Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.
“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.
Kennedy died and we lost the 60 votes in the Senate.
Kennedy died several months after Obama took office. What were Democrats doing during this time, aside from bailing out bankers and dronestriking weddings?
Kennedy died in August of 2009, in those 8 months they (and Obama) kind of saved the American economy?
You have to remember, when Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month and the stock market had PLUMMETTED TO $6,500.
They managed to get the Recovery act passed in February, fought by the Republicans every inch of the way:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009
Which enabled the Tea Party movement and set the stage for the losses in 2010.
Followed by the “Cash For Clunkers” act in July to prop up the American auto industry, an industry many Republicans (including Mitt Romney) at the time said we should just let die.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html
Then Kennedy died, we lost the 60 vote majority, and Republicans proceeded to use the filibuster more times than all the other Presidential terms combined.
saving the economy by throwing poor homeowners under the bus. smdh why can’t leftists just appreciate how much Obama saved the
bankerseconomyWhich didn’t actually happen, but you do you I guess.
https://jacobin.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality
“The Making Home Affordable initiative of the Secretary of the Treasury, as authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”
Hmmm… who was President in 2008? 🤔
Now, if you want to argue Obama should have stopped it, well, yeah, there’s a lot of things he should have stopped…
objecting to one line in a rather long article isn’t actually the defense you think it is
That’s not a quote that’s even in the article. How about:
“The economy” meaning rich people’s yacht money?
You can tell that the Democrats made a massive positive difference in the way that voters threw their asses out of power within two years of Obama’s inauguration, replacing him six years later with a game show host. If that isn’t victory, I don’t know what is!
Can you name a bill the Democrats have passed within the last fifty years that has made a positive difference in your material life as well as the material lives of the people around you? Without doing research?
Why has Biden refused to use the defense production act to pass universal health care? Why hasn’t he packed the courts? Why is it so hard for him to do these things but so easy for him to send tens of billions of dollars to Nazis in Ukraine?
“The Economy” being the 700,000 people a month losing their jobs under Bush.
Jobs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_losses_caused_by_the_Great_Recession
January 2009 – 818,000 jobs lost
February 2009 – 724,000 jobs lost
March 2009 – 799,000 jobs lost
April 2009 – 692,000 jobs lost
May 2009 – 361,000 jobs lost
June 2009 – 482,000 jobs lost
July 2009 – 339,000 jobs lost
August 2009 – 222,000 jobs lost
September 2009 – 199,000 jobs lost
October 2009 – 202,000 jobs lost[3]
November 2009 - 64,000 jobs created[4]
December 2009 - 109,000 jobs lost[4]
Vs Economy:
https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/report_580_high_dpi/public/atoms/files/6-6-19budf1.png?itok=XgpYU0CF
If the Democrats were actually making things better, why did voters throw them out of congress within two years?
how many kennedys do they have to kill before you understand the game is rigged