General Discussion

I've been angry since I first read about the eight. I fired off emails explaining my frustration (which I know does nothing) since I'm in Texas. I got on the phone and called Joaquin Castro's office because, down here, finding a Democrat to express your feelings to is a hard thing to do. Castro's office took my comments and he's come out against the cave. I like him a lot. I know that didn't do any real good either, but Dems need to know that their voters are pissed off and he's my only choice to explain that.

I'm tired of the apologists on DU and the constant berating of "get in line and support the party actions" when those actions are clearly not in the best interest of the majority of us. Why is abortion even a consideration on this stupid bill when it's obvious that there are so many children right now that they can't all be fed? So, we want to have MORE hungry children? Makes no sense whatsoever.

It's just plain ludicrous to me. Some of the naivete' that I see on DU (yesterday it was "a humiliated Trump will be forced to sign the bill)" makes me wonder. We should be encouraged to call out the party's mistakes with the intent of changing what needs to be changed and corrected.

This was a colossal mistake - because relying on Republican's to keep their word is sheer stupidity.

I posted last night that if there is some massive strategy in play that *I* (and others) just don't seem to grasp, that I don't want to be hearing about that strategy from Lawrence O'Donnell. I want to be hearing about it from party leaders. And I am not hearing that.