Honestly, 13 is not a lot. It’s certainly possible that they’ve got silent backing of many of the other dems in the house, but even if they do, the fact that they’re silent about it tells you that they know this is a risky position to take.
They’ve been doing this for a while though. It only takes a handful of votes to torpedo a bill, so they get a handful of Democrats in safe districts to be the bad guy of the week. The rest of the party gets to look progressive without any risk of actually passing a good bill.
That’s 6% of Dems in the house, and we get some slackjaw crowing about scratching liberals. This could be the rise of a new, better Democratic party, and people are still insistent on being unpleasant about it!
Honestly, 13 is not a lot. It’s certainly possible that they’ve got silent backing of many of the other dems in the house, but even if they do, the fact that they’re silent about it tells you that they know this is a risky position to take.
They’ve been doing this for a while though. It only takes a handful of votes to torpedo a bill, so they get a handful of Democrats in safe districts to be the bad guy of the week. The rest of the party gets to look progressive without any risk of actually passing a good bill.
That’s 6% of Dems in the house, and we get some slackjaw crowing about scratching liberals. This could be the rise of a new, better Democratic party, and people are still insistent on being unpleasant about it!