The problem is they are only voting for it so they can say the repealed Obamacare. They didn’t want the last one either. I doubt that thing had 30 actual supporters. They all just felt they had to vote for it. The saddest thing was when McCain and Graham held that press conference saying the bill was bad last time,…

Everyone involved in healthcare in any way is against this. I heard someone accusing the Democrats of being hypocrites today because they treated the health insurance industry as boogymen when they passed Obamacare, but now are citing the fact that the insurers are against it as a talking point. It’s not that we think…

Yeah, I get that. And I’m all for it. But trying to get a significant number of people to boycott almost all movies doesn’t seem like it going to work. I mean, it would if you could actually get them to do it, but you won’t. That’s my issue. The goal of that is to get more women and POC behind the camera, and that’s a…

It seems like they are going to boycott everything. I was looking at their list, and even if you just went to the movies that scored well in one of the two categories (not both), you would see almost nothing.

The fact that people use this type of religious language creeps me out. Thinking something is caused by Satan is just creepy to me. However, the bigger problem with this than my personal discomfort is that if you think the other side of a debate is evil, you can never compromise. People like Michelle Bachmann and this…

I don’t believe so. I know you can use your own campaign money to pay legal fees. It is trickier since it is the RNC. If donors wanted to come after them for fraud, there could be a problem. But even then, it seems like it is routine for the RNC to have money for legal defense of Republican politicians. It’s just less…

I believe we already knew he was using campaign funds. The interesting thing here is that it’s RNC fundraising, not just his own fundraising. I wonder if that will make people think twice before giving to the RNC.

She’s right, but she also seems to have a bleak worldview. I mean, progress is being made, and you can either celebrate it, or you can be bemoan the fact that we weren’t there already. Both are perfectly valid, but one is kind of looking at the silver lining to find the cloud.

Politics is about working by increments. It’s not realistic to make a bold and unpopular proposal and then just stand by it until it gets done. It’s just not likely that anytime soon there will be one bill that just solves this whole issue. Working to help the DREAMers is a great step because it’s achievable, popular,…

Because there is a movement that is like the Tea Party, but on the left. It’s a scary development, and hopefully will go nowhere. We really don’t need that. For years I’ve been proud to be a Democrat. A big part of that is because our party is sane. Both parties have crazies in them, but the Democrats mostly ignore…

He/she is right though. We don’t need a Tea Party on the left. It doesn’t help. Pelosi is getting protested because what? She got more than anyone could have guessed, considering she is in the minority when the Republicans have all 3 branches of government. Why is she the enemy?

So far, all they’ve done is come up with a tentative deal that would allow them to stay. For the minority, that’s pretty good.

I do vote absentee, since my state changed the law so you can use that for early voting, but a lot of states don’t allow that. You have to actually be out of the state or have another valid excuse to not go to the polls. 34 states do allow early voting in some form, but that leaves 16 states that don’t, and not all…

That’s not a sign that it’s wrong. The scores reflect how the audiences for those movies feel about them, not how good they are. If you are going to an Adam Sandler film, you probably really like Adam Sandler and are predisposed to like the movie. Most of us don’t feel that way, but then we don’t go to the film.

I feel like this only works if Taylor Swift herself is actually a white supremacist and if Cardi B is ahead, but losing because of a technicality.

There are a bunch of huge difference here. One is that the TV networks are actually looking at an international audience now. In 1970, they couldn’t have cared less if people outside the US were watching. Now they do.

I wonder about that, though. We hear all the time that liberals don’t vote in as high numbers. Off year elections are especially bad, and the reason is supposedly that liberals just can’t be bothered.

Truthfully, no. I need the money. I’d take it. But not $559,999. A man has his limits.

I don’t understand the idea that this would violate their privacy. If there is a potential crime, footage of that goes public. They are also public servants, often on public property in these cases. You can legally film people out in public. Their case seems like total bs to me.

I’m pretty strapped for cash now, but it would still take at least a million bucks. I like voting. This probably makes me a civics dork, but I feel proud when I vote. I love democracy. Of course, some years it turns to tragedy in the end. I certainly wasn’t happy by the end of the night on the last election day.