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Showing Original Post only (View all)Elizabeth Warren Has Latched Onto the Issue That's Beneath All the Others [View all]
With the scenes out of Donald Trump's impeachment trial these past two weeks, it's a good time to run against corruption.https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30738531/elizabeth-warren-corruption-donald-trump-impeachment-trial/
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If nothing else, this obviously should be a good moment for Warren, whose campaign is based on her conviction that our government and our politics are so corrupt that Big Structural Change is needed to clean out the Augean Stables in the District of Columbia. On Saturday, she deftly connected decades of increasing corruption with the undeniable end product, which is this administration* and this president*.
The good news is that I have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate, she said. The bad news is that we need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. These problems, this corruption, started long before Donald Trump became president.
"Some of the things we can do quietly. But that anti-corruption plan, theres no way to do that quietly. We cant keep doing this as a country. The one good thing about Donald Trump is that hes got everybody off the sidelines. We run against that corruption. We run against the most corrupt administration in the history of this country. Have you been watching these trials? At the center of the whole thing was an ambassador [Gordon Sondland], and how did he get to be an ambassador? He had no qualifications, except that he cut a check to Donald Trumps inaugural committee for a million dollars. He bought a public office. That is the height of corruption.
...After two weeks in which the president*s corruption was laid bare in the Senate, only to have the Republican Senate majority essentially decide that the corruption was an inherent part of the office of the presidentAlan Dershowitz as much as said thatand prepare to give him a gentle warning and send him away, it can be argued that corruption of the office is the only issue that should matter.
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If nothing else, this obviously should be a good moment for Warren, whose campaign is based on her conviction that our government and our politics are so corrupt that Big Structural Change is needed to clean out the Augean Stables in the District of Columbia. On Saturday, she deftly connected decades of increasing corruption with the undeniable end product, which is this administration* and this president*.
The good news is that I have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate, she said. The bad news is that we need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. These problems, this corruption, started long before Donald Trump became president.
"Some of the things we can do quietly. But that anti-corruption plan, theres no way to do that quietly. We cant keep doing this as a country. The one good thing about Donald Trump is that hes got everybody off the sidelines. We run against that corruption. We run against the most corrupt administration in the history of this country. Have you been watching these trials? At the center of the whole thing was an ambassador [Gordon Sondland], and how did he get to be an ambassador? He had no qualifications, except that he cut a check to Donald Trumps inaugural committee for a million dollars. He bought a public office. That is the height of corruption.
...After two weeks in which the president*s corruption was laid bare in the Senate, only to have the Republican Senate majority essentially decide that the corruption was an inherent part of the office of the presidentAlan Dershowitz as much as said thatand prepare to give him a gentle warning and send him away, it can be argued that corruption of the office is the only issue that should matter.
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Elizabeth Warren Has Latched Onto the Issue That's Beneath All the Others [View all]
BlueMTexpat
Feb 2020
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Running on the theme that everything is "corrupt" is a double-edged sword.
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
Feb 2020
#7
Warren has also rolled out a long list of areas where she would rule by fiat.
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
Feb 2020
#10
She has called for ending the filibuster. Has put out a long list of executive orders
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
Feb 2020
#21
ALL presidents rule by fiat to some degree. She's wise enough to know when and when not to.
Kurt V.
Feb 2020
#77
It's very important policy. both economically (a bust is coming) and for income inequality.
Kurt V.
Feb 2020
#82
I've expressed areas where Warren seems like she's embracing an over-reach
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
Feb 2020
#33
Wiping out all student debt by executive order would be an executive over-reach IMO.
OneMoreCupOfCoffee
Feb 2020
#36
The only loans that could be cancelled by EO aare those issued by the federal government...
MichMan
Feb 2020
#50
She is 100% correct, but awarding ambassadorships for political patronage is a long tradition
MichMan
Feb 2020
#14
Warren and Sanders are the biggest hope for fixing the underlying problems eroding our democracy.
JudyM
Feb 2020
#24
I love Warren. I want her to be President but I want to beat Trump first. I would love to see Biden
Pepsidog
Feb 2020
#25
Respectfully disagree. Electability, beating Trump is the only thing that matters.
Pepsidog
Feb 2020
#46
Warren was solidly on the corruption theme before any of the other candidates. People know she's
ancianita
Feb 2020
#69