July 22, 2018 By: El Jefe Category: Trade War Based On Lies, Treason (Yes, We're Going There), Trump
Yet another GOP leader has stepped up, this time in a strong way. Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator under and former governor of New Jersey. In a LA Times op-ed this morning, Whitman called for other Republican leaders to call enough and demand Trump step down. Fat chance yet, but cracks in the wall are getting bigger.
There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.
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Sort of OT, but after watching part of “This Week w/GeoSteppininit’ this morning, I’ve decided that the Democratic ‘dream team’ for the 2020 Presidential election should be Rep. Adam Schiff and Ambassador Susan Rice (order is your choice).
Had the TV set to watch Meet the Press too, but the good old Sinclair owned ch4 pre-empted it with a stupid golf or rugby game (they do this frequently on Sunday morning).
I guess that old tool Chuck Todd was probably rather critical of RAT45 today again (he’s been doing that lately). The station and/or Sinclair see the early program rushes and have time to do a pre-empt on MtP and Chuckie.
When Rep. Adam Schiff and Ambassador Susan Rice stomp Donnei Dinkydong into the dirt in 2020, let’s have Avanetti as AG too.
Find a DoJ slot for Mueller too, if he’ll renounce his Republican Party affiliation, no more of this ‘bipartisanship’ bull of nominating Rethugs by a Dem President ever again. It worked out so well before (James…cough.cough…Comey…), didn’t it?
Anybody else have preferences for 2020?
1Assuming that elections are even held, if we don’t win a massive majority in Congress in Nov 2018, it won’t matter.
Speaking of CT Whitman, a prominent female Rethug, what ever happened to Carly Fiorina? Probably still a solid Trumpanzee.
2(bwahahaha, I get to laugh because I once worked down the foodchain from her; chatty PR emails every day as she CHA before the corp implosion)
Don’t know who to suggest, but it can’t be Warren. I’m crazy about her and her positions on the issues, but she’s too
3bitter and angry to be a good candidate. No woman is going to be elected- yet. Unfortunately it’s going to have to be a white male again ( I’m married to a white male and like lots of them as friends!) . In an ideal world Biden and Jerry Brown would be younger and therefore my idea of a dream team. I just hope it’s not the “old guard” again.
I really like Schiff, but I don’t think he has the pizazz to be POTUS. He’d be a fantastic AG. And fairly or not, Rice has too much baggage. Though she could certainly serve ably in the administration.
People complain all the time that the Dems don’t have younger people to replace our top level. I disagree. We’re just not looking in the right places. There are some very able people serving in Congress now who’d be good candidates. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio comes to mind. Kamala Harris might be too confrontational, but a Veep slot would work well for her. In a couple of cycles, she’d be a formidable presidential candidate. Or again, a killer AG. I like Cory Booker. But I just don’t know if he has that steel in the spine.
But where have our last successful candidates come from? Not DC. Carter – Governor. Clinton – Governor. Obama – a Senator. But also the kind of lightning in a bottle candidate who appears once in a generation. On the horizon, I think we might be ready for young Joe Kennedy. But not now. This time around, we don’t need an aspirational candidate.
We need someone who’s smart, experienced, and tough as nails, to stand up and fight back against the dirty, false, and inevitable onslaught that will come from Traitor Trump or Putrid Pence, as the case may be. Someone who can take over the wreckage of Trump’s reign, and turn it into a functioning government again.
So I’m thinking a Dem. governor. I don’t know who. But they’re out there. People who know the state parties better than I do should be able to suggest the best ones.
4Tom Wolf of PA is a fantastic governor who would make a darn good candidate if he had more name recognition. OTH PA would hate to lose our champion who stands up to the right wingers in this state.
5Cuomo, Hickenlooper, Jerry Brown have the name recog.
Jay Inslee (D), Governor of WA, could be a good choice. He has successfully pushed back against this awful administration on a number of occasions.
6@linda, I like Elizabeth Warren too, and her financial views, she’s kind of old though; but the Rethugs have done their usual pre-mugging job (there’s a better word for it…) on her, like they did to HRC.
@Lunargent, I’ve been aware of Susan Rice for quite a while, one of the smartest and best around; but I’m unaware of any “baggage” with her, other than the hit job the Repukes did on her?
Sen. Brown, a couple other Senators and Reps are good too (I always forget all of them), Lieu, Whitehouse, ??.
Booker’s too tight with WS and the NYC crowd, no telling what’s in the woodpile (to make a baaad joke).
K Harris is A-OK, maybe too aggressive, etc., but the Republikkkans would go HRCx10 insane with her.
@maryelle, barely ever heard of Wolf, sounds good.
Cuomo–no, just NO!
Moonbeam is kinda old, and talk about ‘baggage’ with mainstream shade..
Hickenlooper sounds sketchy, I just caught a vid bite of two talking heads discussing Hickenlooper paired with Kasich as a combo ticket– Dem&Rep, WTF? If he’s already tilted over to centrist-right-libertarian, no way (Kasich is pure R poison in a deceptive lollypop wrapper).
The Dems had better come up with somebody good to face RAT45 (RussianASSetTrump45), because he has an unshakable 35%+ idiot base, plus another 10-16% of persuadable drifters/ind who might bite, depending on circumstances (like a nice wag-the-dog war or economic crash).
7My governor in Colorado has always campaigned in very unconventional ways. Jumping out of an airplane was one memorable move. He also does not stoop to attack ads.
8There’s a lot of talk about him teaming up with Governor Kasich of Ohio in a two party platform.
Every time I’ve heard Kasich talk, I’ve been favorably impressed.
Would that be the same Whitman who assured thousands of first responders and others that the air in lower Manhattan after 9/11 was safe to breathe? Many of whom are now dead or seriously ill? Y’all will have to let me be unimpressed by her late-in-life development of a moral sense.
9The worst inundations were usually started by a crack no bigger than a hair or at least no larger than a finger, especially if a dike is involved.
10Larry from Colorado, Gov Hickenlooper might have been a plausible choice. But not if he embraces Kasich. John Kasich is simply Mikey Dense with a folksier touch. Should anyone ever forget who Kasich really is, there is no one better than Samantha Bee to jog their memory.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=samantha+Bee+on+john+kasich&view=detail&mid=A1CA32316AB6090250B7A1CA32316AB6090250B7&FORM=VIRE
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=samantha+Bee+on+john+kasich&&view=detail&mid=67B092922AA966833A3B67B092922AA966833A3B&&FORM=VDRVRV
Senator Kamal Harris would be great – think people capable of blowing Donnie Dotard away in a debate and on every policy issue. Don’t count out another prospect, Senator Cortez-Masto (D-NV). If Donnie survives 4 years, do not underestimate the prospect of women saying enough already with the tired old white guys, especially the orangey white guy.
11I’m a big fan of Kamala Harris. Don’t underestimate the power of the feminine vote in the coming years. There are centuries of rage burning in many, many women who are so beyond fed up you probably can’t comprehend.
Harris is really, Really smart, passionate, articulate, energetic, fiery. Being angry is not a deal breaker. Of Course She’s Angry! She’d have to be a dimwit dunce, or docile, brow beaten snacilbupeR woman not to be. Anger is an aspect of passion. It is not a bad thing for a woman to be angry any more than it’s a deal breaker for a male to be angry. These times call for a great deal of female anger. And POC, the 99%, children, refugees, Democrats, farmers, immigrants, naturalized citizens, etc anger.
Don’t be scared off by a candidate whose emotional repertoire includes anger. Embrace it!
12@Buttermilk Sky, I was scrolling down the comments to paste the same thought, but you beat me to it by 7 hours! I’ve always wondered why nobody lower down on the food chain in the EPA from Whitman, all the way down to whoever was measuring the air quality, didn’t raise an alarm or speak up about the toxic air quality. Still shaking my head …
13Whitmire sounds like a reasonable person, but the Rs roll her out during crises to show they can, too, be reasonable. She’s a figleaf. No, thanks.
14I love Warren, but she’s a bit old and I think is more useful as a firebrand who makes R heads explode. Hillary won’t run – why would she put herself through that again? True, that ANY woman candidate will get the Hillary treatment. Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand already are – “they are (TOO) ambitious!” – and Harris is also (Horrors!) a person of color.
But let’s wait on 2020 – the longer we keep our powder dry, the less time the R slander machine has to gear up.
Let’s win 2018 first.