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Fifty senators have endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to deregulate the broadband industry, top Democrats said Monday.

The tally leaves supporters just one Republican vote shy of the 51 required to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval, in a legislative gambit aimed at restoring the agency's net neutrality rules.

The resolution aims to overturn the FCC's decision and prohibit the agency from passing similar measures in the future. It has the support of all 49 Democratic senators as well as one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
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:eek: Cory Booker just went ballistic at the DHS secretary. Classic grandstanding.
 
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Abizzz said:
The eagerness with which both sides jail people for telling the unfortunate truth shows how much mainstream democrats have in common with republicans then... It still speaks volumes that people vilify Manning without ever mentioning or condemning the behavior he helped uncover.

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Anyone know what happened to/with the murderers?
 
Ubik said:
It's been in my tabs!


For all that energy and Trump opposition alone won't be enough for a Presidential election, it sure will be for mid-terms.
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Stay away from identity politics. Democrats should work on communicating their basic message of appealing to the middle class. Healthcare, child care, decent wages, etc. These are things they would win if they learned to be as ruthless in their messaging as Republicans.
 
Ubik said:
For all that energy and Trump opposition alone won't be enough for a Presidential election, it sure will be for mid-terms.
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This is genuinely worrying:

Winfrey leads Trump by 4 percentage points in hypothetical 2020 race



Last week, after Oprah Winfrey gave a stirring speech at the Golden Globe Awards, some Democrats thought they had found their candidate for 2020. On January 9, 2018, we asked 865 American registered voters who they would vote for if the choice were between Donald Trump and Oprah in the 2020 Presidential election. Despite the President’s confident boast that he would beat Winfrey, our poll suggests that if the election were held today he would lose by a 47-43 margin among those who would vote. We also ran trial heats with Bernie Sanders vs. Trump (Sanders does a point better than Winfrey, leading 48-43) and Kirsten Gillibrand vs. Trump (who trails Trump 41-43, though that’s mostly because more people don’t know who she is).
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Trump regularly cracking 43 in these H2H is a decent number given his other ratings.
 
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Il Prete Rosso said:
Stay away from identity politics. Democrats should work on communicating their basic message of appealing to the middle class. Healthcare, child care, decent wages, etc. These are things they would win if they learned to be as ruthless in their messaging as Republicans.
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If Sanders does become the next pick for the Dem's, Healthcare would probably be his flagship policy which he'll run on and probably promising to turn it to single payer healthcare, if Operah is the next pick then uh... i have no idea?
 
Precaution said:
If Sanders does become the next pick for the Dem's, Healthcare would probably be his flagship policy which he'll run on and probably promising to turn it to single payer healthcare, if Operah is the next pick then uh... i have no idea?
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She'll be by far the strongest advocate for healing crystals and the power of positive thinking.
 
Pelosi doing her weekly presser and she just doesn't look well.
 
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Raoul said:
Canadian guy with quasi English accent lamenting the amount of hispanics in Arizona on FoxNews

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I'd like to think Carlson's face there was one of suppressed disgust, but that's just his normal face isn't it. A perpetual state of wondering whether he's left the oven on.
 
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