Wednesday, January 22, 2020

It's Not Moscow Mitch Who Is Preventing A Debate And Vote On Medicare-For-All... It's Pelosi

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Pelosi's designated heir, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, was the last person to co-sponsor Pramila Jayapal's Medicare for All legislation (H.R. 1384). He was number 118 on the list of co-sponsors. That's over half the Democrats in the House for a bill that was introduced on February 27, 2019. Pelosi quickly farmed it out to a bunch of committees, some of which are chaired by hostile and corrupt anti-healthcare conservatives, namely the first two on the list:
Energy and Commerce- Frank Pallone
Ways and Means- Richard Neal
Education and Labor- Bobby Scott
Rules- Jim McGovern
Oversight- Carolyn Maloney
Armed Services- Adam Smith
Pelosi has made it clear to the chairs that she wants the bill slow-walked (to death). Yesterday, all hell broken loose when it came to light that AOC was talking out loud about this again.




She e-mailed her supporters that "The Democratic Party is not a 'left' party. It is a 'center' party. Years of corporate control and compromise with Republicans have brought us down the path where a majority of Democrats think that corporations and capitalism at large can solve poverty and systemic injustice in this country. That sentiment is wrong. And while the Democratic Party itself may not be 'left', there are many progressive leaders in Congress who use the principles of justice to guide us. Electing more people like that is exactly how we shift away from corporate apologism and towards a real democracy... This fundamental reality is clear for all: Our system is not working for working people. As the wealth of the top 0.1% skyrockets, the minimum wage has remained the same since 2009. In NYC, there are three empty apartment units for every one person experiencing homelessness. Families are expected to do more with less, while our media and politicians push this notion that we can’t critique billionaires. But of course that’s false, because billionaires didn’t make billions of dollars, but rather, they took billions from the people who made their products or ran their company."

Goal ThermometerChris Armitage is an admirer of AOC and the super-progressive Democrat competing with lockstep Trump puppet Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the eastern Washington state congressional district (WA-05). Last night, Chris told me that "We are fighting for our future, not for self enrichment. If that puts us 'to the left' so be it. In 1958, union membership peaked in the U.S. and that was the same year the bottom 90% of workers held the highest concentration of wealth in U.S. history. That's our fight, while the establishment works to send us back to the 19th century, complete with child labor and robber barons." If you'd like to see Chris working with AOC in the House next year, you can contribute to both of their campaigns here.

This morning, Central Valley progressive congressional candidate Kim Williams told us that she wholeheartedly agrees "with AOC’s sentiments. The system is not working, and our problems are structural. The 200 most politically active corporations in America spent $5.8 billion over the last five years in lobbying and campaign contributions. They write our policies and then our representatives tap dance around reasons why nothing improves at club meetings back home. They own our media and the ads that play before our news casts. They make the investments in field staff and shape who makes it to the polls and who stays home. They don’t just own our politicians, they own the process, and they own the messaging that tells us what we can or can’t change."


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6 Comments:

At 6:08 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well... how 'bout that... DWT finally writes what I've been posting for years. AOC is (reluctantly?) finally seeing that the democraps are ... NOT LEFT? She's wrong because they are nearly as far right as the Nazis. But maybe that epiphany will come. Then what? Assimilation? Secession? Will it come to DWT?

Naw. I see DWT still trying to advocate electing more "better" democraps believing or pretending to believe that putting a handful of "betters" at the bottom of the cesspool will turn the festering shit into potable water... some day.

CMR won't be beaten unless by a worse Nazi. That district is hopeless. take my word for it. If you're tempted to flush some money for "betters", don't bother going there.

 
At 7:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

@6:08, STFU, egomaniac lunatic.

 
At 8:19 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The corrupt corporate Democrat AOC knocked off in the primary, Joe Crowley, is now a lobbyist in the same firm that employs the right wing former Congressman and clown Trump defender on CNN, Jack Kingston. Crowley promotes the business interests of private prison and fossil fuel companies, among others. Corporate Dems want to keep the current corrupt campaign finance system in place because they know that even if they are defeated, like Crowley or Tom Daschle, or realize they have peaked in politics and retire, like Dick Gephardt, they can walk right through the revolving door and get rich as a lobbyist.

 
At 1:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

7:59, why not tell DWT to STFU too? They agree with me. Given a little time, they seem to agree with me a lot.

All I can say, as always, is thanks again for proving my OTHER most-oft-observed fact... dumber than shit!

 
At 4:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Because DWT isn't some anonymous shit poster pretending that somebody else is finally coming around to his point of view after 20 years, as if anybody regards you with any more seriousness than they do some nut with a sign on a street corner holding up a sign and yelling "The World is Ending"

 
At 12:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If DWT agrees with me, and *I* am a "shit poster", then DWT must also be a "shit poster"... unless they get elevated in your eyes simply because of pics and graphics.

Your 4:56 offering is utter nonsense.

And if the world *IS* ending, wouldn't you want to know? I mean, after all, I can and have proved it. you always have your god though. maybe stop posting nonsense and start praying. Maybe your god will kill me for you. wouldn't that make you happy?

won't change nothing though. so there's that.

 

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