02-14-2025, 11:47 PM
$tevie wrote:
[quote=Tiangou]
[quote=$tevie]
Speaking as a constituent, Chris Van Hollen has been a good Senator. Is this person judging him by this one interview clip? ...
I think you failed to read to the end.
He lied in that interview clip.
But all the dems in Congress are lying. Even AOC.
They are cooperating with the Republicans. They are complicit.
Define cooperating. In specific terms.
Facilitating.
Do you assume that the minority party is powerless? Then how did the republicans block so much?
In particular, the Senate offers numerous ways to stall nominations before they come to a vote. How many judges did Obama nominate, never to come out of committee?
But then they voted for these nominees. If their votes were purely symbolic then they should have voted nay, no? But this isn't a situation where their votes didn't count because they didn't have the majority. They put several of the appointments over the top and in at least one case (Marco Rubio) gave that candidate a unanimous endorsement. The symbolism of that act should horrify you.
I agree with the editorial in the OP.
Dems are using this to make lots of noise for fundraising.
Don't judge them by what they say and post online. Judge them by their actions.
Looking at the voting records, they're sellouts and they're complicit in the destruction of our democracy and economy and of the world-order.