It’s not a very severe charge so it makes sense. He pled to essentially a misdemeanor level offense. Max incarceration was only 6 months in jail. His statements to the feds are part of the record now so he doesn’t necessarily need to be “cooperating”.

Nothing. But then they have to use that nuclear option and it becomes ammunition to rally the votes. Maybe you convince Joe to get in line and maybe you don’t, but combine that with threatening to scorch earth literally everything he wants to do now or forever in the future and you get Joe to fall in line.  At the…

Only if there is a filibuster.  The Republicans never filibustered ACA, just threatened to do it.  Why didn’t the Democrats force their hand?

I would say the exact same to you. Except without being such an asshole.  

It’s amazing all the things they get excited about once they’re retired, right?

Right because he could make Joe Lieberman vote for it how exactly?

*Sighs until i’m dead*

I stopped reading after the first sentence. You literally asked me what I’d want him to do, and the first thing you come back with is some mealy-mouthed bullshit about how you’re glad my word isn’t the standard.

Well, if we take Lieberman at his word, the White House never pressed him in the slightest re his filibuster threat, or even bothered to contact him to talk about it. A cynical person could be forgiven for believing that President Obama didn’t really want a public option and was just using Lieberman as an excuse for…

We didn’t have a filibuster in the Senate on ACA. We had the threat of a filibuster, which was enough to get the Democratic leadership to cave. Nobody every held the Republicans feat to the fire. The Democrats just rolled over without any fight.

Oh, baloney. And get off your high horse. All he had to do was just expand Medicaid. Call it what it was, pass it in a fraction of the time it took, and move on.  Nobody’s calling him a monster. Just not terribly effective and more than a little full of it.

Then I’d say, respectfully, that he shouldn’t be speaking for the party as he did.

Yup. A day late, several trillion dollars short.

I love when a politician goes around supporting all the things they should’ve supported back when they were in office. How easy it is to grow a spine once it becomes someone else’s problem.

That’s strange, I’m pretty sure if I walked into an apartment that wasn’t mine and shot somebody I’d be in jail right now, I wonder what the difference here is....

The article is a fine explanation of the amendment (That we all knew about anyway), whats ridiculous is that trump qualifies for it. He could be goosestepping around the west wing in full nazi uniform and extra-judiciously killing american citizens and it wouldnt come even close to this standard. This amendment is…

Thats the problem with a lot of this. You can't just throw around words like deranged like it's the diagnosis. He's not crazy. There's nothing wrong with him physically or mentally as far as anyone knows. You just don't like him and some of the ways handles his business. I don't care for him personally but it's not…

There is no guarantee of that unless you go to a licensed brothel though.

There’s nothing exploitative or predatory about paying a consenting sex worker for sex. You’re the one objectifying them by assuming they have no agency in choosing their profession.

This primary isn’t really about the viability of leftist politics. Capuano is as progressive as they come, with a basically unassailable record (he supported single payer long before it was a thing). His career is a living testament to the viability of progressive politics. This is more about identity.