Comments on: Watch Jeff Merkley Wipe Floor With Trump’s William Wehrum https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: dhogaza https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/#comment-456125 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:45:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24631#comment-456125 “I dont think this Merkley bloke should be particularly put on a pedestal however. Hes just saying everyday normal stuff.”

This particular performance isn’t why he’s widely admired by Oregonians. It is his overall record in his 9 years in the Senate, and his record as Speaker of the House in the Oregon Legislature.

And the fact that no one in Oz has heard of him isn’t particularly troubling to your average Oregonian, either. 🙂

]]> By: Li D https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/#comment-456124 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:08:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24631#comment-456124 What an absolute clown that Wehrum is.
I dont think this Merkley bloke should be particularly put on a pedestal however. Hes just saying everyday normal stuff.
Millions of people could have said the same thing.
The very fact that Merkley is being lauded suggests something is
terribly askew.
Merkleys performance is not so much good, as Wehrums is absolute crap.
Like Bernard J above, i never heard of the bloke before.

]]> By: Jeff Harvey https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/#comment-456123 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 05:53:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24631#comment-456123 I agree completely with Bernard. The fact is that Trump is employing a veritable army of brainless goons to oversee scientific bodies in the United States. The aim should be obvious: to take the baton from the fossil fuel industries to sow doubt on anthropogenic climate change, thereby eviscerating public constraints on corporate activity in the pursuit of private profit. Senator Merkley demolished Wehrum. We urgently need more politicians like him in office.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/#comment-456122 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 01:49:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24631#comment-456122 The USA has been hiding Jeff Merkley under a bushel – I’d never heard of him ’til now.

He’s exactly the sort of politiican that your country needs: highly informed, eloquent, focussed on the substantive issues and calling bullshit where he sees it.

Hopefully we’ll all see more of him in the future.

]]> By: dhogaza https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/05/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum/#comment-456121 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:38:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24631#comment-456121 One the best votes I ever cast during my decades in Oregon – and I’ve had the opportunity to cast many votes for many good people and measures – was my vote for Jeff Merkley.

He rocks it.

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