Day 215:
Kamala Harris comes out for single payer…:
I say hold back a little, Kamala Harris has been cuddling up to all the big establishment donors, she has been getting a lot of attention from the same folks who backed Clinton, and Obama not so much from the people who backed Sanders.
While I think this is a big deal, it might not be that the establishment forces are moving to the left, it might be that they can read the poll numbers like the rest of us and see that this is a very popular issue.
I will wait and see. I don’t know what Harris is up to, other than obviously setting up a presidential run.
She could have (and should have) put Mnuchen in jail, and that big insurance/pharma money is nothing to sneeze at in the establishment democratic party.
I just find myself very cynical and suspicious these days. Probably because we have a bunch of oligarchs running the show and they are not above a little bread and circus action to keep us plebs in line.
Do your research, and vote carefully.
Further Reading:
Kamala Harris announces she will co-sponsor single-payer health insurance
Trump and Manafort get big reminder that pardon power does not extend to state crimes
Texas Accepts Mexico’s Offer of Harvey Relief
White House acknowledges Trump lied about ‘witnessing first hand’ the devastation of Harvey
How President Trump turned hurricane relief into product placement for campaign swag
Missouri state rep says person who vandalized Confederate statue should be ‘hung from a tall tree’
Trump Will Fail at Tax Reform, Too
Income Inequality In Wisconsin At Highest Level Since Great Depression
Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe
Rather: Trump ‘seized with fear’ over Mueller investigation
White House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report From Website
Trump Touts ‘Middle Class’ Tax Relief But Only Detail He Offers Helps The Rich
Fox News Poll: Voters’ mood sours, 56 percent say Trump tearing country apart
Trump wants Alfa Bank Trump Tower clean-up lawyer in key DoJ role
One of the Russians at the Trump Tower meeting just testified
Robert Mueller Just Took Away President Trump’s Best Leverage
Eric Trump says his father ‘tunes out’ criticism so he doesn’t kill himself
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