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Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has come out in favor of a single-payer health care system.

When her senior adviser Glen Caplin was asked by CNN about whether the junior senator from New York supports single payer, he responded Yes.follow-ups a follow up to Gillibrands response to a health care question at a Facebook Live hosted by Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.

Health care should be a right, it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country, Gillibrand replied.

This is a move to the left for Gillibrand, who despite advocating for Medicare for all since her first congressional campaign has not outright advocated a single-payer system. She is following in the suit of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who told The Wall Street Journallast week that President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts. Now its time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.

Gillibrands new position does place her in good stead among many of her fellow Americans.

A Pew Research Center poll releasedlast weekfound that 33 percent of Americans favor a single-payer health care program, including 52 percent of Democrats/Leaning Democrats and 64 percent of liberals. The total number who favor single payer has risen by 5 percent from its total in January and a whopping 12 percent from where it was in 2014.

Overall 60 percent of the people polled said that the government is responsible for guaranteeing that all Americans have health care coverage, compared to 39 percent who felt that it did not. That number reached 85 percent for Democrats and independents who lean Democratic, while 68 percent of Republicans said the government should not have that responsibility.

The new Democratic push for a single-payer system comes as Senate Republicans plan, which the Congressional Budget Office reported would slash Medicaid funding by 26 percent by 2026, appears at an impasse.

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OBSERVERPhoto Basil A. Smikle Jr., state Democratic Party executive director, stands with Norm Green, right.

It is not about the politics, it is about the policies. Thats the message Basil A. Smikle Jr. gave county Democrats during the partys annual banquet on Thursday in the Gov. Reuben Fenton Historical Society in Jamestown.

Smikle, executive director of the New York State Democratic Party, also made a stop in Dunkirk during the morning to discuss his partys agenda.

He admitted there are plenty of concerns regarding President Donald Trump and the plans to repeal health care across upstate.

Our message is that we will address (constituents) economic anxiety, their political anxiety and help push back on what were seeing coming out of Washington, he said during a meeting in the OBSERVER offices.

Smikle said it was his second trip to Chautauqua County. He was here in 2000 when he was a senior aide to Hillary Clinton who would win election as U.S. senator for New York.

Whos in office matters, he said. You may not like politics but it really matters whos actually occupying those legislative seats, the governors seat and the president of the United States.

Trumps policies and actions have not sat well with all of America, especially many on the left. Smikle pointed to the Womens March on Washington in January, which took place a day after Trump officially took office. Those people cared enough about policy to be driven to go out and show their support for the policies they care about. Its important the Democrats captured that energy.

As for the country, Smikle notes a division. He also sees the upcoming election as an opportunity.

I do think theres renewed interest in the Democratic party even though, I think overall, there has been a hit to the brand, Smikle said. I think Republicans have as well, but I think we most recently took a hit to our brand.

Even if I cant go out and say become a Democrat, I can go out and say we care about the policies you care about and then I hope over time you come to believe its the Democrats who care about these policies too.

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WASHINGTON (AP) A GOP-controlled House committee unexpectedly agreed Thursday to a proposal by a strongly anti-war Democrat to force a debate on a new war authorization.

The proposal would cut off the sweeping 2001 authorization to use military force against terrorism. The move by California Democrat Barbara Lee unexpectedly won voice vote approval by the House Appropriations Committee as it debated a Pentagon funding bill.

Lee wants to force a debate on a new war authorization, and some Republicans agree that debate is a good idea.

A surprised Lee took to Twitter to claim victory.

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"Whoa. My amdt to sunset 2001 AUMF was adopted," Lee tweeted, using Washington code for authorization of military force. "GOP & Dems agree: a floor debate & vote on endless war is long overdue."

Lee's amendment would repeal the 2001 law which has been broadly interpreted to permit military operations beyond those contemplated at the time 240 days after the bill is enacted, which Lee said in a statement "would allow plenty of time for Congress to finally live up to its constitutional obligation to debate and vote on any new AUMF."

The proposal has a long way to go before becoming law. For starters, it would likely be knocked out of the spending bill on procedural grounds during floor debate since spending bills technically aren't supposed to carry policy language.

The 2001 force authorization was enacted in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks to give the president greater powers to respond. It was very broadly drafted to authorize "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001." A separate authorization for the war in Iraq was enacted just before the 2003 invasion.

"It is far past time for Congress to do its job and for the speaker to allow a debate and vote on this vital national security issue," Lee said.

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The recent attempted mass assassination of Republican congressmen and its aftermath reveals much about differences between Democrats and Republicans. Its a difference that Democrats are doing their best to pretend does not exist.

One of the ways Democrats are attempting to escape any responsibility for the shooters motives is by using one of their favorite and most insidious subterfuges moral equivalence. Democrats are doing their level best to convince everyone that Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for the poisonous atmosphere currently rampant in our culture.

The event ought to be an enormous indictment of the Democrat party and the left. There is what should be an obvious and blatant difference between the two parties.

It simply would not occur to a Republican to make a Democrat president symbolically an assassinated Julius Caesar, as they have been doing with their Shakespeare in the Park presentation in New York City this spring. We simply dont think that way. There isnt that much hate in our hearts. Any haters in the Republican Party are outliers. The haters on the left are mainstream.

Democrats are doing their best to gloss over and minimize the shooters political affiliations and the similarity of his attitudes and opinions with those of the Democrat party. The shooters beliefs were carbon copies of those of Democrat politicians. Democrats want us to believe that fact is irrelevant. Is it irrelevant that he specifically targeted Republican politicians? When in history has any shooter ever targeted Democrat politicians specifically because of their party affiliation? The attitude of Democrats reminds me of what George W. Bush said about al Qaeda, They dont oppose our policies, they oppose our existence.

Following the shooting, the clueless FBI pretended not to know what the shooters motives were. As John McEnroe would say, You cant be serious! Were they trying to be funny? Does the FBI not realize how ridiculous they sound? Has political correctness fried their brains? As they might say in the red states, Dont pee in my face and tell me its raining.

Theres a whole lot of denial going on. They have sown the wind, but they deny responsibility for the whirlwind.

Moral equivalence is one of the lefts personality disorders. It is, for example, why liberals are uncomfortable with the idea of American exceptionalism. They would like us to believe that no one country is better than another or that no one religion is better than another. It is why they hold Israel and Palestine equally responsible for the murder and terrorism in that region.

The left does not want to take sides in any conflict. They do not like facing the existence of evil. Their inability to face that reality is part of their utopian mindset. Theyre typically more sympathetic with the killer than the victim, more sympathetic with the law breakers than the law enforcers.

For Democrats, any incident involving guns is a terrible thing to waste. Whenever guns are involved, they exploit it for all its worth. Their tiresome obsession with that issue demonstrates their empty bag of issues. Democrats have no new issues or ideas. They have no young leadership. The party is worn out intellectually and demographically.

Democrats actually believe that an abortion is something positive. Unrestricted abortion is the political issue they are most passionate about. They believe that an abortion is as desirable, or even more desirable, than a live birth. The cold heartedness with which they view the issue is chilling.

Liberals know for certain that Donald Trump is a racist and bigot. How do they know that? Because he wants to protect our borders and enforce existing immigration laws. In order to categorize Trump as a hater they have to redefine and corrupt the meaning of hate. In their minds wanting to secure the borders and enforce existing immigration laws means he has hatred in his heart.

Another example occurred during the 2008 campaign against Prop 8 in California. That proposition was about adding to the states constitution the following, Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. The most frequently seen bumper sticker seen at the time was 8 is Hate. In other words, Democrats in California believed that you had to be a bigot to in favor of keeping the definition of marriage what it has been for hundreds of thousands of years. Prop 8 passed but was subsequently voided by the courts.

The good news for Republicans is that the Democrats worn out bag of tricks and duplicity arent working like they used to. Theres a huge difference between how the two parties behave and how they see the world, and most of the country agrees with the Republican version, at least as evidenced by the November and other recent elections.

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | June 29, 2017, 6:53PM

| Updated 14 minutes ago.

Fire gutted an unoccupied home in a Santa Rosa mobile home park Thursday.

Smoke was reported at 10:03 a.m. above the Rancho San Miguel mobile home park. Firefighters arrived to find thick black smoke pouring out of the windows of the home at 77 Estrella Drive. They doused the flames, preventing the fire from spreading to neighboring units, although there was some damage to an adjacent fence, Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal said.

The previous resident was a hoarder, so the unit was full of junk, manager Bobbe Kemp said. She said the man died earlier this year, and his caretaker was evicted earlier this month. Kemp said the locks to the house were changed and there was no indication that anyone was accessing it in recent days.

Fire inspectors have not yet determined a cause, Lowenthal said.

Were anxious to hear what they find, Kemp said.

It was the second time in less than two weeks a Santa Rosa mobile home burned to the ground. Elizabeth Stamp, 66, was killed June 18 when she was unable to escape the fire that engulfed her Santa Rosa Mobile Estates home. Her 32-year-old son, Ian Stamp, was arrested on suspicion of arson and homicide.

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