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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/26/democratic-party-laura-moser-texas

 

In their desperation to win back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats have turned to eating their own. How else to make sense of the unhappy drama unfolding in Texas’ 7th congressional district?

The district, which includes much of affluent west Houston, has a Republican incumbent named John Culberson, but was carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016. Culberson, a gun-loving, climate change-denying champion of Donald Trump, is a dreary exemplar of the kind of reactionary outlier who now passes as a mainstream Republican politician. And so the effort to unseat him has attracted a crowded field of seven Democrats, all vying to win the 6 March primary.

 

Of the seven, the most intriguing – and exciting – is a 40-year-old mother of two named Laura Moser. Moser is exceptionally intelligent; I taught her when she was a student at Amherst College in the late 90s, and she remains in memory as one of the most intellectually gifted students I’ve come across in my career. At 6ft 2in, she literally stands out in a crowd and dazzles with her charisma and quick wit.

While this is her first run for public office, Moser has been politically active, founding Daily Action, a grassroots organization designed to mobilize opposition to Trump’s deformation of the American political landscape. As a candidate, she has emerged as an articulate and passionate defender of progressive political causes including women’s reproductive rights, single payer health care, sane gun control and sustainable energy.

Her candidacy has generated excitement; Moser has outraised her six rivals in the new year and has gathered an enthusiastic following particularly among younger voters who supported Bernie Sanders.

So it is perhaps predictable that this young Democratic candidate would become the subject of a withering political attack. Branded a “Washington insider” and a carpetbagger, Moser has been maligned in recent days for harboring an “outright disgust for life in Texas”.

 

Concerned that Moser is too liberal, the DCCC has embarked in the kind of smear campaign pioneered by its opponents

What is unusual about these attacks is that they issue not from her Republican rival but from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the campaign arm of Democrats in the US House of Representatives. Concerned that Moser is too liberal to unseat a Trump patsy, the DCCC has embarked in the kind of smear campaign pioneered and popularized by its political opponents.

 

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Here is what republicans will be campaigning on:

 

-improving economy and more jobs

-tax cuts for the middle class

-border and national security

 

Here is what the democrats will be campaigning on:

 

- impeach Trump

-Russian collusion

-ban all the scary looking guns

- impeach Trump and Russian collusion

 

Good luck democrats. Your gonna need it.

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1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

Here is what republicans will be campaigning on:

 

-improving economy and more jobs

-tax cuts for the middle class

-border and national security

 

 

Good luck democrats. Your gonna need it.

No controlling the deficit? :rofl: or maybe they will hold off until after 2020:jest:

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21 minutes ago, Póg mo said:

No controlling the deficit? :rofl: or maybe they will hold off until after 2020:jest:

 

  The deficit is something Republicans talk about when Democrats get elected. Republicans don't mention the deficit much when they are in control. Why would they? All the Republicans have done for 40 years is make it worse.  

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50 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  The deficit is something Republicans talk about when Democrats get elected. Republicans don't mention the deficit much when they are in control. Why would they? All the Republicans have done for 40 years is make it worse.  

So only the repubs make it worse, eh?  

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48 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I did not say that slick. However one party does honk and fart about reducing the deficit ad nauseam while never actually doing anything about it. The party of hypocrites you know as the Republicans. 

LMAO, too funny (and actually, you DID imply that the repubs do nothing, therefore the dems do something - a false equivalency).  You ALMOST got it right.  Lemme help you...

 

48 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

Both parties do honk and fart about reducing the deficit ad nauseam while never actually doing anything about it. The parties are hypocrites.

More accurate, and less words used, as well.

 

Refresh us all, how have the democrats made the deficit better?  Let’s start by taking a look at all the poverty in the democrat-controlled cities of Chicago, DC, and Detroit.

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4 hours ago, IDWAF said:

LMAO, too funny (and actually, you DID imply that the repubs do nothing, therefore the dems do something - a false equivalency).  You ALMOST got it right.  Lemme help you...

 

More accurate, and less words used, as well.

 

Refresh us all, how have the democrats made the deficit better?  Let’s start by taking a look at all the poverty in the democrat-controlled cities of Chicago, DC, and Detroit.

Wait, didn't Obama reduce the national debt?    :rofl:

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21 hours ago, spookyturtle said:

The Republican President has done plenty of public attacking. I guess what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. 

 

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5 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I did not say that slick. However one party does honk and fart about reducing the deficit ad nauseam while never actually doing anything about it. The party of hypocrites you know as the Republicans. 

Doesn’t the other party honk and fart about helping the down trodden and never do anything about that either?

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9 hours ago, Póg mo said:

No controlling the deficit? :rofl: or maybe they will hold off until after 2020:jest:

We don't see eye to eye alot of times but in this I am right there with you. I can not stand how all these RINOs talking about this or that and then DO NOTHING while in office. 

 

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