Or… almost? As it turns out, the Democrats are planning to take on the Republican Party – at least in a few weeks. “House Democrats plan to turn the August recess into the opening salvo of the midterm elections, including through town halls and organizing programs.” Politico reportsas the party experiences “a renewed bravado after months in the political wilderness”. And when you think about it, all it took for Democrats to emerge from this self-imposed exile was that Trump got everything he wanted.
But come on guys, have some bravado. Centrist Maine crank Rep. Jared Golden, who is part of a group of Democrats who recently decided that swear more often makes them look irritable, appears in the same Politico article, boasting: “There's almost nothing in this bill that I'm going to [to] hard to explain to the area. This is a giant tax break for rich people. Everybody damn knows it. I can confirm! New Republic was covering this bill quite tirelessly for the past several monthswhich raises an awkward question: What stopped Golden from explaining this to his district at any point during the legislative swings of this bill? (Golden, perhaps the most Trump-curious member of the Democratic caucus, was wondering whether to vote with Republicans. like he did in the past.)
If there's one thing Democrats seem truly committed to, it's their August timetable to finally unleash a spitting, swearing, new party to officially open the midterm election campaign. Last weekend, as Texans faced the now-familiar tragedy of mass casualties from devastating floods, House Minority Leader and energy vampire Hakeem Jeffries felt it was premature to launch an attack. Instead, he joined the parade of idiots on a Sunday morning talk show to express his strong hope that Democrats can work productively with a party hell-bent on destroying government and erasing climate change from our brains: “I think we're going to have to figure out what happened, why it happened, and how do we prevent tragedies like this from happening again? And so the issue of preparedness is, “certainly something that Congress should be able to explore on a bipartisan basis, especially as we head into a summer when we can expect more extreme weather events.”
