Agree. Well said.

Disagree

Quoting you:

"most of their ideas were torpedoed by radicals in both sides of the aisle"

Disagree

You wouldn't have deals with conservative Democrats -- like the "Cornhusker Kickback", to use one example -- if that were accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Senate

It would be accurate to say that the GOP enforces a stricter caucus discipline overall than Democrats; testament to Nancy Pelosi's 'flexibility' on pro-life Dems like Dan Lipinski. Only when a Republican is retiring (Jeff Flake, Trey Gowdy just this morning) -- or facing death, such as McCain -- do they begin to tell the truth, especially when it deviates from Republican orthodoxy.

The Democrats nearly always begin negotiations from a weaker position because of their centrists. (I understand the rationale: w/r/t to Cornhuskers, 'a Ben Nelson is better than a Ben Stasse'.)

But this is NOT the fault of those Democrats on the left side of the party. They are not radicals, and your calling them that -- lumping them in with Republican radicals on the extremist, racist, far right in a false equivalency -- is divisive and unhelpful.

+1

For what it is

Canned, processed meat by-product extruded into a block ... you could do worse, actually.

I don't see where he/she

stated "they do nothing". "Aren't tough on crap" is not the same as doing nothing.

"Why You Should Celebrate..."

... Loudly and Unapologetically When John McCain Dies".

http://theantimedia.com/celebrate-when-john-mccain-dies/

In a healthy world, war-peddling neoconservatives like John McCain would be treated with the same social stigma as child molesters and serial killers. So let’s create that world.

Abnormalize war. Abnormalize the campaigns of mass slaughter for power and profit by the US-centralized war machine. Abnormalize the system which tries to normalize John McCain.

Normalize peace. Normalize an expectation that leaders will not advocate war at every opportunity. Normalize an environment where someone seeking out opportunities to push for war will be recoiled from in horror like the demonic freaks that they are. Normalize a world with no John McCains.

I'll take a hard pass, thanks

Sylvester Turner is gay?

I wonder how that slipped past me. I knew he was certainly as LGBTQ-friendly as Parker, but if he is gay, he's pretty much in the closet. Isn't he?

I'll take a hard pass, thanks