Sunday, January 26, 2025

They Can Choke On It


Congresswoman: you may want to check out last November's election results.

Steele and the tweeter are realistic. However, at the end of this video (more complete video below), Representative Sarah McBride, Democrat of Delaware claims "I think the American people want to see elected officials be serious and work together."

Steele replies "no, they don't," a truth which virtually no one (and "virtually" may be misleading) appearing in media ever acknowledges. Unsurprisingly, McBride, misunderstanding (probably intentionally) Steele's last point, responds

You're right, you're right. They're not doing that. They're not doing that. They've made it clear from immigration to economic policy and taxes to basic human rights. They have made it clear that they are more interested in driving forward an extreme partisan agenda rather than pursuing collaborative common sense solutions. I totally agree.

No, you don't. Of course, Republicans are more interested in an extreme partisan agenda than in collaborative solutions. But Steele was expressly disagreeing with the naive assumption of the Democratic Party and of the mainstream center and left media that "the American people want to see elected officials be serious and work together."

McBride is right that Republicans have made it clear on various issues that they're disinterested in cooperation.  Although not yet a member of the US House of Representatives, the freshman from Delaware undoubtedly remembers when last May

Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border security bill for a second time, part of an attempt by Chuck Schumer to flip the script on immigration – a major political liability for Joe Biden and Democrats in this year’s election.

The 43-50 vote was far short of the necessary 60 votes needed to advance the legislation. Republicans, who have repeatedly demanded Democrats act on the border, abandoned the compromise proposal at the behest of Donald Trump who saw it was a political “gift” for Biden’s re-election chances.

And how did voters reward Democrats when the latter joined with Republicans in formulating a compromise immigration bill and then watching it go down because of Republican opposition?  They failed to regain the House, which at the beginning of the year they appeared to have an excellent chance to do; lost the Senate; lost the White House; and regressed slightly in control of state legislatures.

Voters knew which party wanted to work with the other, and which party knew what it wanted and would ruthlessly pursue its aims. "Wrong and strong," Bill Clinton would have called it.

Democrats must put Republicans on the defensive by putting them into a no-win situation. They can start by forcing votes Republicans to vote on "heads I win, tails, you lose" propositions, such as this one. It will seem rude to most Democratic members of Congress. But as Michael Steele put it, "they don't want to work with you, they're not going to work with you." So be rude, confrontational, and determined to win.


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