Democrats: No better time to adopt the "Shadow Cabinet" concept that they have in the UK, where different people respond to different areas of policy- health, state, treasury. This is what you do when they flood the zone.
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not in the least. I mean not really at all, sorry to say. You could argue that the minority ranking congress members of the various committees, but that is not in the public eye. It should be set by the DNC. And that person needs to be good, and ready (on the flip side they only have one area)
So, populate this shadow cabinet with people not in active Washington positions, for example HRC, Mayor Pete, and a former Pentagon general, instead of current Congresspersons who would be ranking committee members?
Also when you respond, you do not respond with outrage alone that Trump said something. It is not news that Schumer find an executive order outrageous or offensive. That should be given. Talk about effects, talk about disruption and instability in the home and the economy.
Takes the podium factor away from WH and gives a coordinated response from a person focused on little else. Will they do it. No. Because it's not fundraising.
So what I'd do there is tell the DNC, let the Shadow Cabinet members fundraise with their statements for their little political funds. Only way they'll take the jobs.
We have much stronger rules win fundraising here also, it is a fraction of the money allowed in the US. Parties get public $ based on vote at last election, and legislation in progress will cap annual donations to individual candidates
Yes, as you probably know here it's pretty much Senators or Congressmen have to be fundraising from day one. And we get lots of emails. A side effect (don't now in Aus) is fundraisers get 10% or more, so its a job for many. The raised funds create campaign jobs, so this leads to some DC blindness.
Any candidate with 4% of the vote - but here gets interesting - there is no funding for new candidates and the teals were supported by a community crowdfunding campaign called Climate 200, led by philanthropist Simon Holmes a Court, which is a big threat to the duopoly
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