Year: 2019

You can read the letter that Mayor Pete Buttigieg penned to the Muslim community of South Bend in its entirety in this piece. I found his words to be deeply…

Mark Sumner, who writes the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup on Sundays, made this comment after one of his links, and it's hard to make it simpler: I live in…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand formally launched her presidential bid on Sunday morning, announcing she will deliver her first major speech next week in front of Trump International…

Content: He has some good stuff that will work on a ton of people. Especially media types like David Brooks, who he name-checked and is part of a media army that pines for a great white hope to save the republic and restore the collegial Senate poker night. (The Georgetown cocktail parties have SUCKED since the Clintons, let's face it.) I liked the "white supremacists are bad" stuff and might have liked him to hit the "Republicans in the Senate need to nut up and be Americans" a little harder, but he is running to be the peacemaker, President. PS - he didn't announce except in a slip of the tongue in which he announced. Style: I've heard him in much better speaking form at prior JJ Dinners. (Do they still call it JJ? I don't think so) He is old. He is an old guy. It isn't as fluid as it once was, so the slow rolling build that he's mastered after a lifetime of doing this shit wasn't there. It was more like "quiet, quiet, quiet, YELL YELL, YELL." He can still hold a room in the palm of his hand, but he is rusty. The pace needs work. Overall: All that said, he could win. He will benefit from a brokered convention in which Super Delegates come into play. You heard it first here. BONUS: Carper is in full on crazy old man mode now. Coo-coo.

The "New Democrats," the organization Lisa Blunt Rochester has joined, has made clear it disapproves of the Green New Deal. The "new" in the name apparently means lobbyists should send…

Corporate lackey, Chris Coons, called out in the pages of the Cape Gazette.

As I read the commentary column by Sen. Chris Coons (Feb. 2 Cape Gazette) I could not believe that this legislator was patting himself on the back for introducing a bill that, in his view, will “…prevent prescription opioids from flooding our communities…”  I found this proposed solution presumptuous, hypocritical and disingenuous because it is a shallow attempt at restoring a power that the Drug Enforcement Agency had and diligently performed before Congress stripped it away from the DEA. 

The Associated Press reported that Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor's office in a race tainted by voter suppression, and Joe Biden held a private meeting in Washington on…

That's not just my opinion. It's what anti-terrorism expert Brian Levin, Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, told MSNBC this morning.…

Economist Andrew Cassey joins RE Vanella to talk about Modern Monetary Theory, a new old idea which is overturning decades of both Republican and centrist Democratic talking points. A nerdy,…