For decades, families in southeastern Colorado have waited patiently for clean, safe drinking water and, today, Congress failed them. The Arkansas Valley Conduit has united Coloradans across party lines because access to clean drinking water is not a partisan issue — it’s a basic responsibility of the government. I want to thank Representative Boebert and Senator Bennet for their leadership in sponsoring this bill in their respective chambers, and the entire Colorado federal delegation for voting in support of this critical project. When a bipartisan coalition comes together in support of rural communities, public health, and long-standing commitments, Washington should be listening. Letting this veto stand puts politics ahead of people and jeopardizes an initiative that is already under construction and long overdue.
Maybe now is a good time to pardon the people who tried to illegally install the man who vetoed clean water for your constituents as President on January 6th, 2021.
Seriously Jared. Dont mistake surrender to apparent strength as a form of strength. Dont Fetterman. Submitting to the boot on your neck will not make you stronger.
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I get the point you’re trying to make, but Governor Polis is Jewish and comparing him to a Nazi collaborator is in extremely poor taste at best.
Does that also apply to Laura Loomer and Stephen Miller?
No because they actually do fascistic shit. Polis so far hasn’t personally betrayed anyone, he’s just passed Nazi laws. He’s more of a Dietreich who foolishly voted for the Enabling act than someone who’d turn in Anne Frank
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He’s not handing in Anne Frank. He’s breaking the laws to help the far right get more power, which is what DDP did.
Gotcha. So he is not handing in Anne Frank, he is just handing in info on where they can find a bunch of Anne Franks. 👍
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Damn you Governor Polish
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Oh, so this is why u/governorPolis is considering a clemency for Tina Peters. Just keep giving into the fascists, it’ll work eventually.
The project is literally in a conservative district! The fascination some Democrats have with bending over backwards to help Republican constituents is insane - give Trump what he wants so that he'll stop blocking something so that Democrats can help the people that voted for him and will continue to vote for Republicans anyway.
Or in another example, the IRA under the Biden administration providing a disproportionate amount of funding to Republican districts. Then when a Republican president takes over, they just unilaterally withhold funding for blue states and keep the funding for red states.
I get that I'm just ranting now but it sucks that there's basically no political party that actually prioritizes the interests of Democratic voters.
Part of the duties of an elected official, especially the president, is to serve all Americans, even the ones that voted against them. Republican districts often get more funding because they’re horrifically mismanaged and need extra help.
Withholding aid money or infrastructure money for political punishment is evil, no matter who does it. And illegal! Not that this administration cares. Don’t let Trump’s insane, norm-shattering nonsense cloud your judgement of what good governance actually is.
If the Supreme Court is going to let Presidents do it, then the only way to protect Democratic states is for a future Democratic President to decide that Republican states shouldn’t be allowed to get federal funds. The status quo of “look how much we’re helping everyone” is that when a Democrat is President, red states and blue states get funding, and when a Republican is President, red states get funding.
It's a zero sum game, so it's a waste to spend resources like this
If politics is a zero-sum game then liberal democracy is wrong. Like you cannot hold these two positions at the same time. Either we can benefit each other thru mutual cooperation or politics is war and we need to starve the enemy
Either your candidate wins or looses. Democracy doesn't mean the winning party is beholden to the loosing candidates policy's.
And gov budgets are limited. If it's spent on x, then it can't be spent on y.
Actually it’s not. That kind of thinking is how you get to where we are now, and it is very obviously wrong.
A rising tide lifts all ships, as the saying goes, and the inverse is true as well. Improving one area can lead to positive impacts all around it, and leaving it to rot only makes things worse for everyone.
Plus it’s just, like, abject cruelty to deny help to those that need it the most.
We been tricked into thinking that these people think thr way they do because of economic insecurity
But what if they're just rude assholes and we could spend that money elsewhere?
You need to leave your home state. This is just pure tribalism.
Naw, its a reality that you can't bribe people with invesents, and if have a budget constraint, the opportunity cost is benefitting people who voted for you.
It’s not bribery to support poor areas that need help. Many liberal state governments are at the top of every metric without running budget deficits. Welfare (or rather reducing economic gaps) is actually really important, both for the economy and for the political environment.
It isn’t a coincidence that the poorest areas of the poorest states are also the most Republican. This is especially obvious in rust belt states, where the decline of oil, steel, and automobile industries is still felt outside of big cities. Entire towns are slowly dying because no industry came to replace the last.
You've hit the weirdest point of it. Eastern Colorado is incredibly rural and ruby red. This just hurts his own people. Is it because Trump hears Colorado and knows it goes Blue in Presidential elections?
Irrc it’s Boebert’s district so he’s probably trying to punish her for her Epstein votes
It seems irrational game theory wise to allow for defections in terms of an election.
This will encourage your counterpart to double down on making counting votes more flexible.
Fucking cucks
Real patriots drink Trump brand bottled water anyways
Editorialized headline. Other outlets more neutrally report "House fails to override Trump's vetoes of two Republican bills" rather than "refuses". The vote was 248 - 177, so the majority of Congress supported overriding the veto, but two-thirds is required.
Still, though. When people say our system of government enables Trump and authoritarianism, I think of things like this. Like what system could possibly stop those things when the politicians literally cede their power to stop it? Those bills passed unanimously. The fact that the veto override failed means a lot of republicans thought these were good laws to pass, but when Trump said no they literally just turned around and said ‘oh ok.’ What do you even do, what constitution could you possibly have, that would prevent something like Trump even if the people in the government actively choose to create one?
Like with everything bad that has happened this news honestly hits almost hardest for me. Because my god fucking why? Why change your vote on these? What is going on in these people’s heads? Do all that work to get elected to Congress and gain the power and prestige that position confers just to roll over and be a rubber stamp yes man for someone else?
It should say refuses
That's an accurate description of what Mike Johnson did
I think your headline is more editorialized in my opinion.
People reading OPs headline would have more of an idea of what happened. It clearly wasn't a failure. Representatives CLEARLY refused to override Trump. Despite their previous votes.
This is not clear from your headline
Let them reap what they sow
They ain't reaping shit cause they got no water!
Gov polish, this woman tried to end our democracy. I hope I don't need to tell you what sort of camp you would be placed in if this woman had succeeded. This woman has been very clear she would try again.
If you cannot even act in your own interest, how can we believe you will act in your voters interest
You gonna bend over backwards and spread wider now, Polis?
Is this the actual Governor's account? Why is he spending time posting to neoliberal subreddits?