Posted on 03/14/2025 6:18:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Arena” that his fellow Democrats need to “take on” President Donald Trump.
He claimed the “best time” was “to take on a tyrant is as early as possible.”
Merkley said, “You don’t stop a bully by giving over your lunch money and you don’t stop tyrant Trump by voting to give him more power. That is absolutely the wrong approach. There are others who say, you know, in a shutdown, the president may have more power than we’ve seen in any previous shutdown. There is a legitimate case to be made on both sides of this argument.”
He continued, “But here’s what I am aware of, and that is, in history, as you see institutions degrade in republics where there’s an authoritarian president, is because the courts cave and you get an acquiescent legislature. The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible, and this is the moment. We have the leverage as a Democratic caucus to insist on negotiations, to produce those bills onto the floor, those appropriation bills onto the floor. This is the moment to use that leverage.”
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They just don’t learn. Can’t fix stupid.
Another juvenile from Oregon. They seem to have a deep supply of mental midgets to draw upon.
Would it be wrong for a bunch of Confederate reenactors to show up?
“We heard you wanted to ‘fight’ a tyrant in Washington...?”
If you think the time is right.
By all means.
Huddle up, call that play and run it.
Hasn’t worked yet.
I just wish that every time a clown like this starts saying this stuff, everyone around him would remind him, over and over, that the American people voted for this. It’s what we want.
“Take on” the “tyrant”??? That sounds an awful lot like insurrection.
Another voter fraud Dem.
Another juvenile from Oregon. They seem to have a deep supply of mental midgets to draw upon.
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It’s never-ending.
Imagine large rows of corn in Nebraska or Kansas.
Now imagine every stalk is a progressive democrat.
“That’s Oregon.”
Logic is not his strong point. If Trump was truly an “authoritarian tyrant,” then the so-called institutions would not “degrade,” they would be filled with his supplicants, patrons, and brown shirts, put in needless make work jobs as a patronage system. Trump is doing the exact opposite.
The old “We’ve got him now!” trick.
Those battling Trump are the ones who have been pocketing our tax money, LET US NOT FORGET THAT
Obviously.
That’s true.
Democrats never learned anything about why they lost the election.
They keep piling on the same mistakes.
I hope they keep it up.
You could try shooting him in the head on live TV.
oh wait... you tried that and missed.
Preferably for good.
He didn’t get the memo from Senator Shumer? They are surrendering now.
I CERTAINLY won’t forget at all.
Indeed they are surrendering. The only sad part is, every time the Republicans caved in budget issues over the years, Schumer and/or Pelosi would appear before the cameras to rub it in on the top supine cowardice. Alas, I don’t think Thine and Johnson are going to do that
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