Posted on 10/16/2019 4:47:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
With all the rancor in politics these days, the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate on Tuesday night delivered a rare moment of comity: Twelve Democrats agreed, apparently without compensation, to appear in a Donald Trump ad.
Other points on which the Democrats came together in peace and harmony:
-- Trump should be impeached.
-- Abortion is great.
-- Obamacare sucks.
At least we’re all finally agreed on Obamacare!
Obamacare has given us a system -- to quote Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- “which is dysfunctional, which is cruel, 87 million uninsured, 30,000 people dying every single year, 500,000 people going bankrupt for one reason, they came down with cancer.”
None of the Democrats disagreed with Sanders’ description of health care in American today, although they have slightly different solutions.
I don’t mean to be rude, but I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix health care.
Millions of us were thrown off our health insurance plans by Obamacare, and now I find out that it didn’t even make things better for anyone else. The government intervenes, everything goes to hell, then Democrats cite the hell they created to demand another massive government intervention.
The motto of all socialist schemes should be: “This time, it will be different.”
The Democrats' universal answer to the drug problem -- which is actually a “Mexico Is on Our Border” problem -- is to say they’d go after the pharmaceutical companies and then, in the next breath, demand that we legalize drugs.
In the midst of their crusading anger at the pharmaceutical companies, not one Democrat mentioned Purdue Pharma. You know -- the primary culprit in the prescription drug epidemic, at least according to dozens of state attorneys general and hundreds of private lawsuits accusing the company of aggressively marketing OxyContin and hiding its addictive nature.
It would be like vowing to go after “middle-aged men” to stop underage sex trafficking on Orgy Island -- but not mentioning Jeffrey Epstein.
The Democrats are furious with pharmaceutical companies, “wealthy corporations” (Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s phrase) and “the rich” (any guy with an alarm clock). But not with a specific multibillion-dollar company that makes OxyContin, and the kazillionaire family that owns it, the Sacklers.
Speaking of which, last year, Beverly Sackler, the recently deceased matriarch of the company, made political contributions to both Sen. Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
Some poor medical researcher working to find a cure for cancer will have to pay -- but the Sacklers get off scot-free.
Another big policy disagreement concerned guns, specifically: Do we allow people to turn in their guns voluntarily or should the government confiscate them?
As with liberals’ comical inability to tell an AK-47 from a semiautomatic, the gun facts flying around Tuesday night were not always well-researched. Beto O’Rourke said, “This is a country that loses 40,000 of our fellow Americans every year to gun violence.”
Wow. Not even close. According to the CDC, the number was less than 15,000 in 2017.
To liven things up, at one point, a smug Pete Buttigieg snapped at O’Rourke, “And I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal.” This was in response to remarks not at all about Buttigieg’s courage. That’s gonna get old, fast.
Vice President Joe Biden bragged that he was “the only one on this stage who has taken on the NRA and beat them, and beat them twice. We were able to get assault weapons off the streets ...”
Yes, and in direct response to that assault weapons ban opposed by the NRA, Republicans swept Congress in the very next election, winning control of the House for the first time in nearly half a century.
If you weren’t alive that glorious autumn evening in 1994, it was better than the November 2016 election. All night, there was breaking news, as one powerhouse Democrat after another lost his seat to a Republican. Every 15 minutes the GOP would set some new, jaw-dropping record. Thomas Foley, D-Wash., became the first speaker of the House to lose his election in 134 years. Republicans marched through the South like William Tecumseh Sherman, finishing off the “southern Democrats.” Tennessee went all red, with Republicans replacing the Democratic governor and two Democratic senators -- including the Senate seat previously held by Vice President Al Gore. Not one Republican incumbent lost his seat.
Please, Joe, promise to “beat” the NRA again!
BUTTIGIEG: “No, this is really important, OK? On guns, we are this close to an assault weapons ban.”
well, we had to pass it to know what was in it said one of their major players who suffered no blowback that I know of.
I know, I know, she’s been untrue. But I still love her...
Yes, do them now! And force almost all Americans to watch them by having them on ALL channels (including ALL cable channels) and then rerun them over and over on ALL channels for 24 hours.
Trump will have a 50 state electoral college sweep.
It’s not a debate when they all agree on stupid but each has their own version. More debates is a great idea just change the name to Tuesday Night Live Moron TV.
He must have been seething last night as his name never came up in a positive light - in a Democrat debate!
I don’t think Hillary can resist the vacuum.
It will be glorious!
Almost as good as a perp-walk.
He was too busy writing his endorsement of serial blackface actor Justin Trudeau while continuing to ignore his VP of eight years.
I noticed no one in the news today was commenting much about the debates. They must have gone really badly.
That's what they do!
Unfortunately this cannot happen with Pelosi due to gerrymandering.
Foley had it well gerrymandered too, but he still lost.
Whoever came up with this idea of debates already in June...really didn’t think about the implications. They wanted the public churned up on enthusiasm, and you are at the exact opposite point right now.
Warren has the first four primary states lined up and won. By Super-Tuesday, it’s basically over and the hype is done. I will suggest that the 2016 Hillary-Bernie was a peak-period, and this 2020 Democratic Party run will only have 75-percent of the same primary vote in the end.
Without Democratic enthusiasm, Trump wins his 30 2016 states, plus another five to ten more.
But San Francisco?!
Beto said Americans will obey the law when asked if they would turn in their guns. Well how about obeying the supreme law of the land -the Constitution, particularly in this case the 2nd Amendment. Infringe my rights Beto? I think not.
Columbine happened during the last assault weapons ban. They don’t work to stop violence. Guns are not to blame for the sickness in this country.
When I would take my clients out to look at homes the older clients would ask about that capital gains and how long did they have to buy another home, that was part of the tax relief too, did not have to invest in another home.
I would enthusiastically tell them a new law was passed in the early nineties, when R's won the House for the first time in over 40 years, NO more capital gains on our own homes and you can do anything you want with your home equity nest egg!
Then there are the Ann Coulter gems that keep me coming back i.e. Twelve Democrats agreed, apparently without compensation, to appear in a Donald Trump ad.
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