Politics
What is Wrong With the Democratic Party?
They are allowing two rogue senators to dictate priorities and price tags for key legislation
What the hell is wrong with the Democratic Party? They are literally the only ones who can save the country from an ignorant despot hellbent on turning the US into his private fiefdom and what do they do?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Worse than nothing.
Things started out so well. Biden was elected by a large margin. He got vaccines into arms and checks into bank accounts.
He rolled back the worst of Trump’s excesses via executive orders. His long experience in the Senate and as vice president meant that he knew the personalities in Congress and how to negotiate with them to get his legislative agenda passed.
And then it all just started to fall apart.
No immigration plan to handle the thousands of migrants showing up at the border.
No plan for an orderly evacuation when we left Afghanistan.
And his legislation, the crown jewels of his agenda, the programs that would pull us back from the edge of the precipice and allow us to live like the citizens of the rest of the developed world, ran into the dynamic…