Year: 2019

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes—The Real Divide: In the conventional view of American politics,  Joe Biden is a moderate while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are on the left…

Is it possible that the DEGOP is really this out of gas?

Most Democrats Now Identify As ‘Liberal’ Via 538

I can't stand it when someone who doesn't share my skin tone gets something because that means there will be less for people with my skin tone.

Ed Note: It is 2019 and Delaware is still the legal domicile of terrorists, arms dealers, human traffickers, dark web drug dealers, Donald Trump, and other criminal low lifes. After listening to this episode I am left with two questions which I will put in the comments section, after I select my patronage level and input my credit card digits.

It is absolutely essential that the eventual Democratic candidate appeals to the 5% of voters who are "moderates" with no coherent or settled opinions on anything. They are the real Americans. Anything other than trying to be as vague and vacuous as these voters by "moving to the center" is distasteful liberalism. And it is an iron law of American politics that distasteful liberalism cannot win.

As you read this recall that Bernie Sanders beat Clinton in Michigan, winning in 73 of Michigan's 83 counties. Also recall that Clinton went on to lose Michigan to Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020: Those liberal ideas that fire up the party's base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump. Proposals pushed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like Medicare for All and a wealth tax play well in liberal enclaves like her own district in San Francisco but won't sell in the Midwestern states that sent Trump to the White House in 2016, she said. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan," Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. "What works in Michigan works in San Francisco talking about workers' rights and sharing prosperity." "Remember November," she said. "You must win the Electoral College.

On a good night, with the good host, Saturday Night Live can still be funny. The 'Weekend Update' segment is funny, although John Oliver gets some of the same laughs while managing to work in some trenchant analysis. The part of the show that is consistently unfunny, frequently cringe inducing and generally unwatchable is the political cold open. These segments typically starring Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Warren or Alec Baldwin as Trump are just terrible. McKinnon's Warren (like her Hillary Clinton) is just as overly broad, dopey and lacking in any incisive commentary as Baldwin's Trump. The writers seem to be on autopilot. The "jokes" are recycled show after show which creates the awkward feeling that the cold opening is parody of itself.