Anyone else noticed that without Senator Sanders, discussion of issues has all but disappeared?

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28. So talk issues. Or just listen to Hillary's speeches on many issues.

Both these posts, this whole thread!, are wasted opportunities by that standard.

Hillary addresses issues, usually local and regional, every single day. Perhaps you've only been listening to what the press chooses to show, the stuff you're complaining about in fact. You know how they do, but what are you listening to that you're missing all the discussion of issues? Everyone listening to her realizes very quickly why she's called a policy wonk.

As for DU, just pick one. How about discussing the issue of federal funding and organization to combat infectious diseases which know no state boundaries and will be spreading? Such as Zika? Hillary spoke on that just yesterday. The Republican House is holding up funding, of course. Should Democrats pass the House's bill with the restrictions on Planned Parenthood because containing Zika is the most important issue right now?

A bunch of issues there. How about states' rights versus federal power? The conservative desire to shrink government and federal taxation, thus federal assistance to states? God's role in plagues and the different party views on that? Climate change and spread of tropical diseases. Why the Republicans want to eliminate the National Institutes of Health? The role of hypocrisy in partisan politics? (Could partisanship survive without it?)

President Barack Obama has said he would veto the measure with the Planned Parenthood restrictions. But top Republicans have not relented either, and have increasingly put more pressure on Democrats to back off their blockade of the Zika measure, which has already passed the House.

“We would love for Sen. Kaine and others to end that filibuster and pass the bill, but it doesn’t sound like they’re prepared to do that,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), referring to Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. Apparently they believe an earmark for Planned Parenthood in the future is more important than preventing the threat of Zika now.”

Still, Clinton is demanding that Congress pass a separate, $1.1 billion Zika measure that the Senate cleared earlier this year with nearly 90 votes, or a new funding bill that was “free of politics,” according to a Clinton campaign aide.

The Zika virus is “one of the canaries in the mine,” Clinton said at the Miami health center, and she added that it’s a test in how the government and the public deals with an epidemic because “diseases are going to find their way here” given the rise in global travel and climate change.
During her tour of the clinic, Clinton asked doctors and others about who’s getting tested for Zika and what challenges they face in treating the fast-growing virus. She also noted that she has sent two campaign aides to Puerto Rico, another locale affected significantly by the Zika virus, for what she billed a “fact-finding mission.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-congress-reconvene-zika-226821#ixzz4Gxwd07gm