The Democratic lefties having been pushing for their policy wants for more than a year on the party…
In the end?
They didn’t get their wants in a nominee such as Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren…
The party voters choose ole’ down the middle Joe Biden and he went on to beat Donald Trump by EIGHT Million votes and 74 Electoral Votes….
Biden has been in office for roughly 6 months….
Media reports say that progressive Democrats are already ‘annoyed’ at their party leader for not being able to get their ‘wants’….
Come On?
Are you kidding me?
Democratic voters did not go so far to the left in picking Biden.
Sanders ‘free stuff’ isn’t gonna happen….
Warren’s beat down of Big Business isn’t gonna happen….
An ‘Open Border’ isn’t gonna happen….
Gun Control isn’t gonna happen….
The Biden Justice Dept is defending Trump in court on a case right now…
Even Immigration Reform isn’t gonna happen….
Actually?
A good amount of Trump’s immigration policies are STILL in tact….
Democrats can get things they want thru the US House…
But the US senate is a completely different manner…
The Democrats actually do NOT have an even 50/50 Senate and majority with the Vice President tie breaker ….
Senator’s Manchin and Sinema are Democrats, but tend to ‘lean’ back over to some the Republican point of view on certain things….
And then there is the Super Majority thing in the US Senate ….
Ya gotta have 60 cooperating party votes in the Upper Chamber ….
The calls for the end of the filibuster is just noise….
Democrats led by President Biden are NOT gonna get rid of the rule…
They aren’t stupid ….
Progressives might be on this….
What comes around?
Goes around….
Democrats could lose their majority in the US Senate after only two years and guess what?
They’ll need to have the filibuster for their use….
President Biden has run into a political brick wall after the government stopped giving people money back….
He’ll still get some things….
But he’s a creature of the Congress….
He’s gonna operating the way he has for decades….
Progressives have become a side show…..
And will be smaller as the midterms come more into view except for their ‘safe’ contests….
Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada has announced she is also against eliminating the filibuster.
It NEVER was going anywhere.…
The media can have fun talking about this ….
But they’re just looking for attention….
WWHRD? What would Harry Reid Do?
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WashPost joins this ole dog in pointing to the loss of political power by the Democratic left….This IS a GOOD thing for Democrats who will make it difficult for Republicans to ‘brand’ them with the fringe of the Democratic Party politics
Been saying this here for a while and getting beat up for it….
But I think I was always on to the reality of Democratic politics vs what the media highlighted….
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The centrist successes contrast with the sharp rightward turn in the Republican Party, which has largely adopted the rhetoric of former president Donald Trump. Rank-and-file members, at the state and local levels, continue to rail against the nation’s institutions, passing censure resolutions against the few leaders who have contradicted Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen — a rallying cry that has been widely repeated by GOP candidates across the country.
Such litmus tests have not applied in Democratic races this year.
The candidates speaking out the loudest on issues such as racism, police abuse and health care inequities often find themselves behind in the polls. Winning candidates in many cases, such as McAuliffe, have adopted liberal positions on issues such as the death penalty and marijuana legalization, but even as they express support for the Black Lives Matter movement have stopped short of backing activist calls to “defund the police.”
“Almost everywhere, voters’ preference was: We need to win and there is nothing wrong with the Democrat I am voting for,” Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) said of Tuesday’s result in his state. “They are progressive Democrats, maybe not as far on the spectrum as some would like, but they are perfectly acceptable.”…
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