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Dana Milbank: This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for American democracy
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | September 1, 2019 | Dana Milbank, The Washington Post

Posted on 08/31/2019 5:30:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This is no time to be on the sidelines.

Stacey Abrams: Stand up and be counted. "I do not want to serve in the Senate," says the hugely popular former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee.

Steve Bullock: Stand up and be counted. "My talents are best suited" to an executive role, says Montana's well-liked Democratic governor.

Beto O'Rourke: Stand up and be counted. "That would not be good enough" to serve in the Senate, says the gifted former Democratic congressman from Texas.

Sorry, but what's not "good enough" are those answers. The three could make all the difference in Democrats' uphill quest to take the Senate next year. Instead, they choose to run vanity campaigns for president (or in Abrams's case, await a vice presidential nod) or put themselves in line for a Cabinet post. Ordinarily, I'd respect their wish to do what fulfills them or works best for their families or positions them for future success.

(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...


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Abrams as vice president? Did they legalize pot in Washington?
1 posted on 08/31/2019 5:30:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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It’s really amazing how the crisis in US politics and government is so similar to the Brexit crisis in the UK.


2 posted on 08/31/2019 5:33:23 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

S.S. Abrahms is anchored in port, waiting for for the call.


3 posted on 08/31/2019 5:34:25 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

hugely popular
well-liked
gifted

Nope. No bias in that “reporting”.


4 posted on 08/31/2019 5:35:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Someone needs to tell these assholes that we are not a democracy. Maybe if they read the Constitution or recited the Pledge of Allegiance, they’d have figured that out.


5 posted on 08/31/2019 5:37:25 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: BenLurkin

lol

At least “my hero” or “god-like” didn’t appear :)

Not on paper at least anyway


6 posted on 08/31/2019 5:38:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hysterical reporting at its finest


7 posted on 08/31/2019 5:40:06 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is an opinion piece. The hatred of President Trump and the American Republic is very strong in Dana Milbank.


8 posted on 08/31/2019 5:41:51 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Hugely portly.
Buoyant.
Well ballasted.


9 posted on 08/31/2019 5:42:07 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These flakes say this crap anytime a Republican is president, remember GWB? Wasn’t he also Hitler? Dumb as a monkey? Entitled? Whatever


10 posted on 08/31/2019 5:48:35 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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For commies “Democracy” means that commies control EVERYTHING


11 posted on 08/31/2019 5:54:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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The clown that wrote this drivel...


12 posted on 08/31/2019 5:56:17 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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"says the hugely popular former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee

There, that makes more sense.

13 posted on 08/31/2019 5:56:49 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many and why are Republicans in Congress giving up and handing over the reins to leftists? People want to know.


14 posted on 08/31/2019 5:56:50 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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The only good thing the DNC can do for the country is for everyone in it to leave and never come back.


15 posted on 08/31/2019 5:59:33 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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He only named 3 clowns and there is plenty of room in that clwon car.


16 posted on 08/31/2019 6:04:49 PM PDT by euram
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17 posted on 08/31/2019 6:44:30 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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Beto is "gifted"?

Maybe Dana Milbank needs to check into a rehab center.

18 posted on 08/31/2019 7:00:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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The Democrats might actually consider Abrams for VP if they decide they need a black person on the ticket and Kamala has become too toxic and Booker too much of a laughingstock. She would have the advantage of being virtually unknown to the public. But if Warren heads the ticket I think the VP slot will have to be filled by someone with a Y chromosome.


19 posted on 08/31/2019 7:03:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Milbank is just another Leftist drone in that Borg Collective at the ComPost, along with Jennifer Rubin, Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Max Boot, Greg Sargent, and the rest of those hive-minded zombies. None of them have probably had an independent thought since grade school.


20 posted on 08/31/2019 7:15:19 PM PDT by Viking2002
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