As Dems Retake Government, Standoff With Party’s Left Flank Looms

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As Dems Retake Government, Standoff With Party’s Left Flank Looms

First Dem-controlled gov't in a decade means fights over filibuster, court packing, socialist agenda

Charles Fain Lehman - January 9, 2021 5:00 AM

Victory in Georgia has guaranteed Democratic control of the White House and Congress, giving President-elect Joe Biden expanded options but also denying him cover from the demands of his party's radical left wing.

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff's surprise double triumph on Tuesday makes possible many of Biden's more expansive legislative priorities, such as his promised revisions to Obamacare or his $2 trillion climate plan. But it also means that he has lost the convenient excuse of a Republican-controlled Senate, which would have allowed him to refuse the more revolutionary changes endorsed by members of his party.

Instead, progressive groups are already agitating for proposals such as ending the Senate's filibuster. Eli Zupnick, spokesman for the left-leaning Fix Our Senate, responded to the news of Warnock and Ossoff's victory with bluntness: "What does this election mean? The filibuster is dead."

Similar calls will soon emerge from other corners, pushing for court packing, the addition of new states, radical appointees, and the agenda of the House's socialist "squad" caucus. Paradoxically, Biden's victory in the Senate may have set up an even greater battle: not against Republicans, but across the ever-growing fault lines which divide his party.

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[LMAO]

 This is part of what brought the Carter presidency down. Carter would get in fights with the liberal wing of his party over issues such as spending.


However, the liberals in the Democratic Party during Carter’s presidency still saw themselves as Americans and loved the country. This is not a liberal wing that we’re talking about in the Democrat party but a very powerful anti-American wing

If Biden signs onto this far left agenda, he’s screwed. If he doesn’t, he’s still screwed

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 The liberals of old still believed in things like America’s institutions,  free speech, and didn’t look at the rest of the country with such contempt.  You would have never heard people like Daniel Patrick Moynahan  or Hubert Humphrey  sympathize with people burning down cities nor would they demand Defunding police departments in high crime areas

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The only thin thread holding them together is  their dislike of Trump.


That thread snaps once Biden is in the WH.

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff's surprise double triumph on Tuesday..."

... was no "surprise".
Not when you have an underground election apparatus to help you out, along with the incompetency of the Republicans who should have been overseeing things.

[goatprairie]

The only thin thread holding them together is  their dislike of Trump.


That thread snaps once Biden is in the WH.

True. The old guard semi-sane libs are trying to hold off the upstart, deranged young commies on the rise.
Who will win? Well, age will probably tell the story. All the commies are far younger than the old lib scoundrels trying to hang onto power. In a few years the AOCs-Omars-Tlaibs will be in charge.
If they're not stopped, very bad things are in store for the country.
I'm not optimistic.

[The_Reader_David]

Standoff with, or capitulation to?