Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Dec 6, 2014 7:06:41 GMT -5
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That’s how you lose elections, Schumer argues. And forfeit large chunks of the traditional Democratic coalition. Health care was not a crisis in 2009 (nor in 1993, when Hillarycare was proposed, leading to another Democratic electoral disaster the following year); it was an ideological imperative for Barack Obama and the liberal elites in charge of Congress — their legacy contribution to the welfare state.
www.nationalreview.com/article/394026/real-civil-war-charles-krauthammer
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From opposite sides of the (Democratic) spectrum, Schumer and Warren are trying to remake and reorient the Democratic party post-Obama. So while Republicans are debating the tactics of stopping presidential lawlessness — an inherently difficult congressional undertaking, particularly if you still control only a single house — Democrats are trying to figure out what they believe and whom they represent.
Which do you think is the more serious problem?
That’s how you lose elections, Schumer argues. And forfeit large chunks of the traditional Democratic coalition. Health care was not a crisis in 2009 (nor in 1993, when Hillarycare was proposed, leading to another Democratic electoral disaster the following year); it was an ideological imperative for Barack Obama and the liberal elites in charge of Congress — their legacy contribution to the welfare state.
www.nationalreview.com/article/394026/real-civil-war-charles-krauthammer
Excerpt:
From opposite sides of the (Democratic) spectrum, Schumer and Warren are trying to remake and reorient the Democratic party post-Obama. So while Republicans are debating the tactics of stopping presidential lawlessness — an inherently difficult congressional undertaking, particularly if you still control only a single house — Democrats are trying to figure out what they believe and whom they represent.
Which do you think is the more serious problem?