Steven Rattner's NY Times OpEd on Tuesday, Trump Can't Beat Obama On The Economy must have driven Señor Trumpanzee insane. Rattner, who worked in the Obama Treasury Dept., hit every Trump sore spot he could think of.
G. Elliott Morris, a data journalist for The Economist who covers their polls, wrote that the new national polling of the Democrats' primary elections in 2020 from YouGov shows some significant movement in the last month-- primarily away from Biden and towards Bernie. In parentheses are the changes among Democratic primary voters from last month:
Trump has always believed that if you talk something up enough you can make it happen. It's different from just plain lying and different from gaslighting. It's a form of manipulation common in the New York City business world. On Sunday he told reporters, "I don't think we're having a recession. We're doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich. I gave a tremendous tax cut and they're loaded up with money." Loaded?
This morning Carolyn Maloney,vice chair of the Joint Economic Committee released a report, Retirement Insecurity, meant to coincide with the 84th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. The report shows that, while Social Security has been successful in preventing millions of Americans from falling into poverty, the two other pillars of America's retirement system are in crisis: personal savings and pensions.
I can't say I watched the whole Chris Matthews town hall in Montgomery County, Ohio (Dayton), a county that swung from 145,997 (52.5%) for Obama and 128,679 (46.3) for McCain in 2008 and 137,139 (51.5%) for Obama and 124,841 (46.88%) for Romney in 2012 to 123,909 (47.97%) for Trump and 122,016 (47.24) for Hillary in 2016. MSNBC must have spent a lot of time finding people who fully embraced so much shocking ignorance.
That's McCarthy with Stella Li and Wang ChuanfuPeople who don't follow politics closely still don't know who California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is, even though he's the Republican House Leader and Trump's chief protagonist in Congress. The DCCC never runs a candidate against him-- even though CA-23 is now a minority-majority district-- and has been hostile towards local Democrats who have tried taking him on in the past.
Remember the '80s hit by The Nails, 88 Lines About 44 Women? (There was a Kamala in the song. She "couldn't sing but she kept the beat and kept it strong." Kamala Harris was still a teenager when it was first recorded. When it became a hit, that was the first time I ever heard the name.) That whole parenthesis doesn't matter.
Sharon Nunn's Wall Street Journal report on a slowing economy in the South sounds like a Richard Florida prediction come true: "The American South spent much of the past century trying to overcome its position as the country’s poorest and least-developed region, with considerable success: By the 2009 r
