Category Archives: 2020 Presidential Campaign
Democrat Caucus Meltdown in Iowa
The Iowas Caucus is in chaos. Again. Democrats blamed their caucus meltdown on “coding problems.”
More Caucus Meltdown Chaos
Now they fear the DNC will kill the caucuses’ leading role in presidential elections.
Joe Biden – so far getting his ass kicked in fourth place and no delegates – once offered this advice to coal miners losing their jobs: Learn to code.
Caucus Clown Car at Senate Impeachment Trial
Senate impeachment trial hostages Sanders, Warren and Klobuchar face a dilemma. Closing arguments are tomorrow, but so are the Iowa Caucuses. And the final vote on whether to toss Trump is Wednesday.
More Caucus Chaos
And the Des Moines Register further complicated things by canceling the release of its “gold standard” poll Saturday night. Somebody left Pete Buttigieg out as a possible preferred candidate.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, the president delivers his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
And, since the Senate voted 51-49 to block more impeachment trial witness testimony on Friday, Republicans now say they have the votes to acquit on Wednesday.
Ballot Box Can’t be Trusted, Says Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff made the case against democracy at the Senate impeachment trial last week.
A rigged election? In that case we have to impeach Trump before he wins again.
It takes a Village
Reminded me of the Vietnam quote, “It became necessary to destroy the village to save it.“
Bernie Sanders Gets Treatment From CNN
Some people on both sides of the aisle think Bernie Sanders got set up by The Most Trusted Name in News at the CNN debate last week.
Here’s correspondent Abby Phillip asking the “when did you stop beating your wife” question:
“Sen. Sanders, CNN reported yesterday, and Sen. Warren confirmed in a statement, that in 2018 you told her that you did not believe that a woman could win the election. Why did you say that?”
And Here’s Bernie’s response:
“I don’t want to waste a whole lot of time on this, because this is what Donald Trump and maybe some of the media want,” Sanders added. “Anybody knows me knows that it’s incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president of the United States.
And here’s Abby Phillip’s next question to Senator Warren:
“Sen. Warren, what did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”
Pelosi Impeachment Procession
House Speaker Pelosi dispatched a procession to the Senate to deliver a 1,426 word leather-bound document containing articles of impeachment. The Speaker and her acolytes hope to frogmarch President Trump out of the White House.
But, as The Washington Post reports:
For all the pageantry, both Johnson and Clinton’s impeachments ended in acquittal. Trump’s probably will too…
