Democrats' political suicide agenda?

 W. James Antle III:

From nuking the filibuster to packing the Supreme Court, some Democrats want to make the most of their narrow congressional majorities while they still have them — even if that puts the party at greater risk of losing next year.

Democrats introduced legislation on Thursday to expand the number of Supreme Court justices from nine, which is where it has been for 150 years, to 13. “We’re not packing the court,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat. “We’re unpacking it.”

As the bill was unveiled, the Democratic majority in the House was down to just six seats. The Senate is deadlocked at 50-50, with Democrats in control due to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote. Midterm elections are next year, and their party suffered major losses under previous Democratic presidents in 1994, 2010, and 2014.

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Liberals would like to see Democrats go for broke, passing the boldest progressive agenda they can muster while they still maintain unified control of the elected branches of the federal government. The court legislation would allow them to add the judiciary to the list. They point out that popular vote losses in close elections did not deter Republicans from pursuing their goals under former Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush.

“They will burn down their majorities in order to save them,” warned a top conservative operative.

That doesn’t extend to every leading Democrat. President Joe Biden punted the size of the Supreme Court to a commission, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday, “He certainly understands that members of Congress have a range of views, and they're going to propose legislation. He may or may not support it.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was less equivocal. “No,” the California Democrat told reporters when asked about Nadler’s bill. “I have no plans to bring it to the floor.”

But liberals point to the last time Pelosi was speaker, when Biden was vice president. Democrats may have lost their House majority after passing Obamacare. But it was the biggest legislative accomplishment those Obama-era majorities achieved, Republicans failed to repeal it when they had the chance in 2017, and it brought about lasting change.

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I still don't know why they think Obamacare was good policy.  It is still awful except for a tiny minority of Americans that Democrats want to pamper.  What Democrats have in mind is a dictatorship of the left and they would use a packed Supreme Court to get it along with other policies they are imposing such as open borders to import people who will vote for sorry Democrat policies.