'If the House Democrats who anonymously trashed Biden had a mind of their own, they could have simply voted on the merits of the bill itself. Their constituents did not send them to Congress to do what they think Biden wants,' TianaTheFirst writes.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was the latest Democratic senator to announce, after it ceased to matter, that he would support overturning the new soft-on-crime law. The district's law is a criminal’s dream, softening the already-soft punishments in the area for carjacking, robbery, and homicide amid a massive crime wave. Senate Democrats have flocked to the Republicans' side in their push to block these favors for violent criminals.
"People are rip-roarin' pissed," one House Democrat said, adding that Biden “is going to have a much harder time asking people to take tough votes after this.” A senior Democratic aide said that “I think everyone is in the camp of, 'If you were going to do this, why not say before the vote to give us cover?'" A Democratic chief of staff said that it was a “complete unforced error.
That anonymous complaint is more accurate than that staffer could realize. If the House Democrats who anonymously trashed Biden had a mind of their own, they could have simply voted on the merits of the bill itself. Their constituents did not send them to Congress to do what they think Biden wants. Yet, evidently, that is precisely what some of them think their job is.
Those House Democrats who would have flip-flopped on the bill are now the biggest losers in Washington. They opened themselves up to completely justified campaign ads attacking them for being soft on crime. And they did it not because they believed in it, but because Biden gave them marching orders and they did what they were told to do.
They showed that they can’t think for themselves and only do whatever the most powerful Democrat tells them to do. It is something that voters should remember the next time a “centrist” House Democrat talks about being independent of his or her party’s leadership.
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