“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
–Leonard Bernstein
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Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything. Does she have a plan as to how to get rid of the filibuster?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/warren-sanders-filibuster.html
Because if not, a lot of her supporters will be in for a very big disappointment.
And it looks like Warren cannot get the details of her big and bold plan straight when she discusses it…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-health-plan-billionaires.html
Well, her famous Two Cents was always three percent annually annually, and is now 6 percent annually or 60 percent of net worth over $1 billion over 10 years. Capitalism without capital.
Okay. I am now going to ask the most important debate question. In Meme form.
Let us remember that the songwriter and first to record the song, Bruce Springsteen, clearly wrote and sang “cut loose like a deuce.” The revved/wrapped deuce/douche thing resulted from the ill-advised efforts of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band to tamper with perfection.
"The bathroom's on the right."
Apparently, Republicans think witness intimidation should be enshrined in the Constitution somewhere:
Along that line, I'm sure McCarthy would agree that providing the names, addresses, family and close associates of Grand Jury members to Mobsters and Gang leaders under investigation would ensure a fairer process.
Warren is not electable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/upshot/one-year-from-election-trump-trails-biden-but-leads-warren-in-battlegrounds.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
It's not gender or age.
It's fear.
Warren is electable. Per 538, Warren is increasingly popular with Democratic activists in early states. 48% to 31% Biden
The New Yorker’s analysis of the poll you cited narrows the Biden-not-Warren voters down to a 6% segment of likely voters consisting of of white , older, moderate males. Like R&R, they consider Warren to be “schoolmarmish” or to “speak in the voice of their ex-wife”. So it’s a gender tax she’s paying with that particular group.
Fortunately, we are not dependent on moderate white males to win this election. It’s why we need a candidate who will excite younger voters, racial minorities, and women. Warren leads Biden with most of those groups…..and beats Trump the same margin as Biden does.
A Trump Biden debate would be brutal, a gaffeapalooza. We need someone sharp, energetic and creative as President at this critical time, and Biden just doesn’t fill that bill.
Warren can be nominated but that doesn't mean she can win a general election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/upshot/swing-voters-2020-election.html
I dare say that Bernie Sanders may actually have a better shot in a general election than she does.
As for Warren's sharpness in a debate, well you need to remember that people rarely vote for the smartest kid in the class. If so, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have been elected.
It is a good day for the rule of law:
Now to see if there are 4 Supreme Court Justices who want to listen to this case.
It would be kinda cool to see cert. denied. A nice "nah, we're not interested."
Something to keep in mind the next time a candidate’s “plans” set your heart aflutter, or fire your outrage and righteous indignation . . .
I personally, and admittedly an abnormal and an outlier, am far more interested in a candidate’s intellect, world view, sense of history, sense of personal and moral responsibility, their sense of agency, and what sense of duty they feel and to whom, than I am any of the breathlessly debatable minutiae particulars of any “plans” they might put forth at campaign time.
YMMV.
I always knew Sinema was not exactly a team player but I didn't know she was this much of a DINO. Is she channeling Joe Lieberman?
She won
statewide, in Arizona.
WTF – are you always a dick or does it just seem that way?
Bernie and Warren lose in AZ and pull Kelly down .
You must want Trump reelected. Ohhhh.. I get it now. You do want that – in which case you're smart. This is how do it.
Either Bernie or Warren loses in AZ, and pulls Kelly down. In fact, either Bernie or Warren loses a lot of states. It will be like 1972 or 1984 again. Or worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/upshot/trump-biden-warren-polls.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
This is why we need to nominate someone who is electable.
You so often complain here and toss around “1972” or “McGovern” like it’s some kind of universal law and an undeniably meaningful prescient warning for today, instead of just conventional-wisdom-squawk squawking . . .
I’m wondering which Democratic candidate in 1972, or 1984, do you think would have had a credible chance of winning those years against Nixon or Reagan? What great and superior moderate candidate did too-liberal Democratic buffoonery ignore those years?? . . .
. . . also, why you think The World’s Biggest Fucking Idiot 2016 – 2020, compares in any way, other than incumbency or criminality or abuse of Presidential power, to either Nixon or Reagan???
Numbers, Dio, numbers…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/upshot/swing-voters-2020-election.html
Out of the six battleground states (AZ, FL, MI, PA, NC, WI), Biden has a small lead over Trump in 4 of them, ties with Trump in one, and narrowly trails in one other.
Bernie Sanders – who is probably more honest than Warren but also more extreme – leads in 3, trails in 3. Warren either trails or runs even with Trump in 5 of the 6 states, leads in only AZ.
You are correct in that he is the Biggest Fucking Idiot in the World but that doesn't matter. There are many who will still vote for him for a variety of reasons (i.e., self-interest among many who should know better than to support him but do so because the economy is going okay, the deplorables and irredeemables who love his rants about PC-ness, the Deep State, and the Hoaxes but do not realize how much he is actually hurting them).
And polling is unreliable because of the Hidden Trump Voter Factor. His numbers are under reflected in polling. It is like the Tom Bradley Effect back in the '80's.
Well, we knew this day was coming, but still . . .
. . . Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
. . . why bother with shooting just one person on Fifth Avenue, when you can almost as easily destroy an entire planet for billions, huh??????
I hope they'll let us back in when we have a president with more than two defective brain cells connected by a spirochete.
We're not supposed to hate, right?
It sure is hard …..