Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance
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Representative G. K. Butterfield is today set to become the latest Democrat to quit the House two weeks after a new congressional map was carved up in a boost to the GOP.
He becomes the seventh House Democrat from a battleground district to announce he won't be running for re-election next year, along with nine other Democrats in safer seats.
Jackie Speier, who represents a blue stronghold in California, announced on Tuesday that she won't be running again, saying it's 'time for me to be more than a weekend wife.'
Republicans are smelling blood over the early string of exits - often the sign of a gathering political storm - as they hope to wipe out the Democrats' narrow six-seat majority.
It ratchets up the pressure on the Biden administration after a general election that saw the Democrats barely managing to oust Donald Trump while suffering a bruising number of losses in districts they expected to clinch.
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@larry said in Whither the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
Rats leaving a sinking ship.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/15/ryan-guillen-texas-house-switch-party/
Longtime Democratic state Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City is switching parties as Republicans press to make new inroads in South Texas and after redistricting made his district much more favorable to the GOP.
Guillen made the announcement Monday morning at a news conference here where he was joined by Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont.
"Friends, something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C., are not our values, not the values of most Texans," Guillen said. "The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas."
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Could I make a polite request that we don't start any more threads with 'whither' in the title?
It was pretty bad the first time, and I definitely don't want it to become habit forming.
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@89th said in Whither the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
We should be thankful for the Biden win. He is very much helping the GOP "build back better" starting in 2022 lol. Kind wish the midterms were here already, could be a blood bath.
It just eats at your insides that Trump was so successful in office. No matter how much you hated, you spent 4 years having to choose between "do I ignore the obvious and continue fitting in with my vapid, low information peers, or do I admit he did a great job and be kicked out of the club... I can see why for you, that would be a hard choice to make.
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@doctor-phibes said in Whither the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
Could I make a polite request that we don't start any more threads with 'whither' in the title?
Sure, but "polite?"
C'mon man!
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@doctor-phibes said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
Could I make a polite request that we don't start any more threads with 'whither' in the title?
It was pretty bad the first time, and I definitely don't want it to become habit forming.
Methinks that’s a good idea.
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Verily.
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Indubitably!
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@larry said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
@89th said in Whither the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
We should be thankful for the Biden win. He is very much helping the GOP "build back better" starting in 2022 lol. Kind wish the midterms were here already, could be a blood bath.
It just eats at your insides that Trump was so successful in office. No matter how much you hated, you spent 4 years having to choose between "do I ignore the obvious and continue fitting in with my vapid, low information peers, or do I admit he did a great job and be kicked out of the club... I can see why for you, that would be a hard choice to make.
Dude. Biden sucks. And Biden beat “so successful” Trump. Let’s focus on the future. Like I said…Biden is doing the GOP a huge favor by sucking. I’d imagine that you agree with that.
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@89th said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
@larry said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
@89th said in Whither the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
We should be thankful for the Biden win. He is very much helping the GOP "build back better" starting in 2022 lol. Kind wish the midterms were here already, could be a blood bath.
It just eats at your insides that Trump was so successful in office. No matter how much you hated, you spent 4 years having to choose between "do I ignore the obvious and continue fitting in with my vapid, low information peers, or do I admit he did a great job and be kicked out of the club... I can see why for you, that would be a hard choice to make.
Dude. Biden sucks. And Biden beat “so successful” Trump. Let’s focus on the future. Like I said…Biden is doing the GOP a huge favor by sucking. I’d imagine that you agree with that.
Like I've said twice before.... You are a moron. You don't even understand how moronic your "logic" is.
That's sad. Really.
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@doctor-phibes said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
Could I make a polite request that we don't start any more threads with 'whither' in the title?
It was pretty bad the first time, and I definitely don't want it to become habit forming.
Why not? You tempt me to put it into every title from now.
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@klaus said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
@doctor-phibes said in Where goeth the Democrats post Biden 2020 election performance:
Could I make a polite request that we don't start any more threads with 'whither' in the title?
It was pretty bad the first time, and I definitely don't want it to become habit forming.
Why not? You tempt me to put it into every title from now.
A whithering response...
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/politics/eddie-bernice-johnson-congress-retirement
Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas announced her retirement Saturday afternoon after serving nearly 30 years in Congress, according to a statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi said in a statement Saturday that Johnson is "a dedicated and highly effective leader on behalf of Dallas area families and the entire nation for her thirty years in the Congress and nearly 50 years in public service."
Johnson was the first Black woman elected to state public office from Dallas, according to Pelosi, as well as the first African American and woman to be the chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
