The Democrats

bucknaway · February 27

stevenkesslar · February 28

4 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

The paralyzed Dems are asking the fired Fed. workers.........

Do you think Democrats should oppose the effort to reduce government expenditures or should join in the mission of cutting government waste?

66 % of Americans say Democrats should join the mission to cut government waste.

34 % of Americans say Democrats should oppose the effort to reduce government expenditures

Republican Romney whore Scott Jennings, who has now converted to full on MAGA, recently said that the genius of Trump is he forces Democrats to take the wrong side of 70/30 issues. To me, that says more about how Jennings is a whore, desperate to sound as MAGA as he can. I just don't think Democrats are that stupid, as hard as they try. But if Jennings is correct, this would be one example.

A few other ones from Mark Penn's latest Harris poll.

69 % of voters, including half of Democrats, support the goal of "cutting $1 trillion of government expenditures". 70 % of voters, including 58 % of Democrats, say government expenditures are "filled with waste, fraud and inefficiency".

Mark Penn, whose wife is the No Labels gal, is a great pollster, I think. In his heyday, he helped post-1994 wipeout Bill Clinton figure out how to take centrist ideas that polled well and turn them into palatable goldfish crackers the middle class and working class ate up. That is what he is good at. Democrats should not be against goldfish crackers.

Let's face facts, Sis. You and I are proudly in the minority who will defend government workers who deserve to be defended. It sucks. Speaking of which, we are also in the minority of Gay men who are excellent cock suckers. So being a minority is not really a bad thing, you know. 😉

Republicans in Congress are just starting to say this is going too far. Poor Jesse Watters has a friend who was fired. Aw! I feel for you, Jesse.

It's hard to say. But Democrats seem like they may be able to force some restraint. Like, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is probably dead. But that's not clear yet. And if it does die, it sets up Democrats to argue that when Republicans had the power, they made absolutely certain that working class Trump voters could be raped well and good and constantly by Wall Street and credit card companies. With no accountability, and no one to help them.

This isn't going to be fun. It will be fatal to many. This is what 49.8 % of America voted for, albeit without knowing it.

What Republican House members who are probably already dead men walking are saying is that their working class constituents are starting to go ape shit about looming Medicaid cuts. And taking food programs off their table. Higher prices on eggs and tariffs only adds insult to injury. It's going to be ugly.

Penn says in his poll that Democrats now have the highest disapproval rating ever. That may be true, right now. But, if it is, it is because many Democrats want House members to step in the path of a chainsaw.

I think a better reflection of reality is the only poll RCP currently lists for the 2026 Congressional vote. It shows Democrats and Republicans split, 43/43, in the generic ballot. Notably, that poll was done by Trump's pollster, Tony Fabrizio. Good old Tony set about to model how Trump could be elected in 2024 without winning a majority. To his credit, he cracked the code. Now he and Trump will probably have to live with the horrific blowback of using their narrow 49.8 % victory to do the really unpopular shit they plan to do. But attacking government waste and firing federal employees is not one of them.

If any of you are a data geek like me, you will enjoy going through Fabrizio's latest poll. I am sure Trump and Congressional Republicans are using it to help them guide their strategy. It's interesting that even Trump's own pollster verifies that only 31 % of all voters, and only 53 % of Trump voters, say the 2017 Trump tax cuts actually helped them.

If Democrats ever find the will and the power to tax billionaires like Elon Musk to help the working class, which is wildly popular in every poll that ever asks it, it is game over for Tony Fabrizio. And his game of figuring out how to wield minority power.