"now is not the time to talk about gun control right after a mass shooting"

we need to talk about these things loud and clear!

And hope that we can be heard amid all the Trump noise.

Macron is struggling at the moment so he might not be able to keep up the pressure but possibly Justin Trudeau can step in and get it done.

But on the other side are the Koch triad and the various petroleum companies.

under Hugo Chavez?

But that's the boogeyman the regime there is using.

The country has more than enough natural resources just in the form of oil to be doing well- even in the midst of low oil prices- if they managed it properly.

They created a system using oil proceeds to be generous with benefits to the people and made their entire system dependent upon that oil industry.

You would think if you make your entire system a one trick pony depending on one industry that you would make sure it's running as well as possible.

They haven't.

They have mismanaged the crap out of it, and that is the source of their problems.

When you replace most of your skilled engineers and oilfield workers with ones who don't know what they are doing but who support and the talent flees your country it's not the fault of outside forces when your economy tanks because that one industry has failed.

Their attempts at price controls have just fueled a huge black market.

on the mark.

and I in no way feel that she enables Trump, and also being a Canadian, I see that as an asset.

own it all...so looking for a 'message' that will transcend politics and ensure Democratic victory seems pretty stupid to me. Recent history shows attacks work especially the 2016 election. I wish she would go away...I can't stand her. I have no interest in anything she says. I love how the far far left who abandoned Pres. Obama in 10 and stayed home instead of voting for Democrats, have all these great 'ideas' which never take into account that their actions led to something called a gerrymander. It will take a wave election to overcome this and fussing about looking for the perfect 'message' won't do it.

History has proven that attacking the other side works...and Trump deserves it unlike Obama...this take the high road bullshit will never work.

A very negative book.

GOP types by giving Democrats really bad advice. She is wrong about everything...I have read her stuff and it made me dislike her more. Also, she is a Canadian...she should turn her sites there.

That's usually the dead giveaway that the person saying that can't defend his counterargument. Smaller government and less regulation is a pretty hollow argument anyway, but in the face of the inevitable results of that argument playing out right now in south Texas, it's particularly untenable. And the Grover Norquist devotees know it.

simply does not work to do anything but shift more of the wealth to the top 1%. But that does not stop the proponents from insisting that tax cuts for the very rich are the only solution.