Interesting theory by Warren. Pass bills targeting key issues and see if the president vetos something popularā¦
It is critical to draft and pass this legislation, however the problem is that if he does veto, afterwards nothing changes. They get to say āwe triedā and that isnāt likely to be enough for voters.
Theyāll need help. Get involved. Contact your reps - write to them and make appointments to see their staff at their offices, regardless of their affiliation. Work on building support for popular legislation that benefits the people, directly with those making the decision.
Warren argued Democrats succeeded in midterm contests across the country āby being populist economic fighters who were unafraid to call out the corrupt politicians and corporate interests who have rigged the system at the expense of everyone else.ā
āNow, Democrats must deliver,ā the progressive senator wrote, urging her party to push Trump to live up to his vow to work with Democrats in the new Congress. āWe should force him to do that on the affordability and corruptionissues that drove this electionāor call his bluff.ā
We should force him to doā¦
āShould.ā Thatās the word to watch. It does all the work.
So you āshouldā stop watching and call your own rep to demand they deliver.
I think the inherent problem is that there is no real way to overturn a presidential veto without winning a super majority vote in Congress.
Since Trump is termed out and is officially in his lame duck period, thereās not a whole lot of leverage to force him to behave in any particular way.
āNow, Democrats must deliver,ā the progressive senator wrote, urging her party to push Trump to live up to his vow to work with Democrats in the new Congress. āWe should force him to do that on the affordability and corruption issues that drove this electionāor call his bluff.ā
Warren is stating Democrats need to mandate the fuck up and pass the policies, that the American people want, send it on itās way to Trump and the Republicans and dare them to veto it.
The fact that Trump will veto it or that the Republicans wonāt vote for the override donāt matter to Warren and what we progressives have been saying this entire time. Just do it, show you are delivering, and then tell the story loud and proud that you pass the law and Republicans told the American people no, stop giving a fuck about what Republicans will do and just do you.
Just do it, show you are delivering, and then tell the story loud and proud that you pass the law and Republicans told the American people no, stop giving a fuck about what Republicans will do and just do you.
Rightā¦ But weāre pretending that Democrats havenāt attempted to do this in the past. The problem is that the constituents of the DNC actually hold their representatives accountable candidates the constituents of the RNC tend to not give a shit.
There is plenty of leverage, the democrats refuse to play hardball. Idk how the democratic voters came to think they canāt play hardball politics.
the democrats refuse to play hardball.
What exactly would that entail? What kind of hard ball would effectively overturn or prevent an executive veto?
For instance, relocating military bases in their state and moving them elsewhere. There are a lot of things they can do, the dems refuse to do them, the red states get more in fed taxes than they pay in, and the dem states are donor states, and our politicians donāt change it back, it always ratchets to the repubs.
First of all, that would be insanely expensive. Secondly thatās not going to prevent the executive from vetoing bills, itās not like trump actually cares about red states.
Reapportioning federal spending is indeed how to play politics. The republicans do it, and āourā democrats donāt.
Your refutation falls on deaf ears here, as if we had no levers to change the fact that blue states pay more in taxes, and red states get more than they pay, and the dems donāt EVER even try to change it back.
A little late Warren, when Bernie was facing biden after all the moderates dropped out and backed him, Warren stayed in and split the vote, causing Biden to win, and the current president to get back in.
If she didnāt know that is what wouldāve happened, she is too ignorant and or dumb and or spiteful to be a US Senator. Fuck you Warren.
āThe American people want change. Real change. And the midterm election confirms just that,ā Sanders said in a video message, pointing to the urgent need to address out-of-control income and wealth inequality, the starvation-level federal minimum wage, unfettered artificial intelligence, the corrupt campaign finance system, the broken for-profit healthcare system, and more.
Weāve been talking about income inequality and unaffordable healthcare for quite some time, more than a few decades. Trump was an aberration who somehow made worse all the things weāve been complaining about, and wrapped it all up in a catchy PR jingle that made it sound desirable.