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[AZ_HighCountry]

No one likes the house negro....

Funny how quickly they turned on him.

Remember it was just barely 2 years ago when they were having the big fight over Speaker. The Democrats were 100% in lockstep with Jeffries.

Now, Dollar Store Obama is likely to find himself not as Speaker. And Nancy Pelosi's clout is no more.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

It's way too early to conclude that's the Democrats' agenda. A few comments about "lawyering up" don't represent the entire party. Voters didn't give Democrats a blank check, but they did vote for accountability too.

Many Democrats campaigned on lowering costs, avoiding more foreign wars, and investigating alleged corruption. The challenge is doing all of that, not obsessing over just one part of it. If they forget affordability and focus only on investigations, they could face the same backlash Republicans just did.

You have to admit it is the more vocal ones, who indeed ran on "affordability", are also the ones who have immediately done a hard pivot to focus on their real agenda.

Do not doubt me on this. Jeffries as Speaker will not have the power to reign the radical factions in. They are going to do what they are going to do. And vengeance it is.

Yassamin Ansari here in AZ-land is already babbling what she is going to be doing.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

You are so correct what Democratic Party priorities must focus on.

Hopefully the Democrats in the United States realise that impeaching Ttump to get Vance into office is not the thing they should waste all their time on. Demonstrating they can get stuff done will be the thing that helps them win the next Presidency , not just being anti-Trump Party.

Democrats can't help themselves.

Trump was once one of them until he one day decided that wasn't the way. And when he took away what they believed as rightfully belonging to Hillary, they lost all sense of civility and common sense.

 

[KAL-EL]

I figured the Dems would have a big night, but it was much more than that. The R's got almost completely wiped out.

I was also completely wrong about the Texas race between Ken Paxton and James talarico. I honestly thought Paxton would win, if only by a little

 

[j_hungary]

It's way too early to conclude that's the Democrats' agenda. A few comments about "lawyering up" don't represent the entire party. Voters didn't give Democrats a blank check, but they did vote for accountability too.

Many Democrats campaigned on lowering costs, avoiding more foreign wars, and investigating alleged corruption. The challenge is doing all of that, not obsessing over just one part of it. If they forget affordability and focus only on investigations, they could face the same backlash Republicans just did.

Well, the Republicans after the 2026 midterm are very much like the Democrats after the 2022 midterm. Republicans refused to cooperate with the Democrats back in 2022, and Biden was nerfed; no bills passed through. Biden had a serious disconnect with inflation post COVID and people's livelihoods, and nothing was done. In the end, the GOP got it with the dragging-on strategy and basically blamed everything on Biden (they still did), and they got re-elected that way.

This time it's basically a reverse: if Trump did nothing with the Democrats and the bad things keep getting dragged on, Democrats are going to pin the blame on Trump, and it's not hard at all for people to buy that because Trump is basically trashed in the midterm.

The only difference between the 2022 midterm and 2026 is that Dems weren't completely trashed by 2022 midterm and only lost the House by 8 seats, iirc.

 

[KingQamaR]

As an outsider watching all this from the U.K! If there is no accountability now Dems have control, they will lose and all Creditability and confidence of the American ppl. This mind blowing corruption cannot be overlooked or dismissed in any way! Trump administration has been reckless and the corruption and theft has been through the roof in plain sight!

I’m shocked there is even a consideration to “ move forward and not look back”

I’m
Just saying these guys need to be held accountable!

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

As an outsider watching all this from the U.K! If there is no accountability now Dems have control, they will lose and all Creditability and confidence of the American ppl. This mind blowing corruption cannot be overlooked or dismissed in any way! Trump administration has been reckless and the corruption and theft has been through the roof in plain sight!

I’m shocked there is even a consideration to “ move forward and not look back”

I’m
Just saying these guys need to be held accountable!

Democrats are already proposing a $15B aide package to Ukraine.

How does that address the affordability crisis in the US that they created? If I was a Democrat and dumb enough to have voted for them because of that issue, affordability, a $15B aide package for a country I could care less about would be the first thing I'd be screaming about.

Trump is going to use up a lot of pens with his vetoes. I'd just have a rubber stamp and ink pad handy.