Bernie vs Establishment by Nancy OhanianI don't know how to get people I don't know off my Facebook "friends" list without going through all 5,000 names and deleting people I don't know. More than 90% of what I use Facebook for is to provide links for my DWT posts. Lately I've been getting a lot of comments like this: "Jesus Fucking Christ....I do not care who the Dem candidate is!
There are some Trump supporters who will NEVER abandon himKyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, had some good news for House Democrats yesterday: their average generic ballot edge over Republicans is as strong as it was last cycle, when they netted over 40 seats.
Biden's actual campaign kickoff was on Thursday, April 25-- a fat cat-only fundraiser in the Philadelphia mansion of Comcast executive and lobbyist David Cohen, co-hosted by every crooked Democrat he could find, from establishment scumbag Ed Rendell to union-busting attorney Steven Cozen.
Eric Levitz's column in New York Magazine over the weekend, House Democratic Establishment Declares War On Democracy is exactly the kind of headline Pelosi, Hoyer and Cheri Bustos deserve.
I wish that crazy Trump would just settle down and go spend his days playing golf again so AOC could get Congress working on a sensible agenda. You know who's work I'm really enjoying? Eric Levitz at New York Magazine. Once a poetry lecturer at Johns Hopkins, this guy has been writing excellent essays on the nexus of where politics meets the world of finance.
What's more important to Democratic primary voters-- candidates' visions for a post-Trump America or who is most likely to beat Trump in the election? In a NY Times piece yesterday--Democrats Want to Run on Issues in 2020.
The weekend Paul Krugman was on fire after Republicans cluelessly went on the warpath against Alexandria Cortez again, this time because of her 60 Minutes tax hike for the rich proposal. His NY Times column, The Economics of Soaking the Rich, started by asking "What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy?" and then answering... "A lot."
Sunday, on MSNBC's AM Joy, sharp-tongued columnist Jennifer Rubin predicted that in January 2021, just as his term is finally ending, Señor Trumpanzee will resign so that "President" Pence, also on his way to the garbage heap of history, can pardon him of all crimes.Eric Levitz is always good for a yuck.
