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In reply to the discussion: I thought we supported democrats here [View all]gab13by13
(32,356 posts)He is neutering Congress, he is gaining control of the purse strings.
What are Democrats doing to stop the illegal EO's?
If they are telling me they can do nothing then they need to resign and put someone in who at least fights.
What is the mission statement of Congressional Democrats? They had a chance to elevate AOC, a fighter, but they voted no to a fighter.
Chuck Schumer gave permission for Senators to vote for a bad immigration bill. I have noticed this about Schumer, every time he addresses the Senate he has to read from a paper, not inspiring to me.
I fought powerful people back in the 1970's in my small town. They wanted to strip coal and frack on our watershed. I was told there was nothing I could do because Dick Cheney deregulated federally. They were wrong. I mobilized the entire town, we had the largest number of people attend a council meeting. We got the fish commission involved, we formed a group that met regularly and we hounded the local newspapers to attend our meetings. We did not listen to the people who told us the law was against us.
We ended up getting so many restrictions put on the strippers/frackers that we protected our watershed. For my part, my county Democratic chair asked me to run for council, I did and I won in a red town. While on council I asked members of our zoning council to go with me to a University to attend a zoning seminar. We got a model flood plain ordinance, went back to our small town and drew up a flood plain ordinance that restricted what could be done in a flood plain.
When you have a good cause to fight for the people will come to have your back, just like they showed up in my small town. We are waiting for Congressional Democrats to give us our marching orders. I guarantee this; not fighting is a sure recipe for losing.