What does Beto O'Rourke actually stand for?
Current Affairs has written a good article about Beto's record in the House and his background. Some excerpts: In his six years in Congress, O’Rourke passed three bills. Two were related to veterans issues, the third renamed a federal building and courthouse. Of course, O’Rourke was in a GOP-dominated House, which would limit his effectiveness. But part of being effective as a Member of Congress is learning to deal with the environment you are in. Between 1995 and 2007, when the Republicans solidly held the House of Representatives, the lawmaker who passed the most amendments was not a far-right Republican but instead Vermont’s independent democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, dubbed an “amendment king.” But it may have been the last time O’Rourke waged a sustained campaign against the Democratic establishment. While the Democratic base is coalescing around single-payer health care and free college, O’Rourke sponsored neither House bill. During his time in Congress, he never joined the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He has been, however, a member of the New Democratic Caucus, the group organized to carry on the ideas of Clintonite policies. During the 2016 presidential primary, he stayed on the sidelines. While O’Rourke steadily avoided left-wing legislation, he went above and beyond to ally himself to the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. In 2015, Congress narrowly gave President Obama so-called “Fast Track” authority as it related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This essentially greased the skids for Obama to accept and implement this agreement, which many labor, consumer, human rights, and environmental advocates worried would vastly expand the power of investors and corporations and undermine U.S. sovereignty. The 219 to 211 vote in the House sent shockwaves through this community, and a foreboding sense that the TPP would become a reality (at that point, no one expected Donald J. Trump to be the President soon and deep six the TPP, but politics got really weird over the next few years). https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/what-does-beto-orourke-actually-stand-for
CurrentaffairsHe is an absolute massive piece of shit, much like many of his supporters. I hope he runs to be destroyed for life.
Yea similar to Trump supporters.
Him and corey booker should just quit now... and kamala Harris.. theyre all shit
We truly have no other option besides Sanders or Warren. Warren comes off as a know-it-all ivy league intellectual type whereas Bernie can actually get the working class and the rust belt to support him.
Your rightist overlords are all shit. Enjoy your Stockholm syndrome.
Bernie and someone else for 2020... not warren but someone who can turn a flip state
Both showed no backbone. Warren has affirmative action thing. Bernie is from state where there are no blacks.
I fail to see the problem. He is not a progressive. Progressives hate the successful people here on Blind and want to tax us into oblivion and give our money away in massive wealth redistribution programs. I am a moderate liberal who doesn't want to vote for a moron like Trump, hate the slime that is most of the Republican party, and don't want my earnings and ability to earn my way into the upper crust of society taxed away by Bernie.
Unless your TC is in the millions (and have assets much larger than that) then, no, Bernie doesn't want to raise taxes on you.
Due to the massive disparity in cost of living between major urban centers (NYC, SF/Silicon Valley, Seattle) and the wasteland middle of this country, the federal tax code has become massively regressive to the core audience of Blind. Brackets need to be adjusted to local CoL. 250k is rich in the heartland, but is is lower middle class if you are supporting a family of 4 in Silicon Valley where 120k is poverty line. I want my tax rate cut massively before I would ever consider voting for a socialist like Bernie.
Factory workers in the deep south have better lifestyle than techies sharing rooms with no yard in east palo alto....suckers
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I think the details of his DUI will be a huge hurdle to overcome if he decides to run nationality
Wasn't a problem for dubya
Democrats are put through stricter vetting because they are the ones claiming they sre better than everyone else. But then kennedys had dui murder case and married brothers banging the same mistress was well swepted under the rug.