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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE VOTED TO CONFIRM HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. OUR OWN PARTY IS FULL OF DUMBASSES.
But mUH dECoRuM1!1
It’s not our party. But it could be after the primaries.
Pretty simple test. Did you ever vote for a Trump nominee? Yes? GTFO, we don’t give a fuck why
What are you going to do different than previous primaries?
Encourage progressives to run against Republicans in GOP primaries. These are the only congressional ballots that matter in my home state.
That was not being done in previous primaries?
Indeed. Though I’m not sure we could without finding some way to do this without shooting ourselves in the foot at every turn. No politician in any party incumbent or not should go without a primary challenge. But so many are hyper focused on Purity tests that don’t accomplish anything.
I’d like to invoke the inverse of Hanlon’s Razor with respect to US federal politicians.