Obama Calls On Senate Dems To ‘Not Do What McConnell Did’

The Democratic Party can not just wait for the next Barack Obama to come along. Why are Democrats, who spent eight years lamenting Washington paralysis, now gung ho for confrontation when even Republican voters didn’t feel that way towards Obama in 2008? But in an interview published this weekend in The New York Times, Schumer clarified that Democrats would deal with Trump only if he met them on their goals. Because Trump outsourced much of his campaign to the Republican Party, his get-out-the-vote effort was largely managed by state officials who mobilized their political networks to help swing crucial battleground states to Trump. Hillary Clinton won the election by more than a million votes.

I think it’s mostly, but not completely, a function of Trump being seen as something “different” and uniquely unsafe by critics because of his demagoguery and strongman persona. The president told reporters “I think it’s fair to say that I was surprised by the election results”. In addition, the Connecticut Senate is tied and control of the NY state Senate is still undecided, according to the NCSL. “I don’t care if it’s a Republican idea or a Democratic idea”. Republicans extended their domination of governorships and state legislatures. Schumer fired a warning shot at Trump about the type of Justice he should appoint to the Supreme Court. Sen. And soon after 2007, The Great Recession began. Felder said that while he had spoken with mainline Democratic leaders, the conference had failed to come up with a sufficiently juicy package of such reasons to switch sides.

An internal struggle for party power and influence has been brewing for years. Despite Obama’s current polling popularity and his endorsement of 150 state legislative candidates, Democrats got nowhere in the November 8 elections. They need 32 seats to control a majority in the 63-seat chamber, which a Marcellino win would secure.

A small number of influential Republicans in the Senate are threatening to block appointments to Trump’s administration, derail his thaw with Russian Federation and prevent the planned wall on the border with Mexico. They’re likely to face major opposition from Democrats who, despite some calls to work with Trump on areas of agreement, have been vocal in their frustration with some of his earliest decisions as president-elect. That represents about 56 percent of the total.

The early stirrings of opposition from Senate Republicans are a sign that the NY businessman, who has never held public office, might run into harsh political realities soon after taking office on January 20. That is a record for the party. Democrats will have 48 seats in the new Senate. Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the party arm charged with overseeing state races, agreed. State and local government is where the next generation of progressive voices will emerge – and, in fact, new leaders such as state Sens.

The irony is that the Republican Party shouldn’t be as hard a sell to younger voters and Latinos as you might imagine.

Democrats don’t dismiss the challenge in front of them but add that they’re confident that many of their incumbents are well prepared to win over white working-class voters.

Democrats are slowly starting to tackle their problems at the state level. Now, just 15 do. In 1922, there were 34 Republican governors. But they have allowed the Republicans to sneak in and take virtually every down ballot election that wasn’t nailed down. Nearly two-thirds of all state legislators in the South are Republicans.

That could give Senate Democrats’ new leader, Chuck Schumer of NY, veto power over major chunks of Trump’s agenda. There was a tie in the CT and Delaware Senates. But maybe even in the first 100 days. The consensus has been that each time reforms to the cloture rule have occurred to make it easier for the majority to overcome minority obstruction, the number of filibusters that have taken place has increased. Dan Diorio is a policy specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures. The state lost one seat after the 2010 census.

I thought Obama would say that he was going back to Chicago to resume his career as a community organizer.

Meanwhile, now that they’ve lost power, Democrats are beginning to have their own come to Jesus moment about unrestrained government authority – just in the opposite direction. George Grow was the editor.

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