10 Democrats join with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest
Ami Bera (California)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Jim Costa (California)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jim Himes (Connecticut)
Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Jared Moskowitz (Florida)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)
Tom Suozzi (New York)
We need a left version of the tea party and primary these people out.
That was Occupy Wall Street. But they weren't useful idiots for big business, so "moderates" just laughed at them.
I think one of the reasons that OWS struggled was a lack of a clear message and a lack of leadership.
But I think it finally ended with "necessary" outdoor camping laws that most cities put into place to breakup the camps. That and the moderates laughing at them instead of supporting them.
Don't forget the champagne
The tea party was almost entirely an engineered movement from the Koch brothers.
We are not cooked but burnt. The Dems are controlled opposition and have been since Citizens United at least.
Triangulation under Clinton was literally accepting all GOP economic policies and enacting NAFTA while merely paying lip service to labor and traditional constituencies. Democrats have been a party largely moving rightward since at least the early 90s. Adopting GOP economics in a seemingly more appealing package meant the GOP needed to differentiate ushering in Gringrich's culture wars, erosion of comity in DC, and a lot of the other ills we live with today.
Clinton signing the 96 telecommunications act allowed for billionaires to control the narrative. I genuinely hate the Clintons more than the Republicans. They enabled all this shit to happen.
I wonder how many of them are members of the Federalist Society.
And thats why we're cooked folks.
Perez's dad is literally a Mexican immigrant. These people just hate, even their own families.
I don't like my father or want anything to do with him but I don't necessarily want him suffering just because.
As if it wasn't bad enough that the Democrats were being passively complicit in Trump's fascist coup d'etat, now they're being actively complicit in it.
They've always been actively complicit.
10 Traitorous twats join with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest - FTFY
Nothing but lame ass enablers of fascism. The GOP couldn't ask for better allies than folks who stand for nothing and just hold signs and dress in pink when people's healthcare is being taken away the government is being dismantled.
Need new party. Dems are done
Some links with events or contact info for anybody that wants to use it
Ami Bera (California) - https://bera.house.gov/upcoming-events/
Ed Case (Hawaii) - no events listed, but here's his contact link https://case.house.gov/contact/
Jim Costa (California) - have to sign up for upcoming events notification https://costa.house.gov/live
Laura Gillen (New York) - currently no upcoming events https://gillen.house.gov/about/events/calendar
Jim Himes (Connecticut) - currently no upcoming events https://himes.house.gov/town-halls
Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania) - telephone Town Hall at 6pm today https://houlahan.house.gov/calendar/
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) - currently no upcoming events https://kaptur.house.gov/about/events/calendar
Jared Moskowitz (Florida) - don't see a section for events, but contact info is available https://moskowitz.house.gov/
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington) - no upcoming events https://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/events/clark-county-town-hall
Tom Suozzi (New York) - currently no upcoming events https://suozzi.house.gov/about/events/calendar
Does anybody know if these are safe district Dems or purple district Dems? I do have some sympathy for politicians who use strategic votes that don't actually matter.
Of the 10 Democrats who voted to censure Al Green, 6 of them are in safe blue districts. They didn't have to do this at all.
They should have been up there blocking his removal. Instead they're helping the anti-American authoritarians. Fucking DINOs.
Case in particular is in an incredibly safe district that votes in progressives for other offices, but after winning his initial primary with a plurality he hasn't had a real challenger despite being a quisling centrist doing performative party-bucking the whole time. Hawaii's political landscape is just incredibly steeped in backroom politics and an aversion to risk. Case himself was in Congress previously and basically killed his career for a decade by challenging a senator before it was his turn.
One of the big names in state politics just lost to an upstart though, so maybe the cracks are growing.
It's well past time for Schumer and Jefferies to step down. Pelosi was crooked but at the very least she could effectively lead her party against the opposition. We have no hope of Democratic party unity while these two clowns are at the head. Utterly useless.
As a European I’ve accepted the fact that the US I knew is gone and we will probably be full-blown enemies soon.
Or government is not the same as it was. That's for sure
I'm losing a lot of respect for Jared Moskowitz these days. I had been excited to see what his political future looks like because he's young and sharp, but shit like this makes me think he's just the same shitty old establishment dem with a fresh coat of paint. What a fucking letdown.
Jesus Christ…
Of all the news in the past weeks, "5% of Democrats join Republicans in an inconsequential vote" is the least of my concerns.
Add 'em to the Luigi List.
What the fuck dude
I sincerely hope all of these politicians are absolutely destroyed in the primaries next year, because what the actual fuck.
Did they spell “celebrate” incorrectly.
This comment says a lot more about you than it says about anyone else. Green went sicko mode on this circus and you're triggered as hell.
Yes it says that they are a Nazi. Trump supporters are literal Neo-Nazis and we will not stop pointing that out.
Holy projection. Were you holding up a mirror in front of your face as you furiously typed this out?
You sound like a snowflake
What the fuck
I upvoted this but it didn't feel like enough so I'm adding my own...
What the fuck?!?!
What the actual fuck?!
The donations which were made to the Democratic party paid for these peoples campaigns. Those donations paid to have progressives rat-fucked at the primary level for pieces of shit like this to get through.
Normally Democrats only start voting with Republicans at the big donor bills. This is a really weird hill for these Dems to die on.
They're licking boots now on the idea that they'll be allowed to keep power as tokens.