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What Congressional Democrats should do (but won’t)

January 10, 2017 By mannygoldstein 12 Comments

Anyone who’s successfully dealt with bullies knows that the only thing that stops ’em is to bully them back.

I know that Congressional Democrats will have to keep their powder dry, and when the Republicans go low they need to lose go high, and all of those excuses for doing nought but increasing their personal wealth. But if they actually want to do something to control the situation, they need to go big. And go bad, and do it quick.

I suggest that they stall/stop every single Trump appointee/nominee, as best as can be done, while attacking them in the press with the most heinous and savage stuff they have, until the Republicans do one thing – give Democrats the SCOTUS Justice that’s been stolen from us. Hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, and if he gets voted down they’ll continue to hold votes for Democratic nominees – and after some number are rejected, Democrats get to simply select who gets the position.

I.e., just do what the Republicans do, but be honest.

If the Democrats give the Garland affair a pass, there is zero hope for the next four years. None. The battlin’ Congressional Dems will have shown the world that they can be stomped on like a bug without consequences, and thus the stompings will only get worse.

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  1. johntmay says

    January 10, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    And it’s time Democrats sick to theirs. Enough “go low, go high”…..(gee, how did that work out for us?) …we do need to stall/stop every single Trump appointee/nominee, as best as can be done, based on our values.

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  2. fredrichlariccia says

    January 10, 2017 at 5:59 pm

    keep the seat vacant until an acceptable, mainstream jurist is nominated.

    Fred Rich LaRiccia

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    • nopolitician says

      January 11, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      Keep the seat vacant until either Merrick Garland is nominated, or the presidency reverts back to the Democrats. If Republicans are allowed to block Supreme Court nominees for 9+ months with no repercussions, then that is the new bar.

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  3. Christopher says

    January 10, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    It’s never been more imperative that we take both chambers of Congress.

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    • johntmay says

      January 11, 2017 at 10:30 am

      At least in Massachusetts. Thank goodness she is running in 2018. There ought to be plenty of room on her coattails for us in Massachusetts. As for the rest of the nations, it’s going to be a huge anti-Trump campaign.

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  4. ChiliPepr says

    January 11, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    There is no way to stop any of the appointee/nominee…. The Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid pushed through the “nuclear option” in 2013. The filibuster is completely useless and now three Republicans will need to change thier vote to stop any of them except a SCJ.

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    • ChiliPepr says

      January 11, 2017 at 2:03 pm

      their not thier….

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    • Peter Porcupine says

      January 11, 2017 at 4:54 pm

      Towards the end of the administration, various techniques were utilized to ram things through for The Legacy. It appears that nobody realized they were making radical changes, using a permanent solution for a temporary problem as they say about suicide.

      Lack of a filibuster, governing by executive order, etc. – these things have been given respectability and precedent by the actions of the Obama White House. You may have to just live with that.

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      • Peter Porcupine says

        January 11, 2017 at 4:57 pm

        Of the 33-odd Senators up for reelection in 2 years, more than 20 are Democrats and about 10 of them are from states that went for Trump.

        Just like the faithless elector thing, the Democrats may have more defections than the Republicans – and your blockade agenda is entirely dependent upon having EVERY Democrat.

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        • Christopher says

          January 11, 2017 at 5:24 pm

          We’ll be prepared this time I hope. Trump’s going to dig such a hole that 2018 I believe will be a banner year for Dems. Even his not-so-deplorable supporters will figure it out by then.

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        • johntmay says

          January 11, 2017 at 5:31 pm

          Could be easier pickings than Blue States.

          I mean, so far we can tell that “The Wall” is not going to be built and Obamacare is NOT going to be replaced with something amazing.

          And for what it’s worth, the good paying jobs are not coming back, but they were not coming back with Hillary either….

          So, when these people realize they were screwed once again, my hope is that the Democratic Party offers a real, true, not ever connected to Wall Street populist progressive.

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      • Christopher says

        January 11, 2017 at 5:23 pm

        I still say on balance, lack of obstruction tactics is better for the system, though nobody ever dreamed we’d have such an outrageous President.

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