Summary
Senate Democrats who initially backed some of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees now regret their votes, citing broken promises and controversial policies.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) apologized for supporting Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins after the administration terminated over 1,000 VA employees, including those at the Veterans Crisis Line.
Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.) regretted confirming Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem due to aggressive immigration policies.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) expressed disappointment with Secretary of State Marco Rubio for actions undermining USAID.
Who could have known??
Do they really think their constituents are that gullible?
Honestly not trying to be argumentative here, but it does seem like most voters can be that gullible, concerning what’s currently going on, as well as what’s happened in the past.
Basically every voter thinks the other 49 senators are trash but theirs is always perfect, for some reason.
If people truly voted accurately, a lot of the problems we have today wouldn’t happen. Right now elected officials know that they can just bullshit their way through any conversation with their voters and stay in office, keep their jobs.
There are 100 senators and neither side has 50. Republicans have 53 and the caucus of Democrats and Independents have 47 combined.
Americans elected Trump.
And then reelected him despite spending a literal year golfing, fucking over the economy, and turning COVID into a pandemic.
Yeah, apparently we are that gullible.
Considering Congress has a 94% reelection rate, abso-fucking-litely they do.
Fuck any Democrat that voted for any one of these assholes but honestly fuck Fetterman.
citing broken promises
The vote to confirm Marco Rubio was unanimous, including even reliably outspoken opponents like Sanders. I can only assume that there was some behind-the-scenes deal where they thought they were getting something worth making that huge compromise. I have no fucking clue what it could possibly be, but it had to be something because even if the majority of Democrats are cowardly neolibs who prioritize the ‘absence of tension’ over the 'presence of justice," it is not true that all of them are.
If they’ve now been betrayed on that, it had to have been a big betrayal. One can only hope it’s enough to wake them the fuck up.
And if they don’t, well, they’ll be real surprised when Trump puts them up against a wall at some point not too far in the future.
Doubt it’s that big. These votes aren’t meant to be controversial, and Rubio has to be the most normal of the bunch so a unanimous vote is what you’d do. That said, while trying to block even reasonable nominations in the name of obstruction would be patriotic at this moment, its very much a Republican playbook dirty tactic and one I wouldn’t waste on fucking Rubio when they’re not going to even need your fucking vote anyway.
democrats going-in should have been 100% obstructionists on anything they themselves didn’t write or sponsor. filibuster everything in the senate that wouldn’t be a 100-0 vote. just like the republicants have been most the time since at least newt, and almost entirely since obama.
They ooze weakness.
these are DINOs in the senate, not really surprising. its called saving face, they knew who they voted for.
Anybody in congress who doesn’t align with Sanders and AOC as the heads of our party, and more importantly, our movement, needs to be voted out.
The Pelosi and Schumer wing of the of the party have got to go. There is no more working with them. They are worse than MAGA and they have stabbed us in the back the last time.
Traitors
Primary every single one.
Why the fuck would you vote for ANY of them?
Their votes and their regrets mean fuck all, they couldn’t have prevented a single one of these confirmations, but I guess the thought is nice…? At least they’re letting their base know it is heard.
This could be my new Riker…
They are politicians. They should know that politicians lie. Well, OK, they are as stupid as politicians, too.
