115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

[bronconick]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Wait. I thought Corker did come back in?

Not yet. Has until August 2, but he's probably hesitating because he'd lose the primary to Blackburn.

Edit: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...idterms-423573

Decided against it in March.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Turtle Boy sets his legacy.

McConnell said once again that the most important accomplishment, in his mind, of Donald Trump’s administration so far has been the number of conservative judicial appointments the president has gotten through.

“I believe that’s the most important thing we’re doing,” the majority leader said. “You’ve heard me say before that I thought the decision I made not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy when Justice Scalia died was the most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire public career. The things that will last the longest time – those are my top priorities.”

I'd like to thank the Democrats for letting him get away with it.

[5mn_Major]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Turtle Boy sets his legacy.

McConnell said once again that the most important accomplishment, in his mind, of Donald Trump’s administration so far has been the number of conservative judicial appointments the president has gotten through.

“I believe that’s the most important thing we’re doing,” the majority leader said. “You’ve heard me say before that I thought the decision I made not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy when Justice Scalia died was the most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire public career. The things that will last the longest time – those are my top priorities.”

I'd like to thank the Democrats for letting him get away with it.

In other words, the executive is represented by an empty suit.

[Kepler]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

I'd like to thank the Democrats for letting him get away with it.

Whoa, there. The Dems made it a campaign issue. Clinton sucked, but she didn't screw that up -- a large enough portion of the electorate told us they didn't care that the GOP stole a SCOTUS slot.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Whoa, there. The Dems made it a campaign issue. Clinton sucked, but she didn't screw that up -- a large enough portion of the electorate told us they didn't care that the GOP stole a SCOTUS slot.

Who made it a campaign issue? Republicans wanted it to be a campaign issue. No Democrat in his right mind agreed with that.

[Rover]

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Whoa, there. The Dems made it a campaign issue. Clinton sucked, but she didn't screw that up -- a large enough portion of the electorate told us they didn't care that the GOP stole a SCOTUS slot.

I think he means people like the Bernie-Susan Sarandon wing who apparently didn't consider control of the SCOTUS to be an important enough issue to vote Dem up and down the ballot in 2016 (recall, a few more Senate seats and we don't have Neil Gorsuch even if Chump won).

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

I think he means people like the Bernie-Susan Sarandon wing who apparently didn't consider control of the SCOTUS to be an important enough issue to vote Dem up and down the ballot in 2016 (recall, a few more Senate seats and we don't have Neil Gorsuch even if Chump won).

Would have required taking the Senate. 51 Democrats (because we don't have the Presidency). That wasn't going to happen unless Trump got stomped which was never going to happen.

[Kepler]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Susan Sarandon wing

Nobody is in this "wing" other than Susan Sarandon.

Bernie was right about his analysis of the country's problems and he would have beaten Dump. The fact that he lost the nomination (or was denied it by the Clintonista apparatchiks in the DNC) is unfortunate, but it's ancient history. Once she won the nomination I supported her fully, and most of us did.

If Scooby still has the vapors because thinking liberals didn't buy that old, hackneyed, 1990s, failed identity-driven campaign strategy, then he's the one who hasn't learned anything. We win if we stress liberal economic policies. We lose if we play into the knuck culture war argle bargle.

But I wish you'd stop trying to put lipstick on that pig. She's long dead. Move on and start addressing the future, starting with November.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Nobody is in this "wing" other than Susan Sarandon.

Bernie was right about his analysis of the country's problems and he would have beaten Dump. The fact that he lost the nomination (or was denied it by the Clintonista apparatchiks in the DNC) is unfortunate, but it's ancient history. Once she won the nomination I supported her fully, and most of us did.

If Scooby still has the vapors because thinking liberals didn't buy that old, hackneyed, 1990s, failed identity-driven campaign strategy, then he's the one who hasn't learned anything. We win if we stress liberal economic policies. We lose if we play into the knuck culture war argle bargle.

But I wish you'd stop trying to put lipstick on that pig. She's long dead. Move on and start addressing the future, starting with November.

Bernie isn't a Democrat.

[Kepler]

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Bernie isn't a Democrat.

And Dump isn't a Republican.

But he's President.

[ScoobyDoo]

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And Dump isn't a Republican.

Wrong.

[Handyman]

And Dump isn't a Republican.

But he's President.

He isn't? Everything he stands for matches the party including the hypocrisy. He is the GOP.

Bernie couldn't be bothered to register as a Dem.

And stop saying the nomination was possibly stolen from him. He lost cause he had no plan and minorities didn't like him. The Clintonistas didn't need to rig it the man couldn't win a primary in a major state.

[Kepler]

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Are we going to go with economic messaging this Fall and call BS on The Heist and vow to repeal it? Are we going to speak truth to populism and counter that trade wars weaken economies, while demanding that all trade deals include a hard floor for living wages, worker age protections and right to collectively organize, environmental protections, etc? Are we going to listen to the people who are angry about the last 40 years and stop playing the GOP game and pledge to tear trickle down out by the roots and restore financial regulation, steep progressive taxation, and make education and health care basic rights?

Cuz that's how we win. But to do it we're going to have to be willing to infuriate CNN, the networks, their corporate advertisers, rich donors and a lot of the "Democratic" punditry who are (very well) paid by the Plutes to work the other side of the aisle. Say goodbye to Andrea Mitchell, Paul Begala, Tom Friedman, Chris Matthews, James Carville, Donna Brazile, and Eleanor Clift.

[Rover]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Bernie was right about his analysis of the country's problems and he would have beaten Dump.

The fact that he lost the nomination (or was denied it by the Clintonista apparatchiks in the DNC)

Once she won the nomination I supported her fully, and most of us did.

Somebody want to do a "wellness check" on Kep?

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Are we going to go with economic messaging this Fall and call BS on The Heist and vow to repeal it? Are we going to speak truth to populism and counter that trade wars weaken economies, while demanding that all trade deals include a hard floor for living wages, worker age protections and right to collectively organize, environmental protections, etc? Are we going to listen to the people who are angry about the last 40 years and stop playing the GOP game and pledge to tear trickle down out by the roots and restore financial regulation, steep progressive taxation, and make education and health care basic rights?

Cuz that's how we win. But to do it we're going to have to be willing to infuriate CNN, the networks, their corporate advertisers, rich donors and a lot of the "Democratic" punditry who are (very well) paid by the Plutes to work the other side of the aisle. Say goodbye to Andrea Mitchell, Paul Begala, Tom Friedman, Chris Matthews, James Carville, Donna Brazile, and Eleanor Clift.

You either believe in incrementalism or you don't. If you don't you're going to be disappointed. It took the Republicans 38 years to tear down what FDR built and it's not going to get fixed in one Presidency (Obama's) like all the Susan Sarandon's thought.