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silvershadow

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18. Like it or not, this party is gong through a fundamental shift. Those people on the

Reply to cali (Original post)

Wed May 11, 2016, 05:49 PM

May 2016

fringes, such as Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, may well find themselves out of a job (which is my hope), and if we are really smart, Bernie will become President, cutting off her expected (and in fact, probably promised) Cabinet job. A two-fer! All she will have left is lobbying, though I suspect a President Sanders will be putting the squeeze on that entire "industry" which much of is destroying our Democracy from within.

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