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2016 Postmortem

jillan

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19. Lol - the talking point of the day. Some woman called into Thom Hartmann rambling about this.

Reply to HassleCat (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 12:16 AM

Feb 2016

Thom was asking her questions and she was almost incoherent.

What is the background on this story? What was going on at the time?
It's like pulling something out of thin air without all the facts.

And it doesn't let Hillary off the hook for her support of fracking and her support of Monsanto, if that is what the goal is of this artful kitchen sink.

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Bernie's fatal sin [View all] HassleCat Feb 2016 OP

Do we have any context for the vote, other than what is in your post? Because Bernie's votes have merrily Feb 2016 #1

Here's the bill: Dr. Strange Feb 2016 #3

The nay votes in the Senate speak volumes Gregorian Feb 2016 #6

Yeah, this was back when states were given a deadline to form multi-state compacts on radwaste jberryhill Feb 2016 #5

Yup. Context matters. ebayfool Feb 2016 #8

Adding ... ebayfool Feb 2016 #10

And signed into law by Bill CLINTON. jillan Feb 2016 #20

This again? libtodeath Feb 2016 #2

The one that Clinton signed into law? Katashi_itto Feb 2016 #4

This bill does not erase, for me, Hillary's support for war and fracking and cluster bombs and djean111 Feb 2016 #7

Replies 8 and 10 of ebayfool provide a context for Sanders' vote. merrily Feb 2016 #14

There was support from the community, here's a letter from the county judge: beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #9

Aye, Scottie! ebayfool Feb 2016 #11

Indeed, gmta! beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #12

Then take it up with the state of Texas. Motown_Johnny Feb 2016 #13

The info on this thread is a great example of why I am proud of DUers. merrily Feb 2016 #15

Thanks for bringing this up so it could be thoroughly debunked for the umpteenth time Fumesucker Feb 2016 #16

Bernie was correct in his assessment of the problem and the solution. Live and Learn Feb 2016 #17

Bernie can do no wrong and his excuses are all valid. nt fun n serious Feb 2016 #18

He did do wrong on this one. HassleCat Feb 2016 #22

Lol - the talking point of the day. Some woman called into Thom Hartmann rambling about this. jillan Feb 2016 #19

I see no good solutions to this problem. SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #21