As someone whose done consults inside a dozen or so affiliates across the nation I have to say its highly variable affiliate to affiliate, its both a strength and weakness of the Federation approach that PP utilizes.

To be fair there’s a wide number of California affiliates, it’s hard to generalize from any one affiliate.

She also said that about her own district in the quote. 

I think the bigger issue is that the four House members mentioned don’t represent a bigger chunk of the House caucus than the centrist do— elect more progressive House Reps and then you can drive policy, until that time it’s not surprising that Pelosi treats them in much the same way Paul Ryan treated the far right…

I mean impeachment would be as far along as it can without a majority. Seriously, I don’t think people are quite grasping this— Pelosi is wrong on the messaging but she’s not wrong about the idea that centrist Dems have importance— a purely progressive House caucus is hard pressed to break 100-125 members much less…

I mean shit...if that worked you’d think the Gun Control measures with 90% public approval would have passed post- Newtown.

The CNN home page literally characterizes his remarks as a racist attack. 

No. I read the first paragraph, the problem is that the first paragraph is a lie or at the very least incomplete-- see ApersCapers post below. 

Wait....didn’t CNN literally call them “racist tweets”-- as in that was the actual headline on CNN? 

Remember when this was a thing people bitched at the President about and not being a less coherent version of drunk Facebook relatives? 

Wait.... “both sides of the aisle have agreed on” ....has something happened in the last week and I just missed it because the Republicans are still by and large fighting tooth and nail to repeal the ACA, any lipservice they give to “universal care” is just that given that they’ve never even presented a rough outline…

If Peck wanted an audience of just gay men then he should have written the article in a publication primarily read by Gay men, by writing the article in The New Republic he clearly wanted to get his fucked up POV to a wider audience-- this is the response he either wanted or should have been able to predict. 

Because real security costs real money for stuff like training and benefits. 

Oh I’d pay money to see his reaction as soon as he realized the local cops weren’t going to take his side-- that little double take where they acknowledge the deputy then all 3 of them stare at mall cop is priceless. 

I’m pretty much 100% certain that firearm bans 100% don’t apply to uniformed law enforcement-- if he was concealed carrying off-duty-- that’s arguably a different story but in uniform? I mean.....

This. If he wasn’t private security, I’d have guessed maybe he thought federal authority superseded local authority but he’s a fucking rent a cop.

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

It may not be homophobic but it’s something—- It’s like a piece by Cornel West on Obama ghostwritten by Diamond and Silk- calling him out from the left but totally free to traffic in all the stereotypes about the in-group that both the author and the target belong to...

Why didn’t McConnell jettison the filibuster to repeal the ACA or fund the stupid wall-- removing the filibuster for legislation is a massive step that both sides are hesitant to take both for good and bad reasons. 

Because they’d already primaried Lieberman and he won as an independent so they knew they’d have to work with him for the next 5 years.