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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

Good. Of course we all know Dems are only in it for the power. They don't have any more intention of delivering what they say they're for than a moose has sense. They'll say whatever they think will get them elected and then run off to the Wall Street bankers with their hand out. They've sat and mulled messages and decided this is what they'll be and it will be fun to watch them all fall into line.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX


I must have talked them into it. Now they can finally start winning elections again...

Democrats please progressives with left-leaning policy agenda

BERRYVILLE, VA.

The Democratic Party’s top leaders talked about reviving Teddy Roosevelt’s fights against big corporations, mimicked Bernie Sanders’ calls for a massive minimum wage hike, and echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s promise to deliver a “New Deal” to the American public.

It was the kind of message the party’s liberal wing has waited years to hear.

“For a long time the Democratic Party has been pretty timid about the role of government,” said Tamara Draut, a vice president of policy and research at the liberal think tank Demos. “It’s a good thing to see them leaning in to it.”

In an attempt to prove they are about more than saying “no” to President Donald Trump, the party’s congressional leaders gathered Monday in this small Virginia town to unveil an agenda they hope will unite Democrats for the foreseeable future. It didn’t include any mention of the polarizing president or the investigation into his campaign’s ties to the Russian government, a decision Democrats say they made deliberately to show they have their own ideas and messages.


The leaders and their aides say Democrats tried to conceive an agenda any Democrat can run on — whether the candidate is in a deep red state or bright blue city — a months-long process they describe as exacting and careful to bring everybody on board.

But the most important audience for their “Better Deal” program was the party’s increasingly vocal liberal wing, which has blamed the party’s electoral wipeout in recent elections on the establishment’s perceived political timidity and fealty to corporate interests.

“When you lose elections, as we did in 2014 and 2016, you don’t flinch, you don’t blink. You look in the mirror and ask what did we do wrong?” said Chuck Schumer, flanked on stage by nine other Democratic congressional leaders. “The number one thing we did wrong was not to present a strong, bold economic agenda to working Americans so they’re hope for the future might return.”

The party, he said, had for too long shied away from these fights — but no longer.

Even the language used by Schumer — normally associated with the party’s business-oriented, pragmatic faction — was reminiscent of a revolutionary-minded activist...

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Schumer is hardly the left wing of his party. He's as establishment as they come.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Advice you should follow.

And, Schumer is hardly the left wing of his party. He's as establishment as they come.

His support for Clinton at the top of the list.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Advice you should follow.

And, Schumer is hardly the left wing of his party. He's as establishment as they come.

His support for Clinton at the top of the list.

Schumer is farther to the insane left than you are

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Even the language used by Schumer — normally associated with the party’s business-oriented, pragmatic faction — was reminiscent of a revolutionary-minded activist.

“Old-fashioned capitalism has broken down, to the detriment of the consumer,” the Democratic Senate leader said. (The term “Better Deal” is an homage to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal economic program from the 1930s, which many liberals still view as the foundation for the party’s economic agenda.)

Schumer was joined on stage by liberal icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a sign of the support of the agenda from many of Capitol Hill’s progressive leaders. On stage, the potential 2020 presidential contender talked up the agenda’s anti-trust proposal, which she said was proof Democrats are trying to “take back our government.”

“For decades now, government has slacked off enforcement of those laws, and the result has been bigger and bigger corporations with more and more power,” Warren said. “Democrats are ready to take this challenge head on.”

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

* Yawn *

Wake me when they have an actual plan.

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

So they're going to emulate Teddy Roosevelt huh?

He was a Republican yaknow