Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Bernie Sanders show that he’s starting to realize something that still escapes most pundits: Sanders would be his toughest opponent to beat in November.
If not for Sirhan Sirhan would Iowa really matter in the presidential race? 🌽
It’s always interesting how little quarks of history come to define our culture and legal institutions. The assassination of Robert Kennedy made the 1968 presidential election for the democrats particularly contentious when Hubert Humphrey was designated the candidate by the DNC delegates despite not running in a single primary – while Eugene McCarthy ran in most of the primaries and either beat or was a close second to Bobby Kennedy. A quark in state law made the Iowa caucuses first but none of that really matters until the age of the presidential primaries selection of delegates being key to selecting the nominee for president starting with George McGovern in 1972.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Iowa is a good state, with fantastic soils and dedicated farm families that work the land tirelessly to produce the second largest agriculture crop after California. Great deer hunting and trapping opportunities in that state, good laws for rural living with few gun restrictions or laws on open burning, but very expensive dirt that really yields and feeds a lot of cows and hogs for farm families. But still a very odd choice to decide who should be forerunner in the presidential race when so much of our country is urban today.
n yet another handout to Trump’s corporate donors and oil, gas and coal industry allies, the administration is expected to gut implementation of the only law that requires the federal government to consider the environmental impacts of its actions and gives the public and communities a voice in federal decision-making. Thirty industry groups—including the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute—recently sent a letter to the Trump administration asking it to “expeditiously proceed” with its changes to the law’s implementation. That 50-year-old bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), has never been under such grave threat.
But there aren’t any die-hard Nixon supporters in either chamber of Congress who are now remembered as patriots, no matter what else they did with their careers before, during, or after his presidency. The figures who live on are those like Ervin and Judge Sirica, who brought Nixon to justice, and, as the historian David Greenberg has noted, “those loyalists who abandoned Nixon early, when it mattered.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.
Sure, why not? It's not like his buddies are going to convict him, even though he got the highest level sanction he can get from the House of Representatives. Trump needs to go.
I was hearing on NPR this morning at Bernie Sanders is leading the polls both in Iowa and New Hampshire … 👴🏻
I am quite fine with that, as while I am leaning towards Elizabeth Warren this cycle, I did vote for Bernie Sanders in 2016. He would be a good change, somebody to shake things up, bring forward new ideas, even if he suffers from the problem that most of the leading presidential candidates face — advanced age.
I am not against old people per se, but I think it’s time that our country move past the Vietnam era and the brashness of 1970s. The world is changing, and while experience counts, I do worry about the older generation not getting what concerns the youth of today. That said, I do think Bernie has a lot of refreshing new ideas, and he’s not stuck in the convention wisdom of the day. He’s a thoughtful person, and as the Senator from Vermont he has some experiences that a more an urban politician might not have.
I do like Elizabeth Warren a lot, mainly because she is a little younger, and a women. Our country could use a female president for a change, as a women’s perspective might be different then a man. Plus, I think we need somebody who is strong and willing to stick up against corporations and the pro-business consensus that has existed for too long. But also somebody willing to listen to scientists and economists, and understand what is right for our country based on the evidence.
I don’t have a lot of positive things to say about the incumbent, and I think it’s worthwhile to look at a change. But I wish there were more youthful candidates involved, more people willing to look at the evidence, more people willing to be a steady voice for change in our country moving forward.