The biggest two problems are that Jeff Sessions would have to prosecute and that lying is illegal, but forgetting things isn’t. If you get caught lying, you just claim you forgot, which is what he has done. Revoking his security clearance is a more realistic goal for Democrats at this point than convicting him. After…

Yeah, this seems like the kind of bill that is only smart as a statement. You wouldn’t want it to actually become law. I’m glad for the politics of it, but I hope it doesn’t go anywhere.

So now we can’t express our desire for genocide because someone parked too close to our car. I tell ya, PC America is getting out of hand.

Thank you. The thing that conservatives don’t understand here is that the goals of the free market just don’t work in this area. They want to make money. We want healthcare. They aren’t very compatible. You can do some things to make them work better together, but that involves some serious government controls on the…

My main sources of news are CNN, MSNBC, the news app on my phone, which has a variety of mainstream sources, and this site. If they can’t manage to get a forceful case out through those, they have problems. I get that the mainstream media has corporate ownership, but CNN loves to have two people fighting about…

That’s good. I just want to see that on national TV once in a while.

I wasn’t speaking about the general population, though. I knew I was speaking to a liberal crowd, and most of us lefties think cultural appropriation is wrong.

Well, it was smart politics to bash Obama’s signature achievement, and the more they worked their base up against it, the more they had to be agains tit. It was a vicious circle. And I can get that, at least the logic of it. I just don’t get why they had to replace it with something this quickly and this bad.

I have never seen a person respond with a poem before... That was amazing.

Here are a few talking points that I would say:

That’s a huge problem, too, but sanctuary cities are a way to deal with people that are here now. It’s saying “you guys in Washington will eventually figure out whether to deport these people or give them legal status, but in the meantime, they deserve to be protected from predators like everyone else.”

Yeah, because they don’t want to piss off law and order voters (which is generally white independents). And I get that. But that’s why they need to message this better. Saying things like “cities shouldn’t be taking over this responsibility. The federal government enforces federal laws and cities enforce local laws.”…

Pretty much. I really hope with this “Better Deal” they are able to get their message across again. It seems like a bunch of good policies, and it feels like they are doing a good job of messaging them. I’ve just been let down by them for the entire decade and half since I’ve been of legal voting age when it comes to…

The difference is, the Republicans have a clear issue on sanctuary cities. Their messaging is great. They claim it’s an attack on law and order.

Isn’t the big problem here that Democrats don’t do enough to defend sanctuary cites? There is a great reason for them, but I never hear Democrats make the case that we should defend vulnerable communities, and that cities shouldn’t be doing immigration enforcement anyway, as that is the federal government’s job. Maybe…

I’ll give him a tiny bit of credit, in that they say he is always for bills making it to the floor for a vote.

Because it seems like there is no money that wants the bill. The doctors and nurses are against it, and there’s no surprise there, but the groups with money are largely against it, too. Most of the insurance companies, drug makers, and hospitals are against it. Plus the American people are against it. As far as I can…

Yeah, I remember Rachel Maddow making a point about them not having empathy towards gay people unless they had a gay child. She commented “if only we could get every Republican in Congress to have a poor child.”

There was some Republican former congressman who pointed out why they needed pre-existing conditions covered. He pointed out that when he was voted out of office, he had to get new insurance, and had a pre-existing condition. So, that’s something in their self interest to cover.

One current theory today is that the Senators need to say it actually went to a vote. I don’t understand why that would make it better for them politically, but I’m hoping that’s true. I just want this bill to die. They need to give up on it. Having a version of Obamacare that is being purposely mismanaged by the…