Politico: "The House Democratic campaign arm’s plan to label the GOP as the GQP — the party of QAnon — is getting some pushback. Not all Democrats agree with this broad attack, with multiple Democrats [saying that] a few Republicans are being unfairly targeted."
While fiery, stick-it-to-'em rank-and-file Dems will be incensed at "multiple Democrats" wanting to pass on the kind of meretricious tactics that have ignited Republican pols' historical victories, others might be pleased that some Democratic pols are declining the selfsame meretriciousness.
This is but one of those many differences between the parties, which the fiery ones are wont to mock and disregard. That said, there's a politically valid dispute as to whether it be nobler to suffer losses on Eton's fields or score a few victories in the sewer.
On a related note, Politico also reports on today's scheduled House hearing on African-American reparations — a $13 trillion Democratic endeavor (one public-policy professor's estimate). Republicans will have a true field day. Proposed legislation would catapult "a commission of experts" into deep study of a plainly impossible proposal. The Biden administration is wisely noncommittal on it; some Dems and all social-justice warriors are eager to get the bill rolling.
"It is clear ... that the Democratic Party leadership is in favor of this legislation," notes a promoter of the reparations initiative. "The President would have a duty to move the legislation that his party in Congress is favorable to." Unnoted is that the president would be putting a gun to his party's head, as well.
The activist adds that the scheduling of a subcommittee hearing on the reparations bill "within the first 100 days of the Biden administration was an important first gesture towards making progress on the bill." Not to disparage the nobility of the bill's intent, but let us pray that it gets no farther than a gesture.
Somewhere, way out there in the quixotic nether regions of the solar system, the above advocate says "we are very much active in getting the number of co-sponsors and number of votes needed to pass the legislation out of the House," and then ventures this authentically incredible, transcendentalist prognosis: "With the Democrats losing a few seats in the House, getting to [a majority] will be a little more difficult, but we think we can do it."
Who "we"? big-chief activist.
OK, now that I've insulted two minorities (one to which I partially belong), I shall close by saying, simply, that Dem-legislated reparations to the tune of anywhere from $5 trillion to $17 trillion is the worst idea since "the peculiar institution" of slavery.