Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.
The cynic in me knows that since it would be only D’s going down there, the fascists would use their absence to cram some shit through. The smart play would be to send only congresspeople and keep the senators here to make sure that nothing Mike LovesJohnson slides up can pass filibuster and get to the Diet Coke Desk.
That’s not really a concern at all. They haven’t been using Congress to pass anything thus far. They’ve just been doing it all through Executive Orders, so it doesn’t really matter what Congress can or can’t pass.
Plus, that’s not how Congress works, either. Republicans hold a majority in both houses. In the House, if all Republicans vote together there’s literally nothing Democrats can do (within the normal rules of how Congress functions) to stop them. It doesn’t matter if every single Democrat is there or none of them are. They have the same power. And the only difference in the Senate is the existence of the filibuster, but they don’t need any Democrats there to use it. They just threaten to filibuster any given piece of legislation and it requires 60 votes to pass (technically, for cloture, then 50+1 to pass, but the effect is 60 to pass). Again, it doesn’t matter if all Democrats are present or none are. Their power is exactly the same.
Found the guy in charge of the DNC. After Elsalvador the 40 dems can go to Gaza and sing Kumbaya. Lots of great opportunities for photo ops there. Anything but writing or passing legislation am I right! Fire up those private jets its vacation time before the vacation! and then it’s time to get together and pass a 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Then no more legislating for the year, and back to those photo opportunities.
How do you propose a party that doesn’t control any branches of government pass legislation? And what do you think that would accomplish when the regime has already shown they’re willing to ignore the law and courts whenever they want?
You want them to just sit in their offices and do the exact same thing they’ve been doing for the past decade? That’s how we got here.
Yet 1 single Senator taking a trip down to El Salvador was enough to scare the Salvadoran government to let someone out of CECOT for the first time ever, even just temporarily to meet with Van Hollen. And you call this just a photo op? Just 1 guy taking a flight and hosting a press conference was enough to scare them into cracking. And you’re saying he should have stayed home to write legislation that’d never even get a vote, let alone get passed into law?
You are a deeply unserious person.
See you’re really exposing your age here because you can’t remember a time when we did bipartisan legislation which makes you younger than 25 so maybe you can hold off on the insults for a bit until your ball is fully drop
I’m 39 years old, so try again.