That is the difference between conservatives (who want to bank money, because they're afraid of losing it) and liberals (who want to use it to improve lives, because that is just what they like to do).
Exactly! We're not supposed to be propping up a party that exists to enrich itself, we're supposed to be bending the moral arc of the universe towards justice. We should be spending every ounce of political capital on that goal the moment we earn it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted Theodore Parker (1853) when he said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I love the thought of us actively bending it.
That sounds incredibly like the ACA. Or as the red necks call it. Obamacare. And America said. Hell no. We want junk insurance back. We want to be ripped off. We hate being forced to get value from our premiums or provider. No way man. We got this.
The audacity it takes to be a septuagenarian clinging to power rather than lifting up the next generation and getting out of the way is absolutely infuriating. They truly believe they are irreplaceable.
Use every bureaucratic tool at their disposal the way Mitch McConnell did when he was in the minority and publicly oppose them instead of talking about bipartisan compromise
Except that if I'd been elected, I would have had my spouse be a stay at home parent so our kids wouldn't end up in foster care, I would be in DC instead of 11 hours away, I would have some authority to be in the buildings, and I wouldn't be leaving my job helping domestic violence victims.
I think legislators should be willing to do their job, even if it's personally inconvenient. (And should structure their life to meet those demands as much as they can - my spouse would have stayed home so I could)
I'm not a legislator. I'm a nobody. My job and available resources are different.
Sen Murkowski could decide to caucus WITH DEMS instead of GOP. And if another could be convinced to do the same things could get far more difficult for Trump.
I wanted to go into public policy to work on shit I cared about and I relished a scenario where I could build up a lot of political capital and throw it at a stuck problem, where no one could ignore it. Nerdist James Bond fantasy ever
It’s also a total misread of the election results to stay quiet and “build political capital” in this moment. Americans are angry at the system and they’re looking for anyone to voice and embody that anger. For better or for worse, Trump is *an* avatar for that anger. Reps should be VERY loud now.
It's just so funny that their opponents won by fighting them on every single thing and dragging their name through the mud for years, and the response is to quietly capitulate on everything.
…I’m upset that Trump is raging against “the system,” which does things like release a new flu vaccine every year, fund science and food aid, and supply weapons and armor to people fighting a Russian invasion.
TL;DR: There is no zero way to hide that they are making the legislative process as comfortable and easy as possible for the GOP. A single Senator could change the entire fate of the United States and they are declining to do so.
A do-gooder caught adrift in a sea of bad intentioned actors who are waiting for the go-ahead to take the plunge into complete evil. Let's make their take on this the fantasy of a Bond villain. We need heroes, we have more than our share of the other.
Agreed. Dry powder is useless after the battle's over; it's "use it or lose it" time now but too many higher-ups in the Democratic Party don't seem to realise that.
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Use what you have right now or when you open your precious vault of political capital later, you'll turned to useless dust.
We aren't asking them to be legislators. We are asking them to be politicians. Get in the way.
This isn't exactly a wait a decade and do a case study with some opinion polling situation.
Off your rump and into the agencies, congress!
Except that if I'd been elected, I would have had my spouse be a stay at home parent so our kids wouldn't end up in foster care, I would be in DC instead of 11 hours away, I would have some authority to be in the buildings, and I wouldn't be leaving my job helping domestic violence victims.
cool cool
I'm not a legislator. I'm a nobody. My job and available resources are different.
TL;DR: There is no zero way to hide that they are making the legislative process as comfortable and easy as possible for the GOP. A single Senator could change the entire fate of the United States and they are declining to do so.