Do You think Warren will run?

[BlueCaliDem]

40. Excellent major issues that you've noted there! I agree, 100%.

There is no sane human being on Earth with more than half a working brain who can deny, with any credibility, that humans don't play a huge role in the alarming climate change we're experiencing.

Equal rights for gay people is here to stay - unless, of course, we get a fully rightwing SCOTUS that might overturn the law through gutting it, just as they've done to the Voting Rights Act. Can you see now how incredibly important it is to ensure that we have a Democrat in the White House? Two of the three justices ready for retiring are Republican justices. Scalia is the worst, only second to Justice Thomas, though. And Kennedy, the so-called "swing voter", has actually been swinging pretty rightwing lately. Both, however, are entering their eighties and ripe for retirement. So they'll either retire or keel over in their posh seats a la the late Chief Justice Rehnquist - a former Rightwinger.

But to address your worries regarding Welfare reform, I'll defer to a 2006 interview by the Examiner with Ron Haskins; one of the people who had helped pass the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)
http://www.brookings.edu/research/interviews/2006/08/24welfare-haskins

It will help give you an insight to the behind-the-scenes machinations in getting this particular bill through, and why it was necessary. To note: President Clinton vetoed two earlier bills to reform Welfare because it was too Republican...i.o.w., it was too harsh on the less fortunate American people who needed help.