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March 29, 2019

Latest from BG..

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1110652465928724485
Yeah, that's why the Democratic HOUSE is doing this..

The "progressives" in the House are much more compassionate and smarter..

Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All

snip//

“I’m happy to support any provision that strengthens the ACA and plug some of the gaps that we’re seeing, particularly as it’s under assault by the president,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost on Wednesday. “I think it’s part of a longer-term vision, at least for me, towards guaranteeing ― truly guaranteeing ― health care for all Americans.”

Ocasio-Cortez said she understood prioritizing fixes to the Affordable Care Act. “Because we have a Republican Senate, a Republican president, and so the things that we have the ability to pass right now are pretty narrow,” she said, though she added she wanted hearings on Medicare for All and didn’t think single-payer solutions had been given enough attention from the Democratic caucus yet.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142293852

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1110719637543682050
https://twitter.com/BigBlueWave18/status/1110884448743112704
March 29, 2019

Yeah, Not a uniter..

More divisive actions coming from him.

Joe Biden is more of an Inclusive leader.. that's what we need. Those candidates who don't make it their mission to divide us.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1111288879099924480

March 28, 2019

No, Beto O'Rourke is Not

".. mostly living in the afterglow of his Senate Campaign."

He's building on his experience of running a state wide campaign in Texas and coming within less than 3% points of winning.


How the race between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke became the closest in Texas in 40 years


“Who?”

That was the reaction back in late 2016 from former Houston Mayor Annise Parker when she first heard that a sophomore Democratic congressman from El Paso named Beto O’Rourke was mulling a challenge to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Parker, like most other Texans, had absolutely no clue who O’Rourke was, or why she should take seriously his potential entry into a race that many Democrats viewed as a suicide mission.

Almost exactly two years later, O'Rourke fell roughly 220,000 votes short out of 8.3 million of unseating Cruz, closer to winning a statewide office than any Texas Democrat in a generation. The strength of his candidacy helped Texas Democrats pick up two U.S. House seats, two state Senate seats and a dozen state House seats
.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/09/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-closest-texas-race-40-years/



March 28, 2019

Elizabeth is her own person.

I don't even think of BS when I look at her qualifications.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1095885731153743872

March 28, 2019

Well BS said No.. so that

must be right.

Not that everyone who is against strengthening ACA listens to him.. maybe it's just a coincidence.

But, AOC says "Yes"! Ha!

Mahalo for the link, lapucelle!

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190327.894190/full/

March 28, 2019

I'm so sorry for what

your sister and your family and friends went through, susanna.

The "progressives" in the House are much more compassionate and smarter..

Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All

snip//

“I’m happy to support any provision that strengthens the ACA and plug some of the gaps that we’re seeing, particularly as it’s under assault by the president,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told HuffPost on Wednesday. “I think it’s part of a longer-term vision, at least for me, towards guaranteeing ― truly guaranteeing ― health care for all Americans.”

Ocasio-Cortez said she understood prioritizing fixes to the Affordable Care Act. “Because we have a Republican Senate, a Republican president, and so the things that we have the ability to pass right now are pretty narrow,” she said, though she added she wanted hearings on Medicare for All and didn’t think single-payer solutions had been given enough attention from the Democratic caucus yet.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142293852

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1110719637543682050
https://twitter.com/BigBlueWave18/status/1110884448743112704

March 28, 2019

I don't want anyone who

tears down others to make themselves look better.

Or anyone who thinks their Ego is more important than our Planet.

I want a President who is inclusive, smart, courageous, and doesn't hire 3rd party "attack dogs" to divide our party.

Sanders Promised Civility but Hired Twitter Attack Dog - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/sanders-promised-civility-hired-twitter-attack-dog/585259/

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/804407177368715265


Second, a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters weren’t big fans of Clinton. So Stein campaigning on the idea that Clinton and Trump were similar made it harder for Clinton to win over those voters — even if Sanders voters didn’t vote for Stein, they may have stayed home out of disgust.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/jill-stein-democratic-spoiler-or-scapegoat/

Oh and they'd better be Full on Transparency..
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/1109084931882450945

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