Keep it up Democrats in Congress ...
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...and the party is going to splinter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill
Their sentiments are expected to influence the vast majority of the Democrats’ 213-strong House caucus to vote no – although sufficient Democrats are believed to be ready to vote in favor to enable the legislation to pass. The party has no plans to whip its members into line to enforce the leadership view.
I can't believe this BS. With innocent American citizens being dragged off to who knows where, murdered, and/or beat up, this tepid--to be kind--response from Democratic leadership is beyond pathetic. What in the $&#( ##& are they waiting for? Is what we see with our own eyes not enough of a transgression to merit whip?
I have to say, I'm almost done with the party. I hope Democratic Socialist party takes off.
“I share their frustration with the out-of-control agency. I encourage my colleagues to review the bill and determine what is best for their constituents and communities.” -- Rosa DeLauro (CT)
How did the party get so many brain dead nitwits in power?
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@bernard I share your sentiments about the Democrats.
Link to videoHow did it come to this?
I blame the Democrats for their continual weakness born out of corruption.
I've been done with them. I was done with them during the Biden administration. Biden enthusiastically supported a genocide, Democrats in power turned a blind eye, and now look what's happening here.
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You’re ready to leave the party when 7 out of 213 democrats disagree with you mostly about tactics? That’s 3% of the dems in Congress.
It seems unlikely that one could expect a national party to agree with them with more than 97% fidelity on pretty much any issue AND the right approach to achieving victory on it.
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When an executive branch without morals is able to decide which laws to enforce and which to ignore (release the files), it essentially means that no laws really exist. It is a plan 30 or more years in the making as the hard right/money figured out how to manipulate much of the public by burrowing into many of America's institutions - media, church, state and local government and the courts. They finally achieved the 'perfect storm' with enough power and votes along with most of the courts to keep the elected Dems unable to do much of anything through traditional channels.
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We have to rid ourselves of the pestilence that is running this country. The only option is to vote blue. The only option. I used to be one who though both parties were the same. Until 2016. When I voted for Hillary, which is something I never thought possible. Our current destroyer of our country made me do it and I would do it again to try to prevent someone like him getting elected anywhere in the government. The republican party has proven over the past 10 years to be incapable of doing anything correct for the people of this country. Not so the democrats. We wouldn't even have the ACA without the democratic party. And now we don't have it because of the republican party.
I know the democrats are not perfect. Nothing in this world is perfect. But at least they would not be doing 1/100th of the crap that the republicans have done to destroy this country.
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I think most every democrat agrees there’s no higher priority than to defang Trump. That’s going to happen in the midterms if at all. The optimal strategy is therefore one that make taking the house and senate most likely. Everything else is preening.
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You’re ready to leave the party when 7 out of 213 democrats disagree with you mostly about tactics? That’s 3% of the dems in Congress.
It seems unlikely that one could expect a national party to agree with them with more than 97% fidelity on pretty much any issue AND the right approach to achieving victory on it.
@jon-nyc No. And good point. However, "pretty much any issue" misses the mark. This isn't just any issue. Government sponsored murder and kidnapping--that will only escalate. Geeze. It's easy to see, now that we're living through it, how Hitler was able to do what he did. The oligarchs fund the regime, the capitalists cower and crawl, men and women of standing fall over themselves placating a tyrant.
The issue is party leadership. Jeffries is acting as if the time we are living in is the same as any other. These are extraordinary times and they call for extraordinary measures. If he can't muster the where with all to even try to get his party coalesced (the article states he had no intention of doing so) around the most appalling abuses against American citizens, he needs to go. And one measure of anyone running for Congress is whether or not they continue to support the "leadership" of Jeffries and Schumer, If so, they won't get my support.
As for leaving the party, yes, a real possibility. But not just over this unbelievable shitshow.
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We have to rid ourselves of the pestilence that is running this country. The only option is to vote blue. The only option. I used to be one who though both parties were the same. Until 2016. When I voted for Hillary, which is something I never thought possible. Our current destroyer of our country made me do it and I would do it again to try to prevent someone like him getting elected anywhere in the government. The republican party has proven over the past 10 years to be incapable of doing anything correct for the people of this country. Not so the democrats. We wouldn't even have the ACA without the democratic party. And now we don't have it because of the republican party.
I know the democrats are not perfect. Nothing in this world is perfect. But at least they would not be doing 1/100th of the crap that the republicans have done to destroy this country.
@Mark It is certainly true that the Democrats have the right intentions, at least on paper. And it's also true that no party is perfect.
But I, for one, am not seeking perfection. I am looking for a fight. Time and again, in the last year, we've seen weak kneed responses from Jeffries and Schumer. They are not up to the task.
Re, ACA. The ACA never had a public option because of a Democrat (Joe Lieberman) who was beholden to the same interests as the other side of the aisle.
