regan / 80s era. We’re fucked, it’s all downhill from here. The fall of the American empire is probably closer than we all think.
The Democrats are part of that machine. With few exceptions they are willing participants in the process.
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People also remember how, when the Democrats were the majority party, the Republican minority could somehow obstruct, delay and water down anything they proposed that even approached being progressive policy that would help large numbers of working class people, yet the Dems have somehow forgotten all those tactics that were used against them to great success now that they find themselves the minority party.
The poll surveyed 1,006 adults across the U.S. and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, at the 95 percent confidence level.
Not a very good poll, IMO. However:
Of fucking course their polling is low. They’ve sat with their thumbs up their ass this entire presidency. That’s after running a terrible presidential campaign, that came on the coattails of another terrible presidential campaign, that came on the coattails of a terrible presidency.
My surprise level: 0%
Thats a perfectly reasonable sample size and margin of error. The margin of error for a given confidence level and standard deviation is proportional to 1/sqrt(n) so in order to get the margin of error down from 4% points to 2% they would need to quadruple the number of people polled. However this is worthless if you cannot attribute for systematic errors with a better precision.
They could not possibly care less. They have awesome jobs, gold standard publicly funded healthcare, access to insider trading information, and they’re about to get a sweet tax cut. If they get fired, they’ll just turn coat and become lobbyists.
The rot has reached the core, ladies and gentlemen.
Elitism is a great label for people you don’t want to work with. This is gonna be great.
Sucks to suck, you bunch of grifters.
How odd.
