Posted on 02/23/2019 4:41:06 PM PST by Libloather
Democrats’ embrace of sweeping progressive ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal is about to get its first reality check on Capitol Hill — as both parties make huge bets about which message will sway voters in 2020.
For liberal Democrats, proposals to provide universal health care, combat climate change and create a fairer economy represent the kind of bold agenda they will need to unseat President Donald Trump, a candidate unafraid to make his own brash moves on trade and immigration. But Republicans are seizing on the same proposals to paint Democrats as socialist radicals, while trying to widen the ideological splits already emerging among Trump’s would-be challengers.
Senate Republicans plan to force a vote as early as next week, S.J. Res. 8, on progressives’ Green New Deal climate resolution, which has drawn support from almost all of the chamber’s declared and potential Democratic presidential hopefuls. House Democrats, meanwhile, are set to unveil legislation guaranteeing government-funded health care for all Americans — amid conflicting poll numbers about voters’ willingness to upend the existing health insurance market.
It’s the beginning of what promises to be a series of high-stakes tests that both parties insist will work to their advantage.
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That California to Hawaii rail line is coming along swimmingly.
I’m thrilled to have this next election as a referendum on their stupid weather cult. They will lose by biblical proportions.
No, that transport will be covered by sailboats.
Don’t forget how their “great idea” of going to totally electric vehicles will work in Alaska.
Americans of any political stripe should consider this: should the majority of 535 people in Washington, and a sign-off from a president, be able to fundamentally change and regulate the economy and the every-day way of life of over 300 million people? But I guess that ship sailed a long time ago, and any pretense of constitutional government and citizens’ freedom went with it.
“They will lose by biblical proportions...…”
...if the Progressive/Communist/Collective part of the electorate wakes up and stops thinking of themselves as brilliant, intellectual, Marx-worshippers.
IMHO
The basic tenets of socialism are the antithesis of the US Constitution.
Any politician who attempts to push these tenets need to be immediately removed from public service. Any other politician who doesn’t vote to remove them also needs to be removed. The republicans are complicit and need to be brought to task.
Could someone explain how it is fair to money from someone that earned and give it to some one that didn’t?
“Democrats, proposals to provide universal health care, combat climate change and create a fairer economy represent the kind of bold agenda they will need to unseat President Donald Trump, a candidate unafraid to make his own brash moves on trade and immigration. But Republicans are seizing on the same proposals...”
uh, if these proposals are so great and so popular, then why would the GOP want to “seize” on them?
No matter what some 40 something percent of the electorate will always support for these morons yeah
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