Kamala Harris is Exciting, but Her CNN Town Hall was Unsatisfying
So far, the two 2020 candidates who excite me the most are Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Kamala Harris. Harris seems to have more of the “it factor,” the magic that we need to win. (Warren has some...
View ArticleYes, Northam Must Resign, But I Hurt for Him. WRONG--NOT ANYMORE
I am a 56 year old white man. I grew up in the Civil Rights movement, literally. I was carried on my father’s shoulders in the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Yet, I was not as “woke” as a...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Life Experience Profile #10: Cory Booker
Gee, Cory, you couldn’t have announced yesterday (Thursday), so I could have this profile ready to go today (Friday)? Senator Booker announced his candidacy today. Usually, I post these candidate life...
View ArticleLooking Forward to Tomorrow's Good News Roundup
Since November, I have been more optimistic about the future of this country than at any time since Drumpf’s “election.” Democrats took back the House in a huge wave, despite losing a few more Senate...
View ArticleBooks by Democratic POTUS Candidates
Although many are often written using a ghostwriter, books by presidential candidates are often informative. A few of our U.S. presidents have been great writers: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Makes Surprise Appearance at Native American Conference: Is...
Huffpo reports that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made a surprise appearance today at the National Indian Women’s “Supporting Each Other” lunch. She was there to introduce Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, the...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Profile #11: Amy Klobuchar
As readers of this series know, late last December I wrote a diary suggesting that one metric for sifting through the very large crowd of Democratic candidates for the 2020 POTUS nomination should be...
View ArticleNot Just Beating Trump: Dems Need to Work for 2nd Blue Wave in 2020
Writing in Salon and reprinted in Alternet.org, Paul Rosenberg writes that beating Donald Trump in 2020 might not be Democrats’ most important task. Yes, retaking the White House is essential, but for...
View ArticleSuddenly Feeling Much Less Optimistic About 2020
I voted for Sen. Sanders in 2016 and Sec. Clinton in the general. But the entrance of Sanders in the 2020 race fills me with dismay. So does Kos poll showing him getting a plurality of support from...
View ArticleProgressive Taxation: Do All of It
There have been numerous progressive tax proposals by progressive Democrats recently. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) wants to return the top marginal tax rate (for incomes over $10 million per...
View ArticleDem POTUS Candidate Profile #12: Bernie Sanders
In this diary, I advocated that one metric for sifting through the very large list of Democratic candidates for President was to examine their backgrounds, looking at “broad life experience” for...
View ArticleElectric Airplanes: A Game Changer for the Green New Deal
Over on ThinkProgress, Joe Romm has a great article titled, The Green New Deal Doesn’t Need to Choose Between Planes or Trains: Here’s Why. Fromm notes that one of the RWNJ attacks on the Green New...
View ArticleMeghan McCain's GOP Hubris: "I'm a Highly Educated Woman."
The late Sen. John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, has become increasingly unhinged on The View. Her dual role of “anti-Trumper” and GOP-defender has become increasingly impossible. She keeps...
View ArticleBernie's Running in the 2020 Democratic Primaries--but has Filed to Run in...
If DailyKos is still a site for electing “more and better Democrats,” then we cannot support the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He is not a Democrat and seems to be plotting the downfall of...
View ArticleDem POTUS Candidate Profile # 13: John Hickenlooper
In this diary I wrote last December, I advocated that one metric for sifting through the very large list of Democratic candidates for President was to examine their backgrounds, looking at “broad life...
View ArticleDEM POTUS Candidate Profile # 14: Beto O'Rourke
Last December, it was already clear that there would be a huge 2020 field of Democratic primary candidates and in this diary I suggested that one metric we might use for sorting through them was to...
View ArticleThe MSNBC Gillibrand Town Hall in Michigan
I’m watching the Gillibrand Town Hall and I am more impressed than I expected to be. She’s doing better than she did at the CNN Town Hall or in her interview with Rachel Maddow. In both of those...
View ArticleWait? No More Mueller Indictments??????
Wait? The Mueller Report is in without any further indictments??? Where’s the indictment of Wilbur Ross? Erik Prince? Jared Kushner? Ivanka Trump? Donald Trump, Jr.? Eric Trump? Jeff Sessions? WTF?
View ArticleCould the Death Penalty be Abolished in the USA in the Next Decade?
I was born into a civil rights family and a family opposed to the Vietnam War, but the earliest social justice cause I took up on my own was the abolition of the death penalty. I have been opposed to...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Senate Repeals Death Penalty!
They Did IT! The Senate in New Hampshire just repealed the death penalty with a veto proof majority. The NH House had already done so. Last year, an identical bill passed both chambers of the state...
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