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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2 Texas Dems blasting/ voting-'gainst us. Beto & Henry CUELLAR.
I get it: Beto in Texas has to fit in, like MANCHIN. I don't get CUELLAR, Congresscritter from the most financially deprived district ever (Laredo, TX), always toe-ing the BlueDog line.
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https://news.yahoo.com/beto-o-rourke-blasts-biden-administration-failures-on-haitian-migrant-surge-201500865.html
https://www.newsweek.com/henry-cuellar-lone-democrat-vote-against-abortion-rights-bill-passes-house-1632551
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leftstreet
(36,076 posts)Unfortunately he doesn't say how he thinks it should have been handled, so it just comes across as political grandstanding
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)Either you speak up to terrible treatment of people seeking asylum from a dictatorship....
or...
You shut up and let the atrocities and maltreatment go unchallenged. If that's your idea of "not helping the political enemy" then that's too high a price. I don't excuse abuse of refugees just because the president has a D on his chest.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)O'Rourke is right to write that editorial. Biden isn't managing the border crisis effectively. Beto is right to speak up about it. I don't believe doing so is "helping the enemy." Staying quiet about the mismanagement, on the other hand, would be giving safe harbor to the abuse of refugees that we ought to be opposing
Hope that clarifies my position
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)But I'm a single-minded Dem, will issue criticism of Dems without giving fuel to the wingnuts.
Who said he didn't have a right to write that editorial? Was all-Hades-breaking-loose BIDEN's management flaw?
Yes, Beto's framing of the criticisim is "helping the enemy".
Who said he should stay silent? How about a constructive solution/suggestion?
*** Maybe you will grant me the same right to speak up as you do for Beto (or anybody). Nighty-night.
TexasTowelie
(111,288 posts)To add some additional context to the headline:
We need America to step up and convene the countries of this hemisphere to solve the interconnected crises of failed states, climate catastrophes and the mass movement of people who through no fault of their own are unable to stay in their home countries.
We need our government to dispense with cynical Trump-era policies and follow current U.S. law to ensure due process for asylum seekers. We need to hold accountable those who would treat immigrants as less than human whether they were separated from their families and placed in cages under Trump or corralled like cattle as they brought food to their families under Biden.
And as important and interesting as the rest of the world might be for those in D.C., while youre making submarine deals with Australia, the countries and people that were actually connected to by land, history, family and culture are left without serious U.S. attention, involvement or leadership. And these are the consequences.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Yea, the Brazil angle was being monitored months ago by our multiple agencies. Also, Afghanistan festered for 20 years and our multiple agencies monitored it. Is all of this a BIDEN problem, or is all of this a systemic problem, or is it a conspiracy theory that Jason MILLER (Drumpf scumbag/Roger STONE wannabe) might have been involved.
I'm looking at things from a street point of view, like, can't Beto improve our Dem approach without fueling the wingnuts, please?
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)Here is how his district voted in 2020: Biden 51.5 - 47.2%
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)is always giving fuel to the wingnuts. What about his dirt-poor constituents?
Celerity
(42,638 posts)and campaigned for a RW racist climate change denialist Republican (John Carter, who beat MJ Hegar in a close race that Cuellar intervened in to help defeat the Dwmocrat) in another TX district. He voted with Trump almost 70% of the time in the 115th Congress. He is a forced birther, anti LGBTQ at times, is pro big oil, pro private prison, an obstructionist when it comes to climate change legislation, anti-immigrant at times, and has been bashing Biden for ages now.
He is the worst Dem in the House, by far, and I wish we would find a decent moderate to primary him. A progressive likely cannot win his district, but at least find a person who believes in our Party's platform, which Cuellar does not, AND find a person who doesn't endorse and fundraise for a RW MAGAt Republican.
Bucky
(53,795 posts)Cuellar, if I recall correctly, got challenged and nearly unseated by a progressive challenger. I hope she comes back at him again. But the Valley has old school machine politics still. Dick Daley caliber machine politics. That's an ideal breeding ground for Blue Dogs
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)No, being in a dirt-poor district is not an ideal breeding ground for Blue Dogs. It means an unenlighted constituency voting against their own interests, it means low voter turnout, it means politicians in bed with money and invested in the honey-pot of keeping the job.