Ephraim
1647
You’re not legislating anything if you don’t take the Senate. And McConnell has already said any Supreme Court reforms or statehood considerations for DC or Puerto Rico will never get to the Senate floor under his leadership.
Menzo
1648
So I guess you’re suggesting Dems just take two years off then. Nothing we can do, might as well not try leading at all!
Heh, MARTA rarely goes where you want to go, if you are in the suburbs. Unless things have changed dramatically, it goes from downtown on radials to the suburbs (the trains, we’re talking here; the busses are more varied) but from one suburb to another across the arc of the Perimeter. Dunno where they count the votes though.
Here. NV actually matters quite a bit in this scenario.
Timex
1652
You turn the DOJ loose. You don’t tell them to investigate anyone, you let the career people dig on their own. Let them go after Trump. Let them uncover all the corruption that the DOJ has been hiding the past 4 years.
Then you hammer on that, and you push legislation that will prevent it in the future. You make Mitch refuse to vote on bills that are explicitly designed to limit corruption, and you hang that shit around his neck in 2022.
Yeah, it’s bullshit that the Senate is still going to be under that lich McConnell.
The Senate needs to be reformed stat. With such ridiculous discrepancies in population among the states, it only allows for a tiny minority to impede all progress.
jpinard
1655
Kentucky seemed to go blue in 2018. What happened to make them swing so hard to trump?
KevinC
1656
Kentucky never went blue, the Republicans just ran an asshole that everyone in the state loathed.
Kentucky’s incumbent governor was historically unpopular.
Ephraim
1658
I guess you can do all that executive level shenanigans stuff that Trump has been doing. It cleans up a lot of the shit he’s been flinging, but it’s not the same as building a bathroom.
You can, say, reaffirm the US commitment to the Paris Accords…
Only the governor. The former governor was wildly unpopular and he still barely lost to the Democrat who had favorable name recognition.
Houngan
1661
At the state level we’re often more blue than red, though that has been slipping. Presidentially we’re deep red.
You can do stuff with executive orders, but will Biden use that power? I don’t believe he will push through any substantive changes. He might roll back some of Trump’s bullshit, but by and large I think Biden will try to work through Congress because he’s that type of guy for better or worse.
Has it been mentioned that North Dakota elected a Republican who died of Covid?
Timex
1665
Trump voters are like a lot of Obama voters.
They don’t really care about anything but the personality of the guy they’re supporting. They just didn’t come out in 2018, because Trump wasn’t on the ballot.
