Posted on 03/29/2015 4:36:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Warren is best where she is: a valuable and influential senator who pressures the party from the left. No, it doesn’t come with a title, but it isn’t a small thing. In his eight years in the Senate, South Carolina’s former Sen. Jim DeMint was hugely powerful as an ideological leader, using his base in the conservative movement—and later, the Tea Party—to pull Republicans to the right during the 2012 presidential election. He enforced ideological discipline, and it worked. Warren doesn’t have to lead the Democrats—or run for president—to make the party more liberal. She can build power from the outside.
If liberals want someone to lead Senate Democrats, they should look to longtime Washington Sen. Patty Murray, who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the caucus. She’s the dark horse in the race—behind New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has been endorsed by Reid as well his potential competitor, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin—and has a solid record of progressive lawmaking, strong fundraising, and legislative savvy; in the last year, she’s negotiated a budget agreement with Rep. Paul Ryan and won a filibuster-proof majority for paid sick leave. She’s not perfect—some liberals will look askance at her tight connections to defense contractors and other big businesses—but compared with Schumer and his tight ties to Wall Street, she’s a vast improvement.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
That’s really unfair to rocks.
In December 2002, while speaking to students at Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Murray made a number of remarks about Osama bin Laden, as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world, and how bin Laden had garnered support among some in the Middle East. Among other things, she had stated that bin Laden has "been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building daycare facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better. We have not done that." This attracted attention from political opponents, who argued that this constituted support for bin Laden. Republican state chairman Chris Vance was outraged, and said it was "despicable to imply that the American government should learn a lesson from the madman who murdered thousands of American citizens".[15][16][17]
Any jack ass besides Up-Chuck Shumer.
Rocks are a girl’s best friend....
Which means she is right there with all her democrat colleagues.
Not in Saudi Arabia.
And looks like Friar Tuck.
And elsewhere....good point. Note that most women would love to showered with cut and polished diamonds.
Good gawd. Has she ever heard of teeth whitening?
Butt ugly, you’d think she could at least keep her mouth closed.
Isn’t it about time the country had it’s first women senate minority leader....?
After all competence or intelligence isn’t a benchmark in the dem party...
Race, gender and sexual preference trump all things....
Maybe if Murray claimed to be 1/64 black lesbian she would be a shoe in...
Sh*t floats
——in the last year, she’s negotiated a budget agreement with Rep. Paul Ryan and won a filibuster-proof majority for paid sick leave. She’s not perfect———
I wonder if Ryan had to use flash cards to explain the budget to her....
“No...Patty that’s a minus sign, not your EEG”
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
She is known as Patty ‘Lobotomy Case’ Murray. An ugly feminazi who couldn’t tell you the difference between net and gross.
Please make her the minority leader. Another affirmative action brainless dope.
Please, please, please, please. She would be worth a half dozen seats all by herself.”
Yes, she would be the perfect dumbo leader. Libtardism on full display for all to see.
. . . And she’s utterly incapable of not spewing lunacy constantly. The MSM has to cover every deranged syllable because she’s minority leader.
poof. The senate elections instantly stop looking like a problem
interesting how lefties talk about their own with no negative adjectives or insults...while the GOPe dump all over on Conservatives
You never go full retard.
Isn’t she the floosey who Paul Ryan joined forces with to come up with a ridiculous ‘budget deal’? And didn’t they scroo the military and their pensions?
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