President Biden’s plan to nominate an anti-abortion judge for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench is a betrayal of the party, his voters, and every person capable of giving birth in this country. It also insults the memory of every person who died to COVID-19 because Republicans prevented elected officials from taking necessary steps in the name of public health and safety. Chad Meredith (HIS NAME IS CHAD, FFS) is a guy who claimed that there would be no net impact on Kentuckians if their anti abortion law passed, and that the Governor (a Democrat) had no authority to implement COVID-19 safety regulations. This guy literally stands against everything our party is supposed to stand for.
It doesn’t matter what Biden did or did not get in this deal. This is the most tone deaf, brick stupid betrayal of the party he has committed yet, and frankly there have been several such. He lied to us about BBB, he promised if it was split from BIF he would get it through the Senate. Everything that died with that failure — Climate, Paid Family Leave, Prescription Drugs, Medicare, all of it — would have bolstered our base and driven voters to the polls.
Now, the biggest possible motivator for our voters is about to get a giant bucket of cold water tossed over it when the President nominates this fascist POS to the federal bench. Someone on this website has got to be connected somehow with the leadership of the party. Where the fuck is Ron Klein on this? Who is beating down the President’s door to make sure he does not do this?
You cannot win elections without your base. President Biden has lost the faith of the base and has very little time to work to restore that faith for November. With Merrick Garland continuing to drag ass on holding Trump accountable, and with the Republican Supreme Court poised to cut democracy’s throat, we can’t afford this back-alley bullshit anymore.
I didn’t vote for Mitch McConnel for President and neither did you. Write to your reps and Senators, write to the white house, make some phone calls. Biden needs to wake the fuck up. We need our Democratic leaders to stop betraying the party. We need them to work for the people who voted for them, and not for those opposed to liberty and public health. Between this and the party going to war to keep anti-choice and anti-Democratic Agenda congressman Henry Cuellar in place, it’s getting even harder to believe that our party actually wants to win in November.