I am shocked at how irrelevant Congress has let itself become. Yes, it's on Republicans. And yes, Dems are our only true reps. But they are acting like it is business as usual, with stern letters and trolling and filibustering. Now is the time to bring our own shock and awe. Surely some of them must have some tricks up their sleeves. Some dirt on the criminals. Spectacle! Pressure!
Give us constituents something we can join in, not something we just wish to god would wake up Republicans. That shit ain't working, and you are about to lose any power you ever had, and ours along with it.
Citizenship responsibilities are LIKE a full contact sport. To succeed requires commitment. And ACTION. And PATIENCE. The key is to disrupt the establishment, NONVIOLENTLY. Current day Prof Erica Chenoweth has written the manifesto of sorts.
Soo.... Ds didn't make it a priority because they thought T was in the past.
No comment.
A detail - but who were the 4 Ds who didn't show for the House vote? I thought I read that 3 Ds had died and not yet been replaced?
I'm a regular reader of Senator Schiff's notes. And a big fan.
Scratching my head here. For myself, the Contrarian and a few other substacks that predated the Contrarian (Heather Richardson, Robert Hubbell) replace the NYT as news sources. Couple that with political action organizations such as Indivisible and 5 Calls and I find that as a citizen I am better informed and have much easier access to my elected representatives.
I think this is all new stuff and very powerful. I wonder if the Defend Democracy Legislation sponsored by you and Senator Schiff would have an easier time now - when you could use sub stacks to inform voters who could then be mobilized to pressure Congress. Maybe?
That paragraph in the piece links the roll call vote tally, so you can see it there. These were current members, a couple of whom have had serious health problems. But still.
Checked the vote tally. Thanks. And had to check what happens in House when vote is tied. Bill fails. So there was a possibility of a tie vote if 4 Ds and 2Rs had voted. Admittedly a tie vote might have spooked the 4 Rs voting NO, but even so. Is it fair to ask if House leadership should have done more? When we see R leadership manipulating their members to deliver win after win, it's pretty discouraging to see Ds not fighting equally hard.
Republicans are too chicken**^+ to stand up to the felon in charge. They’ve been bought and paid for. Now the @$$🕳️ is threatening democracy with Texas redistricting push so to keep the house red. If that’s not a good enough reason to impeach then I don’t know what is.
As a Texan who has seen too much gerrymandering here already, I resent Trump's interference with redistricting--and it's not even after a 10 year census--and Gov. Abbott calling for this to be included during a special legislative session.
I am shocked at how irrelevant Congress has let itself become. Yes, it's on Republicans. And yes, Dems are our only true reps. But they are acting like it is business as usual, with stern letters and trolling and filibustering. Now is the time to bring our own shock and awe. Surely some of them must have some tricks up their sleeves. Some dirt on the criminals. Spectacle! Pressure!
Give us constituents something we can join in, not something we just wish to god would wake up Republicans. That shit ain't working, and you are about to lose any power you ever had, and ours along with it.
Citizenship responsibilities are LIKE a full contact sport. To succeed requires commitment. And ACTION. And PATIENCE. The key is to disrupt the establishment, NONVIOLENTLY. Current day Prof Erica Chenoweth has written the manifesto of sorts.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44096650-civil-resistance
Soo.... Ds didn't make it a priority because they thought T was in the past.
No comment.
A detail - but who were the 4 Ds who didn't show for the House vote? I thought I read that 3 Ds had died and not yet been replaced?
I'm a regular reader of Senator Schiff's notes. And a big fan.
Scratching my head here. For myself, the Contrarian and a few other substacks that predated the Contrarian (Heather Richardson, Robert Hubbell) replace the NYT as news sources. Couple that with political action organizations such as Indivisible and 5 Calls and I find that as a citizen I am better informed and have much easier access to my elected representatives.
I think this is all new stuff and very powerful. I wonder if the Defend Democracy Legislation sponsored by you and Senator Schiff would have an easier time now - when you could use sub stacks to inform voters who could then be mobilized to pressure Congress. Maybe?
That paragraph in the piece links the roll call vote tally, so you can see it there. These were current members, a couple of whom have had serious health problems. But still.
Checked the vote tally. Thanks. And had to check what happens in House when vote is tied. Bill fails. So there was a possibility of a tie vote if 4 Ds and 2Rs had voted. Admittedly a tie vote might have spooked the 4 Rs voting NO, but even so. Is it fair to ask if House leadership should have done more? When we see R leadership manipulating their members to deliver win after win, it's pretty discouraging to see Ds not fighting equally hard.
Thanks so much. I’ll check link.
Republicans are too chicken**^+ to stand up to the felon in charge. They’ve been bought and paid for. Now the @$$🕳️ is threatening democracy with Texas redistricting push so to keep the house red. If that’s not a good enough reason to impeach then I don’t know what is.
As a Texan who has seen too much gerrymandering here already, I resent Trump's interference with redistricting--and it's not even after a 10 year census--and Gov. Abbott calling for this to be included during a special legislative session.