Oh, I mean capital-L Leadership. Minority Leader to replace the milquetoast placeholders currently holding those positions.
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Ok, Minority Leader is Jeffries. I do think that the Leader needs to be someone who can work, or “whip” the entire party, both the centrists and the progressives. Pelosi, as much as I don’t like her centrism, was able to do that. Crockett might be able to do that, but she’s young. I don’t think her as Minority Leader is realistic. Minority Whip? Maybe. But again, that position tends to go to more behind the scenes types. The current Minority Whip is Katherine Clark, who I am not that familiar with.
I would love to see all three you mentioned as ranking members of committees. Raskin is already the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, which I think is a perfect fit for him. I really wish AOC could be made ranking member of the Oversight Committee, now that Gerry Connelly died, but she’s no longer even serving on that committee. Crockett is, though, and is currently the Vice Ranking Member. I’d love to see her replace the interim Ranking Member, Stephen Lynch.
I looked up all the Ranking Members of Standing Committees, and was kind of pleasantly surprised. 11 of them (out of 20) are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. So we have our foot in the door, at least. I would love to see AOC as Speaker or Minority Leader someday. I hope that happens, if she decides to not run for President or Vice President.
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I’m not sure who else I trust with the positions (I’m talking both House and Senate). Schumer has to go. Jeffries has shown he’s almost as unfit for this moment as Schumer. Ever since he called the reps who walked out of the SotU into the Principal’s office, he showed that control was more important to him than Democracy or representation of the people.
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I agree, but I don’t think either of them are going anywhere anytime soon.
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That is something we can influence, though. We aren’t powerless. Everyone needs to pressure their Dem House rep and senators to replace the wet paper bags with people who can actually do the job to resist fascism.
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I can try, I guess, but my Representative is Emanuel Cleaver, who is right there ideologically with the Clintons, Pelosi, Jeffries, Schumer, etc. I’ve met him. He’s a nice guy, and I think he has good intentions, and he even grew up in my hometown in Texas. If he’d been born a decade later, my dad probably would have been his junior high math teacher. But he does not respond well to challenges to the existing Party Leadership.
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He should be responsive to constituents, though. At the very least, he or his staff should answer the question of why he isn’t pushing to replace Jeffries with someone more effective. And at that point, you’ve made him think about it.
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I’m not being flippant when I say that murdering Greta Thunberg would absolutely be a vote winner for the current US administration
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Bresnahan’s trades ranked second-highest for the week following “Liberation Day,” only behind Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California), whom the Wall Street Journal reports made sales of more than 200 shares and options and the purchase of more than 110 securities. According to the Journal, Khanna has said those trades were made by advisers who manage trusts for his wife and children.
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Sure would be nice if more Congressmembers (especially in the Democratic leadership) decided to take a stand and get on the right side of history for this:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/senate-democrats-schumer-trump-iran-israel
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“Blowing up the orphanage is just a distraction from the bank robbery.” Yeah okay maybe but you stop the bombing anyway.
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