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Instead of highlighting GOP obstruction, the vote on S.1 devolved into a discussion of Democratic dissension
Dan Pfeiffer
3 hr ago
The Republicans waged war on democracy. Democrats responded with a whimper.
I hate being a Monday morning quarterback who hollers from the peanut gallery about the failures of those in the arena. I have been on the inside, and its always more complicated than cocksure Twitter strategists and professional pundits on the outside assume. I have a visceral reaction to the folks who seek out RTs by yelling about how Democrats need to do better and fight harder.
But still, its difficult to look at the run-up to yesterdays vote on the most critical piece of legislation in a decade and not think that Democrats need to do better and fight harder or at least fight smarter.
Every Democrat from the Senate to the White House touted the For the People Act as an absolutely essential response to Republican attempts to rig our elections, circumscribe democracy, and institute Jim Crow in the 21st Century. Yet all the Party could muster was a poorly planned, unchoreographed, failure of a procedural vote on Tuesday.
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https://messagebox.substack.com/p/how-democrats-fumbled-the-voting
quaint
(2,624 posts)PortTack
(32,861 posts)We have a 50-50 split with a tie breaker
These pundits can go f..k the right off!
Support for our dem leaders is vital.
betsuni
(25,934 posts)So sick of this.
NYC Liberal
(20,142 posts)Apparently that's all it takes.
Pundits are a joke.
The numbers are what the numbers are. The M$M shapes news stories to drive their circulation. They are not our friends. Want more progressive legislation passed? Elect more progressive Democrats.
PortTack
(32,861 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Dan Pfeiffer should know better.
moose65
(3,173 posts)This kind of horse shit makes my blood boil. WHAT did they expect the Dems to do? We have the thinnest of majorities, and here we are. What else could have been done?
WHITT
(2,868 posts)Schumer and the Dems knew full well it would be filibustered, the POINT was to illustrate to Manchin & Sinema that there are NO ten Repub votes in play. They are all doing the fascist twostep goosestep. Time to wakeup and smell the bullshit.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Pfeiffer was a long-time aide to Obama, serving in various press and communications roles throughout his 2008 campaign for the Presidency, on his presidential transition team, and in the Obama White House.[3] He co-hosts Pod Save America, a political podcast, with Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor.[4][5] In 2015, Pfeiffer joined CNN as a political contributor.[6]
Pfeiffer has written two books: Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump (2018), and Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again (2020).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pfeiffer
he actually thought that the Senate Dems thought this could pass? Where the hell has he been?
Autumn
(45,120 posts)and they will vote for it? That's the point?
I eagerly await the show.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)those in the arena."
Then don't be.
chowder66
(9,135 posts)WarGamer
(12,570 posts)DEMS didn't fumble shit.
The numbers weren't there, period.
Valiant effort, A+
uponit7771
(90,382 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,848 posts)moondust
(20,047 posts)Whatever you do...DO NOT BLAME THE LOCKSTEP OBSTRUCTIONISTS!
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