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Impeachment Was Inevitable No Matter Who Won in 2016

November 26, 2019 By gmoke 1 Comment

The first time I realized that the Republicans were going to impeach Bill Clinton was about 46 minutes into his first address to a Joint Session of Congress, also referred to as the 1993 State of the Union, on February 17, 1993. When the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: 2016 election, bill-clinton, hillary-clinton, history, impeachment, trump

With Trump at the Helm: “Standby to Roll”

January 20, 2017 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

Many years ago I was an enlisted man in the United States Coast Guard Reserve, often underway in the nearby North Atlantic, conducting fisheries patrols. When a change of course was required in rough seas the bridge would pipe the following … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #NeverTrump, #TheResistence, barack-obama, democrats, Donald Trump, hillary-clinton, Kelly-Anne Conway, mitch-mcconnell, progressives, Reince Priebus, republican-party, rush-limbaugh, tea-party-movement, Trump Inauguration, William Jefferson Clinton

November 2016 – America at the Dawn of the Great Dismal

November 6, 2016 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

In mid-October Hillary Clinton was ahead of Donald Trump by 11 points, as of this morning, 11/6/16, most of that lead had dissipated thanks to the latest batch of e-mails, which may have been inappropriately released, many of which may in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, Barry Goldwater, bernie-sanders, bill-oreilly, Bret Baier, Carolyn Goldwater Ross, D.N.C., democratic-party, Donald Trump, Edward Snowdin, fox-news, Gary Johnson, globalization, green-party, hillary-clinton, James Comey, Jason Chaffetz, jill-stein, Libertarian Party, Meygn Kelly, michelle-obama, nativism, newt-gingrich, Peter Hart, republican-party, roger-ailes, Trey Gowdy

November Ninth

October 19, 2016 By Mark Adler 11 Comments

This presidential election is not a contest between Clinton and Trump (and, to a lessor extent, Johnson and Stein).  Rather, it is a referendum on Trump. And assuming that Trump is going to lose, the voters will be electing whomever is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016, Change My View, clinton, Donald Trump, hillary-clinton, national, presidential election 2016

For Conservatives, The Benghazi Hearings Could Become One More Disaster In a Year of Disasters

October 26, 2015 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

I'm not even remotely a fan of the Clinton's, but with regard to how things are shaping up of late, one thing seems to be certain, 2015 has already been a bad year for America's conservatives and the Benghazi Hearings could just become the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination, 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination, A.B. Stoddard, Benghazi Hearings, Brett Bair, Charles Krauthammer, colin-powell, conservatives, David Books, fox-news, hillary-clinton, Kevin McCarthy, Mark Shields, Matthew Dickinson, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Pat Garofalo, republican-party, Richard Hanna, Trey Gowdy, Tucker Carlson

Hillary: An Empress with no Clothes?

August 7, 2015 By pericles 36 Comments

Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank argues in a recently published message to Democrats and Progressives entitled “Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie” that active political support for Bernie Sanders is a hopeless losing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Race, bernie-sanders, hillary-clinton

Pollster Peter Hart at Harvard 2/3/15

February 3, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Pollster Peter Hart spoke at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on February 3, 2015 to a small group of people in the regular Tuesday noon conversation. He brought slides from the recent NBC/WallStreetJournal poll done just prior to State of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Race, hillary-clinton, jeb-bush, Peter Hart, polling, rand-paul

Will Millennials Carry Warren to White House in 2016?

September 13, 2013 By thegreenmiles 32 Comments

At the close of his must-read The Rise of the New New Left, Peter Beinart at The Daily Beast makes the case that the Democratic Party's presumed standard-bearer in 2016 may be vulnerable to a challenge from the left - in particular, from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016, Elizabeth Warren, hillary-clinton

Romney & Co., Beyond the Pale in Politicizing Benghazi

October 16, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti 14 Comments

I fully understand that Mitt Romney and his lieutenants want to capitalize on any and every political opportunity that comes their way, but in the case of the Benghazi deaths have they gone too far? Ambassador Chris Stevens’ father has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-elections, Ambassador Chris Stevens, barack-obama, Barbara Doherty, Benghazi, Embassy Security, Glen Doherty, hillary-clinton, Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), mitt-romney

6 – 3. A prediction

April 2, 2012 By petr 1 Comment

Without claim to prophetic insight, divination or any guidance beyond that which is provided to me by some slim knowledge of the actors involved, the stakes at play and the scope of the legal situation (and perhaps more than a little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care, hillary-clinton, supreme-court

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travtuftsTravis@travtufts·
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Hey #mapoli please tell me come 2022 we are going to remember how Charlie Baker mismanaged the COVID vaccine rollout, vetoed the consensus police reform bill, vetoed abortion access, vetoed the consensus climate bill, didn’t fund the SOA, and slashed transit. Please.

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cdempcChris Dempsey@cdempc·
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The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/public-transit-funding.html

#mapoli #mbta #TransitisEssential #TransitisEssentialMA

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BenjaminDowningBenjamin Downing@BenjaminDowning·
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"Service cuts punish those who need public transit the most ... Policymakers need to make choices now that will serve the public interest in the long term. They need to ensure the trains & buses keep running." #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318

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The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/public-transit-funding.html

#mapoli #mbta #TransitisEssential #TransitisEssentialMA

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Focus on the record - "small minded and shortsighted" justification for transit cuts that make it tougher to reduce emissions, harm those in need and hold back our recovery #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318?s=20

Chris Dempsey@cdempc

The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/public-transit-funding.html

#mapoli #mbta #TransitisEssential #TransitisEssentialMA

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BenjaminDowningBenjamin Downing@BenjaminDowning·
21 Jan

Focus on the record - vetoing proposals that would break MA out of our failed transportation status quo https://twitter.com/BenjaminDowning/status/1352325656076541958?s=20

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"Many of the vetoes represent missed opportunities for building a more equitable transportation system for all residents" - well said @MonicaTibbitsN - a thread on how @MassGovernor 's vetoes lock in failed transportation status quo #mapoli https://twitter.com/MonicaTibbitsN/status/1351658881341136900

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