Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is calling for the Senate to change its rules amid Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) continued blockade of over 300 military promotions continues.
“I wish the Senate would change their rules so that one senator doesn’t have that kind of power, so that we actually would have a democracy where you have a fair vote,” Smith said of the upper chamber of Congress in an interview on CNN.
He added that it’s clear to him that Tuberville doesn’t believe in democracy.
“He doesn’t believe in the system of government that we’ve set up,” Smith argued. “You have a vote, you lose you move on.”
Smith, who served as a state senator in Washington in the 1990s, called the House Freedom Caucus and Tuberville’s approach to governance “incredibly destructive.”
“What he and the Freedom Caucus believe is ‘if you don’t get what you want, do as much damage as you possibly can’ to the government,” he said.
“In this case, it’s incredibly destructive to the defense of this country, to the national security of this country, to not be able to have top leaders appointed to their position nearly undermines our ability to protect this country bottom line, Smith added.
Democrats need to take note.
The right promised the religious base they’d ban abortion. It took them almost 40 years, but they packed the court and got RvW overturned.
They came out, they promised, they did it.
Every democrat that promises M4A and doesn’t deliver, i don’t care why, needs to be voted out. Since Clinton M4A has been sidelined, and millions of Americans have died earlier than they should have and lost their lives earnings and their families being gutted generational wealth and inheritance. Besides the cruelty. Besides the insane wealth transfer from the bottom up, it’s guaranteed no economic mobility. It’s created a caste system.
The centrists are just as beholden to the 1% as the right is. Yale and Harvard have both dropped studies showing that public opinion has 0% effect on whether a bill gets passed.
Dems either stop holding a carrot in front of progressives and put people over profit or I, a fucking nobody, will file papers to start a new Progressive Party, with the Bull Moose as the mascot.
Dangle the carrot long enough, you’ll find you end up getting the stick.
Look up Teddy Roosevelts platform from when he ran for president as a progressive.
we still have the SAME FUCKING EXACT PROBLEMS 100 YEARS LATER
no more carrots. Start grabbing big sticks.
Good on you for being proactive