“Democrats were adjusting grudgingly to their new and reduced role in the Senate on Wednesday, displaying some surliness and a lot of suspicion, saying they would not be silent or passive players in the new Republican-controlled Congress,” the New York Times reports.
“In so quickly assuming the role of the aggressors on only the second day of the new session, Democrats struck a discordant tone when compared with Republican pleas for greater bipartisan cooperation.”
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