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“I’m not a cheap date,” Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts said yesterday. “[Republicans] want to run and tell everybody that they have this huge mandate — that they can do whatever the hell they want to do. Well, if that’s the case then they should put their mandate-pants on and do whatever the hell they want to do. But if you want us to be helpful, then you have to engage us. And we’re not going to just be there to bail you out.”
Democratic votes will be needed to get a federal spending bill through Congress. That might mean holding the line to save Medicaid, US-AID and education. They might try to fire Musk and DOGE. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries warns that Democrats won’t support efforts to reduce the mortgage interest deduction or slash food subsidies for low-income children.
Does the Democratic #Resistance (finally) start here? Or will they cave like a cheap date? “The TMI Show”’s Ted Rall and Manila Chan preview the budget fight.
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Let’s be frank. The resistance to Trump’s second term should have started at 2:25 a.m., on Nov. 6, 2024 — one minute after the Associated Press declared Trump the winner. The democrats and whatever eldritch force animates Biden’s husk should have immediately begun pulling every single solitary trick they had, shoved through everything. They should have announced, immediately, that the dnc’s entire leadership was stepping down, as were all current “power players” within the party as an admission of absolute failure and incompetence, and that a “Continental Congress” would convene within the next 72 hours to plan for the 2026 midterms as well as the 2028 elections.
We STILL haven’t got so much as a blip or a burp. Apparently there were protests in all 50 states over Trump recently. I must have sneezed while the news programs and the newspapers and the magazines and the talk shows covered it. I don’t care anymore about the dems’ protests of their moral purity and so forth. If you want to be the guy at the frat party who pulls the train, fine. Own it. Be proud of how many loads you can take. But don’t act like you’re going to put up a fight when you’re perfectly okay with what’s about to happen.