It’s beyond unacceptable.

and repeating the same tired strategies during campaign cycles instead of learning from mistakes. And then if we do miraculously stumble into power, they negotiate with themselves to the point that the legislation is worse off from both a political and policy standpoint.

Democrats are united save one or two!

Joe Biden is at the top of the "apparatus" and his original bill was damn good.

years in the House and six years in the Senate. Face it...it is a center left country...probably more center than left.

not all centrist.

for stimulus checks, so that 16 million will get cut off this time.

The UI reduction is inexcusable.

Covid relief bill which helps many folks and fixes the ACA too...then nothing. And that is what we get with Mitch McConnell in charge. This is a Democratic site, I suggest you delete or alter your post.

The rules seem to have been suspended for the duration of the debate.

(I don't mean officially, of course.)

Best to remember that.

We should be grateful for $1,400 checks.

That's one of the funnier things I've read of late.

Trump's abysmal Covid response, a solid top of the ticket, Stacey Abrams, and a massive turnout effort in several states gave us the Senate.

You know? With the Trump's bungling and Biden's, ahem, coattails?

Yet more people voted for the goops than voted for either Democratic candidates in November.

They were damn lucky they had another shot in the runoff. and Ossof and Warnoff only caught up in the special after they promised $2,000 stimmies.

It literally happened right in front of you, don't rewrite history.

unemployment that would not have happened...you will never get exactly what you want but the Covid bill includes help for the ACA and other good stuff. And many people would have face a really bad tax liability that has been included as well...so we should be happy for what we did get. What do you suppose we would get if the GOP were in charge?

Are you saying he's in charge if repukes are a majority and also when they aren't?

WTF did we all break our necks to give the tiebreaker majority to the Dems? Why did we all support a liberal party platform that includes $15/hr and everything else we campaigned on? Why are we castigating our supporters instead of career politicians who signed on to the party platform and are now reneging?

Where's the outrage about them? Why do we continue to blame the only people who give a shit about us? I'm fucking sick of it.

I just posted something similar and got attacked for being negative. In order for the Democrats to win, they have to get their base motivated and excited. Most people are not political. They don't follow politics closely. You cannot scare them with Republicans. That simply won't work.

They have to deliver on their promises or they get voted out. End of story.

the House and the Senate...moderates did. If progressives abandon the party as they did before during Obama's time, the party will move further right to pick up votes and the 'base' as you call them will have less influence and power. There are now more states where the 'base' can't win statewide than those they can. And that is the reality. This bill is a compromise and we always expected it to change. But damn it we have a bill with McConnell in charge what would we have nothing.

Left alone, voters will remember their senator's voting records, only if it painfully impacts them. If groups like the Lincoln Project come in with attack adds to remind voters of how they got screwed by Senator Doosh, then more will vote against the incumbent.

If the DNC comes in and provides strong support for a replacement candidate, then the apple cart gets really upset. If the infrastructure in Senator Doosh's home state falls behind Candidate HappyFace, then there are a lot more voters who will have a serious look at HappyFace.

Now, if the DNC acts like it has in GA, it will be there 365 days a year. Reminding voters of what is going on in WA-DC even if the election is a year or two away. Asking voters and engaging them all year round for their opinions on what should be done in DC. Not just in the final run-up to a new election, but ALL THE TIME. The GOP does this- we should too! That is Stacy Abram's vision for the DNC and how she has been running the elections in GA.

or even voted for Trump. And that is a lesson that I see clearly from this thread some have not learned. You vote blue no matter what or you lose...and the GOP takes over and they will not just do bad policy...there is a good chance if they get in that our Republic ends. Time for the games and threats from anyone about voting for Democrats should be over.

Without them we are a shrill but powerless minority party.

a minimum raise- as that would have delayed everything and we don't have time, I have to wonder why you are outraged that moderates want a say...we have the majority because of them.

They never give out that centrist crap, and they have a very strong hold on their voters. I'm not buying it.

can and try to get more people to see that our more progressive policies are beneficial...win hearts and minds.

a hundred dollars a week less in unemployment.

disability etc.

we will have one or two misses on that, but in the aggregate, we would have Senators and Reps that see the value of raising people’s incomes.

Take the open seat in North Carolina. Take Johnson’s seat in Wisconsin. If we do those things and hold the line on seats that we hold (a good chance of accomplishing), we end up +2, or with 52 seats.

I believe that Ohio and Florida right now would be harder pulls, but if we get solid candidates that work their ass off and build a good ground game, maybe we can take both seats. In Florida, I actually would like to see Miami Mayor Suarez change parties and run against Rubio as a Democrat, his policies are more liberal than republicans like and I don’t see him going much farther as a republican, but as a moderate-progressive Democrat, he could potentially win Rubio’s seat or defeat DeSantis (although I think Crist wants to take a run at DeSantis). President Biden seems to really like Suarez, he has had him at the White House several times, and Suarez has criticized DeSantis’ handling of Covid related policy while at the White House and during the past. Hopefully President Biden is putting a bug in his ear and pointing out possibilities to him. He is still a young guy, and a pretty dynamic leader.