As AOC said, why is it that you compare single year spending to a ten year lump sum cost.  And that 130 billion is just the rise in annual spending, the ten year cost for the military spending is more like 7.4 trillion, which still sounds low to me, I'm not sure they are including everything in that number.  And 32…

What are you talking about, how much do you think Medicare for all would cost? Why can every other developed country afford an efficient healthcare system but we can't?  And if we can't afford an efficient one, how can we afford the one we have?

I was almost one of those guys, I couldn’t do it, I wrote in Steven Colbert.

Um, probably that that's how politics works when it's functioning?  Aiming for what you want and taking what you can get is the name of the game.  Beats the status quo of asking for the weakest tea possible and then just giving Mitch McConnell everything he wants.

Maybe in your dreams, Hillary.

So what theoretical financial framework do you find acceptable lol? Gold, large stone circles, thoughts and prayers?

Well, perhaps unless you are an even bigger pig.  I'm not saying that it's a great idea, but it might work...

In your dreams, maybe. Trump’s big strong arms protecting you from free healthcare... Although you may be right, Democrats were pretty successful in the circular firing squad this time.

I would argue that a DAs job should be to see justice done.  Obviously framing innocent people is rewarded rather than punished these days, but that convicting an innocent man is a victory for the State is anathema to my vision of America.  I guess you are just saying what their job is though, and you aren't wrong.

I've been waiting for months to see a doctor.  Hopefully it's not too serious, but it's no thanks to them, that's for sure.

Palin wasn't THAT long ago, although it feels that way lol.

Allows them to introduce new errors if they don't like the ones they have?

To be fair, it’s because they were stealing from even richer, more connected people. When a college is looking to sell a spot, they have an incentive to sell it to the highest bidder behind closed doors. Since colleges argue that one kid getting in doesn’t mean another kid doesn’t, the real victims when a coach is…

Oh, that's good.  I don't feel super strongly about Federal abortion funding, but actually opposing it isn't the side of that hill I want to be fighting on.

Also isn’t he pretty squishy on abortion, like opposing Federal funding for abortions and waffling on it being a sin?

Although it was the governor of PA who blocked more kids from benefitting. I don’t know enough about the issue, and I generally distrust Trump and the Pa legislature, but parents and kids having choices seems superficially good to me.

There is an interesting case for breaking up California, it is pretty big.

In fact

He was in contempt of the Senate, I don’t think that implies that the House lacks similar authority. I don’t believe that they are a subservient to the Senate in investigative authority.  And relying on Mitch McConnell should really be a last resort in my opinion.

Who there was executive?  The Senate Sargent is under Congress I think.  The courts do get a say, but they should get a say.  I'm not saying Congress has the right to indefinitely detain people without recourse to the courts.  I think that the precedent decided in MacCracken stands though.