I think the most infuriating thing about the moderates voting for that bill is not even that they were putting forward an argument based on their convictions that this bill was the right way to go forward, but that it was their quickest way out of DC in time for Fourth of July recess. I mean really, fuck right off with that.
Dude, we all know what this is about. If you want to act dumb about it be my guest but you're insulting my intelligence when you try your act on me.
Any time an issue emerges with an individual house rep, Pelosi's response has been to go wide and generic with her response even when people know who/what is triggering It and causing the response. It's been a pattern for the entirety of her current speakership so far where she avoids individual callouts on serious issues unless its absolutely necessary.
This is an example of what I'm talking about above, yes. When Pelosi's responding to an intra-caucus dustup, going wide is her playbook.
Again, you're mismatching the article's quote from Kirblar's adamant claim.
I almost hope they are American because I would hate to think any Brit or European would be extolling the virtues of a multi-party system in 2019 while their countries are being taken over by nationalist far-right fringe parties exploiting the fracturing of the left/center-left wings.
That mindset is no one else's fault but their own. Whether people like it or not that is the reality and there is no sugar coating it to make it seem less manipulative. It sounds like a guilt trip because we as a country through apathy and enabling are guilty of breeding this humanitarian crisis. People should be fucking ashamed that this is happening in our country. There is no way to actually talk about the fact of this internment of children in a way that is more palatable and if someone chooses to shrink when being confronted on that then there isn't a magical way to sway or convince them in the first place.
They lost Eric Cantor's seat because they replaced him with a Tea Party goon in the Tea Party heyday, who then got beaten by a moderate D in this past election cycle. It's the exact same issue the Dems faced this past year with Eastman/McGrath likely losing the party elections by being too far to the left for their district, except it's on a much larger scale. It didn't stop them from being overall winners, but it did hurt them at the margins in ways that made them more vulnerable in 2018 than they should have been.
Because the response never called out Omar specifically even though people knew what it was about, similar to how Reps believe this is specifically about Pocam even though his name was never mentioned.
This is literally every kirblar post in politics on this forum.
For people who like to act smarter than everyone else when it comes to politics they sure love taking everything at face value.
This post looks comically stupid when the underlying issue of disagreement is literal child concentration camps.ERA: "We need a 50 state strategy in order to get progressive policy done!"
2018 election where candidates of various states and districts are elected and represent a wide array of views of their constituents which doesn't perfectly meld with their own personal liberal / leftist stances
Yep. Harassing the voter base that will actually determine who the next president of the US will be is not a winning proposition.
It's clear that they chose the wrong strategy, they could have just run on a platform of bucking Trump and done absolutely nothing like this group of miscreants have.
She's not against criticism of centrists, it's just that she knows the GOP can try to capitalize on public division.
Ding ding. She had a telling quote the other day about how she's been "fighting for health care for 30 years" or something like that. If she's been fighting for thirty years and she hasn't succeeded, she's failed. It's time for new leadership.
Feel the exact same. Just like her "Twitter world" bullshit, whining about what people are doing on Twitter seems to be paramount in her mind instead of the actual work needing to be done to protect people.
Our government was formed based on compromise. Compromise isn't the problem. It's the complete lack of compromise from both sides that is the problem.
Omar makes remarks that are disingenuously interpreted by Chait and another writer by framing them out of context.
Spoiler: The House progressive version of the bill would have "funded the camps" too. Because "not funding the camps" would wind up in a even worse humanitarian place than passing either of the bills.
