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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2019 10:00:37 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/opinion/democrats-immigration.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"If nothing else, I’d urge Democrats to look at public opinion on immigration with an open mind. The polling isn’t as favorable as some of the recent conversation on the left has suggested. In a recent Gallup poll, 47 percent of Americans called illegal immigration a critical threat and another 30 percent called it an important threat." Here's one more guy telling the Dems to move back to the right, and join with right-wing xenophobes in persecuting immigrants. They probably will, and we will return to the times George Wallace said "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties." if in fact we ever left it.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 22, 2019 21:42:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/opinion/trump-mccain-2020-republicans-democrats.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"In 1992, recording artist Lisa Williamson, better known as Sister Souljah, opined, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” She also said, “If there are any good white people, I haven’t met them.” Sensing a political opportunity, Bill Clinton went before Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition to rebuke Williamson. “If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black,’ and you reversed them,” the Arkansas governor said, “you might think David Duke was giving that speech.” Jackson was furious. But Americans were reassured that Clinton really was a new kind of Democrat, not in thrall to the party’s left wing. He was elected president later that year." One of the reasons I have nothing but contempt for Bill Clinton.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 25, 2019 2:43:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/senate-republicans-anti-semitism.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Top Democrats are hardly ready to cede support of Israel to Republicans. Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the Democratic leader, gave a rousing defense of the American-Israeli relationship at the Aipac conference Sunday evening, promising to push for a resolution that opposes the boycott Israel movement. Without naming her, he took several jabs at Ms. Omar. “Ladies and gentlemen, when someone accuses American supporters of dual loyalty, I say: Accuse me.” Mr. Hoyer declared. And he also took a shot at two other freshman Democrats who are critical of Israel, Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York: “By the way, there are 62 freshman Democrats. You hear me? Sixty-two, not three.” Meanwhile, the Old Guard Dems are trying to hold on to their pro-Israel creds.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2019 2:52:24 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/zine/2019/04/08/will-joe-biden-be-the-democratic-nominee/"Navigating an energized progressive base will be no simple task for Biden. For example, Biden is a longtime supporter of the Hyde amendment, a ban on federal funding of elective abortions, unlike recent Democratic presidential nominees. Tim Kaine was tripped up in 2016 trying to reconcile his support for the ban with Hillary Clinton’s opposition, but today he says: “I don’t think it’s a litmus [test]. I think it’s a very important issue to people of all different stripes. . . . That one is going to be hashed out, along with so many others, during the primary process and then during the general.” Will Biden flip-flop on the issue? Or will he continue to oppose the progressive Democratic base? Both options, on this matter and others, carry political risks. Biden will face plenty of obstacles once he enters the race, but none appear so large right now that he could not make it to the general election." Will it take another Clintonesque centrist going down in defeat in 2020 for the Democrats to change their ways? Probably, and maybe not even then.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 24, 2019 13:07:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/opinion/sanders-2020-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"In 34 national surveys conducted from October 2018 to early April, Joe Biden, who is expected to announce his presidential bid on Thursday, led of all competitors. Then, in an Emerson College poll conducted two weeks ago, Bernie Sanders, a candidate with substantial liabilities as well as marked strengths, pulled ahead of Biden for the first time, 29-24 percent." Is that really what the Dumbocrats are going to be stuck with in 2020? One of two ancient white guys? Very depressing. The American political system is broken.
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Post by jdredd on May 4, 2019 11:48:32 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/nancy-pelosi.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Sitting in her office with its panoramic view of the National Mall, Ms. Pelosi — the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 — offered Democrats her “coldblooded” plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left. “Own the center left, own the mainstream,” Ms. Pelosi, 79, said." Same tired debate: Compromise or Confrontation. But the Republicans are winning with confrontation.
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Post by jdredd on May 6, 2019 20:07:36 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on May 25, 2019 1:58:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/trump-elections-india-australia.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Progressives are now speeding, Thelma and Louise style, toward the same cliff they went over in the 1970s and ’80s. But unlike the ’80s, when conservatives held formidable principles about economic freedom and Western unity, the left is flailing in the face of a new right that is increasingly nativist, illiberal, lawless, and buffoonish. It’s losing to losers. It needn’t be this way. The most successful left-of-center leaders of the past 30 years were Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. They believed in the benefits of free markets, the importance of law and order, the superiority of Western values, and a healthy respect for the moral reflexes of ordinary people. Within that framework, they were able to achieve important liberal victories." Like some broken record, here is a rightie telling Democrats they must move to the right or else. And he's using those douchebags Clinton and Blair as examples of where they should stand. Well, thanks for sharing, but who asked you?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 4, 2019 17:48:23 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/against-conservative-cultural-defeatism/"One of the strange realities of the current fight over the direction of the conservative movement — double down on classical liberalism or reject many of its tenets in favor of a version of Christian statism? — is that it is taking place in the presence of an unjustified sense of despair and defeat. There is a wholly incorrect sense that the previous approach to the hot-button cultural issues of our day, centered around appeals to constitutional rights conducted (mostly) with civility and dignity, has failed. The argument is, in short: We lose, so we must change." This is interesting to me. It's not the losing Dumbocrats that are doing the soul-searching, it's the winning Republicons.
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Post by Turk on Jun 4, 2019 18:02:03 GMT -5
The first thing that should change, creepy Joe needs to keep his hand in his pocket and stop fondling little girls.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2019 13:05:15 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/politics/biden-abortion-hyde-amendment.html"Mr. Biden initially believed his party would offer him forbearance on such a complex, difficult issue. But by Thursday afternoon, it had become clear that his position on the Hyde Amendment was not tenable. As abortion rights groups expressed their displeasure publicly, officials at organizations such as Planned Parenthood and Naral Pro-Choice America — as well as senior Biden campaign staff members — were privately lobbying him to change his stance. “Our commitment to economic justice, racial justice, is all tied into dawning awareness that Hyde has to be repealed,” said Ilyse Hogue, the president of Naral. “The salience of the issues has been obvious over the last 48 hours, but I think that’s only going to grow.” Organizations that support abortion rights say the issue of access to abortion has come into sharper focus for voters — especially for Democratic women and women of color, crucial constituencies in the 2020 presidential primary — amid Republican efforts to enact far-reaching anti-abortion laws across the country." Sleepy Joe, the (hopefully) last icon of the Democratic Old Guard, flips on the Hyde Amendment (Passed in 1976 by Illinois Senator Henry Hyde, 12 years dead).
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Post by jdredd on Jun 23, 2019 0:15:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/nyregion/albany-laws-ny-progressive.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=New%20York“These are the priorities of the extreme socialist wing of the Democratic Party,” John J. Flanagan, the Long Island Republican who serves as minority leader, said. “They’re certainly not the priorities of the hard-working, middle-class taxpayers and their families who are being ignored right now.” The Republicans’ diminished significance was but one of several vivid examples of how the political culture in Albany had changed this year. In March, barely arrived lawmakers held an impromptu news conference in a Capitol hallway, calling Mr. Cuomo’s fund-raising practices hypocritical and possibly corrupt — a stunning challenge to a governor whom many fellow Democrats had often feared or avoided confronting. Other Democrats seemed emboldened, too, sharing posts on Twitter that compared Mr. Cuomo to Mr. Trump or even raising the prospect of investigating him. Progressive groups, who helped several insurgent candidates defeat a group of Democratic incumbents who collaborated with Republicans, suddenly found themselves with direct access to new lawmakers." Well, the Dem party IS new and improved in NY state, and with the defeat of some Old School DINOs, are making some progress.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 26, 2019 21:05:37 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/opinion/tiffany-caban.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"With the help of the Working Families Party and her fellow Democratic Socialists of America, she has shocked the state’s Democratic establishment, no matter the final outcome. Who are these usurpers? Many are part of a generation still quite young when the crack epidemic swept the city in the 1980s and ’90s, but whose political consciousness was forged by the consequences of the brutal reaction to that era: decades of over-policing that criminalized blacks and Latinos. It’s a generation that feels that the Democratic Party leadership has failed it, not only on criminal justice, but on issues from inequality to immigration to the Iraq war."
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Post by jdredd on Jun 28, 2019 1:44:47 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/opinion/democratic-debate-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Finally, Democrats aren’t making the most compelling moral case against Donald Trump. They are good at pointing to Trump’s cruelties, especially toward immigrants. They are good at describing the ways he is homophobic and racist. But the rest of the moral case against Trump means hitting him from the right as well as the left. A decent society rests on a bed of manners, habits, traditions and institutions. Trump is a disrupter. He rips to shreds the codes of politeness, decency, honesty and fidelity, and so renders society a savage world of dog eat dog. Democrats spend very little time making this case because defending tradition, manners and civility sometimes cuts against the modern progressive temper. The debates illustrate the dilemma for moderate Democrats. If they take on progressives they get squashed by the passionate intensity of the left. If they don’t, the party moves so far left that it can’t win in the fall. Right now we’ve got two parties trying to make moderates homeless. Yes, Mr. Brooks, King of the fence straddlers, it might be coming to a time where you actually have to take a side. Why is that so hard for you?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 9, 2019 16:23:51 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-ocasio-cortez.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said they have no following in Congress. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York shot back that she and three of her fellow liberal freshmen, darlings of the left known collectively as “the squad,” are wielding the real power in the party. Six months into the new House Democratic majority, long-simmering tensions between the speaker and the squad — Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massasetts — have boiled over in the most public of ways, setting off a flurry of criticism of Ms. Pelosi among liberal activists and reinvigorating a debate within the party about how best to stand up to President Trump. The fire was lit by a $4.6 billion border aid package passed by Congress that the quartet argued had empowered Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. But the forest already was a tinder box, dried by the monthslong debate over impeachment, earlier dust-ups with Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib and over Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, and looming debates over a $15-an-hour minimum wage bill and funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Ha-ha! This is the most fun in the stagnant Democratic Party since 1972!
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