This is what I'm saying. Name one vote she took besides the shutdown one in her Senate career that you had an issue with that means we need to primary her.
Fuck that. This was a critical vote where she failed.
Maybe I will be all alone on this, but I will not support this extent of craven capitulation to authoritarianism from my senators. If any of those ten see primary challenges at any point in their career going forward, I will support that challenger. They'll still get my vote in a general election if they make it there (and I'm under no delusions: most, if not all, will do exactly that) but that's it.
It's also part of a pattern for Hassan and Shaheen. They often vote with republicans for something shitty that barely passes the senate with a handful of democratic votes. In the past those shitty things haven't been anywhere near so critical, but this is not a once-off aberration.
And whenever republicans pass something with 5-10 democratic votes, Hassan and Shaheen are consistently in that group of 5-10.
It's not defended by them being in a swing state, either: Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada are all states much to the right of NH but the democratic senators from those states typically end up to the left of Hassan and Shaheen.
With Manchin and Sinema gone, these two are in the running to be some of our most conservative senators, despite being from a meaningfully bluer state than 20-30% of our caucus.
Maybe these pieces of legislation would pass anyway if they voted no. My thinking is the caucus decides if they should let it pass or not then decide whoтАЩs going to take one for the team. Hassan and Shaheen would be good ones to do that as they donтАЩt have to worry as much about a primary.
It should be obvious but I do not want these pieces of legislation to pass.
If the consequences of "taking one for the team" is losing a primary, then nobody is going to take one for the team. The caucus will vote differently and shitty legislation that needs dem votes will pass less frequently.
Absolutely unacceptable comment here from a repeat offender. We are extremely grateful for every paid subscriber, but that is not a license to abuse this community.
Why does Hassan need to be primaried exactly?
This is what I'm saying. Name one vote she took besides the shutdown one in her Senate career that you had an issue with that means we need to primary her.
Agreed. We really need to pick our battles here. READ THE ROOM.
Fuck that. This was a critical vote where she failed.
Maybe I will be all alone on this, but I will not support this extent of craven capitulation to authoritarianism from my senators. If any of those ten see primary challenges at any point in their career going forward, I will support that challenger. They'll still get my vote in a general election if they make it there (and I'm under no delusions: most, if not all, will do exactly that) but that's it.
It's also part of a pattern for Hassan and Shaheen. They often vote with republicans for something shitty that barely passes the senate with a handful of democratic votes. In the past those shitty things haven't been anywhere near so critical, but this is not a once-off aberration.
So, to answer your challenge on "one other vote" that I had an issue with, there was the 2018 banking deregulation bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2155
Voted for the CR just last week.
And whenever republicans pass something with 5-10 democratic votes, Hassan and Shaheen are consistently in that group of 5-10.
It's not defended by them being in a swing state, either: Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada are all states much to the right of NH but the democratic senators from those states typically end up to the left of Hassan and Shaheen.
With Manchin and Sinema gone, these two are in the running to be some of our most conservative senators, despite being from a meaningfully bluer state than 20-30% of our caucus.
Maybe these pieces of legislation would pass anyway if they voted no. My thinking is the caucus decides if they should let it pass or not then decide whoтАЩs going to take one for the team. Hassan and Shaheen would be good ones to do that as they donтАЩt have to worry as much about a primary.
It should be obvious but I do not want these pieces of legislation to pass.
If the consequences of "taking one for the team" is losing a primary, then nobody is going to take one for the team. The caucus will vote differently and shitty legislation that needs dem votes will pass less frequently.
Absolutely unacceptable comment here from a repeat offender. We are extremely grateful for every paid subscriber, but that is not a license to abuse this community.
Damn. Well said.