Summary
The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.
Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.
Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.
Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.
Good news! That’s what they’d be doing if they had power too!
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We need a DNC chair that’s not afraid to normalize primaries against Dem incumbents.
Otherwise someone in Pelosi’s district for example has no say in their representative, a bad incumbent would just deptess turnout until they die in office or a Republican flips the seat.
When an incumbent is defended no matter what and has millions in dirty money from the last general it’s not a fair primary.
And for Dem voters, active primaries turn into increased general turnout because people are invested in the process.
The issue is the DNC has been run by people who put “party loyalty” above all else, which sounds OK until you realize the loyalty isn’t to voters, it’s to donors.
“Blue no matter who” doesn’t work on Dem voters when they didn’t have any say in the candidate. It’s not uniting, it’s blindly following. And Republicans will always be better at that.
DNC needs to change how their primaries are run.
Politics aside, no way some outsider like Trump would ever win a DNC primary because of how they run them vs the RNC. I think the Dems ignore voter wishes then surprise Pikachu face when the milquetoast establishment candidates don’t get people fired up to vote.
That hasn’t always been the case, after Obama they made many changes like the “victory fund” that can be undone by a new chair.
I know you meant trump as an outsider to Republicans, but he gave so much to the DNC the Clinton’s came to his wedding. There are people just like trump giving to the DNC still. With the access trump got, he could be called a political insider for neoliberals. trump gave for decades and he isn’t the type to throw money around for no reason.
Not every single state, Washington went more left.
I think you meant to reply to the person who said:
Unless this is one of those things where if anything wasn’t explicitly refuted in a reply people act like you agree with it.