Martin O'Malley

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His plan, his vision for the future is building an economy that works for everyone where everyone participates and everyone's voice is heard and a government that gets results.

Learn more: And so we do. There is a list of challenges. Each category begins with standard axiom. Stripped of pedestrian adage, premise, the uncontested truth nuggets that begin all common liberal reasoning eliminates 2/3 to get at specific proposal saved for the last sentence in each. It's annoying. Because it's the same thing heard at every cocktail party, every single gathering that endures long enough for it to devolve to Democrat caucus if it hasn't begun as such. It is a stroking. A verbal stroking that must happen to reaffirm reality. Restate it, rebuild it with each conversation LEGO brick for LEGO brick. A sort  annoying tribal primate grooming, the picking at mites and eating them while discussing politics. Example, but only one to limit your annoyance:

Bringing undocumented workers out of the shadows

 That term! Used for avoidance of established immigration law. The term is rejected. "Out of the shadows" Goddamnit, that's what stupid cliquish girls do, latch onto a phrase like that and hammer it repeatedly, exclusively, as received wisdom and redelivered again as if fresh. Rejected. They're avoiding our laws. Your laws. Knock it off with the shadow people talk, it annoys me, not your voters, they eat that nonsense up like cotton candy, but the truth that we all know is the workers here illegally' are squatters in our country, just as we would be in theirs, jacking our employment system so that you conflate beginning starting wage with living wage, as we would be theirs, and pushed ahead of people who are trying to immigrate legally and making a sick sorry joke of the whole thing and doing this forever that legislators like you enable for your own profit. As seen right here. I am quite sick and tired of having this perennial discussion. You are the ones keeping it alive.

will grow our economy, expand our tax base, create jobs and lift wages -- benefitting our country as a whole. We must boldly advance immigration reform, while also using executive action to it full authority to end unnecessary detentions and expand deferred actions. As Americans, when refugee children arrive on our doorstep, we shouldn't turn them away -- we should act like the generous, compassionate people we are.

Stop flattering me. I'm not so generous that it's okay with me for my party's principals presently in power to travel about and make speeches in Central America touching on executive intention to take action on so-called "dreamers." Only mentioning the obvious emotional manipulation with that phrasing, that positively invites children to risk their lives climbing the tops of trains that traverse an entire nation complicit in this population restructuring program and with its own incredibly stringent immigration policies. The obvious manipulation is quite incredible. And you MR. Martin O'Malley are a very large part of it. This gas lighting here is evidence of this emotional manipulation. Of course we are compassionate toward children. Why your party invited such tragedy is clear also to observers. And it is why you are being put out. Why your candidacy will fail, and fail hard. You are a joke. Your party is a joke. Your supporters, though, they are a serious problem.

So that's one. They're all like that. Stripping the bullshit is easy. It's all the things typical Democrats say, and say it such you almost believe they actually do believe it themselves and  I am a bit surprised O'Malley avoided "our immigration system is broken and must be fixed." Because that would fit perfectly for his adage-addled audience. Here are the rest minus their axioms. You could write all of it yourself on a coffee break by simply trying to be silly, pull an Onion piece by writing your most inane impulses, and talking to retarded children about politics and what to expect from their government. Vapid and misguided as Ed Miliband's stone pledge. He actually had that crap chiseled in stone.

Fight for better wages. That means raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, increasing threshold for overtime pay to $1,000 a week and restoring collective bargaining power.

Bring accountability to Wall Street. Reinstate Glass-Steagall, empower regulators, break up banks.

Expand equality of opportunity for next generation. Affordable childcare and universal pre-K and college debt-free for all. Modernize high school, empower students to graduate with year of college credit, apprenticeships, certificates or credential for high-pay, high-skill job.

Strengthen cities. Return to better choices of investments in infrastructure, mass-transit, housing near good jobs and good schools.

Support Women and Families.  Maternity leave, paternity leave, equal pay, child care.

Break down barriers that keep families in poverty. Greater investments in communities, public education, Earned Income Tax Credit.

Protect dignity of retirement.  Expand benefits so all seniors can retire with dignity.

Jobs Agenda for climate challenge.  Limit cargbon emissions, set targets for renewable energy, drive innovation, seed new industries, create good local jobs.

Put elections back in hands of American voters. Fix Citizens United. Embrace citizen-funded elections. Match small donors six-to-one or more , reward through refundable tax credit. Make it easier to vote. Restore Voting Rights Act. Tear down barriers like ID requirements.

Insist on transparent, accountable high-performing government.  Have clear goals. Have way to measure success. Less lobbyist influence. 

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Items to read:

Martin O'Malley Attempts a Politics of Moral Duty [read more]

Immigration as 2016 Issue Upped with Martin O'Malleys Candidacy [read more]

Martin O'Malley Returns to a Baltimore He Barely Recognizes. [read more]

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My Twitter timeline is having a field day with his speech today. I could fill pages with just that. Line for line Fisking, the whole thing is ridiculous, especially so as ex mayor of Baltimore.