{"id":22036,"date":"2016-05-25T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22036"},"modified":"2016-05-25T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:03:21","slug":"liz-thumps-rump-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/liz-thumps-rump-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Thumps Rump Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been relatively quiet this campaign season.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect she thought she could do more to promote progressive positions by remaining neutral&nbsp; on the Democratic side.&nbsp; That disappointed me, because Jeff Merkley (D-OR) could sure use some company!&nbsp; But since Rump Dump Trump became the presumptive Republican Nominee, Liz has been all over him,.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"0525elizabeth_warren_rant\" border=\"0\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0525elizabeth_warren_rant.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"0525elizabeth_warren_rant\" width=\"310\" \/>Elizabeth Warren continues to carry her torch for the Democratic Party as both a Massachusetts senator and party super delegate. After engaging in a brutal Twitter war with the Republican &ldquo;presumptive nominee&rdquo; Warren is taking on the Republican billionaire every chance she gets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown because it meant he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap,&rdquo; Warren said Tuesday night at a Washington, D.C., gala for the Center for Popular Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What kind of a man does that?&rdquo; Warren asked rhetorically. &ldquo;Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for people to lose their jobs? Root for people to lose their pensions? Root for two little girls in Clark County, Nevada, to end up living in a van?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Warren warned the crowd that Trump&rsquo;s economic policies would not only make America less great&mdash;they would throw the country into a recession&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/democratic-superdelegate-elizabeth-warren-gives-scathing-anti-trump-rant\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ht2rFXbOQzM?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And I would add: What kind of man does that? A Republican!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Cooper Black\" size=\"7\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Every Republican in office<\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Cooper Black\" size=\"7\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been relatively quiet this campaign season.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect she thought she could do more to promote progressive positions by remaining neutral&nbsp; on the Democratic side.&nbsp; That disappointed me, because Jeff Merkley (D-OR) could sure use some company!&nbsp; But since Rump Dump Trump became the presumptive Republican Nominee, Liz has been <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/liz-thumps-rump-dump\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}