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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The absolute worst thing about this primary [View all]stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)11. This alone should galvanize us to BEAT her NOW. If she wins the damage will be done.
If she doesn't win, then her message is REJECTED, and Bernie will most certainly tell the American people repeatedly that we CAN do it.
She must lose to Bernie.
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Amen. I found her to be annoying before this. I find her straight up dangerous since.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#2
You're right, maybe Sanders shouldn't have proffered unicorns from his single payer pledge and then
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#3
Can't point out the part that's false, that's ok... we don't have to talk about facts and stuff
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#66
+1000. The worst thing to happen to single payer would be a failure to get it passed.
baldguy
Jan 2016
#99
Scalia warned us, if we legalized teh Gay Marriage before long people would be proffering unicorns
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2016
#109
The conservative Democrats lied to us. They said that we couldn't ask for more, that we
rhett o rick
Jan 2016
#136
No one told anyone that, people should stop believing everything they hear from FAUX news
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#141
Hillary was for single-payer, before she was against it. Now 20 years later "It's just too hard" nt
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#5
I remember a time when we aspired to do things in this country because they were hard...
avaistheone1
Jan 2016
#133
Have to do both, and now. The HC costs for average citizens is outrageous and we dont have to
randys1
Jan 2016
#57
It isn't up to our bought and paid for "Leaders" it is up to US. It is time the democratic "leaders"
Vincardog
Jan 2016
#9
This alone should galvanize us to BEAT her NOW. If she wins the damage will be done.
stillwaiting
Jan 2016
#11
I have added Krugman to my personal enemies list. Any single payer nay sayer gets to join.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#80
Krugman admits that Medicare for All is the best solution. He just doesn't think it worth fight for.
Agony
Jan 2016
#107
Really strange that an economist has jackshit to say about the ECONOMICS of single payer
eridani
Jan 2016
#142
I think the lack of specificity by the Sanders campaign is causing the real damage.
Renew Deal
Jan 2016
#22
There is plenty of specificity. There is a real plan. It is the lies that are doing the damage.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#88
Single payer will never get through Congress. It's a pipe dream to think Bernie can
beaglelover
Jan 2016
#24
What ticks me off is even if they are on ignore you still see their OPS
Elmer S. E. Dump
Jan 2016
#155
There is a special circle of hell reserved for Hillary and all of her "No, We Can't" shills.
mhatrw
Jan 2016
#25
Any damage that has been done is Bernie's fault for not presenting a remotely realistic plan.
DanTex
Jan 2016
#36
A vote for Hillary is a vote to take single-payer off the table for at least eight years.
TIME TO PANIC
Jan 2016
#38
We will have Single Payer...Hillary is off the rails. That is a Democratic Foundation.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#41
We don't care about another fake assed organization like the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#93
do you think this can be done without Dems controlling BOTH the House and Senate?
Bill USA
Jan 2016
#68
K&R and I fear for what else she'd throw under the bus that will hurt us.
CharlotteVale
Jan 2016
#72
I'm not about to accept the ACA as the final evolution of this health care system.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#74
Yep Third Way Oligarchs -- like Krugman and Klein -- have no idea of what they speak.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#77
I'm not sure it's the absolute worst thing, but it's pretty bad. K and R
Smarmie Doofus
Jan 2016
#83
The slogan "No, we can't" coming from the Clinton campaign is horrible for our nation.
DrBulldog
Jan 2016
#125
How about the huge long-term damage done to Democrats up and down the ticket by....
George II
Jan 2016
#137
Leave it to the Democrats and Republicans and you will never see single payer. n/t
jtuck004
Jan 2016
#143
I started out really supporting her, but now I've gone the other way. The more I see and hear
RKP5637
Jan 2016
#151
$250,000 per hour is fine for her and Bill but she thinks $15 per hour is too much for you and me.
Skeeter Barnes
Jan 2016
#159