Posts by jason330

This is an important insight from Alby.

If that’s where Wall Street puts its money, (Joe Biden) be a contender. I’d say the odds are against it, but it’s not impossible. If he catches fire with the public, they’ll back him. Who else have they got? Gillibrand and Booker. Maybe Harris. They’re not going to sit it out.

For the past few cycles, we have had two money races. These races define the nominating contest even in the absence of any candidates. One is the race for Wall Street money described above by Alby. The other is the race for small donor money. Howard Dean was the first to identify small donors as a possible route to the nomination. Wall Street identified the threat and used the media to execute an effective takedown. Obama knitted the two funding sources together, but only after he beat Clinton. Clinton won the Wall Street money race before the starter's pistol fired but left small donors colder than cold. To win the Democratic nomination and the Presidency, we'll need a candidate that wins the small donor money race, thereby creating an actual base of voters, and manages to neutralize or co-opt the Wall Street money.

  This checks out: WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hold a second summit meeting early next year with Kim Jong-un, even though North Korea has failed to follow through…

This isn't a comprehensive look back. Just some posts from the last year that stand out for me. I may do a more comprehensive 2018 later, but probably not. With…

Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, George H. W. Bush, Gerald R. Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B.…

FWIW - If you lined up all Republicans from most horrible to least horrible. George H.W. Bush would be among horrible but not terribly horrible like his son. And nothing…

One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we're not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and…

I've said from the beginning that the press should not call them "tweets" but "statements." We've given Trump's statements through twitter a special status. Because they mostly seem like nonsense, and because they tumble out like jazz improvisations, they don't get any real scrutiny from the press and public. As a result, they shield the President from the outrage that they should produce. We've laughed at a shrugged off the most appalling changes in our democracy that Trump has made because they were made through Twitter. Now Trump states on Twitter that he reserves the right to obstruct justice and use the power of Presidential pardon to free Paul Manafort if Manafort continues to obstruct the investigation into Russian interference in the election. Trump reserves the right to obstruct justice by pardoning Paul Manafort. He said it on Twitter.

The last unresolved House Race Of 2018 was won by the Democrat. The Dems flipped 40 seats. A huge wave. The aggregate Democratic House vote this year is 90.6% of…

This is some good blogging by Delaware Dem. For me, it tends to support El Som's assertion that Carney may be a dead man walking. Read the whole thing, but this is where Carney gets his ass beaten raw by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster:

Coons just got a chance to promote his prayer breakfast on Morning Joe. The MSNBC panel ate it up, of course. Nobody seemed to recognize the irony of Coons extolling the value of praying with his GOP buddies every week just after stating that he is "puzzled" by why Mitch McConnell continues to block all efforts to protect the Special Counsel. Coons...Puzzled BTW - I missed most of Coons' segment. I'm sure his commitment to bipartisanship is fixing many problems because... reasons.

General Motors Co. will cut more than 14,000 salaried staff and factory workers and close seven factories worldwide by the end of next year, part of a sweeping realignment to…

As noted by Cris Barrish, the DEGOP died back in 2010. [Ken Simpler was a cadaveric spasm.] There is no stomach for the GOP's toxic stew of anti-science, pro-racism, and…

It is clear that the Republicans have decided that ever more chaos on our southern border is a winning issue for them, so what is the Democratic strategy to address this reality? A standard Democratic response would be to agree with Republicans on most points while trying to explain that Democrats would do everything Republicans would do but do it with less asshole-ishness. That's the "we are less bad" strategy centrists Dems love to lose with. I'd expect Chris Coons and his prayer breakfast buddies to come out with some statement shortly that concedes that Trump is right on border security, but they'd appreciate him being more kind or some similar shit. My hope, however, is that the Democratic strategy manages to veer away from the tried and failed centrism of the past. And will be more proactive on the battle economic ground issues that won them their seats in Congress and governorships. If the new members of Congress manage to move Democratic away from the Chris Coons' of the world, and the defensive crouch that is the go-to posture for Democrats, they will be fulfilling the mandate they won on election day.