Emerging leader Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he is refusing to fund the government next month until the war is defunded.
We need a new Senate majority leader. We need someone not afraid to drop the filibuster day one.
If we keep the filibuster in place we waste our House and Senate majorities.
We can pass Medicare For All, federally protect access to abortion, undo Citizens United, pass legislation to allow states to have Citizens Ballot infinitives, bring back a broader version of the Fairness Doctrine, expand the court with term limits, uncap the House, give D.C. and Puerto Rico the option for statehood, and much more.
If Democrats are afraid of losing their lead in 2028, then the surest way to ensure they gain more seats in the House and Senate is by actually passing positive change now in this rare moment where they actually can. The surest way they can do that is not wasting two years getting blocked by the filibuster with only one or two bills passing through reconciliation only to then get vetoed.
A veto’s not a big deal since you can amend the bill slightly and it’s suddenly a new bill. If the veto gets used on say Medicare For All, then put more time into investigations since they will have shown they don’t care about what the American people care about and it will be on record.
Yup, agree completely. Trump will veto most of it, but he’s a craven narcissistic populist in addition to being a fascist. El-Sayed’s suggestion to call Medicare for All “Trumpcare” may in fact be all the ego-stroking needed to make the difference. Either way, if he vetoes everything, we can go into 2028 with a clear demonstration of what needs to happen and who is in the way of it.
There’s a chance he could get impeached as well - should investigations become the core focus, assuming he’s not rubber stamping legislation.
At least 10 Republican Senators would have to vote to impeach for it to stick
If the full documents come up and as well as the handling of Iran, then there could be 10 Republican Senators that vote that way. If not, at least they’ll be on record for how they voted which is also something many of them would want to avoid.
Unfortunately you are right. trump selected Steven Miller for Chief of Staff, Republicans choose Gym Jordan for minority leader.
Those are clear signs they don’t look for compromises.
Side note, one has to wonder… People are overwhelmingly are dissatisfied, and they still hang to the senile 80 year man, who isn’t even hiding that he is destroying America and creating a room to our enemies to get stronger.
What is it that they willing to stick with him even with clear pedophilia connections? Bribes, blackmail? I’m very interested what is in the other 3 millions Epstein documents. I’m starting to think many prominent congresspeople are there as well.
I expect they’ll pull from Mitch’s playbook at the minimum, so shutting down the filibuster option has to be one of the first focus points. Once the Senate rules are in place they can’t retroactively get rid of the filibuster, and they stay in place for two years.
At this point, surely many of them must have something on each other. I think you’re onto something with many congresspeople being implicated to some degree or another.
They should order Schumer a Big Mac, and make him eat it.
Bernie Sanders is the man.
Holy crap America … you need an ancient wizard to tell you to get rid of the dinosaur in your midst?
I love Bernie Saunders and I think he’s great … but you really need to get some younger people into positions of power to get you through the next few decades or you’ll be thrown under the bus of more progressive countries around the world or else you’ll just fall under a total facist state because your elderly leadership was easily coerced.
I think Sander’s knows he’s too old for leadership at this point. The man he is proposing for Majority Leader is 67, which is still old, but only a little bit above the average, and quite a few years younger than the 85-y-o Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is not running to be majority leader, but also Bernie Sanders clearly still has the fight in him, and there’s no reason for him to stop right now. If you watch the press conference this article is about, not only is he completely right, but he also presented this with Senator Elissa Slotkin, who is 50. Senator Jon Ossoff is 39. New Senators include Abdul El-Sayed, 42, Annie Andrews, 46, James Talarico, 37, and probably Scott Colom, 43.
Republicans win with the oldest senator, Chuck Grassley, 93, and the most vegetative senator, Mitch McConnell, 84.
People said the ‘status quo is fucked’, democrats took this too mean, “life is fucked because extraneous circumstance, need to return to satus quo”, wtf is wrong with these fucks?
Can you point to where all the Democrats said this
