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Ongoing Dem Debacle Thread: Commander will kill us all

 
The 2018 Senate races would be BRUTAL if Clinton was president.
 
avalon said:
The 2018 Senate races would be BRUTAL if Clinton was president.
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Agreed. Also, that take (which isn't that crazy) assumes that McConnell would have allowed a hypothetical President Clinton's SCOTUS nominee get to a vote. I don't think that would have been guaranteed. I think it equally as likely that we'd have 2 SCOTUS nominees sitting in committee with no real future of getting them out.
 
That's a good point, and they'd feel justified after gaining so many seats in 2018.

‘Housing for All’: Democrats push for big government response to soaring rents

Harris’s bill, which expands on a measure that Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) has introduced in the House, calls for the federal government to give tax credits to renters who earn less than $100,000 a year and spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent (which includes utilities) — a widely used gauge of housing affordability. (The credit would be refundable, meaning taxpayers can receive payments even if their tax liability is $0, and those in particularly expensive areas could earn up to $125,000 and still receive the credit.) The size of the benefit increases for poorer families and decreases higher up the income distribution.

Harris will submit the legislation with endorsements from Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.), as well as backing by the Democratic mayors of Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco and sociologist Matthew Desmond, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the housing crisis.
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The Progressive Hawaii Senator Reshaping the 2020 Race, Without Even Running

“I want Democrats in the Senate, Democrats running for Congress, to rally around an aggressive, progressive agenda. And it’s not a gotcha, litmus test–style agenda, but one that, if we enact it, would be on a scale that is equal to the problems, and has the ability to actually motivate voters. They know that we are in unusual times, and that being aggressive, and clear, and not doing half-measures is what these times call for,” explained Schatz, folded into a leather armchair in his office, in the back corner of the seventh floor of Capitol Hill’s Hart Senate Office Building, with bright blue fish-patterned socks poking out of his navy suit. “I also think it’s the best way to win.”
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avalon is way too smart to be a lawyer.
 
 
Maura Healey is backing Ayanna Pressley in her bid to unseat Mike Capuano

The Massachusetts attorney general announced Monday that she is endorsing Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley’s primary campaign against longtime Rep. Mike Capuano in the state’s 7th Congressional District.

“For me, this isn’t political, it’s personal,” Healey, who lives Charlestown, said in a statement.

In a letter to supporters, Healey noted that it was Pressley who “stood by me and supported me” during her first campaign as an “outsider candidate” for attorney general in 2014 against former state lawmaker Warren Tolman. Healey said she and the 44-year-old city councilor have worked together on issues including fighting discrimination by Boston nightclubs; protecting students from “predatory, for-profit schools”; and helping survivors of sexual trauma, domestic violence, and human trafficking.
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Cynthia Nixon to Get Support of Indivisible, a National Grassroots Group

Ms. Nixon and Mr. Williams are the underdogs in the contest and the backing of Indivisible, with 400 registered chapters in New York scattered all across the state, according to the group, provides them a potential network of supporters for her shoestring candidacy to tap into during the race’s final six-plus weeks.
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Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the national Indivisible group, said that an “important touchpoint” in the group’s decision to endorse Ms. Nixon was Mr. Cuomo’s role in embracing a breakaway faction of Democrats in the New York State Senate who had helped keep Republicans in power in Albany. Those Democrats officially reunited earlier this year, at Mr. Cuomo’s urging, soon after Ms. Nixon entered the race.
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[h=1]Centrist Democrats are out of ideas[/h]
[h=2]Notes of political caution can be valuable, but caution is not a policy vision.[/h]
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/30/17611458/third-way-social-contract-digital-age

Third Way, the premier policy and advocacy organization for business-friendly Democrats, recently met in Columbus, Ohio, to “offer an attractive alternative to the rising Sanders-style populist left in the upcoming presidential race,” NBC News’s Alex Seitz-Wald reported from the event. Third Way president Jonathan Cowan was even more pointed in comments to New York magazine’s Gabriel Debenedetti, saying, “the ideas primary starts now. So we’re actually doing this for a very straightforward reason: to stand up and launch a serious, compelling economic alternative to Sanderism.”
But judging by Third Way’s 12-point plan for the American economy, dubbed “A New Generation of Ideas: A Social Contract for the Digital Age,” there’s little evidence to suggest that they have ideas that are serious, compelling, or even an actual alternative to the ideas of the left.
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[h=3]The missing moderate agenda[/h] One thing that a large minority of Democrats believe is that many American children are poorly served by K-12 schools that don’t make good use of the financial resources available to them in part because of ideas favored by teachers union leaders. This school of thought was embraced by the Obama administration as well as by various Democratic Party mayors and governors in the early 21st century, and had a lot of influence on public policy, but has gone into retreat in recent years. A big push to revive the education reform concept would be very controversial in Democratic Party circles and evince howls of fury from the left.
But Third Way isn’t proposing that.
Nor is it proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare or even a return to the Obama administration’s quest for a grand bargain. There’s also nothing on the list about trade deals, a subject that’s been divisive in the Democratic coalition for decades.
Now, it’s obviously not hard to understand why these subjects of contention have gone missing. After Donald Trump ran and won by adopting populist stances on trade and retirement programs, it’s very hard for centrist Democrats to credibly argue that abandoning populist stances on trade and retirement programs is the key to winning Middle America’s heart. And whatever the merits of education reform as a policy agenda in deep-blue areas with well-funded schools, red states where centrist Democrats are trying to win have suffered from massive cutbacks in school spending, and teacher pay and teacher strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona have proven to be a great issue for Democrats to piggyback on.
But if you went 10 years back in time and described a policy document that called for a bunch of new spending, no cuts to entitlements, no education reform, and no free trade deals, you would think you were describing the left flank of an intraparty Democratic argument. The spectrum of discussion has simply shifted a long way to the left, and the center is largely out of distinctive ideas.
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Pretty much. Memo to CNN, the right is going to hate you no matter what. Stop sucking up to them and just report about what’s going on in the world.
 
PhDeac said:
Pretty much. Memo to CNN, the right is going to hate you no matter what. Stop sucking up to them and just report about what’s going on in the world.
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It's about time for CNN to do yet another of their seemingly endless focus group sessions with only Trump supporters invited. For a left-wing, conservative-hating network, they certainly seem obsessed with getting and airing the views of ordinary Trumpites, and yet never seem to give the same amount of time to ordinary citizens who are Trump critics. Odd how that works.
 
Remember after Doug Jones won and news outlets talked about black women for about a day. That was nice. Good to hear something different.
 
Highland Deac said:
It's about time for CNN to do yet another of their seemingly endless focus group sessions with only Trump supporters invited. For a left-wing, conservative-hating network, they certainly seem obsessed with getting and airing the views of ordinary Trumpites, and yet never seem to give the same amount of time to ordinary citizens who are Trump critics. Odd how that works.
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I dunno, i frequently find myself utterly unable to understand the rationale of a Trump supporter. so maybe the segments are like a zoo for rational people to peer into the heart of darkness
 
Highland Deac said:
It's about time for CNN to do yet another of their seemingly endless focus group sessions with only Trump supporters invited. For a left-wing, conservative-hating network, they certainly seem obsessed with getting and airing the views of ordinary Trumpites, and yet never seem to give the same amount of time to ordinary citizens who are Trump critics. Odd how that works.
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They're fascinating creatures though.
 
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