David Axelrod
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Founder, @UChiPolitics; Chief Political Analyst for @CNN. Author, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Host of The Axe Files & Hacks on Tap podcasts.
Joined January 2011
Tried to warn @ScottJenningsKy that his Redbirds were going to get their wings clipped at Wrigley today but, as so often happens, Scott let his enthusiasms get the better of reason!.4-0 @Cubs in the 2d, behind two sets of back-to-back homers!!.#GoCubsGo.
On this Fourth of July, how about a little bipartisanship at the ballpark? @davidaxelrod @CNN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Cardinals @Cubs
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RT @ScottJenningsKY: On this Fourth of July, how about a little bipartisanship at the ballpark? @davidaxelrod @CNN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @Cardinals @Cubs….
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Of course, the most loyal of Trump acolytes would be aghast at political theater!🙄.But I'm pretty sure opposing deep cuts to Medicaid, the ACA, food assistance for millions and nursing home care for the elderly to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy doesn't qualify as leftist.
This is NOT your dad’s Democrat Party. They’ve run so far left they can’t even see the center anymore — and the childish stunts they pulled on the House floor only make them look more detached from reality. Democrats are about political theater. Republicans are about real,
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Maybe, since the brunt of the Medicaid cuts are due to take effect right AFTER the midterm elections, he and others who voted for the bill can get away with this answer. But eventually, it really will be what people experience in their lives, won't it?.
NEWSNATION: It's estimated that more than 32,000 of your constituents will lose access to healthcare, nearly 19,000 will lose food stamps. If those numbers are true, how is this bill good for your constituents?. MIKE LAWLER: Well, those numbers aren't true . Democrats are
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RT @McFaul: USAID will be back. Do not give up hope. Do not accept Trump's horrendous foreign policy decisions as permanent. That fatalism….
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Even with stormy clouds, Chicago's beautiful this Fourth of July!
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"The American Medical Association’s mission is promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It will make it harder to access care and make patients sicker. It will make it more likely that acute,.
Today is a sad and harmful day for patients and health care across the country, and its impact will reverberate for years. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It will make it harder to access care and make patients sicker because the lifelines of Medicaid and CHIP are.
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
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RT @AmerMedicalAssn: Today is a sad and harmful day for patients and health care across the country, and its impact will reverberate for ye….
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So we spend $45 million on a military parade the @POTUS orders up on his birthday but cut a $5 million program to provide mental health services to the families of military personnel serving overseas?!?.
The Army will save almost $5 million annually by cutting a program that for decades has provided mental health services to children of U.S. military and civilian families based overseas, where such support is already limited.
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Pretty good question.
Leader Jeffries: "I ask the question, if Republicans were so proud of this one big, ugly bill, why did debate begin at 3:28am in the morning?". Republicans "tried to jam this bill through the House of Representatives under cover of darkness.".
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Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later.The cynical political calculus behind the bill being rammed through Congress. via @NYTimes.
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We've seen the movie. We know the plot and ending. The die is cast. After all the sputtering about how much they hate the bill, the House @GOP will cave. They always do.
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The week's events were SO big (I'll leave "beautiful" to you!) that we had all Hacks on deck when we recorded this week's show yesterday. @murphymike, @jheil and me:.@HacksonTap are back!.
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The senate bill was surely big but, when it comes to health care, downright ugly. Raise your hand if you voted to throw 17 million Americans off health insurance? Close rural and inner hospitals? Force seniors out of nursing homes?.No? I didn't think so.
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RT @rap30: Ray Long, an icon of Chicago and Illinois journalism, walked out the door for his last day. Anyone living in this state should a….
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And by talented, I mean smart, thoughful, courageous and effective. Great personal story. Christian is a thoroughly admirable guy.
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Very shrewd pick for LG in IL by @GovPritzker. Christian Mitchell is one of the most talented young politicians and policymakers I've known. Big future ahead for him.
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