The stuff that is going to start surfacing will turn out stomachs, but we need to power through it to rub some right wing noses in the poop they were willing to overlook to pwn the libs

(This is such a terribly written sentence you can rest assured I am a real person)

We can only yell at them so much. Someone like Fetterman likely has a lucrative gig with some lobbying group or think tank set up after this. They can easily do their damage as instructed and then duck out when the next primary comes by to challenge them. I want a recall mechanism that takes weeks/months to do rather than wait 6 years where they can still thwart any meaningful bills in the meantime.

Getting a recall mechanism approved though would be next to impossible as the ones who have the power to make that rule wouldn't want to.

In the left direction ;)

She's in the same seat that was held by Strom Thurmond and John C. Calhoun. That's just wild to think about.

The people who decide congressional leadership, are the sitting members of Congress.

2 years ago when the vote was held Jamie Harrison was still DNC chair, and not voting how he wanted would have gotten your state party cut off from "the victory fund".

That fund is gone now, has been for a while.

The current DNC chair named in February 25 dumped all that money back to the states it was stolen from.

It's not just that we have to trust him not to use "the stick", he fucking burnt the stick to ash already.

Representatives can vote for the leadership they want, but we need to reach out to them and tell them what we want them to do.

I mean, Haley Stevens was booted in a day. At this point his exit from the party is mandatory.

If he runs for reelection, 2028. Hopefully he just goes away or a stroke gets him. Being a stroke survivor makes him more likely to have another stroke.

Gotta start somewhere. Do you topple a building from the top down, or do you place explosives in strategic points of support and bring it down from within? Both methods can, and have, been used.

Lots of people don't fuck with politics. But politics will always fuck with you.

Sounds like somebody who finally woke up. We have to participate in democracy for it to function.

Let's not blame people looking to change, but embrace them. Primaries are how we move the party to the left.

Last night was great progress towards damage control. Now we can start fixing things in the primaries.

My personal answer is that you have to register as a member of a party in my state, and I’m not fond of being on lists like that.

I usually don't know anything about candidates before the actual election starts ramping up. I'm usually voting against people rather than for them.

Bro only 10% of americans vote in primaries. AKA the literal check and balance to incumbent power but i digress.

like FR, that is such a 2016 question.

Might not have been old enough

100%

I also really like that they've filed it under "conventional wisdom" btw:

"The existence of Fetterman is now utterly futile"

Dems keep saying it has to stay though 😭. Maybe change will happen after this election

I really hope that's true.

you don’t have to amend the constitution if you just change what words mean.

I hate how right you are because nobody patched this shit in too long.

The last few times the Democrats held a majority in both houses, they rolled over for Republicans who were absolutely relentless in their attacks.

When Republicans held both houses, Democrats just silently let them get away with whatever, instead of going on the offensive the way they should.

Attack. Legislation isn't going to happen. Investigate. Obstruct. Be so offensive that simply existing in Washington becomes unpalatable for Republicans.

Instead what they'll do is send through the most milquetoast of progressive legislation, watch it get vetoed and when it comes to a point where it could actually happen, they'll forget the ever brought it up in the first place. Like they do every time.

Why not kick him out?