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House Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing-in of the new Congress on Jan. 3. Early votes in the […]
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On January 4th I will be writing my congresspeople and the majority leaders/candidates to focus on nuclear optioning the filibuster to focus on overturning Citizens United, removing unqualified judges, repealing Trump tax cuts and reversing changes to social security and welfare namely the three month limit on SNAP, and passing medicare for all.
TBH IDGAF about Iran, fucked if we do and fucked if we don’t but at least they seem receptive to peace with democrats. I just won’t mention them.
We shouldn’t even be in Iran. If we end this thing in the next year or two, it’ll be Trump that will have the egg on his face. He’s so worried about his “legacy,” putting his name on anything and everything. Making sure people know HE lost the war HE started would be my preferred end.
We should still be in a peaceful nuclear disarmament treaty since the Obama admin if not for Trump. We should have been sending food and medical aid to the region as it suffered famine and mass civil unrest before Trump invaded.
FYI banjo is one of those happy trump attacked Iran, and will be happy if trump attacks any other countries banjos thinks is an enemy…
“Boost” medicare? Do they think we are fucking stupid? Let’s go back to the shitty policies of 2019 that got Trump re-elected, is all I’m hearing from leadership.
I caught that been too. “Boost”?
How about “overhaul”?
“Extend to everyone paid by wealth taxes”?
“Drag into the 21st century”?
I just want to hear “Medicare for all” or some form of UNIVERSAL FREE HEALTHCARE. Anything less is a vote for fascism’s return.
From bits and pieces of news interviews with senators, I reckon that that is referring to what Congress should do in the very short term as soon as they’re in power.
- Stop tacitly authorizing the war in Iran
- Minimize the fallout from the trap Republicans set in their 2025 bill that drastically reduces healthcare funding due to frontloaded budget imbalances they induced.
I think Medicare for all has a shot at happening but the very first thing is to try to stopgap what Republican holes they can within days of assuming office.
I don’t trust Jeffries and Schumer to ever get to anything truly progressive, tho. I think the base and the public both need to know we are not going back to business as usual, not going back to the status quo ante, not returning to normalcy. The country has been broken since Reagan, if not earlier, and all Clinton-forward have done is slow the decay without attempting structural change to reverse it.
We have a once-in-a-generation shot in 2028 to pass some bills, busts some trusts, and maybe even pass an ammendment or two. Frittering that chance away for legislative bandaids would be an unforgivable mistake at a time when America has demonstrated it’s preference for fascism over milquetoast neoliberalism.
Defining a new Progressive / Economically Populist Democrat Brand should absolutely be the focus of the next 2 years so we can keep (grow?) our majority and win the White House.
100% agreed and I share the same concerns.
For Schumer and Jeffries to be replaced, at least one Democrat in each chamber has to raise their hand to run against them, I’m watching for that over the next few weeks. If no one does, then Democrats more or less have to work around the two lesders if there’s any hope of getting beyond the status quo.
