Last Night's Dem Debate in Wisconsin | National Catholic Reporter

Last Night's Dem Debate in Wisconsin | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: What Wall Street money buys is a restriction on a belief in what is possible, which means no free tuition, no single payer health care (Wall Street likes the ACA as it is) and now write downs or cram downs on underwater mortgages.  The latter is where Sanders should be making some promises and contrasting this with how Clinton Secretary of the Treasury/Obama economic advisor(and Wall Street apparatchuk)  Larry Summers recommended against doing so, even though the Fed could easily buy up mortgage bonds, write down the debt amounts to market and reissue them.  It would be the one best thing that could be done for the middle and Sanders should do it and promise it, because Clinton would never do either.



As far as being pro-government or anti-government on abortion rights regarding party, MSW makes no sense.  Does he really want the kind of pro-government consistence that dictates who should be permitted to have a child?  Not the government's business - except to take away the economic reasons for having an abortion - like worries about going to college (free college tuition - including daycare services) and paying for food and housing (larger child tax credit).  I would trust a Democratic Socialist much more with these issues.  It turns out our secular Jewish candidate is the most Catholic.



Of course, the argument on abortion is a general election, not a primary argument - and someone needs to explain to the bishops - and to MSW - in legal detail why Roe v. Wade is soundly reasoned - and more importantly - even if you wish to give rights to the uborn - how repealing it is not a good idea.  He or she also needs to point out how much the pro-life movement is a Republican front, which demands much from its supporters and delivers nothing to the unborn.



Sanders knock out blow is nothing he can say in debates - the fact that Bill Clinton will likely have a West Wing office.  That is more a surrogates comment, to be soft pedaled but once its out there, its out there.  That opens the door to how welfare reform and mandatory minimums screwed over the African American community disproportionately.  Whether these matters come to the fore before the South Carolina primary or not is questionable - but no one is thinking any more that Senator Sanders and his movement will slip away if he does not do well there - except maybe some of the Clinton supporters and campaign staff.  They are sadly mistaken. Indeed, the African American support issue opens the door the Mr.Clinton's record and how he can't stop himself from acting like a white southern male sometimes.  Its not a positive for HRC, no matter how well her husband emotes.



Of course, HRC is more like the first President Bush than her husband - every qualified, not so good with that "vision thing."