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Celerity

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19. If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:12 AM
11 hrs ago

bad choice. He also was a centrist No Labels Problem Solvers Caucus member in the US House. Being a member of that bi-partisan group is always a huge red flag for me.

That group (No Labels was led for years by woeful Joe Lieberman) is far too often a force for bad outcomes/votes/stances/blockage against the vast majority of other Democrats, whether they are in the House or, in some cases, have moved on to higher office, like Polis or Sinema (ex US Senate) or now, far too often, Jacky Rosen (NV US Senator who has had multiple bad bad votes), etc.

Manchin and Sinema from the Senate worked/coordinated with the Problem Solvers (led for years by the oh-so-problematic Josh Gottheimer in the House) to block all but $987 billion out of $6.1 trillion of new spend in President Biden's 2 giant infrastructure bill frameworks during the first 2 years of Biden's first term. An 84 per cent destructive reduction in new spend.

So many vital programmes were either completely torn out or massively gutted. The already profoundly reduced human infrastructure BBB bill was then completely destroyed by Manchin in the Senate (the IRA that passed later was a pale imitation). Those wrecker/slash-and-burn actions played a major role in us losing the POTUS election in 2024.

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He's been a terrible disappointment JBTaurus83 13 hrs ago #1
What else has he done FHRRK1 14 min ago #28
Fantastic! TurboDem 13 hrs ago #2
As much as I love and admire Michelle... GiqueCee 13 hrs ago #4
When she said that, I was in Malaysia. I just yelled out "we just lost." AZLD4Candidate 12 hrs ago #8
100 % agree. TurboDem 12 hrs ago #9
She has explained it over and over again newdeal2 12 hrs ago #11
Her husband said, "Look forward, not backwards" in regards to Cheney/Bush war crimes and corruption. displacedvermoter 12 hrs ago #12
I, too... GiqueCee 11 hrs ago #18
I love Obama but that was a big mistake MustLoveBeagles 10 hrs ago #20
As I recall Pelosi was saying that in 06 n/t FHRRK1 16 min ago #27
She wasn't President taking over from what was, at the time, the most evil Administration in our history... displacedvermoter 7 min ago #29
I'll personally not support going to far as the risks are far to high. cstanleytech 11 hrs ago #13
Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. Cha 13 hrs ago #3
I don't know why he didn't hold the line MustLoveBeagles 10 hrs ago #21
That's a good start CDP. Buddyzbuddy 13 hrs ago #5
Imagine Deathsentence or Abbott doing this for a Dem. House of Roberts 12 hrs ago #6
Good. Humiliate him. Indyfan53 12 hrs ago #7
So now what? Maybe he quits the party? FakeNoose 12 hrs ago #10
I wonder if he'll lose any future support for running for any office in the future from them as well. cstanleytech 11 hrs ago #14
If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only Celerity 11 hrs ago #19
GOOD! spanone 11 hrs ago #15
I can't even begin to tell you how pissed off I was when he did that. diverdownjt 11 hrs ago #16
Good riddance to a bootlicking coward. dalton99a 11 hrs ago #17
Yeah but Dump got his way Clouds Passing 9 hrs ago #22
He's a Libertarian Aepps22 9 hrs ago #23
I'm impressed by CO Dems fujiyamasan 7 hrs ago #24
It's a problem we never seem to solve JBTaurus83 35 min ago #25
MaddowBlog-Colorado's Polis faces bipartisan pushback after commuting Tina Peters' sentence LetMyPeopleVote 20 min ago #26
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