September 12, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Pared to ten candidates, so there is some hope. The invitees are: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. May the not invited remaining 7 candidates save their dignity and withdraw. Please. Plenty of cabinet positions and Senate seats for all. And, of the invited, past time for Andrew Yang to grab a clue and offer up his credentials for any role he might consider himself qualified in support of the next nominee.
1Yanging my chain.
Just tuned in to hear Andrew Yang offer a lottery of a $1000 a month for a year for an inspired idea.
Vote for me and try your luck while your at it!
2Oops, Joe had a senior moment. Castro: “You just said that two minutes ago, did you forget?”
3I hope those chairs are more comfortable and spacious than they look.
4Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
@jewishaction
This is the ad @ABC allowed to run during tonight’s #DemDebate: right-wing propaganda depicting @AOC set on fire, burning into images of skeletons.
This is right out of the white nationalist playbook. No news network should be profiting off such hatred.pic.twitter.com/11g7k6hf3c
5Warren, Yang, Bernie: Winners
Biden, Castro, Booker: Losers.
6Only heard a little bit but I appreciated Klobuchar’s calls for unity. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts, JJ! Hope the move, sale is going well. We’re in the same boat this year.
7megasoid: ABC is increasingly owned by the Sinclair group, avowedly and unashamedly right wing; it is often referred to as “Fox Lite”. I was going to state that the only thing they could not mess up would be the weather but the scales have fallen off my eyes in that department. You can mess up a weather report. I used to watch the local affiliate until early one morning the local news they featured a foaming at the mouth diatribe from some right winger. Afterwards the station disavowed the thing, but for me it was all over. Trauma can have lasting effects.
8@mega – MoJo played the video back. Castro was wrong. They laughed at him calling him a “rookie”.
9it is often referred to as “Fox Lite
Sinclair is _worse_ than Fox, because
101. sincerely theocratic owners work tirelessly to make bigoted American Protestant Christianism the de-facto state religion
2. in many rural areas, they’ve become the only source of local TV news, which they corrupt
3. flies under the radar
Joel I agree on all points. Margaret Atwood saw this coming.
11To expand,Joel, ABSinclair might fly under some radars, but since I shut down the “gaydar” because I don’t give a darn, I have become more and more cynical.
12On further checking of various reporting today that called out Castro, I found this a short while ago and I believe this is the correct version of events :
Castro was right: Fact-checkers whiff on a key exchange in the third Democratic debate
Edit: Castro was right: Fact-checkers whiff on a key exchange in the third Democratic debate
The most tweeted-about moment in the third Democratic primary debate on Thursday night came when Julián Castro accused Joe Biden of having forgotten a central point of his healthcare proposal.
A day later, Castro’s been panned by the pundits for being overly aggressive in his attack and called out by the fact-checkers for the substance of his dispute. But whatever one thinks of his tone, Castro was absolutely correct about one of the crucial differences between Biden’s approach to healthcare and those embraced by more progressive candidates.
You wouldn’t know Castro got it right reading the headlines this morning. “Castro’s Attack On Biden For Blanking On His Health Care Plan Falls Flat,” read one from Politifact that was accompanied by a “mostly false” rating. “Castro appears to misrepresent Biden’s health care plan during debate,” was how USA Today put it. The Washington Post named Castro one of the losers of the night because “his biggest optical win didn’t have substance to back it up.”
The exchange featured a lot of cross-talk and was difficult to parse, but not only was Castro was right on the substance, it’s also pretty clear that any confusion that arose from the quarrel was the result of Biden having difficulty keeping up with the debate.
And in addition to getting it wrong, the fact-checkers also missed an opportunity to give their readers a greater understanding of a central divide on the left over healthcare reform.
Let’s do the opposite and begin with the substance of the dispute before looking at the back-and-forth on Thursday night.
Joe Biden’s healthcare plan would allow all Americans to buy into a new public insurance plan on the ACA exchanges. And he would automatically enroll all of those who would qualify for Medicaid under the ACA but who live in states that didn’t expand the program. That would be about 4.9 million people, according to The Kaiser Foundation’s estimate.
Both Medicare for All, endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and some of the lower-tier candidates, and an alternative approach called Medicare for America, which Beto O’Rourke has endorsed and Castro appeared to be referencing on Thursday, would automatically enroll every uninsured person, every newborn baby and everyone who loses other coverage into their expanded Medicare programs.
(While Biden would offer premium-free coverage to those living in red states making less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line, Medicare for America would cover everyone in any state making less than 200 percent of the FPL without charging them premiums and Medicare for All would cover everyone premium-free.)
So while Biden would automatically enroll 4.9 million people in non-expansion states, Medicare for All and Medicare for America would offer that same automatic coverage to around 27 million Americans.
This represents a huge philosophical difference in these approaches. As I wrote recently in The Nation… (See quote)
Once you understand how important this difference is, it’s pretty clear that Castro was correct in highlighting it, and that Biden was responsible for any confusion that ensued.
The fact-checkers all emphasized that Biden first described his proposal accurately. “You’ll be able to get into a — anyone who can’t afford it gets automatically enrolled in the Medicare-type option we have,” he said.
But the contentious exchange started later in the debate, after Warren, Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg had weighed in. It began when Beto described his approach and Biden apparently got some important details mixed up.
O’ROURKE: In my proposal, Medicare for America, says everyone who’s uninsured will be enrolled in Medicare. Everyone who’s insufficiently insured, cannot afford it, can move over to Medicare. And those, like members of unions who’ve fought for the health care plans that work for them and their families, are able to keep them. This is the best possible path forward.
BIDEN: You just described my plan.
That’s not right, but Beto didn’t get a chance to follow up. At that point, moderator George Stephanopoulos turned the question to Castro. Here’s the whole back-and-forth, courtesy of The Washington Post. (See content)
The confusion was Biden’s. The facts were on Castro’s side. The fact-checkers screwed up. And many voters will end up less informed about this vital issue than they were going into the debate.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/castro-was-right-fact-checkers-whiff-on-a-key-exchange-in-the-third-democratic-debate/
13Friday, September 13, 2019
Sanders Campaign Hits Back Against ‘Dishonest’ Biden Attack on Medicare for All
“It’s disappointing Joe Biden is echoing the deceptions and falsehoods of the healthcare industry which is spending millions to protect the $100 billion in profits they made.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/13/sanders-campaign-hits-back-against-dishonest-biden-attack-medicare-all
14May I have extra Bernie please? Yes.
Meet The 8 Senators Who Voted Against the NDAA
by Thomas A. Hawk, published Sep 21, 2017
The US is now on track to have the largest military budget in the decade-plus wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill would require Congress to repeal budget caps on several federal agencies, including the Pentagon, passed in 2011.
Yet there was notable opposition in the Senate on both sides of the aisle to this massive increase in military spending.
US Senators:
– Bob Corker (R-Tenn.),
– Kirsten Gillibrand D-NY ( dropped out )
– Patrick Leahy (D-VT),
– Mike Lee (R-Utah),
– Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),
– Rand Paul (R-Ky.),
– Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ( presidential candidate )
– Ron Wyden: (D-Ore.) bucked the partisan establishment and voted no.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders also has a fairly consistent voting record on defense spending. He has voted no on nearly every NDAA in the past 10 years. “Foreign policy is about U.S. government budget priorities,” said Sanders during a foreign policy speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MO.
Sanders often priorities domestic issues — like health care and anti-poverty programs — over defense when it comes to the federal budget. The NDAA has long had bipartisan support. It doesn’t seem to matter how much is spent or where the money goes, the NDAA has an impressive 55-year track record of passing in Congress.
Oh yes, the singular claim of no corporate pac money ever taken.
https://ivn.us/2017/09/21/meet-8-senators-voted-against-ndaa/
15Exclusive Interview: Bernie Sanders Discusses the Debate, Joe Biden, and Corporate America.
In a special episode of the Useful Idiots podcast, Sanders talked about fighting corporate talking points, his “huge” differences with Joe Biden, and his thoughts on how best to take on Donald Trump.
By MATT TAIBBI
choppy audio at the beginning but great exposition by Senator Sanders.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-debate-interview-exclusive-884254/
16Check the 538 site.
17Has a survey/poll from after the debate of whom people are looking at for their 2nd choice if their prefered candinate drops out.
Warren is by far the person who looks to gain the most as the other candinates drop out.