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This is a BOLD tweet when 11 Democrats prioritized a political event a few blocks away over voting on their impeachment stunt.
Love to see the ratio.
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In the private sector, making a loan to someone who is unlikely to be able to pay it back is called "predatory lending."
In the public sector, it's called an "affordability measure."
A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Hey @kare11, do you dislike your viewers or just think they’re dumb?
Which is it exactly?
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Just a bald faced lie.
The premiums have gone up every year from the beginning. They were simply hidden by subsidies passed by Congress.
When the subsidies expired and were not renewed, the actual premium costs were revealed.
Democrats simply LIE LIE LIE about the impact of the policies they champion.
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Are we still doing this?
The polls also show that M4A supporters believe that under the policy: A) They can keep their current health plan, and B) the entire U.S. health system would be financed by billionaires.
They aren't endorsing actual M4A, they are endorsing a fantasy.
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Last week we found out there really isn’t a king ruling in America. Now we find out that billionaires are actually beneficial to society. What’s next? Are we about to find out there’s no climate crisis or tooth fairy? A lot of voters must be feeling duped.
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The Medicare system already faces a 30-year cash shortfall of $109 trillion(!)
How about paying for the current Medicare system before burying it in trillions more debt? Just gallingly irresponsible.
In other words, after all the gnashing of teeth and much of our media claiming otherwise, America is still a functioning democracy.
Jon Meacham writes that American democracy reasserted itself in the midterms through its most fundamental feature: the vote on.wsj.com/4AcJmBF
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We shift power back-and-forth in our country all of the time; sometimes it's a ripple, other times it's dramatic.
What is so reassuring about power shifts is we are still standing the next morning, and what many will miss is that nothing in American politics is ever permanent.
To me the most fascinating is the state legislative shifts; in 2014 Republicans crushed Democrats down ballot by hundreds and hundreds of seats, swinging legislative bodies majorities far away from their policies.
That reversal happened on Tuesday for Republicans.
People will misunderstand this and thinks this is an ideological shift; missing that it was a change election moving away from the party they believed stopped listening to them.
If Democrats are smart, they will understand they were elected not because people suddenly loved them again, but because of economic instability, and people want answers to that.
If they are unwise (or cocky) they will make it ideological and push through policies that these voters will reject in the next two cycles. washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
We have to extend Obamacare credits so that the unaffordable healthcare plan we created seems affordable to our voters.
With Democrats taking control of the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) outlined his priorities for the party when asked Saturday what a speakership under his leadership would look like in the next Congress:
“We need to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits so we can restore affordability for millions of Americans whose premiums have skyrocketed,” Jeffries told @NikolenDC. He also pointed to reversing Medicaid cuts, ending the war in Iran and stopping President Trump’s tariffs.
And it begins.
🚨 EL-SAYED REFUSES TO BACK SCHUMER FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed declined to endorse Chuck Schumer for Democratic Senate leader, despite Schumer’s support for his campaign.
“I do believe we need new leadership and I think people are hungry for it,” El-Sayed declared.
The outspoken Israel critic signals growing divisions within the Democratic Party over its leadership and direction.
She can’t possibly believe this is even close to being realistic.
Here’s a new universal health care proposal from @rosadelauro. Love the all-payer rate setting. delauro.house.gov/media-cent…
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Catch and release continues in MN.
A man was arrested for copper wire theft in St. Paul for the seventh time after briefly trying to run away from police. bit.ly/4BXL4c2
ALT St. Paul copper wire theft catch-and-release: Man arrested 6 times in past year
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Republicans erred gravely nominating Trump in 2024 after he attempted to upend our constitutional order in 2021. Now the POLITICAL consequences are being felt. Character matters. Philosophy matters. Intellectual depth matters. Experience matters. Donald Trump lacks all of the above.
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You know who really won in Minnesota last night? The Fraudsters! The people voted for more of the same and doubled down on it! Carry on fraudsters. #mnleg
Doesn’t inspire confidence that adults will be running the country.
"You chose hate and Michigan chose hope," @AbdulElSayed says to his defeated Republican opponent Mike Rogers. "May we never have to see the likes of you in Michigan again."
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If the Democrats take Congress - as polls suggest - I hope they actually strive to be more responsible on safeguarding norms and governing responsibly. Rather than spend years saying "Trump broke things, so we can too"
