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Serious observers of American politics have many doubts and questions, but most are sure of one thing. Congress is broken. Congress can’t pass a bill for aid to Ukraine in its wartime agony. That is so even though the bill would enrich and strengthen...
by dratler
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 11:36 AM PST
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If the Supreme Court affirms the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to bar Trump from the ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment; the alternative would be restore Trump’s eligibility to hold office in time for the election. If Minority Leader...
by neomaxcom
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 08:01 AM PST
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We watch the House and all the confusion and infighting within their party with the MAGA cult running amuck and generally causing trouble at every opportunity. I don’t know about others, but I was always led to believe that the Senate was the party...
by jwgarman
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 08:35 PM PST
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This story, originally titled “That "laddered CR"? A surprise switcheroo--Mike Johnson's GOP got played, lost EVERYTHING they wanted,” has been retracted due to misinformation arising from confusion regarding military construction and other Department...
by Tweedledee5
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:37 PM PST
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Following the well-fought and well-earned victories by pro-choice forces — again — in the latest election rounds, the body politic has been greeted, or burdened, with more than the usual number of political post-election punditry trying to make sense...
by Dan K
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 03:42 PM PST
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America is a free-speech haven. Or so we like to assume. There is always a think tank, advocate, pundit or lunatic ready to engage on nearly any subject under the sun, from UFOs to AI to the ABCs. Even the most outlandish speaker can bask in their...
by wordsplusaction
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 07:53 AM PST
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In thinking of all the bile and the depths to which our country has sunken to in politics, I just keep thinking about the quote from Golda Meir. Hers was about peace and education. Our country is not built upon extremism. Our country was supposed to be...
by iarnstein
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on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 11:43 PM PST
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I can’ find a solo clip of the tirade, but Sam Seder at Majority Report showed it on his show. Starting at about 4:15 Joe: “Going back to Schumer, why don’t you get a bipartisan vote? They (the democrats) don’t understand. So you can’t get 100% of what...
by yogibear1963
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on Wed May 11, 2022 at 07:39 PM PDT
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Hi’. Ross Douthat has the best opinion pieces on the New York Times, in that they are dumpster fires (NYT). They give the occasion for anti-trumpists to vent about how horrible it is that: The president who told and got progressives to cave on a bill...
by Vuld Edone
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on Sun Jan 16, 2022 at 07:51 AM PST
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Hi’. The foreigner that I am made the mistake of re-suscribing to the New York Times, and doubled-down on that mistake by reading its opinion essays, including how Joe Manchin is a hero by Ben Ritz and how repeating 2010 will avoid another 2010 by...
by Vuld Edone
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on Thu Dec 30, 2021 at 05:27 AM PST
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Hi’. So if you haven’t heard (Daily Kos links): Biden decides to… We deserve better than this Joe Did Joe forget midterms are coming All stemming from this White House press briefing (whitehouse.gov) where Jen Psaki announced that “a smooth transition...
by Vuld Edone
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on Tue Dec 14, 2021 at 02:04 AM PST
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tipping points We have reached a critical point in our history, not unlike the one we faced in the decade before the Civil War. Pessimists might agree that these critical moments in history, while they happen often enough, are not unrelated, rather...
by vjr7121
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on Mon Nov 15, 2021 at 04:16 AM PST
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Manchin has put a specific number on a Reconciliation Bill total of $1.5 trillion. DO IT I say!!! www.cnn.com/... I appreciate that Biden apparently said he still needs more from him and I hope he continues to apply that pressure or try to sweeten...
by TommyBombadil
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on Thu Sep 30, 2021 at 11:46 AM PDT
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In “Bipartisan Group of Senators Say They Reached Agreement on Infrastructure Plan” the New York Times’s Emily Cochran writes: The framework is expected to include about $579 billion in new spending as part of an overall package that would cost about...
by Lincoln green
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on Thu Jun 10, 2021 at 05:48 PM PDT
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A day or so ago, there was an article by an online friend of mine about Biden and his new budget proposal. The total is 6 Trillion dollars and the friend commented that when he first heard it, he thought Biden had lost his mind. After all, 6 Trillion...
by leftwisdom
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on Mon May 31, 2021 at 04:38 PM PDT
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America is at an inflection point. What happens in the next few months will have consequences as far as the mind can see. What kind of country are we going to be? Will we descend into an authoritarian kleptocracy under permanent minority rule? Will we...
by xaxnar
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on Tue May 18, 2021 at 07:39 AM PDT
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Welcome Brothers and Sisters. As a union worker, growing up in a union family, I have always loved watching and sharing labor films. All work has dignity, and all workers deserve dignity; union or ...
by Random82
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on Mon Mar 08, 2021 at 09:15 AM PST
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Biden’s choices The short answer is: rotten compromises are not allowed, even for the sake of peace… --Avishai Margalit Avishai Margalit is an author, emeritus professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served as the...
by vjr7121
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on Wed Feb 17, 2021 at 07:56 AM PST
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To: Susan Collins, R-Maine Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana Rob Portman, R-Ohio Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia Todd Young, R-Indiana Jerry Moran, R-Kansas Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina Mitt Romney,...
by ejbSFO
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on Mon Feb 01, 2021 at 01:28 PM PST
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Our Founding Fathers screwed us with the Great Compromise: America is now broken and can't be fixed. Our Federal System Is Irreparably Broken — The Great Compromise Why is our Federal System broken? Because the Representative Democracy that our Founding Fathers had envisioned has run its course and no longer represents the will of the American people....
by alterego55
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on Tue Jun 21, 2022 at 11:57 AM PDT
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