Democrats Already Stumbling In Attempt To Save Post Office

The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has called the body back from their month-long recess to address the crisis that Trump has created with the post office, and that is about the only good thing they've done so far. Rather than subpoenaing Louis DeJoy, they have instead REQUESTED that he come and answer questions next week. They have muscle, they just don't even know how to use it at this point. This isn't a time for civility, and Democrats are already playing from behind. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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After a couple of days of kind of kicking the idea back and forth, making phone calls to a prominent Democrats in the house of representatives, the democratic leadership in the house, uh, led by of course, house speaker, Nancy Pelosi has decided to end their month long vacation, which just started a few days ago so that they can bring everybody back to DC and hold hearings on the destruction of the union. I did States post office. That is about the extent of the good decisions that the Democrats have had regarding this. Let me make 100% clear. The Democrats absolutely should have called everybody back light. Like they are to come back for these hearings where they're going to call postmaster general Louis D joy in there to ask him these tough question that absolutely should have happened. And I applaud the Democrats for doing it. They made the right decision.

So now let's get into all the wrong decisions that they made because there are plenty, uh, first and foremost, the fact that they're just requesting that mr. DeJoy come and testify. They're not subpoenaing him. They're not saying it's mandatory they're just asking politely will you, will you please come? And you want to come and testify with this? I mean, you know, we're gonna, we're going to grill you pretty hard, but it'd be really cool. If you could come. The reason this pisses me off and it should piss everybody off. Um, cause the Democrats have all the power right now. The Democrats have all the muscle and they're either too stupid to flex it. Or they legit have forgotten how to flex it because it's been so long since they've had to flex it. They have all of the authority. There is no reason to play nice whatsoever.

There is no reason to be timid here. You've seen what's happening. You know, we have, by now seen every one of us seen the pictures of them, literally putting the big locks over postal boxes. So you can't even put mail in. And that's in the areas where they're actually leaving the boxes. We've all seen the video footage and then coming and ripping that shit out of the ground and loaded it into trucks and sending it to rot in a field. We have heard the stories of them taking the mail, sorting equipment out of the post office. We have heard the horror stories coming out of the people who work in the post office saying this is worse than anything they've ever seen in their decades of working there. And you're not even going to subpoena this, MFer to come and testify. You just, I was to say, we hope if it's not too inconvenient for you, if you could come and testify before us, that'd be awesome.

Subpoena him because what's going, going to happen is if he declines to come, then you're going to issue a subpoena. And then when he declined the subpoena, then you have to take it to court. Why not cut out that first step, go ahead and issue the subpoena. And before he even has the chance to not show up, go ahead and get the courts to enforce it. Did you know, they can do that because they can. That's the muscle that the Democrats should be flexing. Don't try to this play. Nice bull crap. The second thing that is beyond infuriating, they've set the hearing for next Monday. So that's cool. So they got a week to prepare it.