Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
If nothing else, this whole situation is a very revealing about which Democrat politicians have proverbial balls, which ones have their balls in the clamp (probably for doing embarrassing stuff), and which ones have no proverbial balls at all.
So far only AOC, Sanders, Pritzker, and a handful of others are showing they have the guts to stand up on the bullshit the administration is pulling.
Obligatory reminder that Sanders is categorically excluded from being a “Democrat with proverbial balls” not because he doesn’t have balls, but because he isn’t a Democrat. I deny the Democratic Party credit for his courage.
He does still caucus with them though. For now at least.
It’s not about balls, it’s about loyalty. AOC and the like have loyalty to the country while corporate Dems have loyalty to corporate interests.
After the Bernie Sanders’ “stop arms sale to Israel vote”, I can confidently say %90 of democrats are just worthless human shits who would have fared just as well being members of the Republic party or United Russia (Putin’s party) or AKP (Erdoğan’s party). As long as they got a seat of some power to glue their sweaty asses to, they will adapt to anything.
The problem I have with this take is that we knew 4 years ago too. For some of them, we’ve known for decades. We should have already been primarying them out, but between local ratfuckery and a lack of funding for primary challengers, we’re stuck with these assholes at a critical moment.
They probably don’t mind benefitting from Trump tax breaks.
But until many states have elections which pass United Nations reviews, and international witnesses, and stop having oligarchs counting the votes without oversight. All of this is just pandering to reasonable people. Just words with no weight. Hopes and dreams. The voice at the back of one’s head while doing something stupid.