US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3717

On May 03 2016 06:23 Mohdoo wrote:


People like to point to superdelegates, but our goddess is winning even without them. The irony is that Sanders is building his entire strategy around somehow convincing super delegates to defy democracy. Imagine that, he's not the swell guys he memed himself out to be.

Donald Trump leads his GOP presidential rivals by 34 points in California ahead of the state's primary on June 7, according to a poll released Monday.

Trump is at 54 percent support, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 20 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 16 percent, according to the SurveyUSA poll published by ABC7.

All three candidates spoke at the state GOP convention over the weekend, and California is the final major state with delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination up for grabs.

Trump and Cruz are campaigning in Indiana on the eve of that state's primary. Trump's rivals look to deny him delegates and hope to force a contested Republican National Convention in July.

But should Trump lock up the GOP nomination, he would face an uphill battle against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in California, according to the poll.

On May 03 2016 06:23 Mohdoo wrote:


People like to point to superdelegates, but our goddess is winning even without them. The irony is that Sanders is building his entire strategy around somehow convincing super delegates to defy democracy. Imagine that, he's not the swell guys he memed himself out to be.

On May 03 2016 10:15 darthfoley wrote:

lol he's telling super delegates from states like Washington to support the will of the people and vote for the candidate the people wanted.

I don't think anyone has claimed that Sanders is a saint, but he is a good guy. Much better than your average politician. There's a reason there hasn't been any "dirt" on him even though he's been in the race for a year. Remember that "rape fantasy" story that was supposed to be the gotcha! moment? Neither does 99% of other people.

You can argue that he's lacking substance or unrealistic, w/e, but he actually is a pretty nice dude.

On May 03 2016 10:15 darthfoley wrote:


lol he's telling super delegates from states like Washington to support the will of the people and vote for the candidate the people wanted.

I don't think anyone has claimed that Sanders is a saint, but he is a good guy. Much better than your average politician. There's a reason there hasn't been any "dirt" on him even though he's been in the race for a year. Remember that "rape fantasy" story that was supposed to be the gotcha! moment? Neither does 99% of other people.

You can argue that he's lacking substance or unrealistic, w/e, but he actually is a pretty nice dude.

On May 03 2016 10:53 CannonsNCarriers wrote:
Bernie was such a nice guy he could only get 1 Senate endorsement. Doesn't Cruz have 2?

But rather than earning the frustration and ire of his peers in the vein of other Senate hard-liners such as Sen. Ted Cruz, Sanders has managed to be respected — even liked — by much of the chamber, according to members on both sides of the aisle. The Vermont independent actually has much more in common with Sen. Tom Coburn, the now-retired "Dr. No," whose hard-line opposition killed many bills in the Senate but also earned him the respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

Sanders also has been able to work well with his colleagues. He's passed bipartisan legislation and forged strong relationships with members of both parties in nearly 25 years on Capitol Hill. But most of all, members say, even when Sanders is ideologically an outlier, he lets others know where he stands. He's not the type to suddenly stab a colleague in the back. And that's earned him respect both on and off the Hill.

"A lot of people here talk about what they believe in, but they don't act on it," Sen. Mark Warner said. "He always acts on what he believes. "¦ We can agree or disagree, but you know where he stands."

On May 03 2016 10:53 CannonsNCarriers wrote:
Bernie was such a nice guy he could only get 1 Senate endorsement. Doesn't Cruz have 2?

On May 03 2016 10:48 oneofthem wrote:
being nice doesn't carry it when you are asking to be elected to an office of high responsibility. a lot of ill in this world is caused by selective caring or lack of respect for empirical facts. malarial treatment vs research on cancer, that's selective caring. it requires some deeper commitment to look beyond the concern closest to one's experiences. as it stands, the most vulnerable in society stand to lose in the theoretical bernie regime because of all the diversion of resources to fund programs for middle class whites(e.g. pell grants vs free college), disastrous macroeconomic fallout from his policies, etc etc.

active prejudice is not needed to produce an unbalanced or incomplete view. bernie is a nationalist and populist representing the white working class. contrary to this meme about his youth support, the actual bernie base is rural whites. you can see it in every county level map of this season. the youth are voting positionally for the most exciting/leftist sounding candidate, but it is kind of a strange mix held together by lack of information.

given his lack of concern for achieving legislative results, obtaining concrete policy with maximal impact for the poor and truly needy, and general lack of long term thinking with respect to america's positional advantage in the global economy and the resultant positive influence of american power upon the trajectory of global development, it is really hard to argue that bernie is a nicer person than hillary or obama or bill clinton. to call bernie's parochial perspective morally superior would require either burning passion for Socialism or a white america centric cultural norm that the english department people usually deride.

At some hospitals, posters on the wall in the emergency department list the drugs that are in short supply or unavailable, along with recommended alternatives.

The low-tech visual aid can save time with critically ill patients, allowing doctors to focus on caring for them rather than doing research on the fly, said Dr. Jesse Pines, a professor of emergency medicine and director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has studied the problems created by shortages.

The need for such workarounds probably won't end anytime soon. According to a new study, shortages of many drugs that are essential in emergency care have increased in both number and duration in recent years even as shortages for drugs for non-acute or chronic care have eased somewhat. The shortages have persisted despite a federal law enacted in 2012 that gave the Food and Drug Administration regulatory powers to respond to drug shortages, the study found.

For this report, which was published in the May issue of Health Affairs, researchers analyzed drug shortage data between 2001 and 2014 from the University of Utah's Drug Information Service, which contains all confirmed national drug shortages, according to the study.

They divided the drugs into acute and non-acute categories. Acute-care drugs were those used in the emergency department for many of the urgent and severe conditions handled there and include remedies such as pain medications, heart drugs, saline solution and electrolyte products.

Overall, the study found that 52 percent of the 1,929 shortages during the time period studied were for acute-care drugs. Following passage of the federal law in 2012, the number of active shortages of non-acute care drugs began to decline for the first time since 2004, but there was no corresponding dropoff in shortages of drugs that emergency departments and intensive care units rely on, the researchers reported.

Shortages of the drugs for emergency care lasted longer as well, the study found. Half of the shortages of drugs for acute care lasted longer than 242 days, compared with 173 days for non-acute care drugs.

On May 03 2016 12:17 oneofthem wrote:
it's not paternal to provide antiviral medication where it is needed. the clinton stuff is pretty heavy on empowering local entrepreneurship and all that, hardly paternalistic. you should look at the policy briefings.

On May 03 2016 10:45 Mohdoo wrote:


Would you say kindness is more important than substance or realism in a president?