• Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world
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    Congress says

    Congress is concerned

    Congress warns

    It is literally your job to prevent these concerns. Stop talking and do something. The old fucks who refuse to leave office have been collecting paychecks while sitting back and doing nothing, progressively giving away their power to the executive branch for the past ~20 years. Now they’re concerned? Too little, too late. Either step up (but watch out for broken hips) or get out of the way.

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      What are senate dems supposed to do without a majority? The voters decided to prevent them from being able to do anything.

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        We can take a look at what Republicans do without a majority: stall for time, attack the moral character of the opposition, find loopholes in the procedural process that you’re technically not disallowed to do but annoy the shit out of everyone, and generally be as obstructionist as possible.

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            I wasn’t referring to the article, I was referring to what Senate Democrats can do in the current situation. At bare minimum, that can do what they were elected for as the opposition party. We don’t get even a noteworthy fraction of that, let alone extralegal measures.

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              As a party, democrats have voted against all of Trumps cabinet picks.

              Blaming “Senate Democrats” for the votes of outliers like Fetterman who vote against party lines is disingenuous.

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        I guess they’re supposed to take over the Capitol with guns and body armor or else we will continue to bitch and moan about the Democrats being the problem after we told everybody how apathetic we were about voting for them.

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          But I want to criticize democrats until republicans win elections and then criticize democrats for not doing the things I prevented them from doing…