Everybody’s closing tabbies for the weekend …
Our secret plan for dealing with the Democrats is called, “Operation: Let them speak.” pic.twitter.com/If5D1meezW
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) March 20, 2025
Ed: Will the Democrats catch up to this strategy? Probably not!
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Congressional Democrats have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than their Republican counterparts. But the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship. A review of Quinnipiac University’s annual first-quarter congressional polling reveals that, for the first time in the poll’s history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in approval ratings.
Just 40 percent of Democrats approve of the job performance of congressional Democrats, compared to 49 percent who disapprove. That’s a dramatic change from this time last year, when 75 percent of Democrats approved compared to just 21 percent who disapproved. The Democratic base’s disillusionment runs so deep that it’s eerily reminiscent of Republican grassroots sentiment in the period leading up to Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party.
The numbers are clear: No longer satisfied with the status quo in their party, Democrats are on the verge of a Tea Party-style, intra-party revolt.
Ed: Not exactly. The Tea Party had a clear policy platform of lowering taxes and regulation, as well as reforming the bureaucracy. This revolt has a platform of … what, exactly? La Résistance 2: Nazifasciststinkybottom Boogaloo?
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Entitled liberal associate makes enormous political demands of Skadden Arps’ leadership and gets immediately put on leave
You love to see it pic.twitter.com/2GAPxli5Ef
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) March 21, 2025
Ed: Say what you will, but at least she put her money where her mouth is. Although as some pointed out, this is likely just a way to virtue-signal her way out of a job she would have left anyway. Hope she realizes that future employers will take note of such public declarations.
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The lefty pollster David Shor, who was canceled by his fellow progressives and fired in the throes and thrills of 2020, is back. Now he has data showing just how much Trump would have won if everyone had shown up to the polls. “The reality is if all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points,” he said, instead of by just 1.7 points. There’s long been an idea that Dems just need to get out the vote, but the truth for Dems is that under no circumstances should the vote be gotten out. Next cycle we will see rich ladies heading to the Philly suburbs to padlock people inside their homes. Celebrities will hold concerts hundreds of miles from the nearest polling place. Candidates will shake the hand of a working-class man in Ohio and then tell him, “If the line to vote is longer than 10 minutes, just call it and go home, I think.”
Ed: The Vox post is behind their paywall, but Nellie Bowles covers the conclusion concisely in her TGIF column. I highly recommend subscribing to it; it’s very funny and consistently even-handed.
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U.S. borders are closed to law breakers. Today, numerous dangerous gang members were sent to Guantanamo Bay once again, ensuring violent criminal illegal aliens remain far away from American neighborhoods. Know this, our neighborhoods are sealed shut to you. Recent flights to…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) March 20, 2025
Recent flights to Guantanamo prove the Trump Administration means business. The men and women of CBP and ICE will not stop. Don’t test our resolve! President Trump is keeping his promise and making our communities safer every day.
Ed: Wait — how did that happen without Congress passing the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris immigration reform bill? I was informed repeatedly that the border could not be controlled without it! The only change of which I am aware is … an election. That couldn’t possibly be it, though — right?
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Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design, according to people close to him.
Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin, and offered to help as the party struggles to regain its viability amid polling that shows its popularity has been sinking, the people said.
So far, Biden’s overture seems to have fallen flat.
Ed: YGBFKM. At least Martin’s smart enough to keep Biden on the sidelines. Too bad his own family isn’t.
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“Joe Biden and Jill Biden want to come back into politics”
Not a chance in Hell.
Imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to believe that this duo is viable? pic.twitter.com/QC9JVoEhVY
— Douglas Ritz (@douglasritz) March 21, 2025
Ed: This was from the post-debate appearance in June. What did Biden do? QUIIIIT!
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“Why the f–k would anyone listen to what Joe Biden has to say?” gasped one congressional Democratic source. “He should stay in retirement with his pardoned family and keep his mouth shut.”
“The best thing Biden could do for the DNC is offer [DNC vice chair] David Hogg a high-paying role at his foundation,” a congressional Democratic aide snarked.
“Is this serious?” a former Democratic aide asked. “I mean, it has to be a joke. This is an ‘SNL’ skit.”
Ed: It would be if SNL actually did comedy rather than progressive clapter.
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President Trump from the Oval Office on ending the Department of Education:
“I think it’s going to be amazing. It should’ve been done years ago. There was great excitement and great acceptance of it by almost everybody, including a lot of Democrats, actually.” pic.twitter.com/t3FizSgQYM
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 21, 2025
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“I don’t feel bad for them a bit. I’ve worked in the private sector all my life,” and got laid off from jobs in the early days, the Georgia resident said. “You know what you do? You go out and find another job, and there are plenty of jobs to find.”
While there is outcry over thousands of federal workers losing their jobs to Department of Government Efficiency cuts and the chaos that has unleashed, a cohort of Americans aren’t sorry to see them go. Politics, personal experiences filing taxes or time in interminable post office and DMV lines lead many people to take a dim view of government workers at all levels.
Ed: Didn’t we just have an election in which “draining the swamp” was a major policy? I think we did.
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Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin rips AOC, Bernie, and Jasmine Crockett to shreds.
“What have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump?”
“All of those things require me to be more than just an AOC.” pic.twitter.com/7Y4fgQFEiq
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) March 21, 2025
Ed: SEND MORE POPCORN!
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