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bigtree
(93,455 posts)...but congrats following the Independent instead of your own party's leader on this.
You were led right where they wanted you on this, attacking your own party with their spophistry.
Both leaders, as Democratic leaders have for decades, make major legislative decisions both by consensus of the Democratic caucus and through what they can achieve in respective committees.
No matter what you intimate here, crafting a legislative response is a collective process, and good responsible leaders don't make those negotiations in the press. Whatever leadership he exerts is going to be one on one with the Democrats who chose him to represent them; and when there is a consensus, when he has actual votes he can carry around, he'll promote those priorities of the party, not just his own personal opinion.
Too many people are looking for king-like behavior in a democratic system of government, spurred on, I'm thinking by watching the opposition break rules and run their mouths like they're in a schoolyard fight, instead of governing.
Independent is just fine with egging people on to engage in stupid politics that does little but engage in tit for tat with a foolish bully in the WH. Fortunately, we have a party that works together, like the unanimous vote on health care subsidies Jeffries just achieved after months and months of pushing for it against much of the same noise about his leadership.
People need to come correct when they come at our party leaders, and claiming they're 'leading from behind' is just false and misleading; not to mention just pure bullshit in this case.
Leader Jeffries today:
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anything out in terms of the proper way
to bring about accountability. But what
I can say, and we'll have a conversation
amongst some caucus members on this
tomorrow. I don't want to get out ahead
of it, and then we'll reconvene early
next week.
But what's clear to me is
Christine Gnome is deeply unqualified,
deeply unserious, and deeply dangerous.
She's a complete and total disgrace. She
should never have been confirmed by the
Senate in terms of holding this
position. She lied to the American
people as she's been doing repeatedly,
but in this instance, slandered a
37year-old American citizen whose life was
taken without justification by an ICE agent
who showed depraved indifference to
human life.
That agent should be criminally investigated
to the full extent of the law. And simultaneously
in Congress, we need to decisively respond
and we will. And that'll be led, of
course, by Robert Garcia, who leads our
efforts on the oversight committee,
Benny Thompson, who leads our efforts on
the Homeland Security Committee, and
Jamie Rasin, who leads our efforts on
judiciary.
“Our focus right now in terms of the appropriations bills are getting the three bills that are going to be on the floor today over the finish line, and then we’ll turn to the homeland security bill,” Jeffries said, referring to a separate package of funding bills that the House passed earlier Thursday. “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-minneapolis-shooting-funding-democrats-shutdown
The caucus fucking meets tomorrow. Our responsible leader in the House will wait until he speaks with the entire Dem coalition before spouting off to the press about how the PARTY is going to address DHS abuses.
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