Biden with a surprisingly weak response on ethics.
Warren persistently refusing to answer the question about taxes on MfA. Pete is right here.
Oh good, another big chunk of debate time lost to bitching about whose impossible-to-pass healthcare bill is better. snooze The idea that the presidential primary has some big impact on healthcare is bizarre. (Best case, Joe Manchin gets veto power over any bill. Worst case, Mitch McConnell does. It’s all pipe dreams.)
100% agree. Just answer the question. Pete has been the only one to consistently do this.
Klobuchar knocked it out of the park. Sanders is showing the energy he needs to show. Warren is not weathering being called out well at all. Biden is the same meh performance he’s been.
I agree, and while I generally support her, it was frustrating to see her evade. That said, it’s a gotcha question. Obviously if your taxes go up $1000 but your health care costs go down $2000, you come out ahead. Insisting “but will taxes go up? But will you raise taxes? Come on, say whether or not you will very specifically raise taxes out of context!!” is just ridiculous.
Biden campaign is lost.
Biden will stay exactly where he is.
Right now at least, based on the debate so far, Warren’s rise looks to stall. “I have a plan” starts to become a vocal tic. Some lower levels will I think poach back from her. Including even Yang, who I despise. And Booker. Not Beto.
Is it just me, or does Corey Booker resemble Luther, Obama’s anger translator? I think it’s the eyes.
Healthcare is actually an ideal topic for one of those dumb raise-your-hand questions. “Would you veto ‘Medicare for All’?” “Would you veto ‘Medicare for All who want it’?” “Would you veto whatever Joe Biden’s thing is called?” On and on down the line. That’s the president’s actual job. (The same thing happened in 2008, when whether there should be an individual mandate for health insurance was one of the most important questions of our times, and your vote in the primary was THE thing that would decide that question. It turned out that the anti-mandate candidate was more than happy to sign a mandate!)
Lord Feldon, are you someone who believes that healthcare is not a right?
For fucks sakes Joe!!! I love you, but get your statements right! I know what you mean, but come on.
Yeah. Dozens of TV-people love it, though, and will never let it go.
Warren needs to tie an answer into facts people understand, such as the way car insurance or fire insurance work. Yes, you might end up paying money that only subsidizes the losses of other people buying that same insurance. But having had the insurance–even if you never used it–gave you benefits nonetheless. (Stability; peace of mind; a capacity to plan for the future, etc.)
If we get to Medicare For All, in the system as a whole, some will end up paying more in taxes and won’t see savings on the ‘deductibles and premiums and other expenses’ end because they won’t get sick or otherwise need the coverage.
That seems unfair until you look at it the same way we look at car or fire insurance: you got the benefit of knowing you were covered if you needed it (even though you never did need it, or needed it less than other people do).
Senator Klobochur (so?) has decided to go on the offensive! She always sounds to me like she’s on the verge of tears when she gets emphatic.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what you just posted Sherrerd. Why can’t she just say that or something similar. It is totally fair. The plan does leave out those, who misguided as they may be, want to keep their own insurance. I’ve had a Cadillac union health plan and I’ve also had Obamacare. I currently have been removed from any because of a paperwork snafu. Having options is important.
Warren is clearly the one to beat, here. I think Biden is taking a nap.
Not happy with all her responses, and I’m REALLY not happy with the cheap shots getting thrown at her from the cheap seats (wow did I ever mix metaphors there)–but I’m happy that she’s in that position in the first place.
I agree Warren is the one to beat, but I also have noticed that she’s been given an extra up to 20 seconds with no one cutting her mic. I’ve seen others’ mics potted down.
Buttigieg and Gabbard going at it over Syria is intense, and it makes me really dislike Gabbard.
Is it just me, or is the constant response “the answer to THIS problem is to GET RID OF DONALD TRUMP” starting to sound somewhat petty and vindictive?
I mean he really has to go, one way or the other–but leading with that salvo every chance you get is starting to feel like it isn’t playing well. It feels a little like they are delegitimizing a totally justified impeachment.
I know it’s what literally needs to happen but it’s starting to come across like too many people’s whole campaign is “FUCK TRUMP, RIGHT?”
“So…”
“Let me be clear…”
I think I’ve said it all.
I liked Beto to beat Cruz, but I’m not convinced that he is capable. That being said, if that’s what y’all decide I’ll vote for him in the general.