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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ken Salazar to lead her transition team! WTF? [View all]snooper2
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His environmental record, the fact he is a lobbyist though unregistered doesn't bother you?
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#6
This country has moved so far to the right that the actual middle is called far or extreme left.
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#29
Seems odd to predicate liking someone simply on who else may or may not dislike them as well
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#34
it's pretty obvious you use phrases in which you don't know the definition.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#63
Strange, it seems you have no understanding of what constitutes the Extreme Left. eom
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#71
My seven year old does the same thing when she knows she lost an argument.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#104
Man, if you think you hold all that is true about what is and what is not Extreme Left,...
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#107
That's the problem I usually find. Everyone wants an echo chamber, and when someone disagrees they a
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#123
The far left (Greens ET AL).. those who will never back the Democrat before or after an election..
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#171
I have been watching for some time for what that trip-wire of left/right is.
fleabiscuit
Aug 2016
#133
So you have a big framed picture of Joe Lieberman in your living room, then?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#169
This has to do with the Extreme Left labeling anybody who isn't "PURE" as a Corporatist.
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#210
Depending on issues, many. Pre Reagan/Clinton the country was more liberal.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#199
support for our land and water through fracking and huge pipelines - not wanted by anyone I know
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#255
Salazar quote: "We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#182
It's stuff like this that make it so easy to be dismissive of the far left.
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#20
If they were, they'd pick better candidates. I mean, seriously now ... Stein?
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#41
Yeah, you're right. It's not a clean environment is essential to human life.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#48
No, it's actually the regressive, privliged, amoral, puritopian rainbows and pixie dust
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#166
I guess someone will have to figure out if strategic wins but occasionally compromising are worse
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#59
They're emotional voters. They love, love, love and so are blind to the meaning
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#206
One of the major reasons many of us on what you term the "far left", have been critical of the ACA
cali
Aug 2016
#83
That's true, but intentionally sabotaging or not supporting the best candidate ...
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#195
We're already failing because are not doing what scientists have told us to do.
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#249
And putting forward "pure" candidates (who have zero chance of winning) helps, HOW?
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#250
Why would I read Bill Press who like many who are ...I won't say on the left
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#242
The only way you can post here and disrupt is pretending you are to the left of everyone else here.
Old and In the Way
Aug 2016
#134
He's as shitty a pick now, as he was when Obama foisted him upon us in Interior.
villager
Aug 2016
#27
Yeah and after he was shown the error of his ways by electing Republicans...things were so much
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#50
Um, he was part of the "error of ways" that led to the election of Republicans in the midterms
villager
Aug 2016
#52
He was an awful choice for Interior, a squandering of "hope and change." Timorous Democrats lose
villager
Aug 2016
#75
They showed us! We'll piss on that mandate and... wait? What? No one's still voting!? nt
villager
Aug 2016
#121
So our retroactive excuse is that the majorities we had the first two years...
villager
Aug 2016
#141
These people need to blame ... rather than hold their candidate responsible.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#211
We never had a working majority ...not with Kennedy ill and then Scott Brown, Lieberman
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#172
Somehow the climate is not changing "incrementally." Nor has it been "incremental" for those priced
villager
Aug 2016
#252
Yes, re: Gerrymander. But we disagree on that first two years. I think they were woefully
villager
Aug 2016
#267
Just a handful of people say that shit. Alert on their posts and put them on ignore
emulatorloo
Aug 2016
#38
Why anyone left of center should be cozying up to fracking supporters is beyond me. NT
a la izquierda
Aug 2016
#137
And you and your buddies get to judge who is progressive and who isn't I suppose.
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#112
I don't agree with Obama on everthing either. I don't like the TPP for one example.
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#138
It is just a term...I see no stigma in it...nothing wrong with being left...I am a
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#173
You show wisdom again by staying neutral and avoiding name calling and blaming. Thank you.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#217
Exactly my thoughts. Trump is hastening that merging of right and DLC centrist dems.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#218
We (heart) the Keystone pipeline - I want one of those running through my yard
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#194
Actually, I almost had a KinderMorgan pipeline running through my property
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#256
Clinton should speak to Obama about Salazar and why he 'resigned'. Years ago that 'Bundy' crap was
Sunlei
Aug 2016
#70
It's exhausting isn't it? I mean there are other places on the web to trash Democrats, this.....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2016
#90
It's an appointment that I don't like. Period. If that makes me a traitor or loony left or
cali
Aug 2016
#85
And you, with the greatest of easen repeatedly toss out false smears. I find that..
cali
Aug 2016
#181
He most likely was choosen because he was part of the Obama Administration as
still_one
Aug 2016
#103
Can we please be outraged about this after the election? [win the election first,ok]
bluestateguy
Aug 2016
#168
I support this choice. Salazar charted a measured course as cabinet official
bluedye33139
Aug 2016
#228