Posted on 12/17/2021 2:41:48 PM PST by cotton1706
Anger is growing in Democratic ranks over the failure to get President Joe Biden's sweeping agenda through this year despite unified control of Congress, with their party already bracing for what could be a brutal Election Day in next November's midterms.
Major issues they promised to deliver on, such as a bill to overhaul voting laws, stand virtually no chance of becoming law. And the biggest ticket item -- the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan to dramatically expand the social safety net -- which is still mired in talks with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, has yet to be drafted into final legislative text or even fully vetted by the Senate parliamentarian.
Despite major accomplishments this year, such as passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law and the nearly $2 trillion Covid relief package amid razor thin majorities in both chambers, there's a palpable sense of frustration among Democrats that much more should have been accomplished -- especially given the array of promises they made to their voters and the self-imposed deadlines set by their leaders that have blown.
Liberals are angry that they agreed to delink the infrastructure package from the Build Back Better bill -- which they had for months insisted be passed in tandem before relenting under pressure from their leaders and Biden himself. Democrats of all stripes say they're alarmed by the actions of GOP-led states to restrict voting access, yet they don't have the votes in the Senate to overcome a Republican filibuster to enact their a federal law. Other Democratic priorities, such as overhauling gun laws, have fallen by the wayside and completely off the agenda.
And all that comes amid this grim reality: Democrats face bleak prospects of holding the House next year and chances that the Senate could flip, too.
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Life is good......the Cuomos are unemployed, Smellett is guilty......and Kyle is free.
Dems despair is the cherry on the cake.
Biden and Harris slapped w/ huge disapproval polls....what can I say?
Christmas came early this year.
It will suck even more when they are in the minority next year.
No, it's not mired. In sank deep into the mud. Not coming back.
Democrats have proven to be useless for this GREAT country.
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!
And don’t believe anything you read in the left wing media.
ANYTHING !!!
Poor babies. Where is that world’s smallest violin?!
They stole at least three seats...I guess they wanted more.
Their usual fallback excuse is we didn't get our message out. Soon they will be blaming the media for failing them too.
Since there is a 50/50 elected balance in the senate, then that means that Harris casts her tie breaking vote. And considering that there ae a few republicans in the senate that consistently vote democratic, then the problem isn’t with the voting amounts, it is that the democrats don’t even like their own platform and vote against it.
So what really sucks here in their estimation? It isn’t the senate, they have a majority. It isn’t the crossovers from the republican count that vote with them. So that leaves the failure of their own party to trust and determine their own platform workable and can grow the party, which is their only interest outside of a pay raise. It’s their own fault...live with it. Because all they are complaining about is themselves. They aren’t alone.
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Aw, too bad you are FORCED to represent the CITIZENS of the United States of America. I am completely sick of this merd.
Whatever happens it will never ever ever be their fault.
Spending trillions of dollars is an accomplishment? I don't think so.
Why are they complaining? They have gotten damn near everything they wants thanks to the Turdle!
50-50 Senate with Chuckie boy in charge, thanks to the good people of Georgia, once one of my favorite states.
I recall many of the names—but that is different from recalling whether or not the body was worth more than warm spit.
We’ll solve that problem for ya next November Crazy Mazie.
Why do you say that? If they could beat Trump with cheating, what stops them from cheating republican senate candidates?
Nuremberg II with 5 minute tribunals and immediate executions. Slow drops with wet hemp ropes. Right down to the city council and school board level.
Have you ever asked yourself why all elections in all Western countries shift back and forth between 51-49 and 49-51?
Have you ever asked yourself, with the rewards of political power as great as they are, why there is not a political movement or party which could gain 70% or more of a popular vote, and essentially rule indefinitely?
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