Or… almost? It turns out Democrats are planning to take on the Republican Party — at least in a few weeks. “House Democrats are plotting to turn the August recess into an opening salvo for the midterm elections, including through town hall meetings and organizing programs,” reports Politicowhile the party is experiencing “a renewed bravado after months in the political desert”. And to think, all it took for Democrats to emerge from this self-imposed exile was for Trump to get everything he wanted.
But come on, feel the bravado, folks. Bizarre centrist Maine Rep. Jared Golden, part of a group of Democrats who recently decided that swearing more often makes them nervous, appears in the same Politico article, boasting, “There’s almost nothing in this bill that I’m going to [to] I’m having a hard time explaining to the district. This is a huge tax giveaway for the rich. Everyone fucking knows it. I can confirm! The New Republic has covered this bill relentlessly over the past few months, which raises an uncomfortable question: What was stopping Golden from explaining this to his district at any point during this bill’s legislative twists and turns? (Perhaps Golden, the most Trump-curious member of the Democratic caucus, was wondering whether he should vote with Republicans, as he has in the past.)
If there’s one thing Democrats seem determined to do, it’s their August schedule to finally unleash the new party spitting, cursing and officially opening the midterm campaign trail. Over the weekend, as Texans faced the now-familiar tragedy of mass casualties from devastating flooding, House Minority Leader and energy vampire Hakeem Jeffries deemed it premature to launch an attack. Instead, he joined the Sunday morning talk show’s idiotic parade to express his firm hope that Democrats could work productively with the party that is hell-bent on destroying government and erasing climate change from our brains: “I think we’re going to have to figure out what happened, why did it happen, and how can we prevent this type of tragedy from happening again? And so the question of preparedness is certainly something that Congress should be able to explore in a bipartisan manner, particularly as we head into a summer where we can expect an increase in extreme weather events.
