Any second now…
Mind you, I recall someone else saying that they were running as a Libertarian candidate for president. Are they holding primaries, or will they let Putin’s Adam Smith’s invisible hand decide it?
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The Libertarians hold primaries in a few states, but they’re not binding in any way.
I think there are too many people interested in running as a Libertarian for Tulsi to have much chance. (For example, I can’t see her beating Vermin Supreme.)
She’d have a better chance in the Greens, which has a slightly more democratic primary system (in that the handful of primaries they hold the delegates are bound) but in practice the presidential candidate has been anointed in one or another leader’s kitchen over hot cider. This year the leading contender is a guy named Howie, who was already nominated by the SPUSA. God knows what their process is.
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It is just a desperate attempt to get votes from one PR guy (Larry Rasky), who was Biden’s press secretary in the 1988 campaign.
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That was the whitest thing I’ve seen in… a while. Everybody singing badly enough to push the whole thing into a minor key made it double ominous.
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If only!
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Thread:
Anyone who wants to follow the tradition of “look forward, not back” after this is not fit to be president.
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You know, this might be the best time for him to leave. I think he’d do quite well as a tv host with that big of an following he gathered.
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In today’s edition of “least surprising news”…
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Keeping in mind that households making over $100K/year most likely have at least one adult working for a large enough corporation that they already have medical benefits, the fact that they’re neck-and-neck even at that level says something.
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I would pay a little more in taxes under the Sanders plan than I pay for healthcare now, but that’s because I’m single. If I had a wife and kids on my plan, even with a good (by American standards) plan from a large company, I would pay a whole lot more, and the Sanders plan would be cheaper in that case, even for people making six figures at major tech companies.
If you’re the only one on your corporate plan, breakeven is probably at about $100k, but if you have other family members on your plan, the breakeven point would be much, much higher.
I support Sanders, and national healthcare, even though I would pay a little more than I do now overall.
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Also note that the $100K+ crew are massively outnumbered by the working class voters. So the true democratic opinion isn’t somewhere in the middle of that, it’s almost in line with the views of the poorest.
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Isn’t that the guy who was all about pragmatism and seizing power at any cost?
This looks like the world’s saddest bar mitzvah
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Up to the point that you have a catastrophic illness that your insurer is lukewarm about covering. Then, suddenly, the difference is between getting treated and getting on with your life, getting treated and losing your house (and maybe your job), and not getting treated and dying. Both Sander’s and Warren’s plans look incredibly rosy in that light.
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Same thing happened in Iowa.
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James Carville at home:
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