03-24-2017, 11:14 AM
(03-24-2017, 11:04 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Maybe it would work to do it that way. Just seems the base would want a fight.
There is definitely a part of the base that wants a fight. I get being pissed about Garland. He would've been a phenomenal justice. If there was enough sense and bipartisanship to pull off something like the episode "The Supremes" from seaosn 5 of The West Wing I would've been all for that, especially since Gorsuch clerked for Kennedy and so he will likely be the next to retire because of it.
We just need the DNC to be more pragmatic. The base that wants the filibuster is not that group that wants pragmatism. They are the group that will remain voting for Dem candidates. The ones we lost are the ones that want more pragmatism, they want the party of the people back, and this is not the fight that sends the message that is what is happening.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
