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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 12:56 PM Oct 2013

Jennifer Granholm: Complete badass



Granholm Guts the False Equivalency of a Broken Website with a Broken Political Party

On Meet the Press, the narrative of the morning was naturally another desperate or clueless attempt to falsely equate the Republicans shutting down the government over ObamaCare to the ObamaCare website not working as it should.

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) was on the scene to put an end to that false equivalency. “This is an argument about a broken website versus a broken political Party.”

As Meet the Press tried to advance the argument that there is backlash now against the GOP over the shutdown, Democrats better beware because — glitches! Glitches are just like shutdowns, only NOT. They don’t cost 24 billion dollars, hurt innocent Americans by robbing them of their paychecks, and they didn’t kill 120,00 private sector jobs. They also weren’t deliberate.

Gov. Granholm pointed out that if Republicans are so unhappy with the federal rollout of healthcare.gov, then they should have stepped up in the states (as the law called for originally, but many Republicans refused to do) like Kentucky Governor Beshear, “If the republican party doesn’t like the federal government, then the governor should step up like Steve Beshear did to get this done.”

The party of “personal responsibility” doesn’t want to discuss how their refusal to do their parts could be one reason the site is overburdened.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/27/jennifer-granholm-kills-false-equivalency-this-argument-broken-website-broken-political-party.html
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Jennifer Granholm: Complete badass (Original Post) CatWoman Oct 2013 OP
Hillary/Granholm 2016 brucefan Oct 2013 #1
Unfortunately, Granholm was born in Canada to Canadian parents. GeorgeGist Oct 2013 #2
Oh yeah brucefan Oct 2013 #6
Granholm is ineligible to become President w/o a Constitutional amendment meow2u3 Oct 2013 #5
And if we amend the constitution ... JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2013 #9
The automatic response to any Democrat saying a good thing treestar Oct 2013 #7
No kidding. Certainly Detroit could use some help, leadership etc. eom Blanks Oct 2013 #22
Every Dem and so called news person should take a lesson from Jennifer. n/t UtahLib Oct 2013 #3
Love her malaise Oct 2013 #4
Very nicely done. Laelth Oct 2013 #8
She rocks! whttevrr Oct 2013 #10
Really????? MyOwnPeace Oct 2013 #23
Liked her and her show when she was on Current. n/t davidwparker Oct 2013 #11
Liked her when she was the governor of my fair state etherealtruth Oct 2013 #12
Me, too. Faygo Kid Oct 2013 #13
Don't believe TNNurse Oct 2013 #15
Re: Lions ... you posted this ... BKLawyer Oct 2013 #21
Cool. davidwparker Oct 2013 #20
She can TNNurse Oct 2013 #14
People who think government is bad tend to do government badly. Beartracks Oct 2013 #16
Let's Not Carried Away Trendisnotdestiny Oct 2013 #17
WELCOME TO DU gopiscrap Oct 2013 #18
Granholm rawks Cali_Democrat Oct 2013 #19

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
5. Granholm is ineligible to become President w/o a Constitutional amendment
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 01:05 PM
Oct 2013

She was born in Canada without any US parentage.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,354 posts)
9. And if we amend the constitution ...
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 02:12 PM
Oct 2013

... we could get Granholm vs Schwarzenegger.

Which would be fine because we would never be so stupid as to vote for ...

oh, never mind

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. The automatic response to any Democrat saying a good thing
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 01:16 PM
Oct 2013

There is more to government than just the Presidency!

whttevrr

(2,345 posts)
10. She rocks!
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 02:54 PM
Oct 2013

Unfortunately this post made me turn on the TV... Of course Meet The Press is on and I am stuck with my "WTF Face" for half an hour.

Santorum? WTF?

Alex Castellanos? WTF?

These guys are "enema nozzles"™, who cares what they think?

Great, now I'm angry, Thanks for ruining my Sunday!










*Please note: This post is dripping with
No need to castigate me for letting TV 'ruin' my sunday. It's all good. Except... The test I'm about to take on Windows Server... That... That probably will 'ruin' my sunday! LOL!

MyOwnPeace

(16,929 posts)
23. Really?????
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 12:13 PM
Oct 2013

Didn't we decide (vote) LONG ago that Ricky (and you know what else to "google" ) is NOT relevant - we didn't want him as a senator, we didn't want him as a president - well, we just do NOT want him.
So, WHY, OH, WHY do they keep giving him air space?

davidwparker

(5,397 posts)
20. Cool.
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 10:20 PM
Oct 2013

Mine currently is Gov. Trying-Not-To-Be-Indicted.

I'm hoping the next one will be Gov. Terry McAuliff and not Gov. Right-Wing-Nutcase.

TNNurse

(6,928 posts)
14. She can
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 03:28 PM
Oct 2013

Last edited Tue Oct 29, 2013, 09:01 PM - Edit history (1)

run for the Senate or the House..............Imagine Elizabeth Warren and Jennifer Granholm on a committee together.

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
16. People who think government is bad tend to do government badly.
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 03:38 PM
Oct 2013

Is it done with deliberateness or ignorance? Probably some of both.

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17. Let's Not Carried Away
Sun Oct 27, 2013, 04:18 PM
Oct 2013

She is a typical Neoliberal.... Talks a good game, but would have acted similarly to Clinton.

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