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In reply to the discussion: Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada [View all]alarimer
(16,245 posts)60. I'm criticizing the voting to appease major corporate contributors.
You clearly see nothing wrong with that; I see it as the major flaw in the system. When corporate contributions outweigh the needs and desires of individual voters, it is THE problem. It is WHY we lose. Not because people like me criticize the sleazy opportunism.
People who vote for corporate interests in opposition to what the people clearly need and want can indeed go pound sand. So can anyone who waves this away as business as usual. Republicans make no bones of the fact they are sell-outs. Points there for honesty, I guess. But most Democrats at least pretend to do otherwise, but then turn around and vote for their corporate bosses, proving them to be nothing more than hypocrites yet again.
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Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada [View all]
Alekzander
Jan 2017
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Booker/Murray/Casey et. al. "argument is the same one offered by the pharmaceutical industry"
wordpix
Jan 2017
#55
Booker and Menendez voted against it, since NJ is home to many pharmaceutical companies.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2017
#8
The Wyden amendment accomplished the same goal as the Sanders's proposal, but had safeguards
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#29
I'm not characterizing Democrats who voted for the Klobuchar/Sanders amendment as caring less.
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#54
You're asserting that Booker would have voted against the amendment based on a hunch?
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#58
To think of the number of times Democratic Party loyalists like me have been called totalitarians,
baldguy
Jan 2017
#14
I think having a strong party leadership - which anti-Democrat anti-Clinton "liberals" oppose
baldguy
Jan 2017
#61
You want to ostricize & shun anyone who deviates in the slightest way from your peculiar dogma.
baldguy
Jan 2017
#65
The Democratic party has to rid itself of Wall Street toadies if it want to survive.
Kablooie
Jan 2017
#33
China and India are already the 2 biggest suppliers for drug raw materials
Grey Lemercier
Jan 2017
#21
Yes, I deffo do not have much faith in a totally made in China drug either.
Grey Lemercier
Jan 2017
#24
This is Amy Klobuchar's amendment, Sanders was a co-sponsor. Why erase Amy? n/t
seaglass
Jan 2017
#25
Take a look at the makeup of the republican party. Look at how it is made up racially, economically
Alekzander
Jan 2017
#40
Its frustrating I understand but they do not always win. I know this is bad but if you really dive
Alekzander
Jan 2017
#43
It's likely why we have to work SO RIDICULOULSY harder to convince voters.
HughBeaumont
Jan 2017
#42