DL Open Thread: Sun., Dec. 15, 2019
Anti-Impeachment D To Flip. He thinks he has a better chance to save his seat in a general than in a primary against a real D:
Those talks (with Trump) came after Mr. Van Drew saw the results of a poll conducted this month that suggested that a vote against impeaching Mr. Trump would damage his chances of winning his Democratic primary. The poll, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, showed that the overwhelming majority of Democratic primary voters — 71 percent — would be less likely to support his re-election if he opposed the charges against Mr. Trump.
BTW, I think he’s toast in the general next year. New Jersey isn’t Alabama after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. In fact, he might not survive an R primary–if there is one.
That Wisconsin Voter Purge Is Even Worse Than I Thought.
The commission had planned to throw out voters’ registrations in April 2021 if they had not responded or voted by then, but the Journal Sentinel reported that Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy’s decision meant they probably will be removed before the presidential election. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Elections Commission have said they plan to appeal the ruling, according to the Journal Sentinel.
I betcha that there are enough Trump judges around to uphold this order.
The Utterly Pathetic Senate D Whine. Come right out and say it: The Rethugs have no intention of being unbiased jurors. They’re even saying it right out loud. You know what’s more pathetic? Cowardly Chris won’t even express these concerns about his across-the-aisle buds. Maybe he oughta ‘do a Van Drew’.
Another Progressive Challenges A Corporate D. In the Fresno area of Cali. She’s got a shot.
How McKinsey Makes Its Own Rules While Ignoring Legalities. A total must-read. The leaders of this company are even more full of themselves than virtually any other company.
What do you want to talk about?
There’s apparently a joke about McKinsey that goes around in management consulting firms.
A classroom has three more students than it has chairs. The guys from Ernst & Young recommended buying three more chairs. The guys from McKinsey recommended killing three students.
I think Pete is full of himself, just sayin’
Van Drew is toast either way — the Republicans don’t want him as their candidate either.
This should be a lesson to people who think that they can get through this Civil Cold War without picking a side.
The same thing is happening to Nikki Haley, who is trying to both-sides the Confederate flag issue. All you get is hated by both sides, who together vastly outnumber the shrinking number of people in the middle.
No, we can’t just all get along, and the quicker we realize it the better. We can’t all just get along because they will not accept any compromise but complete capitulation.
And really, neither will we. I am unwilling to accept a half-measure of racism and xenophobia. Sorry not sorry.
Well put. Dump Coons!!!! That Fucking collaborationist mother fucker.
This news is about a month old, but Pennsylvania state Senator John Yudichak, first elected to the state House in 1998, and then to the state Senate in 2010, changed his registration from Democrat to independent, saying that the state and country are “in the throes of a fierce public debate where politics has become more about choosing sides than it is about working together toward ‘a more perfect union.’”
Senator Yudichak will caucus with the GOP; Republicans control both Houses of the state legislature.
As it happens, I lived in Senator Yudichak’s senatorial district when I was in the Keystone State. Donald Trump carried both counties in the 14th district in 2016, Luzerne with 58.29% and Carbon — where I lived — with 65.13% of the vote.
Yes, this was not uncommon for economically depressed areas, especially ones in which immigrants are moving it to replace the missing white people (think Hazelton, which I know you are familar with).
Never have I been more puzzled than to see people in a dying town declare, “Sure we want to grow, but not with them,” something that is playing out across the upper Midwest as well. These areas are why pundits said it was economic stress rather than racism that drove these voters to Trump.
The 14th district, which Senator Yudichak represents, does include Hazleton, but it also includes wealthier Wilkes-Barre. The area isn’t particularly wealthy, but it isn’t all that poor, either. It’s more “working class” than “middle class,” but if you somehow have dirt poor Appalachian areas in mind, you’ve got it wrong.
No, I know it well. I have a good friend in Forty Fort. It’s a depressed area economically, like most of Pennsylvania outside the Philly and Pittsburgh metro areas. It’s not dirt poor, but it’s been on the decline for going on a century, ever since the anthracite gave out.
“in the throes of a fierce public debate where politics has become more about choosing sides than it is about working together toward ‘a more perfect union.’”
Ha, ha. There really is no “debate.”
Interim leader calls for Morales’ arrest. Totally normal.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bolivia-morales-idUSKBN1YJ02F?taid=5df5a6a1058609000175a1f8&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Actually, there’s a different word I use for unelected interim leader calling for the arrest of the opposition.