Democratic (Party) Direction

maybe NP has different issues idk

She's bad.

Last chance Dems have to redeem themselves is to pull a Merrick Garland on Neil Gorsuch

— eve ⚔️ peyser (@evepeyser) February 1, 2017

I do not understand that tweet

I see no problem with the concept of obstructing the hell out of Trump's appointments tbh, even the "competent" ones. especially them, actually

a) they did
b) that tweet recommends a course of action (blocking Gorsuch from ever coming up for a vote on the floor) that was literally not possible

peyser is a really terrible writer and thinker afaict

ie that tweet just demonstrates a shitty understanding of how the Senate works

xp

Exactly and people read her believing it is possible but the bad Dems just chose not to because they are bad.

xps apparently the dems redeemed themselves, then

I'm def not seeing the kind of full throated blanket opposition I'd prefer. I've seen a lot of this "let's wait for details" approach now and seem to recall a lot of it back during the appointments. Fuck that. There's no good version of, for instance, authorizing a Trump military adventure.

The American public deserves more details from POTUS on Afghanistan. Congress should ask for the specifics and then debate & vote on an AUMF

— Senator Tim Kaine (@timkaine) August 22, 2017

jail trump. impeach garland

universal basic income, medicare for all, tuition-free public universities, weed legal over the age of 21

the "statue" stuff, in this next step, could bite non-Confederate Dems in the ass

http://gothamist.com/2017/08/22/not_so_columbus_circle.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7BIaaxGAU

love 2 get my history from statues

haha whoops I meant this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSlX36QP_po

I, for one, think we should remove any and all statues of Artie Bucco and replace them with statues of Charmaine Bucco

Let's put up some statues of osso buco.

Paul Ryan sonned by a nun

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57140/paul-ryan-nun-town-hall/

racine is a rough crowd for janesville frauds

that doesn't sound particularly sonn-y to me - she asked a pointed question that he promptly and ably skated away from as he has a million times before

I mean this is why the GOP loves him as a "policy wonk" etc because he acts like he is actually answering those questions with specific policy solutions grounded in conservative principles, he doesn't get flustered at all.

mnuchin tax: 75% above $5 million

Here's a 2005 story about Democratic Party fundraising letters of the past, when they also had contempt for everyone @andsat pic.twitter.com/mrrLFvNDiH

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 22, 2017

"They used a font that looked like handwriting" is a good reason not to vote dem

GOP contracts to have all their envelopes hand-addressed by Sri Lankan children iirc

"But their snail mails..."

both sides are blase so promote republicans (or at least don't cheer for the democrats)

tick.jpg xp

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2017/08/the-voters-are-economically-insecure.html

stevie you are the monarch of missed points

and you are the guy who shares dennis perrin tweets

as part of whatever plea bargain 3Ks makes with mueller, pence and gorsuch should have to resign, too

Go on?

pres. paul ryan

http://i.imgur.com/1wlDoVL.png

xxp and everyone should get a pony in this fantasy scenario

http://dougjonesforsenate.com/

Ryan should ditch the moustache and go full Lincoln.

aka the Bork

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inZCNrkGRc0s/v1/-1x-1.jpg

Erm, maybe the Koop.

(I feel like Bork went stacheless for a time too, but maybe I'm mistaken.)

Forecast is for Democrats to get 54 percent of the vote and only 47 percent of the seats. https://t.co/IE898c52Ca

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 24, 2017

sounds fair

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fb/Roy_Snyder_%28Official_image%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20141026132126

the GOP aided and abetted former KGB agents making fools of the USA, stirring the Nazi / KKK pot in the process, all to cut taxes on their "libertarian" donors, when inequality is already at historic highs. shouldn't be a tough sell, DNC

I mean what you just said is exactly what I hear from Schumer / Ellison / Harris / Perez / Warren every single day -- it's literally the party line! And yeah, I think it's selling.

Need to get fundraising consultants to stop being ass hats - except then who do you hire to do the fundraising

Meanwhile Sanders continues to be Capt. Save-A-Trumpkin:

Sanders defends Trump voters: Most aren't racist, sexist, deplorables https://t.co/hWkfVsXxrv pic.twitter.com/fI2EaD2Aj6

— The Hill (@thehill) April 1, 2017

I mean I get what he's trying to do, or what he thinks he's trying to do, but the voters he's talking about would have looked at a Trump-Sanders race and thought, "Hmmm, I can vote for all this populist/working class messaging OR I can get that plus get rid of Mexicans and black people??" **pulls lever hard for Trump**

The thing is, Sanders is right -- the numerical majority of Trump voters are just the usual upper-middle-class white Republicans in suburbs who would never go to a Nazi rally (but who also would keep on having dinner with their uncle if their uncle were a Nazi.) It would actually be better if people would break out of thinking that Trump voters are "anti-elite" when the truth is more like "As always, the GOP voters were substantially wealthier than the Democratic voters, but somewhat less so in 2016 than when Mitt Romney was the candidate"