Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton

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219. I think the middle class will get a far better deal with ANY Dem than they will a Republican.

And speaking of "saviors," no POTUS is a savior. All a POTUS can do is set the tone and perhaps propose an agenda.

Without a House, where all appropriations originate, and a Senate, where advise-and-consent determines who serves in the Cabinet and on the benches in the Halls of Justice, even that's just wishin' and hopin'.

Too many people here on DU regard POTUS as king, and that attitude, in and of itself, is problematic. People here also have this perverse attitude that a senator or representative doesn't have any responsibility to actually....errr...REPRESENT the people who elected them, to respond to their wishes, and to ...what's the word...yes, there it is again...REPRESENT their views by their votes in Congress. Such a concept. If a state has a lot of defense workers (Raytheon and General Dynamics, for example, in MA), then gee, the people representing that state are going to be interested in those sectors. I don't expect a Senator from Colorado to be terribly wrapped up in commercial fishing issues, but I do expect Senators Warren and Markey to be very interested in these matters because of the fishing fleets out of New Bedford, Gloucester, Marblehead , Cape Cod, etc.

Like Tip O'Neill said, all politics is local. HRC knows this. You should know it, too.