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AZJonnie

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3. This pushback is really NOT good IMHO
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:30 PM
Monday

This circular firing squad of elected Democrats attacking other elected Democrats, and Dem leadership, does little but make a bad situation worse IMHO. If Dems were GOING to cave like this, then everyone should have been onboard to say, in unison, something along the lines of "it was a necessary evil because Trump was refusing to fund food stamps and people were going to starve to death" type of thing.

This is a big reason why the GQP wins despite their shit policies. They stick together and plan their messaging. This reaction by all these Democrats may make some of us feel better, like "oh hey, we're not wrong in being angry, look lots of our leaders agree!" but in reality? The Dems in Disarray storyline outlined here is nothing to celebrate. There is little to be gained by these people speaking out against the decision that was made.

I'm not talking about us DU'ers here, to be clear. It's our JOB to do what we're doing today

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Because it's likely Democratic leadership picked 8 who were least likely to get hurt in midterms. It's easy to vote No Silent Type Monday #1
Sadly, I have had that same thought. Raven123 Monday #2
None of them are up for reelection in Midtermms obamanut2012 Monday #5
Good point. Then, they have ultimate protection. I saw Ossoff was leaning toward opening, but he is up for election. Silent Type Monday #10
This. TheProle Monday #6
When there is no evidence to back it up creeksneakers2 Monday #20
This pushback is really NOT good IMHO AZJonnie Monday #3
I don't see it as a circular firing squad. I see it as most all of the party coming together, across all its ideological Celerity Monday #7
I thought Baldwin voted yes for cloture yesterday Fiendish Thingy Monday #4
No, those lists were in error. The 8 cavers were: Celerity Monday #9
I don't remember seeing Baldwin listed in any of the lists after the vote count was official Prairie Gates Monday #11
There was one big OP that had at least 5 No votes incorrectly listed as Yea votes, but it was gradually corrected Celerity Monday #14
Hmmm Prairie Gates Monday #15
I knew about that OP as I was one of the DU posters who helped to correct the errors, lol. Celerity Monday #16
They must all be just having "temper tantrums" and not be part of the "reality-based community" Prairie Gates Monday #8
Personally, I think most of them were in on it. pecosbob Monday #12
Thank you for this. W_HAMILTON Monday #13
The other centrists were ALLOWED to vote no BWdem4life Monday #17
Schumer and Jefferies need to go. They are not up for the moment at all. dsp3000 Monday #18
Schumer absolutely, but why Jeffries? He is far better than Schumer IMHO, streets ahead in terms of leadership skills. Celerity Monday #19
His half assed mamdani endorsement the day before the election was all i needed to see dsp3000 Monday #21
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