AOC and Ilhan Omar want to block Biden's former chief of staff

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273. The Justice Democrat's petition is a publicity stunt being flogged by David Sirota and The Intercept

(Krystal Ball to shortly follow.)

Tactics like these ineffective and not a method that serious people in government who seek concessions, coalition, and consensus generally employ. It's what the student council does in high school.

We are all well aware that we have elections every two years. In my neck of the woods, Democrats who work hard to elect or re-elect Democrats in purple districts or to keep flipped districts flipped saw Max Rose lose his seat, retiring Peter King's seat go to a Republican, and we held our breath while the mail in ballots for Tom Suozzi were being counted. We saw the Republican ads tying each of these Democrats to socialism and the "defund the police" narrative. It was the very loud voices that echoed in the attack ads.

When politicians who have the power and standing to schedule meetings in which they could hammer out differences and seek concessions instead immediately default to publicity-seeking tactics, my question is "who benefits?".

Cui bono?