This would be like the Washingtoon debate about how much we support Social Security that ended with “I would advocate the use of nuclear weapons against anyone who ever proposed touching one cent of Social Security.”
I’m not a big fan of single issue debates -as important as climate change is -but if we’re going to do that, I propose we start with the Mueller Report and Impeachment. Perhaps that will jumpstart the public into reading it and the House to act on it.
Dear Gov Inslee
apparently, all you need to do is call it a “candidate forum”, and you can hold the “full discussion of our plans” to your hearts content. Just don’t call it a debate, and you’ll be fine…
But please explain to us how 10 people standing at podiums for 90 minutes would yield a “full discussion” rather than “a short exchange of talking points”?
In other words, please stop trying to cause divisions within the Democratic party, governor. Your desperation for attention is obvious, and unappealling.
None of the debates should be limited to a single subject.
And the candidates wouldn’t stay on one subject if held at gunpoint—and they shouldn’t because so much of what is out there is interconnected.
"…a president must be able to multitask.”
Lying, grifting, toilet tweeting, more lying, Adderall, golfing, still more lying, paying hush money, wandering the Rose Garden naked…
Trump’s got multitasking totally covered.
It’s Inslee’s responsibility to prove Perez wrong, but until then…
So true. Climate change will affect the economy, globalization, national security, immigration patterns, water rights, and cause conflicts between nations, in all probability. It’s a deeply complex and vexing issue.
But in a presidential debate it is Team Building! (Sarcasm, mine)
How do you prioritize the hundreds of things the party wants to happen in a new administration? It can’t be done. And as long as the Pacific Ocean is not lapping up against the border of Utah and Nevada, we’ll defer addressing it to another day.
“Trump’s got multitasking totally covered.”
i think he was referring to like…presidential tasks. dump is o for the world on those.
This is why I think Liz Warren is doing so well. She’s thought deeply about the issues and literally has a plan for everything that ails us.
ETA: As important as it is to address climate change -rightly or wrongly -people still view it as a longer term issue. They’re focused on the today -having good jobs, paying bills, affordable homes for them and education for their kids, and, of course, healthcare. Until Inslee shows he has a plan for those issues, he’s going to be seen as a one trick pony or a novelty candidate.
There isn’t really such a debate on the Democratic side, except perhaps on how to do it, and actually make progress in doing so. No one really seems to have a clear path for that, so it will be lots of purely academic assertions, with the hope of a time in the future (and it better be in the very near future) where we might actually get something done in spite of Republican obstruction.
I “liked” this post because I agree with it, not because I am particularly happy about the message it contains.
I was bowled over at her plans for literally everything. Sorry to say she made my senator’s answers looked like canned responses. So I’m shifting allegiance. I can see her taking trumPP down a notch, and really, isn’t it time for a woman. 2016 was a dress rehearsal, 2020 will be the beginning of 4-year run.
I often give likes because I agree with the post and not because of the message. There are no alternatives.
His toilet tweeting on gold porcelain is being memorialized.
I think Senator Warren would be a phenomenal President -but we have to deliver the Senate as well. Otherwise, McConnell will destroy everything.
I agree with him. I don’t want a single issue candidate and I don’t want a single issue debate. I want to see how these candidates deal with multiple issues and what they’re ideas are for a multitude of issues.
I like Liz Warren a lot. I also still like Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand. Any one of them would make a damn good president.