Can Senate Democrats Save the Party?
'Having had more than two weeks to ponder one of the most humiliating presidential defeats in its history, the Democratic Party is moving to apply its lessons to the legislative battles ahead, as well as to the daunting but essential task of rebuilding the partys fortunes.
Much of the burden will fall on Democrats in the closely divided Senate, where arcane rules give the opposition party leverage to shape or block legislation passed by the rigidly conservative, Republican-dominated House. The challenge facing the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, is to determine when to say no and when to compromise on matters of broad economic benefit.
Mr. Schumer vows to block all efforts to kill Obamacare, or gut Dodd-Frank financial regulation. Were not going to undo it, period. And I have the votes. And the Democrats are sure to resist ideas they abhor a far-right Supreme Court nominee, or efforts to undermine environmental protections. Yet other issues in which both sides and the larger public have an interest, like infrastructure, could offer room for collaboration.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/can-senate-democrats-save-the-party.html?
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(594 posts)pbmus
(12,418 posts)haven't heard anyone roar about the illegitimacy of the trumpster dumpster....
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Red Oak
(697 posts)Sen. Schumer is all in on giving companies like Apple a "Tax Holiday", then creating a permanent tax break for corporations and then spending less than ten cents on the dollar of taxes owed on an "infrastructure bank".
The way this should work instead is to make corporations pay their taxes and put 100% of each dollar to work for the American people, but Senators on both sides of the aisle have bills to pay and lobbyists to listen to.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I have zero faith in Schumer based on his past.