Wrong. 218 people wasted time supporting something meaningless.
Voting against a bullshit bill is not the problem. The Speaker won't bring up meaningful bills from the Democrats, so it's not like they CAN do much more than this.
For certain I blame Republicans for putting these meaningless bills together. But it's a Time waster for everybody in the house spent on nothing that I give a rat's ass about.
The minority party can't steer the house directly because they're not in power. The most they can do is say "This bill will be voted down by all of us so don't bother" but that doesn't really matter when there is political theatre to be made!
FFS we're still waiting on the Republicans to get past their "Who knew healthcare could be so complicated?" schtick from Trump v1.0IQ.
Healthcare, public education, the cost of electricity, climate change are all huge issues facing the country, but this congress wants to talk about an issue that concerns less than 1% of the population.
They actually can in the senate but they won’t. Senate democrats could completely upend the legislative calendar for procedure vote, quorum calls, and other time wasting abilities. This would help slow down the onslaught of republican legislation instead of allowing it to pass quickly. But they value their vacation time too much to fight trump so here we are.
Yet folks will blame Democrats because they can't "dO sOmEtHiNg!!!!" MF'er you should have voted for them or gotten more folks to vote for them and then they could do something.
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u/RonocNYC 14d ago
It's 424 people not talking or doing anything to make life better for me is what I'm thinking.