House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.
The Republican party has used every dirty tactic they can to advance their agenda regardless of their current count of votes in the house or Senate. Remember how they refused to confirm a Supreme Court pick for over a year on the off chance that they’d win the 2016 election? Remember how they stonewalled and blocked anything and everything every way they could during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations? There is no “they go low we go high” because all that gets is more incrementalism
“Every dirty trick” is having actual majorities without independents to caucus. That is exactly why Republicans were able to deny the Obama appointee.
Don’t blame the independents. They weren’t the fucking turncoats who voted with Republicans.
Sometimes they did. Thats kind of what it means to be Independent, you dont vote with the party. One of them is the reason we don’t have public healthcare and instead only medicaid expansion.
Still, a supermajority with caucus would be nice and more than 50 dem would be salvation.
And now you’ve pivoted from 2020-2022, which is the useless neoliberal majority we were talking about, to 2008-2010, which is the useless neoliberal supermajority that kept the filibuster around just to make sure that the public option died.
After 2011 actually, specifically the most productive and progressive US congress in modern history when Dems had 58 for 72 days in the 111th congress.
When we came up 1 independent vote short of socialized healthcare.
2013 was over a decade ago. Even 2014 was over a decade ago.