Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦🗽<p>In which Senator Whitehouse validates what I’ve been saying over and over Sharon since the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> vote. </p><p>We need to dump the purity tests and abandon the reflexive <a href="https://babka.social/tags/cancellation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancellation</span></a> of those who disagree with us in good faith. As Senator Whitehouse explains very clearly, that’s exactly what this was: a good-faith disagreement between two groups making their best guess about what the future might hold. If you’re asserting otherwise, the burden’s on you to prove your case. </p><p>We’ll never know what would have happened on the path not taken. That’s part of what makes governing so difficult. </p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/SenateDems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SenateDems</span></a><br><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Schumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schumer</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>populism</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/impeach47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeach47</span></a><br><a href="https://babka.social/tags/deportelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportelon</span></a></p><p>(From the butterfly 🦋 site)</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/whitehouse.senate.gov/post/3lkjexynfgc2n" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/whitehouse.se</span><span class="invisible">nate.gov/post/3lkjexynfgc2n</span></a></p>