Tulsi Gabbard attacks democrats for funding Trump Oppo Research

[karynnj]

242. Great positive analysis

I agree both that the goals of HRC and Sanders were similar, but their prescriptions on how to get there differed, though not as much as it seemed in the primaries. I suspect this is always the case. Remember that the BIG argument on healthcare in 2008 was whether to use a mandate or not? Obama argued that it would doom any effort - quoting Ted Kennedy. Then, when many businesses, activists, and insurance companies jointly supported it, things changed on a dime and President Obama supported it. The truth in 2008 was that EVERY possible Democrat would have supported whatever could pass Congress, with the Senate being the highest bar to get a bill done.

I think Trump being President unites us. His actions make our values clear.

We want affordable health insurance - Many Republicans do not think that a government responsibility.

They see tax cuts on businesses and the wealthy as the way to stimulate the economy. We agree with most economists who say that giving the wealthy a tax cut is among the WORST ways to stimulate the economy, where giving additional money to those on the bottom - who will immediately spend it - is not just fairer, but the best way to stimulate the economy.

We see that climate change is real and that we win if we work hard on the new market for clean energy and more efficient products. As Kerry pointed out in 2004, that even if we are wrong, we get cleaner air, cleaner water - thus better health, and a stronger economy. (we already have the ability to get all our fossil fuels from the US and Canada - so the 2004 point of less dependance on the middle east is no longer there.) They are willing not just to fight the world's trend and dispute the action science calls for, they are just trying to pander to their base and people with the last name Koch.

The one - very strange poll - that might be the most relevant was the one that showed more than 50% of the people polled would prefer Obama was still President rather than Trump. This sounds like arguing to return to 2016 AND to push for a strong package of infrastructure and job creation programs targeted to areas of the rust belt and other places that are failing.