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brush

(53,743 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:37 PM Jan 2019

Tulsi Gabbard claims Dems partially to blame for shutdown

Last edited Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:13 AM - Edit history (1)

What is this person's agenda? Time to stop kidding ourselves. What actual Democrat is saying that trump's shutdown, the one he claimed the mantle for on national TV, is partly the Democrats' fault? IMO the agenda seems to be one of division. Is she this presidential cycle's Jill Stein, or that other divisive candidate?

Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that her party’s leadership was not blameless for the partial government shutdown that is now approaching a month, accusing both sides of posturing and refusing to compromise.

“The problem here is that this issue, like so many others in Washington, are being relegated to partisan politics,” she said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union."

“Where if a Republican is putting forward a proposal, Democrats are going to shoot it down. If Democrats are putting forward a proposal, Republicans are going to shoot it down, really thinking about which party can call a win on this issue.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/20/1827969/-Bye-Felicia-Tulsi-Gabbard-claims-Dems-partially-to-blame-for-shutdown?detail=emaildkre
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Tulsi Gabbard claims Dems partially to blame for shutdown (Original Post) brush Jan 2019 OP
Obvious is Obvious bt DURHAM D Jan 2019 #1
Because.. of course she does. Cha Jan 2019 #2
What? guillaumeb Jan 2019 #3
Think she'll last long enough to participate in the first debate? Liberal In Texas Jan 2019 #4
nope. nt Maru Kitteh Jan 2019 #13
She refused to debate MrsMatt Jan 2019 #20
With friends like this, who needs enemies? Yeehah Jan 2019 #5
This deserves a new acronym....DLTDHYAOTWO dameatball Jan 2019 #6
Pls share what DLTDHYAOTW means. brush Jan 2019 #7
Sorry, I left out the N.....DNLTDHYAOTWO dameatball Jan 2019 #14
And now you left out the meaning. What's up? brush Jan 2019 #16
Do Not Let The door Hit Your ass on the way out. dameatball Jan 2019 #29
And you are correct....no point trying to be clever if people do not understand the message...:) dameatball Jan 2019 #39
Fake Candidate Moostache Jan 2019 #8
+1, Seems she is working for the right from the left uponit7771 Jan 2019 #19
I'm sure this hot take will really energize her run for President. Hassler Jan 2019 #9
She's long said things like this, radius777 Jan 2019 #10
She left out an important part DFW Jan 2019 #11
Maybe she is hoping for a job at CNN or MSNBC. mn9driver Jan 2019 #12
More likely FOX where that is actually pushed. brush Jan 2019 #15
probably already has a job at rt JI7 Jan 2019 #24
Hawaii deserves better NastyRiffraff Jan 2019 #17
Could the Russians want to help her like they helped Sanders?!? uponit7771 Jan 2019 #18
Yep. And Jill Stein. She will get propped up for a bit Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #31
Toxic Bothsiderism is a Losing Proposition dlk Jan 2019 #21
Gabbard is under the control of a cult leader. For real. yardwork Jan 2019 #22
Yup, indeed she is obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #23
+1 dalton99a Jan 2019 #38
K&R Tarheel_Dem Jan 2019 #25
Makes me miss Jill Stein robbedvoter Jan 2019 #26
useless bothsiderism pap 0rganism Jan 2019 #27
She's in the running just to make the other Dems look bad in the eyes of GOP-Trupians. allgood33 Jan 2019 #28
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2019 #37
Sarcastically, yeah, that's gonna get her some votes MrScorpio Jan 2019 #30
"the wall is an immorality" - Nancy Pelosi Takket Jan 2019 #32
DINO vercetti2021 Jan 2019 #33
+1 Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #34
Trump causes fake crisi. Uses them as excuse to shut down government. applegrove Jan 2019 #35
Of course she did. Bye bye Tulsi. emulatorloo Jan 2019 #36

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. What?
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:41 PM
Jan 2019

When she said:

“Where if a Republican is putting forward a proposal, Democrats are going to shoot it down. If Democrats are putting forward a proposal, Republicans are going to shoot it down, really thinking about which party can call a win on this issue.”


is she aware that Pelosi put forward a GOP proposal?

A proposal that the GOP passed in both chambers of Congress.

The problem is that Trump is an unstable and unreliable person with no integrity at all.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
8. Fake Candidate
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:50 PM
Jan 2019

She does not appear to be a serious candidate in any sense of the word...her campaign has exactly the same chance as my own (unannounced write-in campaign) of actually garnering the nomination...publicity stunt to increase her profile and she seems ready to start filling in as "the next Joe Lieberman" if given half the chance...

radius777

(3,635 posts)
10. She's long said things like this,
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:55 PM
Jan 2019

no surprise to me that she's partially blaming Dems.

Shame that her challenger in her last primary didn't defeat her.

DFW

(54,302 posts)
11. She left out an important part
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:56 PM
Jan 2019

She said, "Where if a Republican is putting forward a proposal, Democrats are going to shoot it down."

To lend some veracity to her statement, it should have read: "Where if a Republican is putting forward a stupid, unworkable, highly partisan, unacceptable proposal, Democrats are going to shoot it down."

There, all fixed.

mn9driver

(4,420 posts)
12. Maybe she is hoping for a job at CNN or MSNBC.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:56 PM
Jan 2019

The “both sides” narrative is very popular there.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
17. Hawaii deserves better
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 07:19 PM
Jan 2019

Luckily, they also have Masie Horono. She doesn't seem like she'll run, but I'd much rather have her as a candidate than Tulsi.

Freethinker65

(10,001 posts)
31. Yep. And Jill Stein. She will get propped up for a bit
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:09 PM
Jan 2019

Would love to see where she is getting her funding and encouragement from.

 

allgood33

(1,584 posts)
28. She's in the running just to make the other Dems look bad in the eyes of GOP-Trupians.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:07 PM
Jan 2019

That is all.

Takket

(21,529 posts)
32. "the wall is an immorality" - Nancy Pelosi
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:13 PM
Jan 2019

We cannot as a society begin endorsing racist and ineffective policies just because one person's ego doesn't want to be bruised. Speaker Pelosi's words are perfect and sum up why there is NOTHING to compromise on here.

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