2020 presidential nomination

Two crooked establishment groups-- Biden's own SuperPAC, Unite the Country, and David Brock's notoriously corrupt American Bridge-- have teamed up to push Biden into the Oval Office. Of course; he's exactly their kind of guy. Deval Patrick and Jennifer Granholm will co-chair the partnership.

On Friday, John Nichols made the case that Bernie's moral outrage and devastating sarcasm during the bailout debate and with which he "struck back against a GOP assault on poor and low-income workers" is exactly what an opposition party is supposed to sound like.

In her exhausting Cuomo column yesterday, Maureen Dowd quoted a conversation she had with Bill Maher who said to her "I see Cuomo as the Democratic nominee this year. If we could switch Biden out for him, that’s the winner...

Krystal: "Just ask yourself-- Is that the man you want leading this response to this crisis right now? If you're a person like me, you're looking at him, you're looking at Trump, you're going 'My God! What a choice is laid before us!' It's honestly horrifying."Saagar: "This guy can get away with pretty much anything, as long as he just stays alive. That's all they want. He's like an empty husk to which the establishment can project whatever they want-- tax cuts, the Obama era neo-liberalism, continuing their grip, continuing the gate flow, all of that. That's what he represents.

Trump (+ Pence), Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, Bernie and Elizabeth Warren are preaching out to frightened Americans in a big way-- Bernie and Elizabeth substantively, Trump and Pence as part of the p.r. approach and Newsom and Cuomo with their baby steps. But Status Quo Joe is no where at all.

-by Alan Minsky, Executive Director-- Progressive Democrats of AmericaIn the second half of Sunday’s debate, Bernie Sanders delivered what would likely have been a knock-out blow to Joe Biden in any other Presidential debate when he established that Biden was lying about his record on social security.

Long-time DWT readers will probably remember David Segal, a super-progressive Rhode Island state legislator who Blue America backed in his 2010 fight for an open congressional seat. Currently he's executive director of Demand Progress.

Justin Maurer, author of autobiographical comedy, Falling On Deaf Eyes, is a CODA (Child of a Deaf Adult) and a professional American Sign Language interpreter, consultant, writer, producer, performer, and musician based in Los Angeles. In the last year he was interpreted for Bernie and Elizabeth as well as for Michelle Obama, Maxine Waters, and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.

After nearly 5 decades in politics, suddenly one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate is trying to "look" vaguely progressive. Status Quo Joe, once fought against Elizabeth Warren's bankruptcy proposals now says he backs them. Friday, at a small town hall in Illinois he said "I’ve endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy proposal, which... allows for student debt to be relieved in bankruptcy and provides for a whole range of other issues." I don't believe him. I believe his record.

Yesterday, under intense pressure, Señor Trumpanzee did a 180-- going from insisting the pandemic was a "hoax" perpetrated against him so he would lose his reelection bid, to declaring a national emergency because of it.As Susan Glasser asserted in the New Yorker this week,