'The American People Did Not Vote for Whatever the Hell This Is,' Warns House Democrat | Common Dreams
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Rep. Jim McGovern said the House GOP's rules package offers "the clearest window yet into their agenda for the next two years."

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.

    • @chiliedogg
      -1•2 days ago

      How are they not fair?

      Just because the majority of people who actually show up and vote in them pick candidates you don’t like?

      It’s the people who bother to fucking show up that make the difference.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 days ago

        2016

        On July 22, WikiLeaks published the Democratic National Committee email leak, in which DNC operatives seemed to deride Bernie Sanders’ campaign and discuss ways to advance Clinton’s nomination, leading to the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other implicated officials.

        2024

        The primaries in Florida and Delaware were cancelled, with Biden receiving all pledged delegates, while in North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Indiana, no candidates other than Biden will appear on the ballot, partially due to decisions by the state Democratic parties in those states.

        It’s the people who bother to fucking show up that make the difference.

        I assume you’re not talking about the 6 states listed where the DNC chose to run Biden unopposed or simply cancelled the primary altogether. After all, can’t show up for the primary if there is no primary.

        • @chiliedogg
          1•2 days ago

          If 100% of those states had gone for Biden, it wouldn’t have changed the nomination. He already had it locked in.

          And the 2016 scheme was to have the superdelegates tip the scales to Clinton if Bernie narrowly won the primaries, but he didn’t.

            • @chiliedogg
              1•2 days ago

              Hillary received the majority of the votes in the primaries. If the superdelegates had changed their votes to support Bernie instead, that would have been undemocratic.

              Biden had a mathematically insurmountable lead when the primaries were canceled.

              • @[email protected]
                2•2 days ago

                So if it hadn’t gone their way, they would have made it go their way. They had a plan ready to go to disregard the voters and install the candidate they had hand picked. And you’re defending that as fair and democratic.

                • @chiliedogg
                  1•1 day ago

                  No. I’m saying they didn’t even have to do that because all these lazy motherfuckers complaining about the party don’t even get off their ass to try and change it.

                  And moreover, the “insiders” who control the party agent some mysterious cabal. They’re people who have been chosen to lead the party by the party. You change them by participating in primaries and (more importantly) local primaries.

                  Party leadership isn’t hatched from an egg. They climb the ranks over decades of party membership. The Clinton’s weren’t formed from the ether in 1992. They’d been involved in the party for decades before they were known nationally.

                  You select the people to lead the party in the future at the local level. You can’t just magic them into existence by doing jack-all but complaining every 4 years that they didn’t listen to what you weren’t telling them.