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2016 Postmortem

jamese777

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8. How Any President Governs...

Reply to CrowCityDem (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 05:39 PM

Apr 2016

is largely dependent on the make up of Congress and the Supreme Court. Has Barack Obama implemented a progressive agenda? I would say no, primarily because progressive policy initiatives were dead on arrival in the John Boehner controlled House and the Republicans' cloture-proof Senate plus a five-four conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

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Degrees Of Progressive [View all] CrowCityDem Apr 2016 OP

How alike are we on foreign policy? I am not with her on that! N/T actslikeacarrot Apr 2016 #1

There is a pretty huge difference between $15 an hour and 12. Ash_F Apr 2016 #2

Not when it's $12 in Podunk and $15 or more in big cities. Pretty much same thing and what states Hoyt Apr 2016 #7

What would $12 be in 6 years? Ash_F Apr 2016 #9

He'd be relentless yelling at the sky, but accept the reality that Congress isn't going to pass $15. Hoyt Apr 2016 #11

A Sanders-like politician just knocked out a establishment candidate in MD Ash_F Apr 2016 #14

Cross-local gentrification Armstead Apr 2016 #15

Dilution effect?... HumanityExperiment Apr 2016 #3

Great points.nt sufrommich Apr 2016 #4

Also 63 percent of Americans support a federal minimum wage increase to $15.00 by 2020 Ash_F Apr 2016 #5

When it comes to foreign policy... Svafa Apr 2016 #6

How Any President Governs... jamese777 Apr 2016 #8

They keep forgetting that. NurseJackie Apr 2016 #10

TPP Armstead Apr 2016 #13

No there is rowing in different directions involved Armstead Apr 2016 #12

"enabling excessive concentrations of wealth and power" as well as pursuing corrupt means to JudyM Apr 2016 #16

Interesting approach, but........ guillaumeb Apr 2016 #17