Playbook: Frustrated Dems unleash the F-bombs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : You are going to see over the next two years the greatest set of growth coming from America as Americans." -- Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on the Democratic Party on NBC's "Meet the Press": "I don't think it's a secret that Democrats have been on their heels since Trump won the election, right?
61% : And I think that's something that, as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone, and just like every day 15 things happening, we are still finding our footing." -- Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on the censure of Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on "FOX News Sunday": "[H]e shouldn't have disrupted to the extent he did.
50% : PARDON ME: NYT's Ken Vogel has a deep dive on the Washington influence industry taking shape around securing pardons from Trump, who has demonstrated he's prepared to invoke his pardon power earlier and more often than any of his recent predecessors.
43% : What's in: Johnson's bill "would increase defense spending by about $6 billion over current budgets, while non-defense funding would fall by a total of about $13 billion.
41% : What's not: The spending cuts would not touch benefits such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
40% : Last month, when Democrats joined federal workers at a rally of the American Federation of Government Employees to protest DOGE cuts, the profanities nearly outnumbered the people gathered.
40% : Instead, clemency petitioners are mostly circumventing that system, tailoring their pitches to the president by emphasizing their loyalty to him and echoing his claims of political persecution.
39% : Lambert told POLITICO on Saturday morning that the commutation was not a special favor from Trump.
36% : " FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Without any announcement, Trump last week commuted the one-year sentence of a nurse practitioner in Michigan who pleaded guilty to her role in a $40 million conspiracy to distribute opioids, Kyle Cheney reports.
24% : Trump beat them to it, using curses increasingly in his march back to the White House, though for some Democrats it is part of their native tongue.
20% : "I mean, I was swearing before Trump, so I can't really blame it on him," Gallego told Playbook.
18% : "I don't swear in public very well, but we have to fuck Trump," said Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), adding, "Please don't tell my children that I just did that.
13% : Meanwhile, Senate Democrats launched coordinated social media videos fact checking Trump, each of them calling his claims "shit that ain't true.
3% : Nor is it new for the Democratic Party, particularly when confronting Trump: Former DNC Chair Tom Perez frequently deployed profanity in 2017 in stump speeches, saying, for example, that Trump didn't "give a shit about health care."

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