If we can make the trains run on time it will all be worth it, amirite?
by digby
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| It’s all good people. Nothing to worry about. Carry on. |
What could go wrong with associating yourself with the most unpopular president in history?
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) is warning Democratic leadership about working too closely with President Trump for fear that the party may cede too much ground to Republicans on key issues.
“Let’s not fool ourselves,” Connolly told Politico. “He is this person we know, and I just think there must be both political and moral limitations with how far we’re willing to cooperate with that.”
Connolly’s comments come as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have collaborated with President Trump on several key policy issues, to the surprise of many top Republicans.
“I am asserting that our base — our rank-and-file base — and a lot of us in the caucus, want to see … or hear, periodically, that parameters are being set,” Connolly said regarding the newly forged relationship between Trump and the congressional Democrats.
“And we get alarmed at the speculation that this might be a new day dawning,” he added.
On DACA, there is no choice. It’s a humanitarian crisis and the Democrats have to figure out a way to save nearly a million people. So, I get that. But I still maintain that Ryan and McConnell were perfectly happy to let Chuck and Nancy take credit for raising the debt ceiling and funding disaster relief so they could get the calendar cleared for the odious stuff on their agenda — like this Repeal and Replace hail mary. They took a hit with Rush Limbaugh but the Freedom Caucus got to vote against it and retain their street cred. You’ll notice they really didn’t put up much of a fuss either.
But aside from all the inside baseball, the idea that Democrats are going to rescue Donald Trump, the misogynist, white supremacist, xenophobe who has turned the entire world against this country and already set back the cause of peace and solving climate change by decades is …. demoralizing.
If they want to get a big turnout in November of 2018 they’d better make sure that their base doesn’t think they want the majority in order to ensure that Donald Trump gets to pass his agenda.
It won’t take too many more pictures of Nancy and Chuck and Don grinning like jacko-lanterns and patting each other on the back for Democratic base voters to figure it won’t matter who gets elected, Democrat or Republican and stay home. After all, that pig wins either way, right?
Karl Rove always said that politics is TV with the sound turned off. What does this tell you?
