(Hahahaha - whatta guy, what a 'Prog':) Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans to.
To Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine from Canada.
SNIP FROM INTERCEPT ARTICLE
BERNIE SANDERS INTRODUCED a very simple symbolic amendment Wednesday night, urging the federal government to allow Americans to purchase pharmaceutical drugs from Canada, where they are considerably cheaper. Such unrestricted drug importation is currently prohibited by law.
The policy has widespread support among Americans: one Kaiser poll taken in 2015 found that 72 percent of Americans are in favor of allowing for importation. President-elect Donald Trump also campaigned on a promise to allow for importation.
The Senate voted down the amendment 52-46, with two senators not voting. Unusually, the vote was not purely along party lines: 13 Republicans joined Sanders and a majority of Democrats in supporting the amendment, while 13 Democrats and a majority of Republicans opposed it.
One of those Democrats was New Jersey’s Cory Booker, who is considered a rising star in the party and a possible 2020 presidential contender.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/12/cory-booker-joins-senate-republicans...
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This is the one of the frauds the 'New' Democrats are trying to shove down our throats (or up our asses). They think we're freaking brain dead stupid. They just lost with one panderer to the 1%. Now this is one of their new rising stars.
There isn't even a duopoly anymore. There's just an illusion of two opposing parties and they probably point, laugh, and snicker at our helplessness and stupidity.
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Corry is done
if he has higher aspirations. He's a standard issue democrat.
He can sniff out a donation with the best of them.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Sniffing out donations
This is exactly WHY Cory Booker is considered a "rising star" in the Democratic party. It has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with money.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
nothing personal, just business as usual
"Nothing personal, just business." -- Tony Soprano
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
They didn't learn ANYTHING! What a joke the Dems are.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Just as Talleyrand proclaimed of the Bourbon dynasty
"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing." So it is with the Democrats. The rocking horse winners. "There must be more money. There must be more money."
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Democraps
SQUAWWWK!! Polly wanna dolla! Polly wanna dolla!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Corey Booker, a barn horse of the Democrats
A barn horse is one that left to its own wishes, heads for the safety of the barn in which he is comfortably housed most of the time. Democrats have lots of barn horses--because that's where the feeding troughs are located. The party elite know where the donations are and vigorously assert their "right" to get them. To paraphrase one barn horse, Barney Frank during the primary: "why should we not get some of the money [i.e., bribes] too, even if it's not as much as the Republicans?"
A fresh face and all the other parts that go with it named Corey Booker is being groomed for the Presidency. In my mind it's a done deal. See my comment http://caucus99percent.com/comment/232450#comment-232450
So, in the spirit of Barack Obama, who successfully oversaw the reduction of the DemocRATic party to a token force, the establishment (i.e., those of the duopoly wearing the blue hats) will now be promoting Obama 3.0. As we all know, Obama 2.0 crashed while trying to land at Dulles International in November, taking its primary passenger (I don't need to tell you who) down with it.
So what does this vote against the people, i.e., the millions who have to take drugs to help remain healthy and ward off illness, mean? It means that the Dems are saddling up a new barn horse = Democrats never learn anything.
edited to add NOT
LOL, barn horse
my dad and stepmom had a mare that used to damned near knock you over shoving her big head into the little feed shack to reach an oat bin, God she was aggressive! Nice little metaphor for our ConservaDem bastards shoving their nose deep into the trough, and knocking anyone or anything that gets in there way aside, harshly too.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
I sent that entire article
to friends yesterday and specifically made the point that these are Democrats. My two Senators, Cantwell and Murray, both voted it down too, of course. I did vote for Patty Murray in November due to some stupid paranoia about my Stein vote not being counted if I left that blank - the only other option Repugnant and I won't go there, dumb, but done. But not again. Both need to be dumped.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Cantwell and Murray
WA progressives were already unhappy with Cantwell and Murray, and this vote didn't help their cause with us.
They both hitched their stars to the Clintons and the neoliberal Dem establishment a long time ago, and show no signs of understanding that times are changing. Maybe this vote will be the impetus we need to find a strong candidate to primary Cantwell in 2018.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone