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Roger Smith's avatar

Robert Hubbell is performing a key role in pointing out how "The Mainstream Media" seems determined to endlessly exaggerate the difficulties faced by Democratic candidates this year, while ignoring how every Republican who gains a contested nomination

has to pay obeisance to what 65% of voters KNOW to be a lie. We can't let this absurd imbalance deter us from making a massive effort over the next six months to defeat the Trump idolators and to preserve American democracy for the coming generations. That this stark contrast must be presented to all American voters is NOT hyperbole, it is reality.

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Barbara Jo Krieger's avatar

I, too, am outraged, let alone deeply concerned, by the despicable scandals Robert cites that he rightfully claims have not been subject to sufficient critical scrutiny. I also trust that fellow subscribers will comment on the horrific consequences of not subjecting the words and deeds of these Republicans to such scrutiny.

I wish, instead, to present a different list, a list of hugely popular bills drafted by House Democrats over the past 16 months and opposed by nearly every House Republican. Here are some of them (Source: Mehdi Hasan):

1) A bill to give money to the FDA to help tackle the baby formula shortage

2) A bill to increase resources against domestic terrorism

3) A bill to crack down on price gouging by all companies

4) A bill to increase funding to areas of persistent poverty

5) A bill to provide billions in relief to restaurants and small businesses hit hard by the pandemic

6) A bill to cap the price of insulin

7) A bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits

8) A bill to increase American competition with China

9) A bill to extend child tax credits, establish universal Pre-K, and give Seniors free hearing aids

10) A bill to codify Roe v Wade into law and prevent premature births

11) A bill to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965

12) A bill to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act

13) A bill to bring in new background checks for private gun sales

14) A bill to send $1,400 checks to ordinary Americans

15) A bill to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

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Considering the vast majority of House Republicans, “in their nihilism and denialism,” voted against each and every one of those hugely popular bills, Hasan notes that maybe House Democrats, and not Mehdi Hasan on Cable, should repeatedly be amplifying the legislation they were able to deliver despite nearly every House Republican voting against it. Similarly, Senate Democrats should express in full detail the legislation they would have advanced had it not been blocked, mostly by Republicans.

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