I'm not seeing the kind of resistance to Trump by Democratic party leaders that I expect. What's everyone else think? [View all]

[lees1975]

Maybe I'm just too much activist and not enough politician, but it seems to me that Mitch McConnell was the most aggravating, menacing, threat to getting things done when the GOP had minorities in the Senate, sometimes smaller that the one we have now, blockading everything, coming out almost daily with some kind of public statement defining the opposition and their plan and why they were right. He had 47 Senators during one of those stretches.

Where are we and where is our leadership? Schumer seems content to just be there, get on camera occasionally and throw up his hands in an "oh, well, not much we can do at this point" attitude.

Everything Trump is trying to do is either unconstitutional or bad for the country. I expect a lot more out of our leadership. I've written as much to my two Senators. Duckworth was in agreement, and said so. Durbin explained away the lack of apparent opposition with the old "politics as usual" statements.

Frankly, unless we go straight up against this demagogue, we lose everything we don't fight for. I think we need more that we're seeing and it's not going to be long before the frustration that's already pouring over into the streets, will get ahead of where most of our politicians are. That might not be the best way to go, since we're going to have to win elections quickly and we need to stick together.

So how do we get some of these party line, old school Democrats off their rear ends? We need leaders who are concerned about the country, and about the people, not about feathering their own political nest and preserving their own turf.