Year: 2022

Senator Elizabeth Warren was on TV this morning saying that  if the Dems had any fighting spirt it at all, they'd take the elements of the BBB plan and hold votes on them to make Republicans (plus Chris Coons, Joe Manchin, et al) vote against:

• expanded free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds,
• high-quality care for older Americans and people with disabilities in their homes
• making the wealthy and corporations pay what they owe
• and so on.

It is that or make like John Carney and say that your hands are tied.

I'm not saying I won't vote for him, but I know know I'm going to have a very tough time voting for him knowing he was either lying or so…

Unless they are scared off by Trump, the GOP presidential primary is going to be a donnybrook because they all view Biden (or Harris) as incredibly beatable. With the changes they've made on the state level regarding how elections are run, they are probably right. Anyway, I guess I hope Liz Cheney runs, but I don't see that happening. As usual the country's assholes will be choosing a "King of the assholes" to represent them. FWIW, here is the NYT on Trump v DeSantis:

"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed…

Another very successful weekend of me avoiding all "news" is in the books.  I have no earthly idea what may have happened over the last 48 hours but I can guess that "0MG! InFLaTI0N!!"  "Dems in Disarray and "Biden Presidency in Deep Trouble" stories loomed large. Fortunately none of that stuff has any real world impact.  It is all just a jolly game for DC cocktail circuit regulars.    So what is on your radar?   While you ponder that question here are some is one "Delaware" headline of note per the google news algorithms.

This is why Coons' mania for "Bipartisanship Above the Republic Itself" is so pernicious and so unforgivable. Using a whiteboard, author and Ohio politician David Pepper posted a video (linked…

Sinema saying that Dem leadership should've worked harder to build GOP support for voting rights is pure Chris Coons Bipartisanship Über Alles. "I wish there had been a more serious…

Look. "Angry liberals" will get blamed for the failure of the radical centrist Democratic Party anyway, so maybe it is time to earn that scorn and reprobation we are going to be getting no matter how badly centrist bomb throwers fuck shit up? Maybe it is time for all left of center Dems to quit the party or at least provide zero votes (or money) to the party or to any Dem candidate until it reigns in the centrist zealots who are committed to failure? "Liberals" have been the most loyal but most routinely ignored part of the Dem coalition. It seems to me that it is time for the party to pay a price for being in the thrall of radical centrism.