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Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur

If Trumpcare fails, Sanders says he wants to

—Lower the Medicare age to 55
—Add a public option in 50 states
—Lower prescription drug costs

Sen Franken made same comment today

This is going to get interesting. My reading today says (R) is 7 votes short
 
Runnin said:
David Brooks
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Brooks may be right there, but I always have trouble giving the man credit, when most of his op-eds include this sort of tone-deaf nonsense:

Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.
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I'd like to say I can't believe we're the product of the same small, elite(/elitist) undergraduate institution, but I knew at least three folks who I could easily see becoming my generation's well-meaning, tone-deaf, center-right voice of pablum.
 
57Brave said:
Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur

If Trumpcare fails, Sanders says he wants to

—Lower the Medicare age to 55
—Add a public option in 50 states
—Lower prescription drug costs

Sen Franken made same comment today

This is going to get interesting. My reading today says (R) is 7 votes short
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Bernie* would've won; Bernie will win.

*Also the product of the abovementioned undergraduate institution.
 
jpx7 said:
Bernie* would've won; Bernie will win.

*Also the product of the abovementioned undergraduate institution.
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In real life Bernie never got to the general election and will be 76 in 2020.
Perhaps what worked against Sanders more than anything was, he became a registered Democrat to run for President. No major party is going to fall in line with someone who 2 years earlier wasn't a member / fund raiser / or even a party voice. It is to his credit and his surprise he did as well as he did.
Colin Powell comes to mind. Neither Sanders or Powell brings the resume DDE brought in 1952
That is just the reality of the situation.

Looking at Bernie candidates around the country none have fared as well as hoped.
It is the policies not the personality.

In this case too -- if you can't win on policy resort to politics and if politics fails go to the personal.
Sanders is just not as popular as David Brooks people think. For a lots of reasons.

I agree with you in that he would be a great President, if he was 55 or 60 years old and had time to build coalitions inside the party. HRC had those coalitions -- isn't that the name of politics? Look at Brexit in England PM May oman is struggling to stay in power because --- she is having a hard time finding people to coalesce around her.
That is the same reason Trump was bound to fail -- no coalition. At least of our citizenry
 
57Brave said:
Sanders is just not as popular as David Brooks people think. For a lots of reasons.
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Not sure Brooks' relevance, since he's a conservative commentator, but Sanders is currently the most popular Senator in the whole upper body of Congress, and one of the country's more popular national politicians, according to multiple polls.

I'm really more of a Corbyn man, myself, but Sanders is a good means-to-end dude.
 
Karen Finney‏Verified account @finneyk 11m11 minutes ago

Teen Abortions Surged In Texas After Republicans Defunded Planned Parenthood
 
57Brave said:
Karen Finney‏Verified account @finneyk 11m11 minutes ago

Teen Abortions Surged In Texas After Republicans Defunded Planned Parenthood
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If folks truly want to decrease the number of abortions amongst the population, more support for robust sex-education and reproductive health services is the way to do it, period; countless studies have demonstrated this.
 
jpx7 said:
If folks truly want to decrease the number of abortions amongst the population, more support for robust sex-education and reproductive health services is the way to do it, period; countless studies have demonstrated this.
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I agree with all of that but there are more pregnancies because of how much our society has fallen due to social media. I don't think we will ever get back to a point where our youth makes more responsible life choices.
 
LOLGOP‏ @LOLGOP

GOP wants to uninsure 18+ million, gut Medicaid & make 27 million Americans' employer insurance useless in a crisis without 1 PUBLIC HEARING
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/opinion/pre-existing-conditions-health-care-bill.html

But the Republican proposal also raises a more basic issue: Who will decide what constitutes a pre-existing condition?

Before the Affordable Care Act, profit-taking insurers had lowered the bar for what was considered a pre-existing condition to include nearly every malady, making it difficult for many healthy patients to get affordable insurance.

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The committee report found that the insurance companies turned down one out of every seven applicants with pre-existing conditions. Such denials had jumped by nearly 50 percent between 2007 and 2009, as the apparently successful financial strategy gained sway.
 
With an elementary understanding of the legislative process you would not mistake projections as facts.

Then it would follow to not making statements like the one above.

I am getting tired of explaining 9th grade civics to you and your buddies.

This is how we wound up with Trump
 
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