“Unlike Republicans, they stick together to fight for the things (statism, power . . .) they believe in. Does anyone tell them, “Look, nothing can happen without 60 votes, so you’ve got to moderate?” Are you kidding?”
yep, that’s the defining difference between Dims and the GOP in Washington D.C. - the Dims go to win, win, win period, and the GOP leadership goes to compromise, compromise, compromise
they allow the Dims to never seek bipartanship, except when the Dims want to blame the GOP for not being bipartisan, reducing the meaning of bipartisan to Dims going for the jugular and the GOP going along
The Dims go to win, win, win period, and the GOP leadership goes to compromise, compromise, compromise.
For example, take the Ryan-Murray cluster bill. Ryan didn’t care that vet pay was cut because his donors wanted the sequester busted. The Dems would not increase the DOD budget so Ryan needed a cut. He was happy to sell the vets down the river for some pork, bottom line.