Notably, any single senator can place a personal "hold" on a nominee or bill. There's no time limit or limit on the number of holds. In 2008, for example, Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) placed a hold against a funding bill for 12 federal programs. A hold only goes away one of two ways: the senator lifts it, or 60% of the Senate votes against it. Democrats could use the hold to replace the filibuster Reid got rid of.
But there's no reason to believe Democrats will put up a serious fight against the Trumpists. "In the end, a hybrid strategy might make the most sense for Democrats -- use Trump and the GOP as a foil and slow them where they can -- while seeking to pick one or two areas where his aspirations coincide with their values," CNN muses. "A las Barricadas!" this is not.
Democratic impotence is nothing new; since the 1970s leaders have pushed the party's ideology to the right while abandoning every pretense of resistance to the expansion of the corporate gangster capitalism that grinds up working and middle-class people's hopes and aspirations. Now that Trump is about to impose an especially right-wing (here's another punk reference, to The Clash) clampdown on ordinary Americans, the Democratic Party will lie completely exposed in the full glory of its uselessness.
Screw the Dems. You are your only salvation.
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