Representatives Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have issued a blistering critique of the Democratic Party’s belated 2024 election postmortem, noting that the report somehow managed to overlook a rather significant factor: Israel’s war in Gaza. Khanna, in his characteristic understated fashion, suggested that a “blank check to Israel and Netanyahu when they committed genocide” might have been one of the reasons his party lost. Ocasio-Cortez called the omission “pretty unbelievable,” which is diplomatic for “how do you miss this?”
Meanwhile, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries held a news conference ahead of Thursday’s vote-a-rama, presumably to discuss anything but the elephant in the room. Schumer criticized the Republican budget bill, noting, “The Republican agenda is one big broken promise,” and added, “We still haven’t seen the bill, because they are fighting with each other.” This is the political equivalent of complaining about your neighbor’s messy lawn while your own house is on fire.
In other news, Trump is continuing his quest to exert greater control over the US central bank with a case against firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, while also challenging the legality of firing FTC member Rebecca Slaughter, and testing the constitutionality of restricting birthright citizenship. It’s almost as if the man has a theme.