Delaware Liberal

The Democratic Party is two parties. There is the party of the people, and there is the "Moderate" party which not moderate at all when it comes to supporting billionaires, banks, bigPharma, pay day loan operations, fossil fuel extractors and other industries interested in shoving money in Cayman Island bank accounts while they pay lip service to civil rights. That's the Party of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Chris Coons, and it is in utter disarray. Joe Biden's stumbling, bumbling run for the nomination has the financial backers of the "Moderate" Democratic Party in a panic. Texaco Oil Company lawyer, Deval Patrick, entering the race is just one data point.

I didn't watch but from what I've read the GOP defense of Turnip amounts to: There was no crime becuase the aid was released anyway. Or, in other words - The kidnapper released the hostage after 6 weeks before the ransom was paid. It’s fine. Plus the victim didn’t even press charges so, OK. #logic

Read the Kentucky election story below the fold and try to argue that it doesn't all go down just like this: It is nearing midnight on November 3rd, 2020. Trump has lost by lots in the popular vote and by a little in the electoral college. He does not concede. Having complained about Democratic cheating for months leading up to the election, he allows stories like the one below to bubble thought the internet. The press covers "both sides" of the controversy. Chris Coons reserves judgement in the interest of bipartisanship. Within a day or two people of every political flavor are edgy. One night, a shot rings out. Mayhem ensues. Windows and skulls are broken. Trump declares a national emergency. Under the National Emergencies Act Trump has virtually unlimited discretionary power if supported by the Senate and Supreme Court. He declares the election invalid. The constitutionality of that use of emergency powers is endorsed by a 5 to 4 majority in the Supreme Court.

Both Biden and Coons think that there is some special potency to their brand of bipartisanship, but there are differences in how both men explain away the ongoing ineffectiveness of bipartisanship. For both of them, bipartisanship is a magic key that will unlock every door and solve every problem, but when bipartisanship inevitably fails as it always does in the age of Rove/Bush/Trump/McConnell, Coons typically believes that the pursuit of bipartisanship by Democrats wasn't obsequious enough. Coons views the failure of bipartisanship as a failure of Democrats to compromise sufficiently. Biden, on the other hand, simply misremembers the past and lives in a fantasy world in which bipartisanship always works in spite of 30 years of evidence to the contrary.

Matt Viser ✔ @mviser Joe Biden remarks that he called about a dozen Senate Republicans to encourage them to vote on Merrick Garland. Then he says with Trump gone, Republicans will again find political courage. Left unsaid: Republicans stalled on Garland before Trump was nominated, or elected.

https://twitter.com/jestershead/status/1193123389302554624

All the smart centrists agree, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is bad for the Dem brand among the rurals. What plays in the Bronx doesn't play in Iowa. That's a rule, right?

Democrats must keep watering down the Dem message. It isn't 99.9% water yet. - Senator Chris Coons (paraphrased)