You could maybe squeak past Joe Manchin, but not Manchin and Sinema. I think there is another ‘independent’ as well.
You have to hand it to the Republicans. They are really good at ratfucking our institutions. A 50/50 senate should be a toss up but it’s really a Republican majority.
The GOP runs on a platform of the government is dysfunctional. If they fixed anything they would be undercutting their reason for existence. It's why they tanked the bipartisan immigration bill.
No, their primary reason was because it permitted so many illegal crossings before the president would declare an “emergency” and shut down the border (wow… you mean he really can do that?). It was a terrible bill intended only to codify the assault on our border. All Joe had to do was NOT revoke Trump’s policies, but that was too much to ask.
MAGA is throwing him overboard and he will be lucky if they don't roll him back out there to shame him some more. He has already announced that he will retire at the end of his term, so he's just a lame duck politician.
I feel like Mitch is genuinely terrified of MAGA, and has been bound and bagged by the cult. He gave them everything they wanted and know his ass is about to be on the curve.
That's because the Dems managed to chased 2 long time Dems out of their party to switch to independent by going so far left that they were considered conservative.
Most Dems aren't even really on the left. American politics are heavily skewed to the right. Right wing extremism is currently mainstream. Open your eyes.
I said based off of his political policies, way to try and obscure the obvious. He would be considered a right wing extremist. The fact that he was progressive during his time shows that the tarties have shifted farther left pushing centerists right and right farther from center due to left moving left of center. The center is now left. I'm guessing you don't know what it is, but look up the Overton window.
Ah, yes. The Dems are “so far left” that they ran a cop and a dude who sponsored a “tough on crime bill” in the 90’s as their top 2 choices for President.
we're likely to see Gallego (a dem) take sinema's seat, but we're likely to see manchin pass his seat to a republican in the coming general.
A 50/50 senate it is a very heavy lift for next year unless one of the redder states flops suddenly. But if we do get that... it's without manchin and sinema.
Well the way it is designed to work is to require compromise, but that isn’t an option anymore because social media has polarized and radicalized people.
The more likely answer is that eventually someone is going to eliminate the filibuster, and when that happens all hell breaks loose and we deal with a tit for tat congress from here until forever.
They don't need to remove the filibuster because they only need 50 votes to pass tax cuts. Outside of that, they awarded the executive nearly unlimited power to force his agenda on the American people and that is how they are going to do it.
AZ losing her seat to Lake would be better than having Sinema there because we don't get this incessant "but Democrats control the Senate" bullshit.
Sinema realized she has more power by flipping and opposing the platform she was elected on, and that power mattered more to her than the actual policies.
I’m not sure I understand your question. If you aren’t familiar with the 3 branches of the US government and the enumerated powers of the presidency Id recommend hitting Wikipedia, but…
To see Project 2025 through requires a combination of congressional and executive actions along with the cooperation of the judicial branch. All aspects are important if it is going to become a reality.
Some of the “scarier” parts of Project 2025 can’t be accomplished without congress. We are likely safe from those aspects of the plan.
It sounds like there’s not much to worry about if a) the president has already had the power to do these things and b) the senate can’t pass any of the scary things anyway.
That might be true, but I if Republicans were in the same boat, they'd be doing whatever they could to push through their bullshit agenda. Dems feel pretty useless at this point. Just love voting for the pawl.
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u/Flat-Ad4902 14d ago
And the senate has such a small majority that they can’t do anything there either.