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TradMike
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Feb 27, 2019 - 11:33am PT
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So, she wants to keep out jobs of NY since it would crowd her neighborhood and drive up rent. Yet, she wants to allow into the country anyone who wants to come here driving up rent, reducing paychecks for local workers battling cheap, illegal workers, crowding the highways to a halt and using our government assisted housing paid by you and me. Seems a bit backward or not in my backyard mentality.
If she really wanted to address climate change, she wouldn't have added 50 other items to the deal that have nothing to do with climate change but just pork projects she supports. She is no different than any other politician. And I thought for a brief moment she might have something to say and contribute.
She seems to be too narrow minded. How about incentives for carbon reducing innovation. Put s purse of money on innovation that brings real change and let the best and brightest shine. I wouldn't put second string on this item.
And yes, I am sorry but immigration needs to stop. We have exceeded sustainable. We cannot handle anymore people and a major population reduction is needed in combination with reduced pollution of all forms. I bet the nitrate level increasing in the oceans will kill us way before carbon emissions do but nobody talks about that since is has to do with the out of control population.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 27, 2019 - 03:58pm PT
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Gary, don’t pretend that you don’t know we’re in agreement on that. Of course, if Congress ever did their job and actually exercised some oversight and demanded clear accounting of the Pentagon many billions (trillions?) would not have been wasted. Sadly that requires some work and doesn’t play as well as bringing in some clown to ‘testify’ and waste a few days for a good show. And remind me, when are the Dems gonna grow a set and vote agin the pork barrel?
sween, that’s how you grow yer constituency!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 27, 2019 - 07:18pm PT
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Yeah,you may have missed this,AOC cross examining a sleese ball lawyer.
Just an idiot BU grad. [Click to View YouTube Video]
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 27, 2019 - 08:02pm PT
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No kidding.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Feb 27, 2019 - 08:36pm PT
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Sween, if you had a clue, you'd know the actual cause and effect, not mere association, is between Infant Mortality and birthrate.
True all over the world, including here.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Feb 28, 2019 - 07:47am PT
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Sorry, but AOC and her ilk are a bunch of raging idiots:
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/ten-most-insane-requirements-green-new-deal/
To be fair, I find it hard to believe that they believe this list of changes is even remotely possible--even with a twenty year timeline. It's likely the purpose of this Green New Pile of Sh*t is to signal to their base that the new congress is REALLY progressive! Yay! Where the hell are the grownups? In either party? It's all so much self-serving crap. It's all about power and screen time and fund raising. GAh.
BAd
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 28, 2019 - 07:51am PT
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The federalist staff is a bunch of raging idiots. Hypocritical trumpkins all of them.
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I didn’t watch yesterday’s hearing, but apparently AOC did quite well, and unlike other representatives who spent much of their limited allotted time grandstanding, she asked good questions, obtained information, and laid the groundwork for future avenues of investigation.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Feb 28, 2019 - 08:02am PT
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The two biggest as#@&%es on that committee are Jim Jordan(Ohio), and Mark Meadows(the south).
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Feb 28, 2019 - 08:51am PT
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"Sorry, but AOC and her ilk are a bunch of raging idiots"
I would agree that her positions, taken literally, are totally unrealistic and unachievable...but she is far from being a raging idiot. She is obviously a very intelligent person who is trying like hell to drag politics back to the left.
This is politics, BAd. I believe she's intelligent enough to know her pie-in-the-sky dreams ain't gonna happen, but floating the ideas (esp. while she has media momentum behind her) gets people to talk about those issues, which just might result in some movement in areas that have received no attention to date. And if she drives the GOP crazy along the way, I'm all for it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 28, 2019 - 09:12am PT
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My heroin is one of few that try to think beyond politics.
What’s yer political methadone?
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Feb 28, 2019 - 09:40am PT
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^^^^
Now there's a bunch of raging idiots...
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Feb 28, 2019 - 10:29am PT
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‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP
House Democrats are divided over how to respond to Republican procedural attacks.
By HEATHER CAYGLE and JOHN BRESNAHAN 02/28/2019 12:58 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/28/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats-1195854
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House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took a hard line at the caucus meeting, saying that being a member of Congress sometimes requires taking tough votes.
“This is not a day at the beach. This is the Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said, according to two sources.
Pelosi also warned that Democrats who voted with Republicans on the “motion to recommit” could lose support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, although her threat may be more bluster than reality, according to Democratic lawmakers and aides.
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the superstar New York freshman Democrat, suggested she would alert progressive activists when Democrats are voting with the GOP on these motions, said the sources.
In the end, Pelosi and other top Democrats didn't agree to any rules change and will continue to study the issue. The motion to recommit offers the House minority one last shot at changing legislation before it receives a final floor vote. Typically, the motion is used to try to squeeze the majority party, but it rarely succeeds.
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Republicans have already won two motions to recommit this Congress, including a Wednesday vote that angered Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives. In contrast, Republicans stuck together and never lost a single such motion when they controlled the House from 2011 to 2019.
The latest defeat came on Wednesday, as the House debated legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales — a position overwhelmingly favored by Democrats. When Republicans moved to amend the bill to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement be told of any undocumented immigrant who tries to buy a gun, 26 Democrats voted with the GOP. The language was added to the gun bill, spoiling an important Democratic legislative achievement.
'rarely succeeds'.....except when you are talking about Democrats, who are about as steadfast as watery oatmeal when it comes to hard issues.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Feb 28, 2019 - 10:54am PT
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Hey, Dirt: Please explain how the observations of that piece are wrong. The GND is idiotic and, as Apogee points out, just gassy politics. Do you think the GND is a realistic plan, a way forward for the country? It's idiotic and has already been shelved. I KNOW it's politics, Apogee. That's what I said. And it's stupid. I'd say the same thing about any crap that came out of a Repub pie hole.
BAd
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 28, 2019 - 12:08pm PT
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I have stated my complaints with the gnd earlier. In a nutshell drastic action is needed on climate change, but the gnd is a mess. I’m also quite ambivalent about AOC.
But otherwise, the Individual 1 ball lickers at the federalist can suck sh#t. I’ve read numerous columns by them the past few years in which they cheerlead for trump. I have no interest in their defense and support of a racist crook and his enablers. It’s a hack rag.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Feb 28, 2019 - 12:23pm PT
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IOW anyone who sides with The President Of The United States is a lowlife scumbag. right?
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 28, 2019 - 12:29pm PT
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Not at all. Some of my long time friends are tRump supporters.
But tRump is a low life scumbag fo’ sure.
tRump is a failed experiment. Time to learn from it and move on.
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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 28, 2019 - 12:36pm PT
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IOW, Edward, don’t put words in my mouth.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Feb 28, 2019 - 12:45pm PT
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"Some of my long time friends are tRump supporters."
Me too...some close family, included. It was a real conundrum around the election.
How many of your friends still think he's been a good leader, and how many approve of his policies?
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