Are Democrats feeling the Bern at last?

It's nice, but we need meaningful campaign finance reform. We need to get Israeli money, and all foreign money, as far away from our political campaigns as possible.

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I suspect a lot of Dems knew it wouldn't pass and are virtue signaling. Let's see if there's a blue wave in November and if so, whether they still have the backbone to cut off Israel.

This wouldn't be an issue if we just had campaign finance reform.

If the Ds had enough votes to block passage, magically, just one would vote against.

We need a country to bribe our reps more than Israel does, this is the only way. Oops, I mean donate.

China, you're our only hope.

If they did this about 2 years ago we wouldn't have Trump.

I guess an eventual response is better than no response. Although for many is this juat a decision to win votes? Like I want representatives that have morals, but I suppose ones that listen to their voters is better than the current situation

Hey Dems, this is the kind of hings we want. Keep it up. Do actual healthcare and debt reduction next!

Just a few years too late.

..now? They just did this now? What was the inflection point?

Meaningless posturing because they knew it wouldn't win. Wake me up when they have a majority and actually do something with it.

I'm assuming they know it won't pass because of the Republican majority so they are virtue signaling. I can't trust either side.

Cool! Now let's do that 2 years ago

The Democratic base’s shift on Israel was recent and seismic, and the leadership is lagging a bit. They will come around to the new party consensus soon, and the Democratic party will be the anti-Zionist party. They will have to in order to win elections; it is already an 80/20 issue among Democratic voters, and that 80 is only going to grow.

The GOP base is likely to remain more split on the issue for a while. Most of their youngest voters are essentially groypers at this point (whether they self-identify with that label or not). They hate Israel and Jews in general. But the larger portion of Republicans are evangelical Christian Zionists who see Israel as instrumental in their end times prophecy. Trump and GOP leadership is still catering solely to this group, and party leadership could remain locked in this mode for while.

Republicans may become even more Zionist as AIPAC funding and Zionist former Democrats flee the Democratic party to join the other side. Another political realignment in a decade of political realignments.

DIdn't the DNC vote those sorts of policies down in terms of adding em to the next platform when they run? Seem to recall seeing that recently.

If so, my guess is this is a political maneuver to try and reclaim the votes they lost for unflinching support of Israel. It's the "Well, we can all vote no now, to look good to the voters and hedge our bets to get elected -- but then once elected, we just go back to the status quo, which we technically never said we'd veer away from, so no harm no foul".

Bare minimum but a start I guess

Democrats: against every war but the current war.

Now send iron dome to Gaza and sanctions against Israel

Netanyahu did this. Allowing support for Israel to become a partisan issue in the US will go down as one of the classic blunders.

failed just as planned. i can’t take them seriously never mind i do take them seriously after they rejected the call to stop taking AIPAC money. of course they are not going to stop. they just need to choose the defectors. and shumer is too cowardly to answer for his own demands

75%?

The dems are whores for corporate money and this war actually threaten said money

Would have been nice if their line in the sand was genocide but I guess this is still better than the alternative

Schumer (D-Tel Aviv) voted against.

And yet the Dems are leaving him as leader?

I would say mostly, not overwhelmingly.

Too little too late. Anyone that supported Israel and defended their "right to defend themselves" needs to be hung. They're just trying to weasel their way into the left's good graces.

Hold off the saves act and then do it again after they loose the midterms.

Does this mean the tankies are actually going to vote in the midterms?

Or are they just going to have a harder time coming up with excuses why Democrats are so bad that it's better just to let Republicans hold onto power?