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[Futurevoid]

Amy has gotten more comfortable as the night has gone on. I like her.

 

[Diablos]

PSA pointed it out--Cassidy is possibly one of the worst public speakers in the entire Senate. It's mind blowing that he was able to get elected...

He’s realllllly bad. But he’s in the south and has an R next to his name so.

 

[Zolo]

He’s realllllly bad. But he’s in the south and has an R next to his name so.

I mean....I expect he still got through the primaries against other Republicans.

 

[The Technomancer]

Trump finally tweeted something about Puerto Rico............ :/

Are you actually fucking kidding me right now?

 

[NeoXChaos]

I mean....I expect he still got through the primaries against other Republicans.

It was just him and Rob Maness a random nobody. Also its a jungle primary so you had them plus Landrieu also on the ballot with other nobodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Louisiana,_2014

 

[ratcliffja]

So everybody railed against Trump there, just like with the NFL. He just keeps digging himself deeper.

 

[kess]

Trump is going to end up obliterating the right wing of the New Progressive party in Puerto Rico. Does the GOP leadership even care?

 

[Diablos]

Lol Cassidy you suspected wrong!

 

[Kusagari]

If we take full power in 2020, making PR a state needs to be done in the first year.

 

[Futurevoid]

Such a laughable answer to the planned parenthood question. The floor is brown from the amount of bullshit spewing on it.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Trump's tweet on Puerto Rico is disgusting.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

Keep attacking McCain you fuck.

McCain will rally his state and vets against you and partisan Republicans.

. We are dealing with punished McCain who has a legacy to lay bare before he moves on.



Also fuck you trump, attacking and sitting on puerto Rico. A u s territory. It's ours fucking help them

 

[Brock Reiher]

Why did he stop tweeting about the NFL after the Cowboys game started.

 

[Futurevoid]

Graham finally comes out of the closet.

 

[neurosisxeno]

If we take full power in 2020, making PR a state needs to be done in the first year.

Republicans will fight it tooth and nail. A new state valued the same as Iowa in terms of Electoral Votes that is historically insanely Democratic? They'll paint it as a political move.

 

[Kaban]

uh, wasn't that video about PP selling body parts fabricated?

 

[RaidenZR]

Why did he stop tweeting about the NFL after the Cowboys game started.

He's watching CNN right now. He's learning about this new healthcare bill.

 

[LostMyNarbles]

uh, wasn't that video about PP selling body parts fabricated?

It was and I think the people who made it are in prison, but Republicans are either too stupid to know that or they just don't care and like repeating it to scare people.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

 

[eBay Huckster]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

i, too, remember the handful of people in this thread and OT who are still in bitch-eating-crackers mode when it comes to anything Sanders

 

[whyamihere]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

lololol

Amy doing well too.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

He's not doing that. But the tightrope he's trying to walk between Medicare for all and improving Obamacare doesn't make much sense.

 

[Futurevoid]

lololol

Amy doing well too.

She's doing better, I'd argue. She's coming off wonderfully centrist despite fundamentally wanting to get to the same place Bernie does. She's projecting herself as a pragmatist.

 

[VendettaRed07]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

Madman non team player has destroyed our midterms

 

[Diablos]

You can really tell that Amy is pissed off and trying to keep her composure breaking down their utter bullshit. It’s exactly how I would act. I like her.

 

[DTC]

i like the strategy dems are doing here.

bernie's the activist and excites the base.

klobuchar seems like the moderate darling and reasonable one in comparison to the other 3.

 

[VendettaRed07]

She’s doing better, I’d argue. She’s coming off wonderfully centrist despite fundamentally wanting to get to the same place Bernie does while projecting herself as a pragmatist.

I'd say Bernie's responses resonate better for the coastal hippies like myself but Amy is responding to some of the questions that many working class people or people from rural areas a lot better. Also why I think someone from the Midwest will be completely necessary on the ticket in 2020

 

[Aaron Strife]

i like the strategy dems are doing here.

bernie's the activist and excites the base.

klobuchar seems like the moderate darling and reasonable one in comparison to the other 3.

Honestly having Graham and Cassidy be the ones to defend the merits of their bill against Klobuchar and Sanders is kind of poorly thought out. Klobuchar represents the centrist position of the Democratic Party while Sanders represents the further left, so there's a wider ideology spectrum. Versus Graham and Cassidy who are both just making the same arguments.

 

[pigeon]

Republicans will fight it tooth and nail. A new state valued the same as Iowa in terms of Electoral Votes that is historically insanely Democratic? They'll paint it as a political move.

They can tell it to Justice Gorsuch.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

I'll eat the crow, Berntholomew is doing much better than expected.

 

[whyamihere]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

 

[jtb]

If we're doing PR statehood, we've gotta do DC statehood too.

 

[Plinko]

lol remember when Bernie was going to make G-C pass by doing this dumb debate thing?

I said I thought Bernie would be too unfocused, but he's doing well.

 

[VendettaRed07]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

She's not even remotely

 

[Zolo]

If we're doing PR statehood, we've gotta do DC statehood too.

Pretty much. If we can manage to get the former, we may as well package it with the latter.

 

[Diablos]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

No but it’s a smart contrast next to Bernie.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

eh she's not as terrible as, say, Kaine, but I think she's to the right of the median Dem senator

 

[kirblar]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

On economics it's very hard to not be relative to Sanders.

 

[Dr. Worm]

Amy has gotten more comfortable as the night has gone on. I like her.

Oh, yeah.

I retract my hot take from the OT thread.

 

[Futurevoid]

Klobuchar ain't that centrist, guys.

I know full well, but she’s doing an amazing job presenting herself as such. If she can do that in 2020, it will be an tremendous asset.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

If we're doing PR statehood, we've gotta do DC statehood too.

If it were me I'd happily spend all the political capital on that.

 

[whyamihere]

eh she's not as terrible as, say, Kaine, but I think she's to the right of the median Dem senator

I guess that's fair looking at her DW Nominate score.

If it were me I'd happily spend all the political capital on that.

Same.

 

[Pixieking]

If we're doing PR statehood, we've gotta do DC statehood too.

"The only reason why the Democratic Party is pushing for statehood for these districts is because they know they'll win the Electoral College votes from them."

"Okay, let's get rid of the Electoral College, turn the Presidential vote into a Popular vote system, and then everyone who votes Republican in DC and PR will have their vote counted,"

See, it's all connected.

 

[Diablos]

If it were me I'd happily spend all the political capital on that.

PR + DC statehood likely gives us 4 more Democratic Senators!

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Stick to one battle at a time. Do PR first, DC is weird with the Constitution and stuff about where the Capitol can be.

Although states are usually added in pairs, aren't they?

 

[Diablos]

Stick to one battle at a time. Do PR first, DC is weird with the Constitution and stuff about where the Capitol can be.

Although states are usually added in pairs, aren't they?

Yes I believe. That said this is all a pipe dream even with a Dem supermajority

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Yes I believe. That said this is all a pipe dream even with a Dem supermajority

I think PR statehood will happen in our lifetimes

 

[ericexpo]

He’s realllllly bad. But he’s in the south and has an R next to his name so.

He maybe a doctor

 

[VendettaRed07]

If we're doing PR statehood, we've gotta do DC statehood too.

And then force the Virginias and Dakotas to merge into 2 states so we don't fuck up our flag

Seriously it's perfect. 50 is a perfect number. 52 or even god forbid 51 will make my OCD go crazy till the end of time

 

[NeoXChaos]

In 1998, Cassidy helped found the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic to provide uninsured residents of the greater Baton Rouge area with access to free health care. The Clinic provides low-income families with free dental, medical, mental health and vision care through a "virtual" approach that partners needy patients with doctors who provide care free of charge.

Cassidy has also been involved in setting up the nonprofit Health Centers in Schools, which vaccinates children in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System against Hepatitis B and flu.

Oh really now?

Cassidy supported Michael Dukakis for president in 1988 and donated to the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Paul Tsongas (D-MA),[11][12] and to Louisiana Democrats Kathleen Blanco in the 2003 gubernatorial election and Mary Landrieu in her 2002 Senate campaign. In 2013, Cassidy called his donation to Landrieu a "youthful indiscretion," saying that she "got elected and fell into partisan politics... Louisiana hasn't left Mary, Mary has left us." Since 2001, he has mostly contributed to Republican candidates, including Senator David Vitter. According to Cassidy, he switched parties after the extinction of conservative Democrats and because of his frustration with the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the public hospital system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cassidy