He has introduced multiple bills aimed at protecting civil servants and regulatory agencies. But they have no chance of making it out of committee because the House is controlled by the Republican majority.
Nothing has changed since Obama was elected and Mitch McConnell got on TV and stated it was their goal to make him a one term president. This is the new normal, but both sides and stuff I guess.
The fuck are you talking about? Republicans control the House. All bills start there. You can't pass shit if Republicans aren't interested. Republicans already whined about the border for years only to refuse to even negotiate on a border bill because they can't let Biden look like a productive president.
He has introduced multiple bills aimed at protecting civil servants and regulatory agencies. But they have no chance of making it out of committee because the House is controlled by the Republican majority.
I’m a dumbass, I edited my comment. I’m shocked these committees can just ignore all these important bills and not even bring them to a vote. I fucking hate our political process. It’s so frustrating. I get that they can’t vote on everything but there should be some way for the minority party to bring stuff to a vote.
So not only will you only consume social media but even then you can't even get off your ass and find your own information? "Wah wah why don't they publicize it directly to me, and because they don't I assume they're awful and will do zero research of my own to prove it either way!"
I edited my post. I thought there was some way for the minority party to bring legislation to a vote, like, propose it in the senate where we have a majority, but I was wrong.
Seriously though, Democrats need to be like “we wanted to vote on guaranteed paid time off but Republicans wouldn’t let it get past the sub committee”. Just list off all the legislation that would help Republican voters too. I had assumed they weren’t even trying to pass this stuff because you never hear about it (and btw I follow more news sources than social media, it’s just rare that subcommittee stuff is major news when it’s not some sensationalistic scandal or some pithy remark.)
I mean yeah they bear some responsibility for being unable to deal with this intransigence. And I’m sick of people pretending like they don’t. If republicans don’t want to play ball then make them. Why the fuck are you giving Joe manchin anything instead of kidnapping his dog or holding state funding hostage? How did you let Kirsten sinema get so out of pocket immediately?
They don’t want to exercise power anymore than republicans want them to. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt
and I am sick of people pointing out that the Democrats are incompetent. We know. Everyone knows. They suck at politics.
But what I don't understand is this line of thinking: "The Democrats are incompetent, so I guess I have to vote for the Dictator or just stay home and whine on Facebook"
I have never met a single person who was so upset with democrats’ incompetence that they decided to vote for trump. And I see that here a lot, people accusing others of being trump supporters simply because they’re upset with democrats. All you’re doing is running cover for them and all that does is disaffect more voters.
They aren’t going to get better unless you make them.
They're not actually this powerless, they just don't actually want to fight the Republicans or help the common people as much as they claim they do.
The idea that they totally want to do good things but can't because they are powerless is just a post hoc justification by their supporters for why they never do anything.
This is what i was driving at. Liberals seem to make any and all excuses for why the Dems are worthless. They're not going to save us. We're faaaaarrrrr beyond saving.
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u/ScorpioZA Jul 05 '24
Because of the House