Those things aren't mutually exclusive! Do both of them!

If Democrats have any hope of winning the 2028 election, they need to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time

Trump somehow manages to have like 10 different obscenities and acts of corruption running simultaneously, but 54 senators can figure out how to pursue two goals at once amongst them.

Do "all of the above" you fucking pussy.

I can kinda see where he's coming from (assuming he's being sincere).

However, congress can focus on 2 things at once. They can and should do both.

I feel that politicians don't "go after" each other because they hope in not doing so, no one will come after them (or their own) in the future. Just do your job ... all of it!

It doesn't have to be either/or. They've employed the "flood the zone" technique with their corruption, let's do the same thing in reverse, but with investigations AND legislation. Keep these MAGAs busy reacting to one thing or another.

It's OUR country now, and WE set the agenda and the message, and MAGA will have to go along with it. This guy sounds like he's just one of those old school cowardly loser Democrats who is still afraid of MAGA confrontation. He can sit on the sidelines and wait until we need him for a vote.

That's the neat thing, Adam, you can do more than one thing at a time!

God, are centrist Democrats so completely inept that they can't do more than one thing at a time?

Imagine caring if this fucking guy ends up being disappointed

It doesn't have to take two years. Don't investigate everything, because that will take forever. Investigate the worst stuff and impeach him as quickly as possible.

The thing to remember is that Congressional investigations in both houses take place in committee, not on the floor, and that committee assignments are often long-term commitments, fought over and worked toward over multiple terms, with the most powerful ones being given to people who have worked on them longest.

What this guy is asserting doesn't matter and won't change anything. It's hot air. He's a new senator who will not get especially powerful committee assignments, and after this he sure as fuck won't get anywhere near investigations.

But I will add, this guy is a reminder of why Schumer and Jeffries need to go: if you can't achieve, you can often block. This guy can't block shit, especially if he gets assigned to something like the committee on office trash collection. But Schumer and Jeffries can, especially Schumer. They need to go.

If you're interested, the REAL committee to watch is House Oversight -- the one already working the Epstein files investigation in spite of ongoing Republican efforts to shut it down and protect the perps -- and the rep who will now be chair, Robert Garcia of California, is one of the reps who was telling Republicans on election night, "Lawyer up." He's already announced the investigations he will be prioritizing and has been working on all along as the ranking (minority) member: he's hitting the ground running. And unlike the chair now, he's not afraid of applying actual consequences. I suspect we might even get to see some action out of the Sergeant at Arms.

We can, and will, do many things at once. It's not that hard. Bad actors just made it seem that way.

I don't see why they can't do multiple things at the same time.

For fucks sake. They get paid quite a lot and have exceptionally good benefits compared to the rest of us.

Plus all the stocks, bribes, and so on.

Lazy bastards.

Huh, I would have thought the 1st priority would be shutting down ICE, releasing everyone and closing the concentration camps. Then the 2nd priority would be getting the people back who were sent to random countries they've never visited before.

Check his hard drives

my dude, learn to walk AND chew gum.

It's been just a week, and already 3 democrats are publicly opposing any accountability for republicans, one of which is fucking Kamala Harris.

It's almost as if... No, it can't be. It can't, right?

You have to stop trump from stealing the money before any will be spent to the benefit of the people.

Can’t walk and chew gum eh?

This guy was a registered Republican until 2020. He basically was fine with Trump's first term. Let that sink in... He will be as useful to Dems as Fetterman is. That's one of the reasons I'm not very optimistic about the whole "blue wave" thing. A lot of those wins in red states are by center-right politicians.

Why not both? There's a couple of hundred of you to go around this time ..

Yeah, this is part of why I've been saying that it's a silly and naive fantasy to think Trump would ever see significant legal consequences for his actions. Has been since day 1.

The Democrats' mandate, especially Democrats like Hamilton who won in a red state, is to end the war and lower gas prices. Trump did plenty of corrupt and illegal shit in his first term, Kansas still voted for him overwhelmingly three times. It's not the voters' priority. And the reason they can't "do both at the same time" is because it's not a question of having the "time" to do it, but having the political will. Hamilton would presumably like to have a chance a reelection, and going hard after Republicans is not going to appeal to Kansas voters. And you don't just need people like Hamilton, you'd need Republicans to defect and turn against their own party.

This isn't the first time it's played out this way, and I can only hope that this latest example helps people to see the system more clearly for what it is.

https://www.hoover.org/research/how-fdr-saved-capitalism

Way to waste a mandate.

Cool, fucking throw him up against his beloved firing squad and call it a day then do something beneficial for the general populace.

Congress is supposed to make laws; they aren’t a version of Law & Order

The bigger priority for me...is ‘please help us with the cost of living

Trump caused the higher cost of living, and he did it illegally. Started an illegal war and imposed illegal tariffs. Holding him accountable needs to be our highest priority, so that this shit can't happen again.

You might need to impeach and remove this guy to get rid of tariffs and end the Iran war.

To build momentum for this you might need to investigate him.

Checkmate dems, you have to do both!

Why are democrats fucking stupid? Republicans do not have hang ups like this.

GODDAMMIT I KNEW IT

Jesus, I thought he was saying because we should focus on getting him to The Hague.

What a jerk.

Good.

He's 100% right. You already fucking impeached Trump and no one cares. Why the fuck are you still focusing on this?

Get the leftist politicians who have a reasonable chance of winning elected to enact leftist policies to better people's lives. That should 100% be your focus.

Literally everything else is secondary.

The senate has over-emphasized power, maybe it should execute it...without Chuck Schumer, stalwart of the status-quo...