January 25, 2018

Criminal Alex Azar confirmed as HHS Sec. with Democratic complicity

Source: https://gritpost.com/6-democrats-pharma-hhs/

A unified Democratic front would have stopped this bastard. Why can't we ever seem to get a unified Democratic front when it matters?

Schumer needs to explain why he can't keep his caucus together on the most basic matters. And if he can't explain why, maybe we need a different minority leader.

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January 23, 2018

Stop with the scolding: Democrats NEED Independents

The majority of the voting-eligible public are either not affiliated with either Party, or did not vote at all during the last election.

SCOLDING most of America from your high horse will NOT bring them into the fold here.

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January 23, 2018

It's looking like both a moral and tactical failure.

Quoting (former DU'er) Will Pitt, "if you're going to do something like this, you stick it out longer than a goddam weekend, or you leave the club in the bag. With this, they failed on both a moral and tactical level. Just stupid self-damage."

I agree with Will here. As far as I am concerned, the DREAMERS are Americans, and deserve a pitched battle by all of us on their behalf. There really can be little debate about the morality without veering into Stephen Miller hater-land.

If a government shutdown was the right tactic, we should have been willing to stick it out for weeks. If it was the wrong tactic, why did we start here? I'll answer my own question at least partly: the CR was the first opportunity for leverage that Democrats had, and they chose to go to the mat over CHIP and DACA. There are about a dozen other issues I think are every bit as important as these two, and could have also been demanded, but I respect Democratic leaders' choice that these two deserve priority. Of the two, Democrats got CHIP for six years, which is no small potatoes (although a later Repub Congress could of course again de-fund it).

The problem with folding on DACA with no real progress on the issue is that there are 800,000 DREAMERS, and their families, AND the larger Hispanic and immigrants' rights communities who now have strong reason to think that Democrats will abandon them the minute the going gets tough. That's bad electoral politics, as well as being moral and tactical failures.

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January 12, 2018

This is the NC GOP trying to void elections forever.

An illegally-gerrymandered legislature wants to keep its power despite voters being against them, and they are trying to rig the courts at the state level with a gerrymandered judge elections scheme as well.

If the US Supreme Court fails to dismiss the NC GOP appeal, democracy of any sort will be finished in North Carolina. The Republican Legislature will choose its voters, and cement their decisions by also choosing the judges who will review their laws.

k&r,

-app

January 7, 2018

Four anonymous complaints + 2 Repub partisans + a psycho?

Yes, I am saying that I "believe" that Tina Dupuy is a psycho. If you ask for a photograph "with" someone, putting an arm around a waist is a normal gesture of proximity and friendliness. It is not sexual assault.

If you want to believe partisan Republican Leanne Tweeden, go right ahead, but you don't get to pretend that you're taking a Democratic or progressive stance when doing so.

I feel no obligation to support anyone who railroaded Franken. He was a Democrat I supported. Why should I support his opponents?

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January 7, 2018

How is this at all similar to letting an ethics hearing proceed?

No one is saying that Democrats should throw-out core principles: exactly the opposite. It was Schumer, Gillibrand, Harris, and other conservadems who threw out the principles of due process, fairness, and sticking together as a party who got us into this mess. And many of us are saying they were wrong to do so.

Also, Schumer and Gillibrand, as reliable Wall Street pawns (almost inevitable for a NY Senator, but can't we hope for better?), are the main Democrats catering to the whims of billionaires here.

-app