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yurbud's JournalGore calls for single-payer healthcare
Source: The Hill
Former Vice President Al Gore called for a single-payer healthcare system this week amid the collapse of the Senate GOP's plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
“The private sector has not shown any ability to provide good, affordable healthcare for all,” Gore said Tuesday at an event at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, The Huffington Post reported.
“I believe we ought to have single-payer healthcare.”
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“I think we’ve reached a point where the entire healthcare system is in impending crisis,” Gore said at the time. “I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we should begin drafting a single-payer national health insurance plan.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/342733-al-gore-endorses-single-payer-healthcare
Al Gore is a DLC OG, so if he's saying this, it's time for the party leadership to change.
ANALOGY: rebuilding after arson
Republicans are trying to burn down our house, & centrist Dems keep rebuilding with wood instead of something that can withstand the arson.
https://twitter.com/prof_smartass/status/887728082060066816
If Anthony Kennedy retires, that's when we need a Merrick Garland
Gorsuch was a far righty replacing another far rightie, so it didn't change the balance of the court.
Anthony Kennedy is often a swing vote, so his replacement will be critical.
Republicans might actually consider agreeing to Garland or the equivalent for that seat as a way to dampen Democratic fervor for the midterms or whatever election is after Kennedy's retirement.
At least that's the pitch someone could make to Republicans.
The current partisan balance would be maintained, which is way the hell more than the Republicans deserve.
And they would still lose anyway, but possibly hold onto a handful of marginal seats.
It took 50 years to confirm 1968 was stolen. It took 243 days to confirm 2016 was stolen.
Good post on DK about Republicans only winning the presidency by cheating, mostly monkey wrenching foreign policy.
What is odd to me is this is the first time Democrats have made long, consistent noise about it.
The other thing that is odd is the monkey-wrenching at least slowed escalating tensions with Russia rather than damage peace talks. I wonder if that's why the MSM is airing the allegation and keeping it in the mix.
NOTE: Formatting isn't working for me lately. Everything below the line is quoted.
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During a phone call on the night of Oct. 22, 1968, Richard M. Nixon told his closest aide (and future chief of staff) H.R. Haldeman to "monkey wrench" President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to begin peace negotiations over the Vietnam War. Nixon long denied giving such an order, but Haldeman's notes, which were quietly made public in 2007 and were recently discovered by the historian Jack Farrell, prove he was lying.
The New York Times, July 9, 2017
President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.
On December 11, 2016, eight days before the electoral college met, I wrote: 1968, 1980, 2000, 2016,* summarizing October and other surprises:
The 1968 “monkey wrench” of Vietnam peace efforts.
The 1980 likely deal with Iran to delay release of hostages until after election. Credibility buttressed by later Iran-Contra deal.
The 2000 theft by Supreme Court and voter purging.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/9/1679269/-It-took-50-years-to-confirm-1968-was-stolen-It-took-243-days-to-confirm-2016-was-stolen
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