ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:15 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:58 am
ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:23 am
Okay, then…if a Dem wasn’t effective enough in office to get a bill passed, instead loosing that battle to an opponent who isn’t even in office any more, then why does that Dem deserve another vote?
Lemme get this straight.
Because the intransigent House cultists blocked a bipartisan agreement out of loyalty to/fear of their cult leader, you would ... withhold your vote from the bulwark that remains against that cult taking control of all three branches?
(And you should note that I'm leaving a softball hanging over the plate, in your post.)
well then, how's this for a walk-off grand slam right outta the park:
Because "the bulwark that remains against that cult" was, during their time in office, ineffective at preventing the "intransigent House cultists" and "their cult leader" who wasn't even in office at the time from imposing their cultish will upon an otherwise bipartisan agreement, then maybe that bulwark isn't the bulwark you think it is.
For real, we went from viewing "build the wall" as bigoted, to "now we're tougher than the cultists who wanna build the wall"
at this rate who knows how dems are gonna handle the "mass deportation now" rhetoric that the cult spews nowadays.
Over and over we've heard from people who have no vested interest in the Democratic Party or Biden, opine that his first term was the most effective at getting things done at least since LBJ's, if not FDR's. And Biden did so, despite the necessity of having VP Harris have to break more, 32, tie votes in two years in the senate, than the previous record of 31 set nearly 200 years ago by John C. Calhoun, who was vice president from 1825 to 1832. And let's not forget, the narrow Demo "majority" included two (pos) senators named Manchin and Sinema, who seemed more intent on attracting as much attention to themselves as they could, rather than getting things done for the American people.
And yet, despite that, when the House majority went over to the Republican Party in the midterm election of '22, in a "Red Wave" that nearly didn't materialize, you want to hold Democrats responsible for not pulling a rabbit out of their hat and making all your political dreams come true, and punish them if they don't?
____ you.
People like you incapable of critical thinking are why we are subjected to an endless stream of "Congress is broken!" "Washington is broken!", instead of nuanced news that lays the blame where it belongs, in this case, with the party that isn't interested in getting anything done, the Republican cult and their cult leader Trump. Why should networks and news channels take the risk of pissing off half their potential audience who might tune in, when they can offer up indiscriminate pablum that amounts to "both sides do it", 24/7, and people eat it up because that's all they see and hear and don't know any better?
That fact that you "don't know better" is beyond sad. smfh
