That is fiction. A few possible Dem members are dwarfed by the vast majority of Dems in Congress.
Maybe, but Dems still somehow seem intimidated by the prospect of ending up with no loaf at all, so they give half away in crumbs sometimes by withdrawing amendments (or allowing GOP ones onto the floor to begin with). Then we call whatever is left a good bipartisan effort. With luck and skill, something like the ACA totters off the field almost able to stand up to another bashing in the Senate.
We whine about GOP hardball and then when it's our game, we come out armed with badminton gear... and then the Rs whine that the grass is too tall, and finallly we bring out our own weed whacker and cut whatever they're pointing at. WTF?!
That BS yesterday about taking some teeth out of the military justice reform section, where did that come from? Right around the time someone also said oh and by the way the Senate will never pass that OR that stipulation about women registering with Selective Service. Boom, both of those took a hike right before the vote.
Heck, we haven't drafted anyone,
anyone since the 70s anyway and women are already serving in combat in the military. We just split from what's supposedly our last big ground war scenario and are shifting to cyberdefense if you want to believe the posters for 2022 defense budgets although 768B sounds like could shuffle a whole lotta bits and bytes.
But anyway now the Rs are suddenly in a huff about drafting women? Into what, an office with some 65" monitors and nice desktops? Nah, the GOP Senators were in a huff at the idea some good ol' boys might be held accountable as men
by civilians for flagrant abuse of women in the military.
Did someone forget that the American military
reports to civilian command? Did the f'g DEMS forget that? Gee.
It's still true that if you're an airframe mechanic and a woman in the military, your best friend may be the biggest wrench you can pick up with one hand and swing at the colleague who's thinking "consent" is when you miss. And their mentors better keep passing that info along, because the Dems of the House stood there and threw some other possible outcomes into the trash bin out of simple fear of a handful of far right wingers like Lee, Hawley, Inhofe, out of 50 Republican Senators.
It's stuff llike that that makes progressives (House members or voters) crazy. It doesn't feel like
oh too bad, one of our bipartisanship efforts failed this time, those last minute cave-ins. Those are more readily owned and by members across the aisle, publicly. Lyme disease research, clean water measures... eventually after a few false starts, those get passed. This other stuff that happens at the last minute is supposedly sponsored in bipartisan fashion but always gets yanked out of House legislation by word from particular GOP Senators. And the stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor is usually something to do with empowering people who aren't straight white males with enough dough to get from here to payday without going into debt. It just gets old and to me it still feels like the Dems allow it to happen. They allow it.
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