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November 21, 2017

Elizabeth May Be 'The One' -- What Do You Think?

I love the way Senator Warren is standing up to Trump.

She has more integrity than anyone else.

We need her to fight for consumers against Wall Street.

We need her to stand up for women and minorities and the sick and disabled and ALL the people of this country.

PLUS: She doesn't have any sexual misconduct allegations hiding in her closet that could come out during a campaign and sink her candidacy.

What do you think?

Elizabeth Warren For President, 2020

"‘Give It Up’: Elizabeth Warren Tells Trump His Racist ‘Pocahontas’ Attacks Won’t Shut Her Up"


http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/20/elizabeth-warren-tells-trump-racist-pocahontas-attacks-working-give-up.html

November 16, 2017

Trump is the only elected official who should resign (article link)

He has over 12 allegations of sexual misconduct, as laid out in his very own Wikipedia article on the topic.

"Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations|


Do you agree Trump should resign because of sexual misconduct?

November 16, 2017

What's Going On With the Virginia House of Delegates?

How many seats did Democrats pick up?
Did they get to 50/50?

Haven't heard anything for a while.

November 15, 2017

Your thoughts please: Will Trump get Moore to drop out?

Trump is back in Washington today and many of his "Establishment" "friends" want him to pressure Moore to "do the right thing" for the Republican Party.

Will Trump do it? Will Moore listen to him?

What do you think?

I don't think it will happen.

November 15, 2017

No Biden

Sorry, but I think Biden is too old to run for president in 2020.

(I'm old too so I know what I'm talking about.)

Plus, he has been a tool for the evil credit card industry. Most credit card companies are based in Delaware, and he represented them for decades as Senator from Delaware.

Can't we pass the torch to a new generation of Democratic leaders?

November 9, 2017

The G.O.P. Should Be Scared by Virginia

"Just when we needed a sign that his America is not all of America, Virginia came to the rescue and gave us a vivid one. And I guarantee you that the Republicans up for re-election in 2018 saw it, shuddered and will spend the next weeks and months trying to figure out just how much trouble their party is in and precisely how to repair it. Democrats are exceedingly familiar with that feeling.

After special elections in Georgia, Montana and South Carolina failed to provide them with much hope that the anti-Trump forces were welling and that Americans who’d voted for him were seized by buyer’s remorse, the returns in Virginia suggested that Trump antipathy is indeed real and that it is definitely animating.

Does it mean that Democrats can wrest one chamber of Congress from Republican control in 2018? Impossible to say. Politically speaking, there are eons between now and then, and the Virginia governor’s race had facets all its own. But there are reasons for Republicans to be very afraid.

Republicans should also worry that they’ve oversold themselves on the moderate-progressive divide in the Democratic Party and how severely Democrats would be hobbled by it. In the days leading up to Tuesday, a book by Donna Brazile, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, reignited the enmity between Clinton’s backers and supporters of Bernie Sanders, and that became one of several reasons to wonder if progressives would fail to turn out for Northam, a milquetoast moderate. In the end, enough of them did, not just to guarantee his victory but to jeopardize Virginia Republicans’ 66-to-34 majority in the state’s House of Delegates. On Wednesday morning, unofficial returns showed that Democrats would pick up at least 14 seats, and they could, after recounts, even wind up with control of the House.

“If the Virginia results showed anything, it’s that ideological purity isn’t necessary to win in the Age of Trump,” said Lis Smith, a Democratic operative.


[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/opinion/virginia-election-democrats-northam-gillespie.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists|



November 8, 2017

Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia in 2020. Discuss

I think he could be a player in 2020 and have a chance to win.

What do you think?

November 8, 2017

Tom Perez on MSNBC right now

He is with Chuck Todd.

Sounds very good.

I think he'll do a good job for the Dems.

November 8, 2017

The #1 Issue . . .

. . . in last night's elections was HEALTHCARE.

This is according to exit polls.

We have to support healthcare rights for ALL Americans, and that needs to be a core position of the Democratic Party.

Do you agree?

Do you support single payer healthcare?

November 6, 2017

Manafort, associate to remain under house arrest, tracked by GPS

This is good.

We don't want them going to Moscow or getting whacked.

We need them to testify against Trump.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358932-manafort-associate-to-remain-under-house-arrest

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