They did promise to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans. Can’t work with them if you beat them in elections or put them in jail for their crimes.
I post from my phone, so it’s hard for me to give a lengthy, organized reply. I’m not trying to give you short shrift with this short response.
Most of the stuff you’re talking about can be done from his home/district, even attending committee meetings. If it’s learning about issues and legislative fixes to them, there is literally zero need to sit through a committee hearing to do that. Any sitting congressperson can pick up the phone and set up a call or meeting with virtually any expert or agency staff member they need to talk to to ask all the questions they require to understand the issues and the legislative fixes being proposed. In my limited experience (I’ve had to monitor a handful of committee hearings related to funding for various USACE projects), hearings are carefully scripted, with limited testimony from a curated list of witnesses who may be experts but are there giving public testimony and will not provide meaningful answers that stray from the interest they support.
Staying in your district interacting with your constituents rather than representatives from various interest groups would be a way better use of their time than staying in DC to be shuffled around to various committee meetings.
One to watch for those of you who think shipping money is a political cheat code.
https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1516458704169840646?t=o-fsndSwbtKqVtzpI0EpnQ&s=19
Kind of meaningless because, as they note, the amount of money a candidate raises is well correlated with prior popularity.
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I don’t think it’s the right conclusion to say it’s meaningless. I think the right conclusion is to actually do the work if you want to make a claim about money in politics. A throwaway comment about one politician in one city is closer to meaningless.
The only things that make Nancy actually mad are progressive democrats and personal inconveniences
https://twitter.com/lisadnews/status/1516938972009803777?s=21&t=xXd1sKi2-bS44jrmyrximQ
I wonder what happened? Maybe she had to lock down with a progressive member of the caucus, or perhaps she missed a fancy dinner reservation. Such a shame!
Nah, she likes advanced notice of everything so she can figure out what to invest in.
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Yeah this is the rare non-AOC/Bernie Dem clip that’s actually good. No appeals to Repub’s rationality or emotions or their non-existent humanity, just straight ‘this is who I am, this is what I’m doing, and this is why I’m not going to stop.’ Her ‘hope you got some good fundraising out of it…hope you slept well’ or whatever was also a nice middle finger.
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This looks to be about the extent of energizing the youth vote
https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1518029370878676992
LOL
yeah mitch is fucking shook absolutely for sure jlawok.gif
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I assume he’d still caucus with republicans
Independents are always just republicans.
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Bernie?
Angus King
I was inelegantly trying to say I bet lots of right wing independents will run pretending to hate maga.
Well, as far as that is concerned.
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I don’t know about “lots”. Trump basically owns the party. Running against MAGA is a loser. I don’t think “lots” are going to do it to take some sort of principled stand even though defeat is certain. They’ll just not run at all (like Kinzinger).
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McMullin seems to legit hate MAGA. It doesn’t seem like “pretending” with him