Quite true. If you’re a politician with career ambitions, compromise is necessary. Certainly Barack Obama never hesitated to compromise.

AOC didn’t bump her head. The progressive angst over this Iron Dome vote is overblown. AOC wanted to blunt the perception that she’s an inflexible ideologue and I think she accomplished that.

AOC is catching a lot of flak today but I believe she did the right thing and her explanation makes sense to me.

The thing is, this wasn’t even a good decision on her part. The people who already dislike her will find this vote meaningless and insincere

Undoubtedly AOC was thinking about all the good things she can do as a U.S. Senator plus the bad things happening to Palestinians plus lots of other stuff and how to balance it all and make a good decision. It’s really hard. Could you do it?

Why am I not receiving notifications about the users starring my comments? I want to thank them but I don’t even know who they are so how can I?

I’m not seeing evidence of any cynical political calculation here. I agree that AOC’s messaging is muddled and contradictory, but doesn’t that merely reflect the conflict between her head and her heart?

I think AOC’s explanation showed a lot of courage and empathy and I don’t understand the vitriol here at a supposedly feminist website. The Iron Dome vote was a complex emotional and intellectual quandary for any human being with a soul.  I don’t envy anyone forced to undergo such an ordeal. I probably would’ve…

Amazing. Who would have thought centrist Democrats and Bush Republicans could ever find common ground? Ten years we all would have scoffed at the notion. The ideological differences seemed too vast to bridge. And yet, it’s happening before our eyes. Joe is on track to become the greatest unifier in American history.

I am taking President Obama’s endorsements of Bloomberg at face value, as should all intelligent people.  It simply isn’t plausible that President Obama wouldn’t speak up if the endorsements were bogus. Since he has remained silent, the irrefutable logical conclusion is that the endorsements are true. Sanders…

Farewell, Splinter!

I’m okay with this. America is safer with these leftist writers working for Steyer than for Putinist Tulsi Gabbbard or a Russian troll farm.

Anti-war people need to recognize that there are valid reasons why Americans no longer admire them as they did in the Bush years. It was shortly after President Obama was elected that it became increasingly clear that the anti-war movement had allowed itself to become a tool of hostile foreign powers. Now nobody…

Thank God that shit-stirrer Tulsi Gabbard is gone. I used to respect anti-war Democrats but now they’re mostly just closeted Putinists and Assadists. They don’t deserve a seat at the table until they’ve apologized for doing Putin’s dirty work.

No. Rep. Neal is rightly concerened that the tax returns might end up an embarrassing dud like the Mueller Report.  That would only work to Trump’s advantage.   Why take that risk when polls show Trump trailing badly to all major Democratic challengers?

Neal is right. Polling data shows every major Democratic candidate trouncing Trump head-to-head. Introducing unpredictable variables now would be foolish. Keep things as they are, and Democrats will win.

Who still cares about these Koch dinosaurs? Putin’s trolls have created more mayhem than the Kochs with only a microscopic fraction of their budget.  Stay focused on Russia. Anything else is a distraction.

This article is pointless and mean-spirited. America doesn’t need or want Joe to do any thinking because his mission is already clear. What America wants from Joe is a restoration of President Obama’s governance. That will entail reinstalling President Obama’s capable advisors and standing back while they do their…