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yurbud

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11. Democrats don't have the House, Senate, or most statehouses...
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 03:06 PM
Feb 2017

they need to go in a different direction before they lose so much Republicans don't bother to have elections.

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Happy to recommend what I consider to be the best post so far this year. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #1
complaining that your base is actually holding you accountable AFTER an election yurbud Feb 2017 #2
I agree, but a large part of the problem is that the GOP has been guillaumeb Feb 2017 #3
and centrist Democrats have enabled a lot of that agenda yurbud Feb 2017 #4
Agreed, that some center-right Democrats agree with parts of the agenda. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #7
if we had a constitutional re-arrangement, I'd make Senate house of parties yurbud Feb 2017 #9
Excellent. concreteblue Feb 2017 #5
Excellent! HassleCat Feb 2017 #6
hasn't happened yet. yurbud Feb 2017 #8
More wholesale Democrat bashing? ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #10
Democrats don't have the House, Senate, or most statehouses... yurbud Feb 2017 #11
was there a particular point you disagreed with? yurbud Feb 2017 #12
Centrism was never the problem. JHan Feb 2017 #13
you are confusing two kinds of centrism: ideological pragmatism and politicians who are for sale yurbud Feb 2017 #14
Obama had a record and looking at who his political patrons were should have destroyed any yurbud Feb 2017 #15
And I'll use a phrase from him which should be lesson to us all... JHan Feb 2017 #16
There was an argument for the Third Way when Reaganism was ascendant and dominant but yurbud Feb 2017 #17
But that doesn't really have to do with Centrism though... JHan Feb 2017 #19
the FDIC had a process for dealing failing banks that involved firing the top yurbud Feb 2017 #21
clean energy lobbyist don't have enough money to buy politicians yet yurbud Feb 2017 #18
I raised that as an example because... JHan Feb 2017 #20
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