Tag Archives: MFA

1/31 TGIF “Berniestock”, Hot Toddies & Mocktail Hour/OT

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Good news Jim! The Progressive Wing agrees with you that Bernie is willing to fight for healthcare as an American right, but that all countries should offer it if they can. We know our country can afford it.

DNC Up to New Bullshite today…

The whole idea behind the current formula was to winnow the number, not add.

Meantime, some current and former Justice Dems are helping on the ground in Iowa for Bernie’s campaign:

Bar will be open soon. Stay tuned! Meantime, more tweets, videos, articles in the comments section. Come join us!

1/27 Bernie Releases New Iowa Ad: “Generations” & Afternoon OT

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I like the way this is parsed.

Speaking of generations.

Meantime, Sanders is releasing some ads in NV, one of them brand new. Here’s “Nuestro Futuro”, en Espanol.

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11/14 Although There is A Recount Going On, Sick Rott Decides to Attend Freshman Orientation in DC Anyway; News Round-Up & OT

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Rick Scott is in DC for Senate Freshman Orientation as Florida Recount Rages On

Scott stood beside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for a photo op along with incoming Republican freshman senators including Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn and Missouri’s Josh Hawley Wednesday morning.

The incoming senators will vote for party leadership as well as pose for endless photos and learn where the restrooms are located.

So the question is, did Sick Rott invite himself or did McConnell?

I was gobsmacked by the photo-op on C-SPAN this morning.

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Would Medicare For All cause millions of people to lose their jobs?

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And would those lost jobs disproportionately affect women? Even worse, low-income women? From Bernie’s Sept. 13, 2017, editorial in the New York Times titled, ‘Why We Need Medicare For All’: The reason that our health care system is so outrageously expensive is that it is not designed to provide quality care to all in a cost-effective way, but to provide huge profits to the medical-industrial complex. Layers of bureaucracy associated with the administration of hundreds of individual and complicated insurance plans is stunningly wasteful, costing us hundreds of billions of dollars a year. As the only major country not to … Continue reading →

9/1 Is Kamala Harris Becoming a Bernie Bro?

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Ryan Cooper at This Week Penned an article that the TOP PTA wouldn’t like very much. The headline in the subject line of this diary is similar the one The Week posted online. How should Democrats position their party to restore their catastrophic losses from the last eight years? The same factions from the 2016 primary have continued to slug it out, with the leftists arguing for more economic populism and the centrists arguing to stay the course. Now Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a centrist darling, has taken up the major proposal of the left, by becoming a co-sponsor of … Continue reading →