2020 presidential nomination

The Starbucks guy deserves a 60 Minutes feature? Do they think he's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or something? He isn't. He's just another super-rich, under-taxed old white guy who thinks he should be king. I think 60 Minutes would be better off-- as would America-- if they ran an interview with author Marianne Williamson, who is announcing her campaign tonight in Los Angeles. She sure has more interesting things to say than Schultz does!

Let me talk about something difficult for most people, though not for me. Next month I turn 71. My old friend Martha was just in town and she's either my age or a year younger. She's a research scientist at Columbia and recently retired. In college she was the only person I knew who was politically to the left of me. When she asked me who I was voting for next year, I said Bernie of course.

Joe Biden by Nancy OhanianMatt Longjohn was a good solid progressive candidate last year in MI-06, the southwest Michigan district that is centered on Kalamazoo and includes all or part of 6 counties: Kalamazoo (the biggest and overwhelmingly blue), Berrien, Allegan, Van Buren, St. Joseph and Cass.

-by Tim RussoWord on the street here in Ohio is that Sherrod Brown has reverted to factory settings as he prepares to run for president in 2020. What are Sherrod Brown’s factory settings? Sherrod don’t like primaries, that’s what.Be afraid.

On Sunday, writing for the Washington Post, Bob Moser profiled a candidate who's not really a candidate, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, asking, Could Pete Buttigieg Become the First Millennial President?.

Did you watch Jake Tapper's CNN show Sunday? Is this what the primary is going to be about-- a parade of unaccomplished candidates apologizing for their unsavory pasts? Then it all becomes a test of who you believe and who you think is just an opportunist faking it.

I'm not the only one who's noticed that Trump would have probably been happier as a TV critics than as a failed, illegitimate fake-president. And, sure enough, former White House aide Cliff Sims' new book, Team of Vipers described Trump as he watched TV in his private dining room off the Oval Office: "He consumed TV like the late Roger Ebert must have watched movies...

Martin Luther King Day-- Good Morning America... Kamala Harris announced what everyone knew was coming: another senator with no notable accomplishments to her name-- other than in her own mind-- is running for the nomination to take on Señor Trumpanzee. She's not part of our Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President series.

2010 saw a red tidal wave sweep Democrats out of office across America. Democrats lost 63 House seats and watched John Boehner take over the speakership from Pelosi. Democrats lost 6 Senate seats-- Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin (Russ Feingold) and North Dakota. Republicans also picked up new governors' mansions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Wyoming and New Mexico.

I got that invitation above the other day and said to myself, "self, didn't Katie Hill say she wasn't going to take PAC money?" Maybe not; maybe I was thinking of almost every other freshman. Or maybe there was some Philadelphia lawyer language in the statement about not taking-- let alone soliciting-- which this invitation clearly is. So I tweeted it. A top Hill chief of staff write to me immediately: "I saw your tweet.