Democrats planned to “ram all this [left-wing] policy down their throats” until Republicans won unexpected House victories in the November election, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The Times quoted Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA):
“People were talking in a really cocky way before that Democrats were going to take the trifecta [White House, Senate and House], and we were not ever going to talk to Republicans about anything. We were going to ram all this policy down their throats,” said Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego), a moderate.
Ambitious liberal policies like Medicare for all and the Green New Deal are likely to be pushed to a back burner, though Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressives have signaled they will continue to advocate for their movement.
Pelosi (D-San Francisco) had said before the election that Democrats would expand the Affordable Care Act by using a special procedure in the Senate that required only 50 votes, but it’s unclear now she will have even that.
According to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), one of the House impeachment managers who tried to have President Donald Trump removed from office earlier this year, Democrats were told “Republicans had only a 25% chance of keeping the Senate and that Democrats would pick up seats” in the House.
Instead, Republicans have gained a net of eleven seats thus far, winning all 27 “toss-up” seats in the Cook Political Report, and cutting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) majority to a margin of just a few seats.
Democrats hope to take control of the Senate by wining the two runoffs for U.S. Senate seats in Georgia in January, but even then they would only have a 50-50 tie with Republicans and would need presumptive Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie on every vote.
The Times also reported that Republicans expect President Donald Trump to play a leading role in defining the party’s agenda, whether he is in or out of office.
I just don’t understand why people vote the way they do. I know it is amazing ! when you ask them, there is no consistent reply. This government is in deep trouble, no way to fix it. I pray that I pray we all wake up before it is to late. We are all afraid.
Wow…! How to get rid of pillosi and illegals is the quest in America.
I do not understand why our Republican leaders did not ensure the polls were strictly monitored by Republicans and not allowing the Dems using force to push them out or the blocking of view by covering windows. Just don’t understand when average people like me knew what was going to happen if closely monitoring did not happen but they chose to look the other way. I don’t want to live in a socialist country. If I did, I would move to one.
You all ready live in one Jean. Social Security, Medicare, Government helping out the less fortunate, are all parts of Socialist country. You obviously don’t know what the term means. I believe that you don’t want to live in a Communist dictatorship is what you are are referring to.