But this is not about what is realistic. In the first place, politics is about making your own demands, and then a politician will have to satisfy those and probably meet everyone in the middle. But there is no reason to water down these demands yourself.
If enough people ask for the unrealistic thing, then it becomes realistic.
“opportunity to enact it” is topic of thread. First opportunity is entirely about Dec 11th budget deadline. Goal shouldn’t be a shutdown, but a strong position to force avoiding shutdown that gets just a few congressional republican votes to get over majority, with perhaps JD Vance casting tie breaking vote (with dem majority) to pass the budget that ends Iran war.
OP was about inside baseball, and I posted about the inside baseball. Dec 11th budget is near term power play. It is huge near term political event.
But this is not about what is realistic. In the first place, politics is about making your own demands, and then a politician will have to satisfy those and probably meet everyone in the middle. But there is no reason to water down these demands yourself.
If enough people ask for the unrealistic thing, then it becomes realistic.
“opportunity to enact it” is topic of thread. First opportunity is entirely about Dec 11th budget deadline. Goal shouldn’t be a shutdown, but a strong position to force avoiding shutdown that gets just a few congressional republican votes to get over majority, with perhaps JD Vance casting tie breaking vote (with dem majority) to pass the budget that ends Iran war.
OP was about inside baseball, and I posted about the inside baseball. Dec 11th budget is near term power play. It is huge near term political event.