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TCinLA's avatar

What we needed was for him to call out the filibuster, to say what Clyburn suggested this weekend. Michael Steele's review of the speech tonight on 11th Hour was exactly right about how not to play the game. I have to agree with Steve Schmidt's analysis of Shumer as not being "the leader for this time." The Democrats are playing tiddly-winks while the Republicans are planning a blitzkrieg. If they don't get things together, they're going to be about as useful as the Maginot Line when the Blitzkrieg comes calling next year. Do a carve-out from the filibuster for constitutional/voting issues, give West Virginia $500 million in infrastructure, and point out to that Green-moron-pretending-to-be-a-"Democrat" Sinema that if she likes being a Senator she'd better do something to protect herself come re-election time. Whatever it takes. Then get a few more Democrats into the Senate and expel those two.

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Ralph Dratman's avatar

What irks me is that we hippies and campus radicals already saw this American brand of fascism coming down the pike in 1968 with the election of Richard Nixon, and we said so, vociferously.

Almost no one in media or politics believed us at the time, of course.

Our message back then -- that democracy might die in the US -- has been hanging in the air for more than 50 years, but the people who need to hear it still have their ears closed.

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