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Post by jdredd on Sept 14, 2018 2:47:22 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/nyregion/state-senate-election-results-idc-klein.html"Years of anger at a group of Democratic state senators who had collaborated with Republicans boiled over on Thursday, as primary voters ousted nearly all of them in favor of challengers who had called them traitors and sham progressives. The losses were not only a resounding upset for the members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who outspent their challengers several times over, but also a sign that the progressive fervor sweeping national politics had hobbled New York’s once-mighty Democratic machine, at least on a local level.The most high-profile casualty was Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, the former head of the I.D.C. In that role, he was for years one of Albany’s most powerful players, sharing leadership of the chamber with his counterparts in the Republican conference and participating in the state’s secretive budget negotiations." On the other hand, they did shitcan these DINOs.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 21, 2018 9:55:37 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Even before the letter emerged, Ms. Feinstein had found herself criticized by liberal Democrats who believed she had been too timid and deferential in her treatment of Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee. “We need a senator from California who will stand up and #RESIST not #ASSIST,” State Senator Kevin de León, who is challenging Ms. Feinstein for her Senate seat, said after she had all but apologized to Judge Kavanaugh for the liberal protesters who interrupted his confirmation hearings. Ms. Feinstein, at 85 the oldest member of the Senate, has at times appeared bewildered by the swirl of attention. Surrounded earlier this week by dozens of reporters as she moved through the Capitol, she waved her hands as if to cut off the questioning. At another point, she told a Fox News reporter on Tuesday, “I can’t say everything’s truthful” in Dr. Blasey’s account. She later cleaned up the remark, but not before the White House seized on it." Uh-oh, the old DINO fossil is not looking so good. Will she retire? Her huge ego says "Don't hold your breath."
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Post by Turk on Sept 22, 2018 16:32:30 GMT -5
The old fossil just shot every woman in the back that has been sexually abused. She sits on a letter for almost two months then suspiciously releases it. Her feeble excuse was she wanted time to research the content. Why didn’t she just have her Chinese spy do it for her. The woman is a disgrace and should be removed from office.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 2, 2018 2:16:16 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/politics/biden-2020-anita-hill-kavanaugh.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The revival of interest in the Hill-Thomas hearings — and the mood of alarm among Democrats about the integrity of the Supreme Court — has clouded Mr. Biden’s 2020 deliberations as they approach a critical phase. He has already been weighing his ambition to lead the country and his determination to help oust President Trump against concern that a campaign would strain his family — and a sense that many Democrats are yearning for a leader from a younger, more diverse and pugilistic generation." It couldn't get more hideous for the party than if they ran out-of-touch Old Fart Biden in 2020.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2018 23:41:27 GMT -5
spectator.org/when-did-the-democratic-party-become-antifa/" A Democratic Party lacking the White House, majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, and the Supreme Court imitated strength in practicing rudeness. Now, hours before the confirmation vote that they sought to postpone, the Democrats’ boisterousness appears, belatedly at least, as camouflage for weakness. This weakness, which may seem anything but when in earshot of protesters, appears most apparent in the U.S. Senate. Democrats lack the raw numbers to win. Unable to rely on an institutional or the democratic apparatus to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, they embraced a by-any-means-necessary strategy." When did the Democrat Party become Antifa? If only. Sadly, they are mostly the namby-pamby Republican Lite party they have been for decades. I would say they need to get their asses kicked in 2018 like they did in 2016 to change, but they wouldn't change even then. Not with all the old farts still in the driver's seat.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 18, 2018 18:01:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/democrat-electorate-left-turn.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Over the past 18 years, the Democratic electorate has moved steadily to the left, as liberals have displaced moderates. Self-identified liberals of all races and ethnicities now command a majority in the party, raising the possibility that views once confined mainly to the party elite have spread into the rank and file. From 2001 to 2018, the share of Democratic voters who describe themselves as liberal has grown from 30 to 50 percent, according to data provided by Lydia Saad, a senior editor at the Gallup Poll. The percentage of Democrats who say they are moderate has fallen from 44 to 35; the percentage of self-identified conservative Democrats has gone from 25 to 13 percent. Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward. According to Gallup, the share of white Democrats calling themselves liberal on social issues has grown since 2001 from 39 to 61 percent. Because of this growth, white liberals are now roughly 40 percent of all Democratic voters." Ha-ha! Here are the people pushing change, mostly white women, in the sclerotic Democrat Party. What's also funny is that the term "liberal", for a while a term of contempt, is being embraced once again. Here is MY take on the Dem Party: After the progressives were crushed in 1972, the Republican Wing ran the party for 40 years plus and only now are progressives making a comeback.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 8, 2018 11:28:05 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/midterm-results-2020-democrats.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Then again, what does the average voter think about the people who pompously style themselves “the Resistance”? I don’t just mean the antifa thugs and restaurant hecklers and the Farrakhan Fan Club wing of the women’s movement, though that’s a part of it. I mean the rest of the Trump despisers, the people who detest not only the man but also contemn his voters (and constantly let them know it); the ones who heard the words “basket of deplorables” and said to themselves: Bingo. They measure their moral worth not through an effort at understanding but by the intensity of their disdain. They are — so they think — always right, yet often surprised by events. I was a charter member of this camp. Intellectual honesty ought to compel us to admit that we achieved precisely the opposite of what we intended. Trumpism is more entrenched today than ever. The result of the midterms means, if nothing else, that the president survived his first major political test more than adequately. And unless Democrats change, he should be seen as the odds-on favorite to win in 2020.To repeat: I’d hate to see that happen. I want Trump, and Trumpism, to lose. But if the Resistance party doesn’t find a way to become a shrewder, humbler opposition party, that’s not going to happen. The day Democrats take charge in the House would be a good opportunity to stop manning imaginary barricades, and start building real bridges to the other America." Here is a righty once again telling the Dems to move right. But one of the silver linings I was hoping for from a Trump regime was the revival of a left that has been comatose for 45 years, and it has happened to some extent. I don't want some stinking bridge to the Deplorables, the Dems have been run by namby pamby Republican Lites since 1972, who never deliver anything to anybody. And what I see is a Republican Party that because of a booming economy SHOULD have had a red wave but didn't.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 13, 2019 19:53:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-democrats-congress.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, left-wing activists were dismissed as fringe or even kooky when they pressed for proposals to tax the superrich at 70 percent, to produce all of America’s power through renewable resources or to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Then along came Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — and her social-media megaphone. In the two months since her election, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has had the uncanny ability for a first-term member of Congress to push the debate inside the Democratic Party sharply to the left, forcing party leaders and 2020 presidential candidates to grapple with issues that some might otherwise prefer to avoid." If we ever do get a new improved Democratic Party, AOC can get part of the credit. Whereas Joe Biden would try to drag them back into Clintonism.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2019 0:56:38 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/politics/democrats-israel-palestine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The shift on Israel reflects the larger Democratic tilt toward a brand of leftist politics that is creating tensions between the party’s old guard and an ascendant progressive wing that has been emboldened by Mr. Trump’s inflammatory politics and the perceived compromises and failures of an earlier generation of moderates.While the overwhelming majority of congressional Democrats are strong supporters of Israel, the party’s pro-Israel wing has been jolted by election of a pair of high-profile freshman, Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the country." Wouldn't it be nice if one of our major political parties was not in Israel's pocket? I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 2, 2019 0:01:09 GMT -5
sandiegoscene.proboards.com/thread/1261/improved-democratic-party-coming-soon?page=5"Democrats could resist the type of ideological fury that tilted Republicans sharply right in 2016 by rejecting a sharp move to the left next year. But that’s more easily said than done when progressive paragons proclaim that old-fashioned Democratic centrism is the new fanaticism. These paragons could also correct some of the magical thinking when it comes to free college tuition, a 70 percent tax rate on the wealthiest, or a Sanders-style health care system. Without some reality checks, Democratic primary voters might be gulled by the left-wing version of the fairy dust Trump voters inhaled when they bought into promises about Mexico paying for the wall. In the meantime, a potential Sltz candidacy can serve the useful function of reminding Democrats that he really could throw the election to Trump if they continue moving farther to the left. The best way to diminish that possibility isn’t to scream at him. It’s to listen to the forgotten voters he potentially represents. If Democrats don’t want to lose the 2020 election, they would do better to reclaim the center than to pretend they can redefine it." Here's another rightie telling Democrats to move to the center or they are going to lose in 2020. Why would he give the Dems advice? Seems pretty obvious to me, either Trumpty is reelected, or a Republican Lite Democrat centrist is elected, which makes it a win-win for the right.
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Post by dj on Feb 2, 2019 23:23:32 GMT -5
She sits on a letter for almost two months then suspiciously releases it. Her feeble excuse was she wanted time to research the content. This was not actually her feeble excuse. It was that the woman wanted to remain anonymous and Feinstein wanted permission from her to report it. This is actually a logical excuse, however, it would have been far more effective if it was released immediately.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 10, 2019 20:19:49 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Feb 26, 2019 18:56:18 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/opinion/trump-kim-vietnam.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Remarkably, President Trump has declared himself content with a nuclear armed North Korea. Not only is this a dangerous reversal of decades of American policy, which has long sought the “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula, it amounts to acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear state. For Mr. Trump, diplomacy with North Korea has always been about theater and politics. In falsely declaring after his first summit with Mr. Kim that “there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea,” while bragging that the risk of war — which he foolishly stoked — is now diminished, the president is intent on creating the illusion of progress. In fact, there has been none toward our core goal of full denuclearization."
And this is what I'm talking about when I say America has no peace party (except for the Greens who don't count). When one of the accomplices to Obama's failed foreign policies is taking Trump to task for not being tough enough on Korea, it makes me think Trump isn't all that bad. Not that I will ever vote Republican.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 5, 2019 14:27:30 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/democrats-liberals-socialists-cultural-left.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"On the center … those like me in what used to proudly call itself the Rubin Wing of the Democratic Party — so-called after former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, and consisting of those of us hoping to use market means to social democratic ends in bipartisan coalition with Republicans seeking technocratic win-wins — have passed the baton to our left. Over the past 25 years, we failed to attract Republican coalition partners, we failed to energize our own base, and we failed to produce enough large-scale obvious policy wins to cement the center into a durable governing coalition. We blame cynical Republican politicians. We blame corrupt and craven media bosses and princelings. We are right to blame them, but shared responsibility is not diminished responsibility. And so the baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left. We are still here, but it is not our time to lead." No sh&t it is not the time of the Republican wing of the Democratic party to lead, since they have led us absolutely nowhere in the past. Clintonism turned out to be a nothingburger. But one of the silver linings I was hoping for from Trump's win (and he won BIG, REALLY BIG, SUPER BIG, as he never tires of telling everyone) was that it might waken a left that's been comatose for 40 years plus. Now if they would only wake up about our belligerent foreign policies.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 7, 2019 13:45:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/ilhan-omar-anti-semitism-vote.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are planning to put a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and bigotry on the House floor for a vote on Thursday, hoping to put to rest the internal uproar that erupted after Representative Ilhan Omar insinuated that backers of Israel exhibit dual loyalty. “I see everything as an opportunity,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday. “This is an opportunity once again to declare as strongly as possible opposition to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim statements,” and “white supremacist attitudes.” She took a shot at President Trump and his equivocal statements after the deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017: “The president may think there are good people on both sides, we don’t share that view.” Ha-ha! The Democrat Old Guard, who wants to continue kissing Israel's ass, is pushing this pointless resolution aimed at one representative. What a bunch of craven bozos. As always, a pox on both parties.
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