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DemocratsForProgress

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Mon Jul 28, 2014, 03:43 AM Jul 2014

Stormy Monday, 7/28/14

Jeff Rosenzweig: Stormy Monday, 7/28/14



Monday, at long goddamned last, the travesty that is the Department of Veterans Affairs might be moved a giant step closer to getting fixed, when a joint Congressional committee announces its roadmap to reform. Among a number of major changes, largely at the instigation of co-chair Senator Bernie Sanders, the committee is expected to recommend a significant increase in funding for additional medical professionals, something likely to cause some Congressional Republicans to balk, given how they much prefer throwing borrowed trillions at creating wounded veterans rather than, you know, spending millions to treat them.

Encouragingly, over 100 House members co-signed a letter last week requesting Congressional leadership to keep both houses in session past the scheduled August recess if a bill hasn’t been completed. The other 335 or so were too busy packing their flip-flops and sunscreen, presumably.

Well, it’s now “official,” or at least as “official” as anything emanating from CNN can be. Their breathless new poll shows that if the 2012 election were held today, Mitt Romney would best Barack Obama 53% to 44%. Interestingly, though equally fictionally, the other 3% of voters would divide their benighted ballots among (in no particular order) George W. Bush, Thomas Dewey, Lyndon LaRouche, Rush Limbaugh, Ross Perot and Ted Nugent. While I won’t be sharing my raw data anytime soon, trust me, that conclusion is rigorously scientific. Just like the CNN-ORC International poll was. Of course, the election of 2012 was actually held in – surprise! – 2012, and Mitt Romney, deservedly, now resides in the “where are they now” file. Just like CNN does, come to think of it...


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Stormy Monday, 7/28/14 (Original Post) DemocratsForProgress Jul 2014 OP
Someone told me that the country joshdawg Jul 2014 #1

joshdawg

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1. Someone told me that the country
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 05:10 AM
Jul 2014

dodged a bullet when Romney lost. Someone else told me the country didn't dodge a bullet, but a f**king ICBM.
On first read, one would have thought that poll was conducted by fox spews, but it was fox lite instead.

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