Apr
Apr
Bill Clinton: Still Terrible
Bill Clinton, who has always been terrible, is still in fact terrible, as his tone-deaf, ill-advised, condescending, and just generally awful remarks to Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia demonstrate.
I’ll never understand why Democrats admire Bill Clinton or why Hillary thinks he’s a valuable campaign surrogate. He belongs on the front porch of a Cracker Barrel, sitting in a rocking chair, telling the locals that the hush puppies are good today. Seriously Hillary, send him back to Arkansas and appoint Huma Abedin the honorary First Lady. She’s great.
Apr
Campaign manager: Sanders can win nomination at contested convention
I love how the Sanders campaign, allegedly the most progressive grassroots organization in existence, thinks it should win the Democratic nomination despite currently having 2.4 million less votes than Hillary Clinton. I didn’t realize democratic socialism meant destroying democracy.
I love how your calling the election with 29 states & territories still having not voted. (source)
I love how you call the possibility of a contested convention “destroying democracy” but not superdelegates, who are largely bought and paid for (source)
The superdelegates that are “bought and paid for” are part of Bernie’s plan to capture the nomination. He thinks he can convince some of them to join his side. So do you oppose this strategy or is winning with superdelegates OK when Bernie does it?
Apr
Campaign manager: Sanders can win nomination at contested convention
I love how the Sanders campaign, allegedly the most progressive grassroots organization in existence, thinks it should win the Democratic nomination despite currently having 2.4 million less votes than Hillary Clinton. I didn’t realize democratic socialism meant destroying democracy.
Apr
The one similarity between Trump supporters and Sanders supporters …
Let’s be clear:the differences between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are profound. Their policies, their dignity, their decency: Sanders is a great man. Trump is a self-absorbed ass.
Which is why I find their respective supporters’ opinions so interesting on one matter: lots of Trump’s supporters, and lots of Sanders’ as well, seem completely convinced that if their candidate is not the nominee, it will be the result of some conspiratorial combination of party leadership and media perfidy.
According to some of Sanders’ supporters, then, it is in no way shape or form possible, apparently, that Hillary Clinton has spent 30 years building connections as a leader of the Democratic Party, doing and calling in favors, and so has worked her way to a winning position. Instead, the recent party-joining Sanders is the “real” Democrat. (As an aside, the gender arrogance of this claim, by the way, is remarkable.) It’s all media and party bias. Nor does it matter that the media has REALLY over-attended the Trump campaign, not Clinton’s. It’s all party and media bias.
Likewise, for Trumpers, it’s their guy or the highway, but he’s neither a Republican nor a credible national leader. That large numbers of Republican voters and leaders might have qualms about supporting his celebrity candidacy is absurd on its face to such persons. It’s all conspiracy all the time.
I get that lots of people hate Hillary Clinton. Ok. Guess what? She’s likely going to win anyway. And maybe it’s about her skills and planning, not just some conspiracy to keep Sanders out.
It’s just a thought. (Oh, and a prediction: I am so about to get flamed for transgressing the Bernie/Tumblr love in. Let me ask just one thing: be a little creative. Please?)
So how big was that check the Koch brothers sent you?
Apr
Democratic primary popular vote as of April 4
Hillary Clinton: 8,924,821
Bernie Sanders: 6,397,980Hillary is winning because she has more votes. Bernie supporters can whine about the establishment and the media and the DNC all they want…Hillary is winning because she has more votes.
Hillary has more votes, at the moment… The nominating process (as you well know) is far from over…
Sure, but Bernie supporters seem to think that any day now he’s going to start winning. There’s no evidence to support this. He doesn’t do well in big, diverse states. He’s trailing right now (by a lot) in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California. He needs to win all or most of those states to have any chance at all.
(via andinsam)
Apr
Democratic primary popular vote as of April 4
Hillary Clinton: 8,924,821
Bernie Sanders: 6,397,980Hillary is winning because she has more votes. Bernie supporters can whine about the establishment and the media and the DNC all they want…Hillary is winning because she has more votes.
Because the south went first. It’s all timing
OK, except she’s winning by a pretty big margin in New York…and Pennsylvania…and California…and New Jersey…
Apr
Democratic primary popular vote as of April 4
Hillary Clinton: 8,924,821
Bernie Sanders: 6,397,980
Hillary is winning because she has more votes. Bernie supporters can whine about the establishment and the media and the DNC all they want…Hillary is winning because she has more votes.
Mar
Obviously there is a causal relationship here. You blew it, Kasich. Next time take the heat and eat it with your hand.
Except Drumph eats pizza with a fork, too.
This is true and it is an outrage. Deport them both!
Mar
Zephyr Teachout for Congress
If you live in the scenic, historic, and wondrous 19th Congressional District of New York, please consider voting for Democrat Zephyr Teachout. If you don’t live there but admire progressives who campaign against public corruption, consider tossing her a few bucks.
I wrote this thing in support of her gubernatorial run a couple years ago. Although Andrew Cuomo has improved in his second term, I stand by my Teachout endorsement. New York, being one of the most liberal states in the nation, should not have to settle for uninspiring, centrist Democrats. When the opportunity to enact genuine reform presents itself, New York voters should pounce on the opportunity.
Teachout running for Congress makes a whole lot of sense. For one thing, she’s running in a district being vacated by a moderate Republican. (Score one for the Democrats in Washington.) Also, her old-school reformer persona fits well into the emerging progressive coalition of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Russ Feingold (hopefully), and others. In Congress, she may not always be in the majority but she will certainly never be alone.
There is one minor concern about her candidacy: she appears to be somewhat of a carpetbagger. For the last few years, she’s been hosting a local TV show in Brooklyn and she is or was a professor at Fordham Law in Manhattan so I was a bit surprised to discover she lived upstate. I’m sure some residents of the 19th District will feel the same way but ultimately she is too valuable a force to be left on the sidelines because of concerns with her zip code.
So yeah, consider supporting Zephyr Teachout. You can learn more about her here or here and you can check out her book here.
Thank you and God bless America.
Mar
Obviously there is a causal relationship here. You blew it, Kasich. Next time take the heat and eat it with your hand.
Mar
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
Mar
I am absolutely livid…
That Obama attended a baseball game in Cuba during an historic trip instead of flying to Brussels, using his magical superpowers to turn back time, and then melting all the bad guys with his lazerbeam eyes.
How dare you, Mr. President.
Mar
Obama at a baseball game in Cuba…normalizing relations, looking like a champion.
Mar
Hillary Clinton’s Indefensible Stance on the Death Penalty
As a trained defense attorney who once represented clients for violent crimes, Clinton has been long aware of how the criminal justice system works in theory versus reality. That she continues to defend the death penalty given everything we know about it now does not so much betray ignorance as indifference — or else just plain unwillingness to expend political capital on this issue, at least until the moment is right. …
Perhaps it is true that Clinton will “breathe a sigh of relief” if and when the death penalty finally ends. But that statement alone speaks volumes about her leadership — and the kinds of reforms she will be willing to deliver in the end. A vow to feel relieved when others finally win the fight against capital punishment is not exactly a profile in courage. Clinton knows full well that the death penalty — as it actually exists — is wrong. She’s just not going to waste any power doing anything about it.