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Anon Democratic Senators: Biden Good! Warren and Sanders Bad and Scary :(“The senators have a great confidence in their own ability with a friendly White House to say, ‘We like a lot of that, but we don’t like all of it,’ ” the senator said. “We’re not going to just do what they ask because they ask.”
Could this be because they desperately want to preserve the status quo that keeps them in power and does little to nothing for the people they serve? Not for me to say! (Yes.)
'Electability' Is a Protection Racket
Paul Blest
Here is a poll of potential head-to-head matchups between Donald Trump and five of the top contenders for the De...
As The Hill also noted, Biden already has the public endorsements of five senators—perhaps useful for progressive organizers thinking about candidates ripe for a primary challenge! The argument is largely the same tired one we’ve heard before: Biden is more “pragmatic” and more “electable.” Alabama Sen. Doug Jones went as far as to say Warren and Sanders wouldn’t “play as well in Alabama,” which is interesting because a presidential ticket with Biden on it failed to get even 40 percent of the vote in both 2008 and 2012."
"We’re not here today because of famous arches or famous men,” she told a rally in Washington Square Park Monday night.
“In fact, we’re not here because of men at all,” she said, emphasizing the “m” word like an expletive.
Great. Then she won’t mind if men don’t vote for her, nor women who like men.
It’s a losing strategy, taken straight out of the playbook of Hillary Clinton, from whom, reportedly and inexplicably, Warren has been taking advice.
Millions of American women showed in 2016 that they weren’t prepared to vote for Clinton just because she had a second X chromosome. White, noncollege-educated women in particular voted almost 2-to-1 for Donald Trump in 2016.
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"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), like many senior House Democrats, has for months expressed skepticism about starting impeachment hearings against President Trump. But in the wake of the revelations about Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Schiff seems to have changed his mind. As he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday:
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Well, Jake ... if the president is essentially withholding military aid, at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit, that is, providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is co-equal to the evil that that conduct represents.
That Schiff finally realizes impeachment “may be the only remedy” is a relief. If only House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), would realize this as well.
The president himself has admitted he discussed investigating former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter with Zelensky. We know that Ukraine’s former top prosecutor was in fact fired because of his well-documented corruption, not — as Trump would have us believe — because of any investigation into Hunter Biden. We know that starting in August, the Trump administration engaged in an “unprecedented struggle” with Congress, as The Post’s Karoun Demirjian put it, to withhold $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, before mysteriously releasing the hold in mid-September. We know that the White House is refusing to release a whistleblower complaint about the call, in direct violation of the law. Add this to the pile of evidence that the president’s associates colluded with Russia and that the president obstructed justice to hide that, with only Justice Department precedent shielding him from charges."
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"One rival, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, told CNN after Thursday’s debate in Houston that people are “concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling.” Fair enough. But whom do they see as most likely to successfully avoid being tackled by Donald Trump?
For better and for worse, after nearly a half-century, voters know who Biden is. They know he’s like a gymnast doing a floor exercise, full of dizzying flips and spins and rolls. And though he occasionally botches the footwork, he ends up on his feet and in bounds. They also know he has trouble answering questions about race, but no one comes close to his polling status among black people. They know his heart.
Older people do like Biden, but not because he’s older. It’s because he’s not pushing anything crazy, not messing around too much with their health care, not making promises for all kinds of free stuff, and because he’s been around. He knows things, knows people, and they think he can put back together what Trump has broken.
Young people typically place Biden on a scale that ranges from eye-roll to anathema. They want big change, now, and don’t see Biden as a vehicle for that. Three years ago, when their passion led many to stay home or vote for Jill Stein, they got big change. Trump moved into the White House. Now they might face a similar choice in 2020."
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"Not for the first time, President Trump has revealed the fragility of this country’s democratic system. Three years into his presidency, the evidence of a weakened system is all around. It has happened in plain sight.
The latest involves the president and Ukraine. Based on what has so far been reported, the president asked, encouraged or demanded that the leader of a foreign government undertake an investigation designed to produce information that could damage a potential 2020 campaign rival.
Whether this also involved a quid pro quo is in question. The full story is not yet known. The biggest reason the details are not known is because Trump’s White House and the Justice Department, which is supposed to operate independently, have so far prevented Congress from obtaining the information that could help reveal what is missing."
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