Lisa Blunt Rochester Statements – The view from Alpha Centauri
I can kind of forgive her because winning her election must be a thrill. But if this is any indication of where LBR’s head is, she needs to wake the eff up – and quickly.
“It is one thing to run for office and it is another thing to govern,” said Rochester “Even in his own party, it remains to be seen how members will fall and will they be supportive of his policies.”
Why is it that moderate Democrats still regard Republicans as some mysterious and newly discovered species? It does not “remain to be seen” how Republicans will act.
Rochester said despite disappointment that Trump was elected, it’s time to end the partisan intransigence that clogs Congress.
“We have a lot of new blood coming in,” she said. “I think that is because there are people that feel they need to start getting things done.”
Respectfully, no. We don’t have a lot of new blood coming in. We have virtually the same Congress. Even your replacement of John Carney doesn’t really mean “new blood” does it? Especially if your worldview allows you to think that Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for “partisan intransigence.”
With the presidency and both houses of Congress red, she said not undoing progress on liberal accomplishments will require working together. It’s particularly important for initiatives like the Affordable Healthcare Act, which Trump has vowed to “repeal and replace,” she said.
“Obamacare is a perfect example,” Rochester said. “All sides agree that things can be improved. The question will be will those factions try to totally abolish it and if they do, then what?”
If LBR thinks that Republicans are going to “work together” to preserve “liberal accomplishments” then we’ve been living in two different countries over the past year… maybe even two different planets.
These comments are taken from this NJ piece by Xerxes Wilson
On the face of it I can’t imagine a better moment to be represented by a woman of color. But these comments are not hopeful. Let’s hold our breath a little while longer, but not much longer.
Give her a little time. I’m not blindly optimistic and, yes, she came out of the Carper assembly line, but she was not afraid to assert herself and generally expressed a viewpoint that was less corporate than her Evil Overlord.
No, she’s not Bryan Townsend, but she could be good enough.
She appears to have a relationship with John Lewis, so I’m not horribly pessimistic. I hope she learns more about how to work in the Capitol from him than from Carper anyway.
Lisa is sort of a dud. Let’s be honest. I don’t know what you were expecting. She’s a black female and she’s photogenic but she has a poor reputation in terms of actually accomplishing anything and her campaign was just a lot of tv. But who gives a shit. She’s a freshman democrat in the house of representatives. She’s not going to do anything even if she was willing or capable.
Someone needs to primary her in 2018.
LOL. If that comment is satire, it is the finest piece of satire I’ve seen in a very long time.
Every incoming Democrat are saying similar things, including Elizabeth warren and Bernie Sanders. They have to because the Democrats are the only party left that cares about actual good governance. The Republicans had the option to obstruct Obama at all turns because they’ve become so beholden to the abject nihilism of “starve the beast” that If the government grinds to a halt and people get hurt, they come out looking rosy because that’s what they’ve said would happen all along.
LBR wasn’t my first choice for Rep, but I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt on this. She’s acting like the grown-up in the room and extending an olive branch to the other side, which how government should be done. A loyal opposition that work’s for the interest of the country, rather than what’s best for the party. It’s how she acts when Trump and Paul Ryan start tearing into the welfare state and slashing taxes for the wealthy that I’m interested in.