[PETITION} DAVID, THIS IS A GENERATION-DEFINING MOMENT. OXFAM AMERICA.

 

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HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH SENATOR JOE MANCHIN? A SHORT MESSAGE.

What do you do when you have "Democrats" like Joe Manchin, Senator from West Virginia, who decide 

that their opinion alone should be the one that sets economic policy for all 50 states.

It would take Moral and Intellectual Courage, but if I was a Senate Democrat whose constituents would 

suffer because Manchin refused to compromise on the proposed budget, I would oppose anything that 

is beneficial to the people of West Virginia. No matter what committee I'm on, or what form that benefit 

would take, Economic, Social, Educational etc., if Manchin wants it, I'll try to block it.

Unfair? Really? Aren't your constituents just as important? Why would you aid someone who cares nothing for the people of your state? Perhaps you should ask the voters you represent what they think?

BLAST FROM THE PAST: FEATURE ARTICLES. WORKING WITH TRUMP, AND THE REPUBLICANS: DEMOCRATS, WILL THEY EVER LEARN? (UPDATE).

 

(THIS UPDATE ON 1/15/2017.)

TO THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP:

THIS IS HILARIOUS; YOU HAND DONALD TRUMP THE ELECTION, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE VOTER COUNTS IN CERTAIN KEY STATES, (SEE MY SERIES OF POSTS ON THIS ISSUE), AND YOUR "SHOCKED" BY HIS BEHAVIOR. YOU HAD A CHANCE TO STAND UP, AND DEMAND, AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NONSENSICAL RETURNS WHICH GAVE HIM THE WHITE HOUSE. AS FAR AS I KNOW, NOT ONE OF YOU DID. YOUR COMPLAINTS MEAN NOTHING TO THOSE WHO WILL SUFFER WHEN THIS DEMAGOGUE TAKES OFFICE.

- DAVID.

Trying to understand the Democratic Parties response to the Donald Trump win in the Presidential Election has been difficult.  It is almost surreal, for it is like they have never met THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Think I am being Unfair. Consider This:

Your a Republican, planning future strategy. You have seen your party go through Eight Years

of an Obama Presidency, and no matter how often your Party Thwarted Attempts by the President and other Progressive Democrats to help the American People, your Diatribe, Half- Truths, and Race Baiting etc., have managed to fool enough of the Electorate so that you lost nothing at the polls.

What is even better, YOU NEVER HAD TO SEEK OUT COMPROMISE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, ENOUGH PEOPLE TOOK IT AS TRUTH, AND BLAMED MOST OF THE COUNTRIES PROBLEMS ON THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.

USING RELIGIOUS ZEALOTRY, WHAT YOU COULDN'T BLAME ON THE PRESIDENT, YOU PUT ON THOSE WHO DIDN'T BLINDLY AGREE WITH YOUR BRAND OF CHRISTIANITY, WHICH IS NOT A DOCTRINE OF PEACE, BUT ONE OF HATE AND PREJUDICE.

However, it gets even better. After eight years of Economic and Social Progress, with the country much better off than it was before President Obama took office, you were able to elect an Unscrupulous Demagogue to the highest office in the land. Running on a Platform of almost Pure Hate, appealing to the Basest of Human Emotions, it was a campaign Histories Dictators would be proud of. Yet, even with all this..

...the Democrat Party is accepting the President Elects offer to heal the Division in this Country.

(A Division caused almost exclusively by your parties words and actions).

What does this tell you?

-  THAT NO MATTER HOW REPREHENSIBLE THE REPUBLICAN PARTIES BEHAVIOR IS, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

-  REACH OUT TO ALL THE BIGOTS, RACISTS, HOMOPHOBES, AND OTHER HATERS THAT YOU CAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

-  PROMOTE ANGER, VIOLENCE, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR. IT DOESN'T

MATTER.

IN THE END, IT IS THE DEMOCRATS WHO WILL COME CALLING, HOPING, THAT THIS

TIME, YOU WILL BE REASONABLE.

THE FOOLS...

WE NEED THE WOMANS HEALTH PROTECTION ACT. U.S. REP. ADAM SCHIFF.

 David,

Roe v. Wade was decided almost 50 years ago, and in the decades since, we’ve seen the right to an abortion challenged, criticized, and attacked over and over again. Republicans have advanced a malicious private right of action scheme to prevent women from having autonomy over their own bodies and health decisions. It’s time for the right to choose to be codified into law and protected from GOP State Houses and conservative judges.

That’s why it’s so important for the Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. After the House passed this historic bill by a narrow 218-211 vote, the Senate must stand up and do the same.

Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues have used bad faith, straw man arguments to restrict women's reproductive rights. They’ve even packed the court with conservative justices with the goal of overturning Roe v. Wade. We need to be forceful and loud in saying enough is enough and we need to take action.

I hope you’ll join me in signing this petition demanding the Senate to hold a vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act. Now.

ADD YOUR NAME

Until the right to an abortion is codified into law, that choice, which should only be determined by a woman and her doctor, will be eroded by the extreme right across the country – just as we’ve seen in the last few months.

Thanks for being by our side as we stand up to the Senate and tell them to stop playing political games with a woman’s autonomy over their body.

— Adam

PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY SCHIFF FOR CONGRESS.