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(4,835 posts)cabinet appointments and doing everything you can to prevent progress.
They should vote against the appointments that appear to be inappropriate, state that they think the appointment is inappropriate, state why they thinks the appointment is inappropriate and use their position in congress to point out the problems that are created when that person is inappropriately doing the job.
It doesn't help the democrats to behave like children, as the republicans have for the past 8 years. They need to do their job and represent their constituents. Otherwise they can get used to being the minority party in congress for a long time.
What you are suggesting will not sell the voters on the democratic candidates in two years when we need to take back congress. If growing a spine costs us more seats in two years, I'd rather they appeared spineless, but what I'm suggesting is that they look like professionals.
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