Elizabeth Warren: "We will make Roe alive again"

[gracchus]

I’m just suggesting they stop rewarding him with committee assignments. He’ll stay and keep running (and beating MAGAts due to whatever voter inertia is behind that miracle), because if he switched parties he’d be just another corrupt death cultist with no leverage at all.

[simonize]

@Jesse13927

You do realize that the DNC doesn’t tell representatives and senators what to do, right?

The DNC may not, ,but the leadership in the House and Senate certainly DO. While individual congressmen are not obliged to vote the way that they are told (eg. Manchin) , the leadership wields considerable influence over members through committee assignments (important when fundraising) and indirectly, through DNC funding. These days “follow the money,” will tell you 80% of what is going on in congress.

[Jesse13927]

Yes, but just to clarify, the DNC and the House and Senate leadership are not the same thing.

[moortaktheundea]

@anon29537550

No one seriously thought that the decision was in jeopardy, which is part of why the leak, and now the reality, led to such shock

Please don’t say that. Some of us have been screaming it from the rooftops for a long time. The right was openly writing about their strategy, talking about it openly and reproductive justice advocates have spent the last few decades trying to get people to pay attention.

[anon29537550]

Worse, he would be the most RINO -y Repub of the bunch and get blasted regularly from his right. Where he is, he is pretty insulated from that. Which is probably part of why he has stayed there.

[MJones524]

Biden is cool, like that uncle you have with the Trans Am, but Warren would have been a better President right now.

[bluehenbear]

[anon27554371]

@gracchus

The problem is that the current party leadership is too risk-averse and complacent and mired in the past to either take a firm stand on actual systemic reform

Ding ding ding! Here ya go:

So Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and the rest of The Squad, among a few other Dems like Ted Lieu) get branded as troublesome, too-noisy, too-demanding unrealists, and what Democratic action we get in the U.S. lege is what we see now.

I refuse to call it realpolitik even if that what the risk-averse dominant Dem party leadership may well refer to their actions as.

It’s not the dog in the fight, it’s the fight in the dog.
I’m watching.
Looking for the current Dem party leadership’s willingness to fight. And act.