Oh hey look the Democrats are being pathetic again. Must be a day that ends in -y.
I’m not a BoTh SiDeS but seriously, at the very least, do your jobs.
Unfortunately at this point it may be us with the misapprehensions about what it is exactly that their job is. I don’t think they work for us anymore.
They strategically captured some democrats before hand for this demotivating purpose. Oust them and move on
The Democratic Party has a reputation for being disorganized. However, it seems like they’re well coordinated in being incredibly ineffective as an opposition to Republicans. From the unprincipled party leadership, to the feckless elected officials, to the voters that never hold them to account, they’re impressively bad at politics.
we like tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas man!to the voters that never hold them to account
How many of these lawmakers even had primary challengers last time they ran?
Yeah. Incumbents often run unopposed for their party. And sometimes even completely. Even good politicians should fend off primary challenges. It helps keep them focused on serving who the power belongs to lest it be taken from them.
As Will Rogers once stated
I’m not a member of an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
Because both puppet parties are bought off by the elites
Honestly, it feels like it’s all by design.
The establishment dems are saying “you’ll vote for our chosen moderately conservative dem of our choice, or you’ll get trump or whoever the Republicans put up”.
They do this on purpose, because they have money and don’t suffer the consequences that the poors do. They don’t care. Some even probably quietly made money on trumps tarriff stock market fiasco.
They pushed out bernie. They don’t like this new Mamdani guy as he’s a bernie-like democratic socialist.
“BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE”
Because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, it will be difficult for Democrats to regularly defeat judicial nominations.
The article admits democrats don’t have the votes to do anything but tried to blame them for not being able to do anything.
Pretty clearly a bad faith argument meant to help the GOP.
Because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, it will be difficult for Democrats to regularly defeat judicial nominations. But a clip of, for example, Missouri district court nominee Josh Divine trying to explain why he endorsed literacy tests for voting and analogized homosexuality to bestiality is the sort of thing that, if done correctly, would have a chance to go viral enough to get Susan Collins to have second thoughts.
The bad news is that no such clips exist, because when Senate Democrats had the chance to question the nominees in person, they decided they had other things to do or other places to be. Illinois’s Dick Durbin, California’s Adam Schiff, and Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse spent more of their allotted time lauding Federalist Society judges for sometimes ruling against Trump than they did asking questions of Whitney Hermandorfer, the pending nominee to the Sixth Circuit. Incredibly, their performances were still more impactful than those of Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, and California’s Alex Padilla, who did not say anything to Hermandorfer at all.
Democratic politicians are fond of casting Trump as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, and are very aware of the power of political theater when they have new books to promote or campaign donations to solicit via lengthy, meme-laden, green-blubble text. But it is difficult for Senate Democrats to persuade voters to care about judicial confirmation battles when they, the Democrats, are so uninterested in fighting them.
The article writer’s opinion doesn’t even make sense:
But it is difficult for Senate Democrats to persuade voters to care about judicial confirmation battles when they, the Democrats, are so uninterested in fighting them.
It’s not like voters don’t know Trump or the type of judicial nominations he will make.
How do you “fight” without enough votes?
They can either vote against the judicial nominations or not and the outcome is the same.
You can’t “vote harder” to change the outcome.
Obvious bad faith argument.
