FIGHTING WORDS

Kevin Drum: "what's the point of a strong economy if it produces higher poverty rates, declining private sector healthcare coverage, and stagnant incomes?" Bill Scher: "By not representing all Americans, our constitution laid the seeds for own “arduous, difficult ... painful process” – our own civil war...It killed more than 600,000 people and left a scar on the nation that lasts to this day. Such is the risk a nation takes when it does not fully represent all of its people from the beginning." Jonathan Tasini: "The concept of a House is one of comfort, stability, predictability, and ownership. In today’s world, it might behoove unions to behave less from a place of comfort and defense of the House, opting, instead, to launch campaigns that might, in fact, endanger some institutions..."