Ocasio-Cortez über Shutdown-Deal: „Dieses Problem ist viel größer als Anführer Schumer“
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602629-ocasio-cortez-calls-out-senate-democrats/
Ocasio-Cortez über Shutdown-Deal: „Dieses Problem ist viel größer als Anführer Schumer“
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602629-ocasio-cortez-calls-out-senate-democrats/
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A bit from the article:
> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday called out Senate Democrats as a whole after eight lawmakers sided with Republicans on a deal to reopen the government.
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> Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that blame for the situation extends beyond Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who met a heap of criticism from other Democrats over the deal’s passage.
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> “There’s a lot of focus rightfully on Leader Schumer, but I do think that when it comes to the Senate, it is Senate Democrats that select their leadership,” Ocasio-Cortez told Politico. “And so I actually think this problem is much bigger than Leader Schumer.”
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> She added that the Senate failed “to develop, to deliver on health care subsidies.”
An AOC primary challenge to Schumer will be interesting to see, if it happens
Democrats need YOUNGER leaders like AOC and Mamdani.
They asked Biden to resign because of old age, about time for them like Chuck to do the same.
How much bigger? Like 6’6″? Does it wear a hoodie? Did it have a stroke and then turn right-wing? Is it from Pennsylvania?
The Senate has become nothing more than an extension of the House but with a parliamentarian gimmicks like the filibuster meant to give the appearance of higher thinking but ultimately after multiple decades of failing to deliver legislation that would actually help the American public voters are finally waking up to the fact that Senate leadership stinks.
Reminder: no where in the constitution does it mention Senate majority/minority leaders as it’s a made up position to infest Senate decorum with petty politics reminiscent of the House of Representatives. Party caucuses were never meant to have so much control in the higher chamber…
Dick Durbin is the minority whip. He needs to be removed from that position.
Tim Kaine is the ranking member of two subcommittees. He needs to be removed from those positions.
Chuck Schumer as minority leader is doing none of that. He needs to be removed from that position.
That’s the minimum
Democrats have a major systemic emphasis as a party on seniority. That has become a problem ever since people started living into their 90s and the boomers started entering retirement age.
Inevitably experience means age. Without representation from members under 50, the party has become frustratingly out of touch to generations who came of age AFTER the housing crisis.
The problem is… It only takes one senator to call for a vote to remove schmuck Schumer and not a one will do it. I love my senator Elizabeth Warren but even she won’t buck the system. Not a one will come out and say what really happened, that corporate donors influenced them to capitulate.
We’ve seen this tactic many times over decades, where they offer up a sacrificial lamb whose retiring or not up for reelection so they can deprive us of consequential social legislation.
Remember Build Back Better? When it was Joe Manchin gumming up the works. Parental leave and free community college and such. Nothing we could do about that either, only there was, they had leverage against him and chose not to use it. Heather Bresch his daughter was implicated in the epipen scandal in which she colluded with phizer to create a monopoly and split the profits. She could have been indicted, should have been regardless but it could have been used against Manchin had they really wanted to get him onboard. ( Btw, she resigned from Mylan with a $30 million golden parachute).
We’ve been betrayed and duped again. They claim they’re fighting for our democracy and ask us to take to the streets. Give inspiring public speeches but behind closed doors when the lobbyists tell them their bill is due, they surrender.
It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it. (George Carlin)
Google it.
We need healthcare like other first world countries
1. Simple to navigate
2. No HMO PPO C-3PO
3. No deductible
4. No medical debt
We are the richest country in the world. How republicans convinced people that universal healthcare is satanic socialism is insane
Vote Blue No Matter Who directly led to a Congress full of cowards and appeasers.
Why wouldn’t it? What did people think would happen when they threatened and brow-beat everyone into abandoning all standards for their politicians?
Have standards. Withhold your vote and your money from cowards and appeasers.
Shes playing the long game, she didn’t take the bait
If she’s not getting ready for a Senate run, I’d be surprised.
I’d love to see a progressive take NY.
She’s not wrong. So much of the focus is on the eight who flipped But they are just the tip of the iceberg. They weren’t eight senators who decided to flip, they were the eight specifically chosen because they are the most insulated from consequences.
The rot runs deep among senate Democrats.
Standing against fascism should be within their nature. It clearly is not.
Schumer can be forced out as minority lead, and the process isn’t insurmountable (10 votes to call the meeting, get a nominee, 24 votes to oust Schumer). She’s correct that Schumer isn’t the sole problem, but throwing him on his own sword would be a good start (followed immediately by consequences of some kind for the eight collaborators in the Senate and six in the House).
She sees an opening to help the progressive side of her party. All of the Democratic Party is responsible for the aca loss of subsidies. Elections have consequences. What those senators did is put country before power
„Progressives are furious after a group of Senate Democratic centrists broke after 41 days to strike a deal with Republicans on a spending package with some concessions on federal layoffs, but no commitment on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care subsidies.“
We need a third party, a Progressive Party, that attracts both disaffected Democrats and Republicans. Then a vote for a Democrat is a ‚wasted vote‘.
We are so lucky that Trump is a dementia ridden pedophile.
So pretty much back to „both parties are the same“. DINOs is stupid, but can’t think of something better to call them right now.
Thats cool but the problem includes him so one fix at a time and get rid of him.
Thank you AOC. He is one of many that needs to go. It was not like he organized it alone.
> “It’s understandable,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said. “He’s the leader, and it goes with the territory. But I would be hopeful that we’d focus on our adversary, and that’s [Trump].”
We were focused on Trump, and Trump was feeling the heat until 8 Democrats decided he’d had enough.
She should primary Schumer and Mamdani should be behind her in that campaign.
I’m pretty much at the point where I’m voting for the new candidate in every primary I’m able to. If they don’t win, then I refuse to vote for any incumbent at this point. We need to take our party back from these ghouls.
Punchbowl News: “As senators struggled to find a way out of the devastating shutdown, missing from the final round of negotiations was one of the most important players: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”
“Instead, it was retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) — among the most vocal Democratic supporters of the expiring Obamacare subsidies — who sat face-to-face with Senate Majority Leader John Thune to button up a key piece of the final deal: A commitment to vote on extending the subsidies.”
“It was extraordinary for Schumer not to be involved. Yet Thune had declared repeatedly that the path out of the shutdown wouldn’t be through Schumer, but rather rank-and-file Democrats. He turned out to be right
AOC : The Dems are the problem.
Also AOC : You need to vote for Dems.
yea but like, get rid of him
But it is a good first step.
Either it’s time for old guard dems to move out of the way or it’s time for younger dems to move independent and cut ties with the dnc that is holding them back. Bernie raised quite a bit of money through social media and never took a dime of corporate money. I think others can do the same. It also helps break away from the right vs left narrative and focus on the real issue that is billionaires vs everyone else and why tax dollars should work for the majority of Americans and a little less for the top 1%
Democrats are the problem. They have become a centrist party trying to preserve the status quo and not upset their billionaire donors.
We need to burn down. The entire party and start over with progressives, and even *gasp* socialists, who want real change and will actually try to improve the lives of the 95% of the population the current parties don’t care about. AOC, Bernie, Mamdani – those are the kinds of people we need.