I’m sick of it, too

It's knee-jerk Dem bashing, as evidenced by the OPs response (38) to post 13 showing that Democrats are speaking out.

Well, that's effective.

Saying MSM is such a 1980s Republican talking point. This is 21st century where everyone has phones and their own media.

And it's going to be a bumpy ride for Dems who want to stay moderate for appeasement vs Dems who want to go more left/progressive to stand by principles. It should be a heathy and constructive discussion along with calling out what did/did not work in the past, including 'strongly worded letters.'

Saying things like 'knee-jerk Dem bashing' is just dismissive and a refusal to even entertain what the party should stand for.

Where is the revolution? The establishment...

There is bitterness. But one will fight back! Written words are elite, letters, elite. Strongly worded letters -- ah, yes, the enemy will shrivel with impotent humiliation before such a clever taunting! They will be sorry. Oh, the posse will be sorry...

Sitting in comfort dashing insults to Dems who ARE trying to effectively address TSF’s insanity!

the Dems can stop Trump if they take a veto-proof House and Senate in November ...

in the meantime Trump's cabinet and JD Vance have to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment...and what are the odds the most corrupt cabinet ever and clown Vance will give up their multi-billion dollar grift?...but if they do invoke the 25th Amendment and Trump fights it, then it's up to the Congress to decide the issue with a two thirds vote to remove him.....again..what are the odds?..

if you think the No Kings marches haven't swayed even the most die-hard Republican you're wrong...they've lost Marge Green and a handful of semi-lucid loud Republicans...so there's that..

the Dems are no longer playing nice...they're everywhere..every progressive podcast/MSNOW..even FOX..raising the alarm of allowing a senile psychotic old man to remain in office another day...

Being in the minority leaves them at a big disadvantage here.

At the minimum there should be a leadership press conference declaring the president of the United States is clinically insane.

Riley Gaines = Absolutely nothing of substance
Laura Loomer = Absolutely nothing of substance
"Gulf of America" = Absolutely nothing of substance

and real people (and our military) are dying in Iran.

WTF is performative about THAT?

debating tactic that one should learn not to use in junior high school. Telling people what they think should never be mistaken for a valid debating tactic.

Screaming at democrats on a message board? You need to call Congress, also.

When I asked the person who answered when would the senator be back to work she told me that Capital police had instructed her not to give his location!!! My response was that I was not a stalker and only wanted to know if there was a plan to get back to work. After a long sigh she said that Johnson has directed session to open on the 14th. So I can tell you what the Reps are doing….absolutely nothing while the Dems are hog tied and unable to even get to the floor!! For people who say Dems do nothing I suggest they watch Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word. People are still working. What part of being in the minority don’t people get?

exactly what steps you have taken since the end of February.

Maybe getting his playbook out might do some good. He sure was effective whenever the GOP was in the minority.

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Key portions of the ACA
Key portions of the infrastructure investment act including the budget
Key portions of the Inflation Reduction Act
All of the Border security initiatives
All of the immigration reform initiatives
13 different reconciliation budget bills
voting reforms aimed at restoring what the courts took out of the voting rights act

Key portions of the ACA (mainly blocked by Democrats - Lieberman, Baucus, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Kent Conrad, Tom Carper... )
Key portions of the infrastructure investment act including the budget (blocked by Manchin and Sinema, NOT Republicans)
Key portions of the Inflation Reduction Act (blocked by Manchin & Sinema NOT Republicans)
All of the Border security initiatives (Blocked when Republicans were in the majority in the House)
All of the immigration reform initiatives (Not ALL immigration reform initiatives were blocked, but some were.)
13 different reconciliation budget bills (LOL, by definition, Republicans couldn't block reconciliation bills. Reconcilliation bills require a simple majority. It's effectively impossible for Republicans to have blocked any reconciliation bills).
voting reforms aimed at restoring what the courts took out of the voting rights act (blocked by Manchin & Sinema)

Keep in mind, if Democrats had abolished the filibuster at any point in Obama's or Biden's terms, the SAVE Act would now be the law of the land.

Not the Eyeore "Oh, bother, nothing can be done" bullshit.

Right F-ing now, The Democrats need to get their foremost political stars, (Sen's Murphy, Kelly, Beshear AOC, Newsome and others) together
and have an Urgent Address to the Nation. An address that bangs the table for the removal of Trump by 25th amendment or
Impeachment-pertaining to his latest round of unhinged-lunatic actions and statements concerning the War in Iran..
Yeah, Of course the Rs won't even take this up---But now is the time, as the Opposition Party---to be an Opposition Party, and the Voice of getting back to sanity & normallcy, and the adults In the room , And call for his REMOVAL!!

Activate public rage, for starters.

and call it a strongly worded letter.

in the shadows. I don't know...thinking that stops me from being paralyzed, anyway. I just. feel they are working in the shadows,


sage

If you're not seeing it, it's likely not happening.

All I am saying is that the GOP - while in the minority for much of the time and in a super minority for the first year managed to stymie and stall and delay and frustrate much of President Obama's agenda and initiatives. The GOP is just better at obstruction and delays than Democratic Party leaders.

exactly would they do?

They still think its 1980 and the other side can be made to make a deal. I'd say this calls for pulling some money out to deliver a nationwide address stating that what Trump is doing is illegal under international law, and that Congress hasn't authorized it. The Republicans blocked 80% of what Obama wanted to do when he had a majority in both houses and they did the same to Biden. Why in the world won't we do that?

"We're not in the majority, tsk tsk tsk" is a LOSING political slogan. If they don't do anything now, they never will,

The Democrats are not in a position to be able to stop Trump. Only the Republicans can do that.

They were certainly a thorn in Biden's side and they were the minority then too.

They retook the majority in the 22 midterms

exact message when the situation is clearly calling for the voice of opposition to speak some sanity. It seems to come out of the asinine notion that any criticism or suggestion that more can be done is an attack on Democrats.

I suggest you think through your insistence that our leaders mustn't speak in a crisis, mustn't use even those avenues of protest that are open to us.

It's just a habit now, a position in an old argument the world has long moved on from, and it makes no sense.

How is that going to stop Trump?

Thanks in advance.

I'll re-subscribe to the Washington Post.

To repeat for about the 100th time: REPUBLICANS have the executive branch, REPUBLICANS are the majority in Congress, REPUBLICANS have the majority of picks on the supreme court. This is on REPUBLICANS.

This nonsense would stop if REPUBLICANS would re-convene Congress and file articles of impeachment. I promise you democrats will vote to impeach, and that is all they have the authority to do while REPUBLICANS are in charge of everything.

the Republicans effectively stopped 80% of the agenda of both. So why can't we use those same tactics and do the same? Are you saying that we don't have anyone in our party as politically devious and ingenious as Mitch McConnell was, in using the minority power to stop what ever it was they didn't want.

This is a piss-poor, whiny baby excuse. It's because no one is willing to actually risk the fallout for taking a stand.

And I know you don't understand the reference, and I don't care. The person who originally wrote it would understand.

The president of the free world, a REPUBLICAN, is threatening to wipe out an entire country. And you would have us blame democrats.

Why are you against having more of our Dem leaders speak out? That's what this thread is about. Not blaming them.

party of opposition is interpreted as an attack by some here.

It makes us stronger. Only thing I hope is that Democratic leaders learn from Trump the second time. The way I see it, there are two camps with two views:

-Keep moderate view and go more right thinking that will appease independents OR go left/progressive to stand with principles.

-Elect moderate Dem and push progressive issue (like Obama w/ gay marriage) OR go full progressive and drag party with them (like Trump dragged Republicans to extreme right).

This thread is not about "speaking out" - this thread is clearly about blaming democrats.

but something like 94 out of 115 bills proposed in Obama's first 100 days died in the Senate.

You can't have members voting with the other side if you want to be an effective blockade minority and they certainly were, no doubt about it and to deny that is to display ignorance of the facts.

Hint: fewer than under Obama

with everything he wanted in it, because Democrats voted for it.

He's only been in just over a year, and yes, he has gotten more through the Senate than Obama or Biden did when they had the majority.

So you are admitting the Democrats aren't weak and helpless like your original claim that we can't do anything because we're not in the majority? Apparently you think we have done something. So why can't we do more? Because some Democrats have not gotten off sitting on their hands on this issue.

It passed the Senate with a simple Republican majority because it was a reconcilliation bill. In fact it required Vance to break the tie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act#:~:text=Before%20being%20signed%20into%20law,Democratic%20opposition%20in%20both%20houses.

BUT THE 80%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *lights self on fire, runs in circles screaming* OBAMA BIDEN BLAME DEMOCRATS 80% AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Now who does that remind me of? 🤔

Four months and ten days.

How would that work?

Proof of that?

Way too many people here erroneously think that the Republicans blocked a hell of a lot more while in the minority than they actually did.

Nothing else matters more than Supreme Court. Republicans recognized this decades ago and I feel a lot of my fellow Dems struggle with this.

We confirmed Sotomayor and Kagan when Democrats controlled the chamber.

So not sure how your example has any relevance toward today?

Obama didn't even try recess appointment. And Republican voters know SCOTUS is priority for everything.

After Trump, I'm REALLY hoping Dems will start taking pages from GOP playbook.

Obama had no options, Republicans controlled the Senate, there was no magic wand.

This sort of revisionist history is just more lies about Democrats.

They're so confident in their incorrect "facts". Kind of reminds you of another group of people....

The minority thinks I'm ignoring facts? Unbelievable.

That's insane to think they stayed the entire time. Of course, it was theoretical to appoint SCOTUS during recess but he never attempted it.

Obama actually tried to aggressively overcome this tactic early in his second term, by declaring the pro-forma sessions invalid and determining he was able to make recess appointments.

The Supreme Court shot him down unanimously in Noel Canning and invalidated those appointments.

That decision considerably narrowed the president’s ability to make recess appointments going forward.

Glad you were able to learn something today!

SCOTUS recess appointment discussion was different and they decided not to do it.

glad you learned something today.

No, it wasn’t ‘different.’ The Senate used pro-forma sessions specifically to prevent a recess, and SCOTUS unanimously upheld that in Noel Canning. There was no window to make one.

Fantasy fiction that might have been posted here and fooled some fools, notwithstanding.

This may be even worse than the election denying nonsense that pops up here every few weeks like clockwork. The lack of self awareness is mind boggling.

and you're right, it's mind boggling.

and believes Obama could have appointed a Supreme Court Justice during a non-existent recess is accusing others of denying reality. Wow, Wow, Wow!!! I've never seen anything like this. And yet you continue to dig your hole deeper and deeper. Some advice: quit while you're behind.

They did not do it in the minority. It would help if you had your facts correct.

"When McConnell's Republicans took over the Senate majority in 2015, McConnell slowed confirmation of Obama's judicial nominees to a historic low. ... Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, never got a hearing. Most Republican senators refused to even meet him."

Dana Milbank, "The Destructionists"

those of us who supported HRC were told by people on the far left that SCOTUS was not important and that they would vote their "conscience" and vote against "warmonger" Hillary.

Remember DACA? Blocked while there was a Dem majority. Border security, remember that one? Look at the struggle to get the ACA passed, with all kinds of amendments that basically was a very weak resemblance of what was originally proposed. Hardly any fiscal or budget proposal of Obama got through intact. That's Obama.

Biden? Immigration reform, his border security bill, never passed a budget without CR, decapitated a lot of the infrastructure bill, health care reform, gun rights bills, environmental protection.

And when breaking the filibuster was proposed, Biden, an long time veteran of the Senate, said no.

Actually, there was not one Biden proposal that made it through Congress without an amendment, addition or subtraction, so it's not 80%, it's 100%.

And it all could have been resolved if someone had the courage to break that filibuster, amend the judiciary act and pack the court. That's the kind of bold, risk taking courage I'm looking for.

So politely, you are mistaken.