{"id":138896,"date":"2019-05-25T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138896"},"modified":"2019-05-25T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T15:27:06","slug":"the-do-nothing-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/the-do-nothing-democrats.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Do Nothing&#8221; Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Current propaganda from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoxNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FoxNews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> is that the Dems aren&#39;t passing any legislation because of &quot;wasting&quot; all their time on investigations of the President. Not surprisingly, Fox News and Trump are lying. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHXnVcSYk3\">https:\/\/t.co\/qHXnVcSYk3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1132028452654243840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Current propaganda from #FoxNews and #Trump is that the Dems aren&#8217;t passing any legislation because of &#8220;wasting&#8221; all their time on investigations of the President. Not surprisingly, Fox News and Trump are lying. https:\/\/t.co\/qHXnVcSYk3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In reality, of course, the Dems have passed a variety of bills since taking the majority in the House, from the trivial to significant items like electoral reform. The issue is not that the Dems haven&#8217;t been passing anything, but that the GOP in the Senate (let alone That Guy in the White House) <em>aren&#8217;t paying any attention<\/em>. On any number of large legislative initiatives coming from the House, Mitch McConnell and the GOP have not only not bothered to show how the Republicans think problems should be solved, Mitch has kept even debate about it off of the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>And now Trump is trying to pretend it isn&#8217;t happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating, if maddening, case of &#8220;The Big Lie&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,1142,358,376,1071],"tags":[1806,125,723,1077],"class_list":["post-138896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-elections-2020","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138343,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/packing-the-supreme-court-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":138896,"position":0},"title":"Packing the Supreme Court (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Mar-19 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dems are considering expanding SCOTUS to counter GOP shenanigans","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2020&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2020","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2020"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gorsuch-and-kavanaugh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gorsuch-and-kavanaugh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gorsuch-and-kavanaugh.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gorsuch-and-kavanaugh.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gorsuch-and-kavanaugh.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":137426,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-2018-election-the-national-perspective.html","url_meta":{"origin":138896,"position":1},"title":"The 2018 Election: The National Perspective","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-18 11:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(As of 11:42pm MST) I wish it had been more of a Blue Wave, but ... it was enough for government work, so to speak. 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