Democratic Primary Fucktussle!

[YDB95]

I sincerely doubt Amash, who voted against Obamacare, opposes abortion rights, hates taxes, etc is going to hurt Biden more than he hurts Trump.

 

[KeithD]

I sincerely doubt Amash, who voted against Obamacare, opposes abortion rights, hates taxes, etc is going to hurt Biden more than he hurts Trump.

I don't see him pulling Biden votes either--other than from disaffected Bernie fanatics, who have done this before.

 

[JackLuis]

I don't see him pulling Biden votes either--other than from disaffected Bernie fanatics, who have done this before.

He'll suck a few Trump voters to his cause after the Death Toll exceeds 100,000, maybe next week?

 

[JackLuis]

Because one check ‘not nearly enough,’ Harris, Sanders, and Markey bill would provide $2,000 monthly payments for rest of COVID-19 crisis

Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey introduced legislation Friday that would provide most U.S. households with $2,000 monthly payments per person for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis, a proposal that comes as Democratic and Republican leaders continue to resist sending additional cash directly to people even as corporations get trillions in no-strings-attached bailout funds.

“Providing recurring monthly payments is the most direct and efficient mechanism for delivering economic relief to those most vulnerable in this crisis, particularly low-income families, immigrant communities, and our gig and service workers.”
—Sen. Ed Markey

The bill, titled the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act (pdf), would send $2,000 in direct payments to adults who earn less than $120,000 a year. The bill would send $4,000 per month to married couples who file taxes jointly and an additional $2,000 for children and dependents up to three.

Payments would be retroactive back to March and continue until three months after the Health and Human Services secretary declares that the Covid-19 public health emergency has ended. The bill explicitly bars debt collectors from seizing the rebates and “ensures the homeless and foster youth receive payments,” according to a one-page summary (pdf) released by Harris’ office.

Direct payment to the most needy will stimulate the economy more that all the Trillions spent on Corporate welfare. But Congress will have to face the most direct threat to the nation, #Moscow Mitch!

Mitch will certainly object, because the people will remember who lined their pockets (Dems)and who emptied the Treasury for Corporate welfare (Rethugs).

The trio of senators unveiled their proposal in the wake of Labor Department figures showing that a record 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April and the U.S. unemployment rate soared to 14.7%, the highest level since the Great Depression.

 

[KeithD]

He'll suck a few Trump voters to his cause after the Death Toll exceeds 100,000, maybe next week?

And you'll vote for him too, won't you, Jack? Because the Democrats have been mean to Bernie.

 

[JackLuis]

And you'll vote for him too, won't you, Jack? Because the Democrats have been mean to Bernie.

Ha, Democrats have been mean to everyone not in the Establishment. Chucky is a limp wimp and Nancy is afraid to keep impeaching Donnie for his actions or inactions. DNC is waffling about trying to promote OHJ in the face of growing evidence that this two time loser will fail AGAIN!

As much as you rail against Bernie, his polling shows he will beat Trump much better that OHJ.

Liz, Bernie, Kamala or Tulsi would be much better than Biden, but NO the DNC is sure that THIS TIME they can rig the election.

 

[KeithD]

Ha, Democrats have been mean to everyone not in the Establishment. Chucky is a limp wimp and Nancy is afraid to keep impeaching Donnie for his actions or inactions. DNC is waffling about trying to promote OHJ in the face of growing evidence that this two time loser will fail AGAIN!

And we'd all be so much better if we just let you do it.

 

[JackLuis]

And we'd all be so much better if we just let you do it.

The DNC would do much better if they would listen to the people and not try to rig the system.

If you let me 'do it' there would be a real purpose for a Rethuglicunt Wall!

 

[KeithD]

And you continue to be delirious about Bernie being the best candidate against Trump. The Republican Swiftboaters have salivated over the chance for it to be Bernie. They've done everything they could for it to be Bernie. And yet you don't get a clue from that.

 

[JackLuis]

And you continue to be delirious about Bernie being the best candidate against Trump. The Republican Swiftboaters have salivated over the chance for it to be Bernie. They've done everything they could for it to be Bernie. And yet you don't get a clue from that.

Yeah, Trump is so clever isn't he? All his plans work out don't they?

 

[JackLuis]

Schumer Says Democrats About to Go "Rooseveltian" on Covid-19 Relief. Progressives Say We Hope So

Wait for it, Chucky's going to DO SOMETHING!

Published on
Thursday, May 07, 2020
by
Common Dreams
Schumer Says Democrats About to Go "Rooseveltian" on Covid-19 Relief. Progressives Say We Hope So

"Let's see what they propose. Not holding hope too high though."
by
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are seen at an event with House and Senate Democrats in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 26, 2019.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are seen at an event with House and Senate Democrats in the Capitol on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

After Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer promised in an interview Thursday that he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are soon to unveil a "Rooseveltian" coronavirus aid package, progressives responded with skeptical hope.

"Let's see what they propose," tweeted progressive activist Stephanie Quilao. "Not holding hope too high though."

Schumer, a New York Democrat, told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle that Democrats were working on a major package to assist the victims of the economic crisis caused by the virus, which is still spreading across the country and killing thousands.

"We have a huge crisis here," said Schumer. "We need action here to help average folks. We've done some in the House and Senate. We need to do a lot more."

Winnie Wong, co-founder of People for Bernie and former senior advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, signaled her support for a transformative piece of legislation on par with FDR's New Deal:

By invoking Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal helped get the U.S out of the Great Depression, Schumer is setting expectations high for the package.

"This is good," tweeted economist Stephanie Kelton. "Now dig your heels in and let's get it done."

But some progressives were wary of promises from Democratic leadership, especially in light of reporting that Pelosi is considering adding funding to bailout lobbyists into the next bill while downplaying the possibility of legislation introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) for a paycheck guarantee proposal.

Shoveling cash at lobbying groups, wrote the American Prospect's David Dayen, was the "dumbest political maneuver" the California Democrat could use her leverage for in the current moment.

Lobbyists need help? WTF Nancy. Chucky gets religion and Nancy goes nuts!

 

[JackLuis]

Kamala Harris tops Biden list for 2020 VP pick

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is the “early frontrunner” at the top of the list to become presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate.

Politico reports aides, surrogates and major donors to the former Obama vice president see Senator Harris as a good fit, although Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is ahead of the pack.

Establishment wants an establishment Vice-candidate.

 

[JackLuis]

As the Primary season peters out the Progressives have a fight with the Establishment!

Don’t Let Their Corruption Kill Off Our Champions

As you know, the DCCC has a rule about primaries. It was promulgated by Cheri Bustos and Nancy Pelosi: any political operative who works against an incumbent Democrat is cut off from the DCCC campaign cash flow and ostracized by the Democratic Party establishment. The #DCCCBlacklist has had a chilling effect on progressives challenging crooked conservatives across the country.

Although Marie Newman won her race against Blue Dog Dan Lipinski, she was the only progressive to win in Illinois and another high profile primary race, saw right-wing fake Democrat Henry Cuellar, heavily backed by the DCCC, beat back a challenge by progressive Jessica Cisneros.

The DCCC has interfered against progressive candidates challenging corrupt political boss Gregory Meeks in Queens, anti-working class Blue Dog Kurt Schrader in Oregon, “ex”-Republican-turned Blue Dog Tom O’Halleran in Arizona, and against a whole slew of Wall Street backed New Dems.

But you know when the DCCC, suspends their rule? When establishment candidates challenge progressive incumbents.

They haven’t raised a finger to help defend Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis or Rashida Tlaib in Detroit and now that Wall Street has declared war on AOC, the DCCC, Pelosi and Cheri Bustos are uncharacteristically silent.

Trumpublicunts may HATE Nancy but she's not fighting them as much as she's fighting Progressive Dems.

 

[ishtat]

Whoever wins in November Progressive policies will be on the Back burner. Why? Because with his absurd tax cuts followed by the Corvid 19 pandemic costs Trump has spent all the money; so whether Trump leaves or not in January, there will be a mountain of debt for Americans to service.

Kind of ironic that the right wing populist Trump has destroyed the ambitions of left wing populist Sanders with classic Keynsian (socialist democratic) pump priming of the economy.

 

[JackLuis]

Bad news for Biden as new battleground states poll shows Trump could lose popular vote but win White House—again

New polling from CNN shows the Democratic Party’s presumptive 2020 presidential nominee Joe Biden trailing President Donald Trump in crucial battleground states even as the former vice president continues to lead nationally—portending an ominous repeat of 2016.

The poll results, which were released Wednesday, show Biden with a 51% to 46% voter preference lead over Trump nationally. But in 15 battleground states, Trump averages 52% over Biden’s 45%.

Though other recent polling has shown some signs of concern for Biden among younger voters and strength among older ones, few have pegged the race as this close among younger voters. The results suggest that younger voters in the battleground states are tilted in favor of Trump, a stark change from the last CNN poll in which battleground voters were analyzed in March, even as other demographic groups shifted to a smaller degree. Given the small sample size in that subset of voters, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether the movement is significant or a fluke of random sampling. Nationally, Biden holds a lead over Trump among voters age 65 and older, a group which has been tilted Republican in recent presidential elections.

Could it be that the DNC in their infinite wisdom has pulled another Princess Sparkle Twat out of the Establishment's handbag?

When voting Least Evil, has the DNC not given the voters least evil enough? Sure Joe was Obama's VP but is that enough for voters to accept Wall Street Uber Allis as a theme song?

Where is Tulsi, Bernie or Liz?

 

[JackLuis]

Dr. Jekyll, or Mr. Biden?

A long read of Joe's radical moderation???

People tell you who they are, and these days, they tell you on a podcast. Joe Biden’s interview series Here’s the Deal has earned some mockery in left circles as “the verbal equivalent of someone falling down a rocky hill.” But beyond the fractured syntax and low production values, you get real-time insight into how the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee understands the political moment.

And what you hear is a man at war with himself. Biden mostly defers to his guests: activists, advisers, and here and there a possible future Cabinet member or vice-presidential nominee. But he also whipsaws back and forth between the message he delivered throughout his campaign, the one that earned him the nomination, and a new narrative, hastily developed amid the catastrophe of the past couple of months.

To Ron Klain, former Ebola czar and likely White House chief of staff, Biden says that crisis response “should not be political.” To potential center-left running mates Gretchen Whitmer and Amy Klobuchar, he praises their capacity for bipartisanship, which he laments has “become a dirty word in our politics lately.”

Moderation or capitulation? That is the question.

 

[KeithD]

The real question is who does he bring in with him and how likely he will be to use them appropriately--in contrast to any other options.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The real question is who does he bring in with him and how likely he will be to use them appropriately--in contrast to any other options.

Vote for me so that you can get her. Such a powerful campaign message!

 

[KeithD]

Vote for me so that you can get her. Such a powerful campaign message!

It certainly is when the alternative is Trump and who he drags in with him.

You're not all that bright, are you?

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

It certainly is when the alternative is Trump and who he drags in with him.

You're not all that bright, are you?

You’re right. Nominating an Alzheimer’s patient to be the face of the Democrat party is a winning strategy. No wonder everybody is betting on a Biden victory. Oh wait. Never mind,

 

[KeithD]

You’re right. Nominating an Alzheimer’s patient to be the face of the Democrat party is a winning strategy. No wonder everybody is betting on a Biden victory. Oh wait. Never mind,

Not a good subject for one to raise who worships Donald Trump, you know. You Trumpettes aren't too bright about the Trump subjects they should avoid bringing up.

 

[Ziggins]

Insults by the party faithful are free, but the tactics that work cost money and labor. The DNC may have conceded the race.

 

[JackLuis]

New clues suggest that yes, Warren still leads the vice-presidential sweepstakes

So what does it mean when President Barack Obama calls Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s economic message a “strong one, and that there’s real resonance right now”? And also, what does it mean that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is telling people, on joint fundraising calls with Warren, that “I never had as many (donors) until she endorsed me”?

I’ve been reading the tea leaves for all prospective VP choices, and we have new clues pointing to Warren leading the pack.

Meanwhile, Biden and Warren teamed up over the weekend to make joint fundraising calls to small-dollar donors, apparently trying on her famous primary fundraising system (avoid big-dollar events, just call regular people) on for size. Now, the chance that Biden abandons big-dollar events is around zero percent. The ticket will raise all the money it can heading into November. But Biden won’t win with Wall Street money. He needs the kind of small-dollar mojo that exactly two candidates mastered this year—Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and only one of those is a running mate possibility.

“I never had as many [donors] until she endorsed me,” is an amazing admission from Biden. Warren is a validator of the small-dollar left, and Biden needs a massive fundraising boost from that crowd. And there are two candidates who have a proven record raising from those donors: Warren and 2018 Georgia Democratic Nominee Stacey Abrams (who raised a record $28 million for that campaign).

None of this guarantees Warren will be picked. I have no inside information suggesting that Warren is a front-runner. As I’ve said, three names come up when I ask around, and I have no doubt that all three of Warren, Harris, and Klobuchar are being hotly debated inside the campaign. In fact, I’d guarantee that the campaign is polling and focus-group testing all three options, in all of the battleground states.

But I’ve seen more energy pointing to a Warren pick than anyone else. In fact, if it wasn’t for people (mostly political journalists covering the campaign) insisting that Harris and Klobuchar were still in the mix, I’d doubt they were even being considered.

Would Mass produce another Dem Senator to replace her?

Harris for AG with a mandate to crush the Rethuglcunts anywhere they show their ugly mugs!

 

[Ziggins]

Propaganda isn't free. Politicians need money for campaign expenses. They are televangelists at public events. I ignore most phone calls and rarely watch TV, so I don't know how much begging they've done.

 

[JackLuis]

In tense exchange over bailouts, Elizabeth Warren accuses Steve Mnuchin of putting ‘Wall Street Buddies’ before US workers

“We’re in a situation where 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment. You’re in charge of nearly half a trillion dollars… and you are leaving the American people behind.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday accused Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin of looking out for his friends on Wall Street instead of U.S. workers after the former Goldman Sachs banker repeatedly refused to say whether he would require companies that receive coronavirus bailout funds to keep their employees on payroll.

Liz whacks Munchkin for fuckery! Go Liz Go, kick him in the fork!