This is some scary shit.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, divided and struggling for a path from the electoral wilderness, are constructing an agenda to align with many proposals of President-elect Donald J. Trump that put him at odds with his own party.
On infrastructure spending, child tax credits, paid maternity leave and dismantling trade agreements, Democrats are looking for ways they can work with Mr. Trump and force Republican leaders to choose between their new president and their small-government, free-market principles. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, elected Wednesday as the new Democratic minority leader, has spoken with Mr. Trump several times, and Democrats in coming weeks plan to announce populist economic and ethics initiatives they think Mr. Trump might like.
Democrats, who lost the White House and made only nominal gains in the House and Senate, face a profound decision after last week’s stunning defeat: Make common cause where they can with Mr. Trump to try to win back the white, working-class voters he took from them, or resist at every turn, trying to rally their disparate coalition in hopes that discontent with an ineffectual new president will benefit them in 2018.
So Senate Democrats are willing to cooperate on bills regarding infrastructure and trade bills and the like.
In the meantime, Democratic support for measures rolling back, say, job protections, LGBT rights, women’s rights, etc. are not even necessary.
the president will have all the votes that he needs on that.
And I am actually supposed to believe Senator Sanders when he says this?
First of all, the Dems don’t have the votes to stop legislation rolling back civil rights protections, if it came up. Second of all, Sanders gave a pretty speech about mass incarceration and then voted for the damn bill so why should I believe him now when his track record says otherwise; especially if a vote on a decent infrastructure bill hits the floor of the Senate?
Like anyone is going to pay any attention to one of his damn CYA amendments asking that these infrastructure jobs can’t practice discrimination against workers of color.
Child, please.
Don’t come knocking on my door or stopping me in the street or ask me for my vote in 2018 and 2020 talking this type of bullshit.
UPDATE: Please note that I was not trying to debate the issue of mass incarceration or the 1994 Crime Bill.
I was using that particular piece as an example of how politicians play politics. I concede that it was probably a poor choice to use but, after all, it was the way that Mr. Sanders tried to use the issue of that Crime Bill against HIllary Clinton in the Democratic primary that probably cost him my own vote.