The Progressive Wing

Bar is open.

dang. something going on until at least 5:30 live bernie link right.? on my computer, it’s a diff screen

No Worries. Oh, he’s on now. Finally.

do u have talking

It took awhile. Works now.

I’ll have a double vodka tonic with a lot of fresh lime. 🙂 🙂

Bottomless refills too…

You are BAD! 🙂

🙂

Here ya go, one for your spouse too.

Naah, he’s more a Jack Daniels/Jim Beam man. 🙂

wi64

were gonna have to visit Benny’s bar a lot over the next 4 years Too bad we wont have M4A for the new livers we’ll need🙄🥴🥴

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I recognize it is more about the northern part of the state, but still your state!

Someone was looking for some whiskey.

Thanks, I needed that. 😉

Reich says he expects unemployment could rise to 30%.

So does Kelton.

T and R, Ms. Benny!! 🙂

Sara Nelson reminds all that she’s still pushing for health care not tied to a job, but what she lobbied for: $25M paychecks for 3 months–to fill out the contract year from the summer for 2M aviation workers, including healthcare.

Reich is backing Jayapal’s Paycheck bill. It’s possible for some bipartisanship.

Jeffrey Sachs is concerned about re-opening the economy safely.

I love seeing Bernie in his element

This is what a Bernie advisory team in the WH would have looked like, along with Nina, Faiz, etc.

But a valid point:

Where are the voices of color in this conversation? Don’t we get a say in what the future of our economy should be?
— Jessica Ramos (@jessicaramos) April 15, 2020

who is the expert of color she wants there? i agree to a point, but don’t like strict quotas. It’s a great group

Is It Race or Class? Darrick Hamilton Showed Bernie the Answer

This guy:

Darrick Hamilton has become the wonk for this political moment because of his talent for quietly reframing the conversation. Now the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State, he has dedicated his years in academia to “stratification economics,” a field of study he helped pioneer that offers structural and sociological explanations for economic inequality as opposed to behavioral or genetic reasons. Hamilton and his longtime collaborator and PhD adviser, Sandy Darity, are largely responsible for the prominence of the racial wealth gap in the discourse surrounding racism and inequality.
At the 2018 town hall, Hamilton rattled off a list of disquieting statistics: There has virtually never been a Black middle class. The average Black household has about 10 cents for every dollar the average white household has. A Black head of household with a college degree typically has less wealth than a white head of household with only a high school diploma. “When Sen. Sanders proposes that we should have tuition-free public education, absolutely!” Hamilton said, referring to Sanders’ College for All Act. “But as an end unto itself. We exaggerate the economic returns on education, particularly for marginalized groups.”
The senators nodded. Hamilton’s reflection invited Warren to preview what would become her campaign’s housing plan, calling attention to how banks had targeted communities of color “for the lousiest mortgages out there.” She recited a history of the gap between white and Black wealth and cited a Boston Globe series that illustrated how Boston’s white households held a median wealth of $247,500, but Black households averaged a mere $8 to their names. Hamilton, grinning, jumped in to tell Warren that it had been he and Darity who had conducted that research.
Over the past two years, Hamilton’s scholarship has made its way from that stage into the bloodstream of the Democratic Party. Several White House hopefuls have turned his research and its policy corollaries into key planks of their platforms, and Hamilton has been a willing collaborator with the campaigns. Warren consulted Hamilton on her housing and higher education plans, seeking advice to counteract trends that have made them unattainable for many Black Americans. Former candidate Cory Booker campaigned on Hamilton’s “baby bonds” proposal, which would give most Americans a government-backed savings account at birth to counteract the wealth gap that persists between white and Black Americans.

My guess is he wasn’t available.

Torabs

I sincerely hope he was asked.

Part of it is no doubt who is available, as well. Bernie has certainly had people of color on his Townhalls on other topics. I wish we could get over the damn identity politics. But the DNC thrives on it.

Torabs

Jessica’s question is one of inclusion. Asking for a seat at the table isn’t identity politics.

yup

Reich. third party?

couldn’t believe he said it out loud.

IMPORTANT: Will be very interesting tomorrow when the nation’s biggest insurer UnitedHealthGroup announces its recent earnings. Why? As ER docs & other physicians risk their lives treating #COVID19 patients, UnitedHealth is playing games to rake in profits. Let me explain: (1/10)
— Wendell Potter (@wendellpotter) April 15, 2020

Why would anyone rehab this guy?

#MerrickGarland was a rightwing judge who voted against rescheduling marijuana, voted in favour of the case that put Citizens United on steroids, and voted to strip habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants. Stop glorifying him, he would have been a terrible justice too.
— Tana MAOgeau ☭ 🚩🇬🇹 (@StealYoRedBull) April 15, 2020

Context: Der Herr whined about judicial appointments today.

Who knows, maybe Trump may promise to hire Garland if he gets a second term.

Stub

Democratic senators voting for dozens of Trumps Republican judicial picks shows their true colors.

This all day.

Under the Constitution Trump does not have the authority to suspend Congress.
But under the constitution Trump already should have been removed.
The question is, who will actually stop him if he tries it?
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) April 16, 2020

Not the spineless Dims.

Torabs

They’ve done the job themselves, allowing a recess at this critical time.

I’m going to beat this man.
WE are going to beat this man. pic.twitter.com/nX0iems141
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) April 16, 2020

WALL STREET TITANS FINANCE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY CHALLENGER TO REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Ocasio-Cortez has served as a lightning rod in the Democratic Party, attracting criticism from more business-friendly elements of the establishment over her outspoken support for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and her advocacy for policies such as Medicare for All.
The lurch towards that left has provoked some traditionally Republican interests, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to use the New York primary this summer as an opportunity to push back on the ideological shift represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
Steve Holzman, the head of the hedge fund Vantis Capital and a previous donor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, donated to Caruso-Cabrera. Lobbyist Ron Christie, a former aide to Dick Cheney, also gave to the challenger’s campaign.
Other donors include Facundo Bacardi, an heir to the Bacardi fortune; Thaddeus Arroyo, a leading executive at AT&T; and Jeff Kwatinetz, an entertainment industry promoter who has represented Korn and Limp Bizkit in the past.
Caruso-Cabrera does not have a policy page outlining her beliefs or positions on her campaign website. In recent radio interviews, she has positioned herself as a stalwart of the moderate faction of the Democratic Party, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Joe Biden. “I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-same sex marriage, I’m very pro-immigrant, I am centrist for sure,” Caruso-Cabrera said on New York’s AM 970.
But the candidate’s beliefs are explained in detail in a book she authored in 2010 titled, “You Know I’m Right: More Prosperity, Less Government,” which included a forward by Larry Kudlow, who now serves as President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council.
In the book, Caruso-Cabrera calls Medicare and Social Security “the country’s biggest pyramid schemes,” and wrote that she would end both programs in favor of a privatized voucher system. Medicare, Caruso-Cabrera wrote, “is another pay-as-you-go Ponzi scheme” that should be replaced with a health savings account that gives “seniors $1,000 or $2,000 a year to start.” Social Security, she notes, should be replaced with a private account system, in which Americans are incentivized to invest in the stock market.
Caruso-Cabrera devotes an entire chapter to the many policy successes of the Reagan administration, and writes that she favors tax cuts and deregulation, including eliminating entire federal agencies such as the Labor Department.
Some of the most strident language in the book is reserved for the Obama administration’s attempts to crack down on wealthy individuals who had taken advantage of offshore tax havens. The push to force Switzerland to hand over the names of U.S. nationals using secret bank accounts to dodge taxes, she wrote, put America on a “dangerous path” that would enable foreign dictatorships to similarly seize wealth kept abroad.
“Freedom and democracy are best secured when banking secrecy and tax havens exist,” Caruso-Cabrera wrote.

“Freedom and democracy are best secured when banking secrecy and tax havens exist,” Caruso-Cabrera wrote.

How does someone even think this?

She’s a real piece of work, and I’m sure the DNC adores her.

Hope AOC eats her FRightwingnut lunch (she will).

Comment of the day:

I move to adjourn @realDonaldTrump’s press conferences. #AdjournTrump
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 16, 2020