Hill: Rising Dem star Tim Ryan splits with party, endorses corporate tax cuts

[smoltchanov]

I saw this a few days ago when he said it, and it certainly boosts my opinion of him.

He's right, though. Going anti-business will hurt the party.

+1. Being anti-business simply continues a leftward trend of Democratic party of the last years. May be it would be more honest to rename it as a Socialist party?? And look whether former WWC supporters will return "en masse" because of new "class" approach of the party? But i fear in such case you can kiss goodbye to those anti-Trump middle class suburbanites, who actively supported Clinton against Trump. They are not anti-business, for sure. Choose one, party!))))

P.S. It really amuses me when, say, Silicon Valley and Upper East Side, very rich people comprise a very big part of party's megadonors. Will they support a new, rebranded, "Democratic Sociaist party"?

[smoltchanov]

The House GOP gets a lot of flack for being a mix incompetent crazy people, undiagnosed psychopaths and sleepy old white guys, but the House Democratic caucus is an underrated dumpster fire.

There are like, 5, likeable people among them and the rest are either laughably corrupt machine products or dorky technocrats who would never be willing to do anything that would make someone angry at the next local Chamber of Commerce meeting.

Please, name these 5. I need a good laugh...