To play devil’s advocate... it was a joke for his buddies that was in very poor taste.

Isn’t the DA’s argument more simple? This isn’t a criminal we need to feed into the broken prison system?

As to intent, was he licking her for the salt content?

I don’t understand why sexual assault/rape is handled so differently than every other crime - assault, theft, murder, etc.

Unfortunately for this scenario, intoxication is a defense to specific intent crimes

It has nothing to do with criminal code. It has to do with a judge realizing someone isn’t a threat who needs to go to jail.

Being drunk is clearly not an excuse, at least according to the DC police.

FYI, I would expect to get charged if I got drunk and groped a stranger though.

This is the biggest issue I have with Clinton Democrats. You’re out for blood. You don’t care about helping people or making them better... you just want to see punishment.

Do you really think he did not know what he was doing? Really?

That’s not at all true. At all. While “being drunk” is not a de facto defense, it is taken into account with history and patterns to determine if the actual issue is about substance abuse or about an actually criminal mindset.

One of the great things about Bernie Sander’s campaign was encouraging people not to give up there.

The public option was removed from the ACA because it was a concession for getting sufficient support to pass it .

everybody still billed him, not knowing he had paid in cash.

As much as I want health care for everyone, the ACA is only a step in the right direction. Republicans are going to say it’s a failure

Democrats killed the public option in the ACA fight. It was never going to pass.

Hillary’s first and only responsibility is to the corporate shareholders of Hillary, Inc..

That is so laughable. While Clinton led a charge for Healthcare, her plans have constantly been insurance industry giveaways.

Uh... that’s exactly what is going to happen.

Laugh now, but when the Dems become indistinguishable from the GOP please remember this.