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Celerity

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19. If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:12 AM
16 hrs ago

bad choice. He also was a centrist No Labels Problem Solvers Caucus member in the US House. Being a member of that bi-partisan group is always a huge red flag for me.

That group (No Labels was led for years by woeful Joe Lieberman) is far too often a force for bad outcomes/votes/stances/blockage against the vast majority of other Democrats, whether they are in the House or, in some cases, have moved on to higher office, like Polis or Sinema (ex US Senate) or now, far too often, Jacky Rosen (NV US Senator who has had multiple bad bad votes), etc.

Manchin and Sinema from the Senate worked/coordinated with the Problem Solvers (led for years by the oh-so-problematic Josh Gottheimer in the House) to block all but $987 billion out of $6.1 trillion of new spend in President Biden's 2 giant infrastructure bill frameworks during the first 2 years of Biden's first term. An 84 per cent destructive reduction in new spend.

So many vital programmes were either completely torn out or massively gutted. The already profoundly reduced human infrastructure BBB bill was then completely destroyed by Manchin in the Senate (the IRA that passed later was a pale imitation). Those wrecker/slash-and-burn actions played a major role in us losing the POTUS election in 2024.

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He's been a terrible disappointment JBTaurus83 19 hrs ago #1
What else has he done FHRRK1 5 hrs ago #28
Fantastic! TurboDem 19 hrs ago #2
As much as I love and admire Michelle... GiqueCee 18 hrs ago #4
When she said that, I was in Malaysia. I just yelled out "we just lost." AZLD4Candidate 18 hrs ago #8
100 % agree. TurboDem 18 hrs ago #9
She has explained it over and over again newdeal2 18 hrs ago #11
Really? AZ8theist 5 hrs ago #30
Her husband said, "Look forward, not backwards" in regards to Cheney/Bush war crimes and corruption. displacedvermoter 17 hrs ago #12
I, too... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #18
I love Obama but that was a big mistake MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #20
As I recall Pelosi was saying that in 06 n/t FHRRK1 5 hrs ago #27
She wasn't President taking over from what was, at the time, the most evil Administration in our history... displacedvermoter 5 hrs ago #29
When the Speaker of the House comes out against it two years before taking office .... FHRRK1 4 hrs ago #32
The Buck Stops Wherever... displacedvermoter 3 hrs ago #33
that is lame FHRRK1 3 hrs ago #35
I'll personally not support going to far as the risks are far to high. cstanleytech 17 hrs ago #13
Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. Cha 18 hrs ago #3
I don't know why he didn't hold the line MustLoveBeagles 16 hrs ago #21
It is important to remember this was not some minor transgression of youth. Bluetus 2 hrs ago #36
TY for Pointing All That OUT!.. Exactly. Cha 1 hr ago #37
That's a good start CDP. Buddyzbuddy 18 hrs ago #5
Imagine Deathsentence or Abbott doing this for a Dem. House of Roberts 18 hrs ago #6
Good. Humiliate him. Indyfan53 18 hrs ago #7
So now what? Maybe he quits the party? FakeNoose 18 hrs ago #10
I wonder if he'll lose any future support for running for any office in the future from them as well. cstanleytech 17 hrs ago #14
If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only Celerity 16 hrs ago #19
GOOD! spanone 17 hrs ago #15
I can't even begin to tell you how pissed off I was when he did that. diverdownjt 17 hrs ago #16
Good riddance to a bootlicking coward. dalton99a 16 hrs ago #17
Yeah but Dump got his way Clouds Passing 15 hrs ago #22
He's a Libertarian Aepps22 14 hrs ago #23
I'm impressed by CO Dems fujiyamasan 12 hrs ago #24
It's a problem we never seem to solve JBTaurus83 6 hrs ago #25
Super proud of our Secretary of State! colorado_ufo 4 hrs ago #31
MaddowBlog-Colorado's Polis faces bipartisan pushback after commuting Tina Peters' sentence LetMyPeopleVote 5 hrs ago #26
Mealy-mouthed and spineless wolfie001 3 hrs ago #34
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