Earlier today, a colleague brought to my attention that people are rapidly finding out that The Hill does not operate in what I would call a normal way, and that being in the Majority is flat-out hard. Freshman Members arrived in DC over the weekend (and are actually staying at a hotel that is by my apartment.... security is insane) for the 120th Congress Freshman Orientation held in the Capitol.

With the Freshman Members making their first trek to DC since the election is has brought with it a ton of individuals wanting to make a statement. There have been a few rallies and protests in the district that backed this up but yesterday was the first time I saw/an alert was sent out to avoid an area because of these groups.

Ironically, these people had no idea where they should be because it was aimed at the Expected to Be Speaker Jefferies; however, they had it in a Senate Building. The goal of the groups that were there was to get the Future Speaker to prioritize what they wanted. One group was for reproductive rights, another was for the environment, and I want to say there was a third, but I can't remember what their priority was. Now, these were clearly Democratic supporters; however, the Capitol Police soon had to start arresting them... because they started to fight each other over who was correct in what should be the priority..... I kid you not.... Grown adults who support the same person.... fighting each other because they want their thing to be the priority.... all while they are on the completely wrong side of Congress.... Just incredible.

Thinking back, that should have probably been a sign to me of the things that were to come. Yesterday was also the first day I saw on TV various Senators, in particular, speaking out against Sen. Chuck Schumer becoming the Senate Leader. Which absolutely blows my mind. If you factor in the two outstanding races flipping Dem, you end up with a 9-seat flip. This would be the largest flip since President Eisenhower was in office in 1958. It would be the largest since the U.S. was 50 states.

The idea to then take the person who was in charge of Senate Dems and, in a lot of ways, punish him by not giving him the promotion that comes with leading your party to victory would frankly be insane. For better or worse, Schumer has been Leader of the Senate when he had to deal with Trump being the President, and to put someone else in that role frankly seems like a backhanded move. During a time when the elections resulted not only in a party flip but also in many who won in Republican areas being much more middle-of-the-road, installing a leftist favorite in Van Hollen doesn't exactly make the most sense. Likely future Speaker Jeffries is facing the exact same issue when he was able to reverse Republican/Trump 2024 inroads with various groups and make the Democratic Party have a much larger tent.

Nowhere is the absolute meltdown of the far left and leftists more evident than on the Instagram account "Dear_White_Staffers." This account is well known on The Hill by both sides due to the far-left propaganda they post. Over the last few years, since I have followed them, they have really ended up losing the plot on a lot of things, and when the American people would vote, and it turns out things like open borders were not popular, the account would kinda melt down. Now the same thing is happening once again because Democratic Leader Jeffries sent out an email reminding the freshmen that the funding that he and his leadership team have done got them into office, and it was under his leadership that, frankly, the Party was able to accomplish such a landslide just a week and a half ago.

Apparently, these Freshmen and their supporters thought that they could take the money, networks, endorsements, etc. that Leader Jefferies gave them and not pay the piper. While it does seem that most of the Freshman House Members understand this, their supporters are losing their collective minds.

Across both the House and the Senate, particularly in the Democratic Party due to their party rules, traditions, etc., seniority is a huge, huge thing. To be honest, it makes sense as well. I mean, it is often the case that new members do not have the connections or understanding of why some things are the way that they are, and the catastrophic issue that would occur is that various laws and statutes would suddenly and dramatically change. So many of the people on both sides miss this critical issue, and when they run into it rather than tell anyone why they changed, they just pivot or blame the system. The system can be changed; it just isn't a quick fix, and Members on both sides and in both chambers want quick and easy wins.

There is a post on Dear_White_Staffers that is from someone named _meganthuy that highlights how narrow-minded these leftists are. In her post, she came out bashing the Moderates of her party (those that you know represent the red states and red areas that Democrats won it) because those individuals, multi-term winners and freshmen included, do not want the party to go overboard and immediately make moves to abolish ICE, cut all funding to Israel, outright ban frontier AI and data centers, etc. She said that these issues are the reason that the moderates won, ignoring the clear data that showed that, frankly, prices are too damn high and Republicans have failed to lower them plus got them into another war.

This 20-something thinks that you can enact far-left legislation while failing to do the math, just like Republicans did with the SAVE Act. If you can deal with fragmenting your party in the House, you still need 60 Senate seats, and frankly, Dems don't have it. That's before we even get to the whole the President is Donald Trump issue, who has said he has no issue vetoing things.

This girl further goes on to say that there were a lot of people who reluctantly voted Democratic and that they did so only to stop the war, but immediately follows it up with these much further-left ideas, like abolishing ICE instead of reforming it. Throughout the video, she highlights how they won because of XYZ but then follows it up by ignoring those things and focusing on things that do not address XYZ that got those Democratic Members elected.

I thought with a margin of victory as large as the House and Senate were that the internal division issues that both leaders would face would fall by the wayside, but apparently... that's not the case. As a result, I see two possible outcomes, and that is either common sense wins out, and the far left goals will be reigned in or the far left is going to blow their legs off by nuking the best-suited person to deal with the wide array of groups representing the party and nuking the idea of passing anything for the next two years. Whoever is the leader of the House and Senate is going to have to be people who want to get a deal done, plain and simple. Trump is known as someone who loves a deal, and if you remove the dealmakers and place combative people who clearly are not going to cut a deal, like these outspoken internet people and people currently on The Hill, your end result is going to be two wasted years, with the Republican Party able to identify and leverage unpopular issues against Dems two years from now.