re: #258 Big Beautiful Door

Then the Democrats should sit back and say “proceed” because the GOP will take the blame. No wall, no domestic spending cuts, no defunding PP. The Democrats should give them nada.

But the big problem with that approach is that they will need to have a (Democratic) Plan B to offer up: it’s a sad fact of life in our country these days that Republican obstructionism in Congress gets shrugged off by the media and public with a “meh!” (or praised as “principled”) while even the least hint of Democratic program-blockage has been/is/will be greeted with a violent shitstorm of outrage from the RW media (which the “MSM” will then dutifully repeat, with a smattering of both-siderist “concern”).
Congressional Dems need to have at least the rudiments of a alternative budget plan, and an attractive “message” - not just sloganeering: Pelosi and Schumer seem to have a good grip on their caucuses: they just need a reasonable plan (or the appearance of one) to put forward, regardless of what the GOP do. And, “attractive” as “Fuck Trump!” may be as rallying cry, it’s not really a strategy.