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WTF, Governor? Spanberger throws immigrants under trump's ICE bus. (Original Post) LuvLoogie Wednesday OP
She also reneged on her campaign promise re: cannabis Mysterian Wednesday #1
She was another (like Polis) No Labels Problem Solver from the US House who was a very aggressive progressive basher. Celerity Thursday #3
What's going on with some Democrats lately? SunImp Thursday #2
She also vetoed the repeal of right to work. BlueTsunami2018 Thursday #4

Mysterian

(6,646 posts)
1. She also reneged on her campaign promise re: cannabis
Wed May 20, 2026, 10:12 PM
Wednesday

I'm starting to think she's a piece of shit.

Celerity

(54,935 posts)
3. She was another (like Polis) No Labels Problem Solver from the US House who was a very aggressive progressive basher.
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:22 PM
Thursday

Of course she was always going to swing to the right.

No idea why people are surprised. I have been warning about No Labels and its bi-partisan House group of obstructionist centrists and centre right folk for years.

Being a member of that bi-partisan group is always a huge red flag for me. Henry Cuellar anyone? Sinema, Jaren Golden, Kurt Schrader, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Dean Phillips, etc etc.

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.

SunImp

(2,724 posts)
2. What's going on with some Democrats lately?
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:07 PM
Thursday

Polis & the Tina Peters thing and now this. Wtf

BlueTsunami2018

(5,079 posts)
4. She also vetoed the repeal of right to work.
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:49 PM
Thursday

And people wonder why the working class feels abandoned by Democrats. We already have one party wholly dedicated to the ruling class, we’re supposed to be the opposition. It’s infuriating that there are so many traitors inside the wire.

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