Some consider the Nation’s Capital as “Fantasyland on the Potomac”. Other outsiders are “Fed Up” with the Federal City. It's better to consider D.C. as “the District of Calamity” (sic).
During her recent remarks before the Cap Ideas Conference, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cited Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 Presidential race as a negative indication that America has a healthy democracy.
It is astounding that a sitting Senator is either so ignorant to not know that the USA is a constitutional Republic with democratic suffrage and an Electoral College or that she is such a demagouge who will blur such distinctions for political advantage.
Some deride Senator Warren as being Fauxcahontas for her questionable genealogical claims of being a Native American. A more apt sobriquet may well be Sitting Bull. Nevertheless, for Senator Warren's democrat demogougery, the former Harvard Law professor deserves to don a Civics Dunce Cap.
A year after the enormous post Inaugural Women Who Hate Trump March, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tried to rally the troops by insisting that women politically persist in pink pussy hats.
This exhortation reveals Senator Warren's long-term political strategy and intimates one direction the Democrat party is being pushed. In 2017, "the Resistance" seemed organized to appeal to agitating identity groups. There were attempts to have various constituency groups demonstrating against the Trump Administration and highlighting their priorities. There was even a Scientists March on Washington. But this impetus seems to have fizzled out and American politics was not transformed into a balkanized European Democratic socialist schema.
Between the Beltways, it has long been understood that Senator Elizabeth Warren hopes to make a run for the White House. This "Persist in Pussy Hats" speech gives indication that she is hitching her wagon on women power with elements of "the Resistance" but not harping on Trump hate. But this plan depends upon Warren being re-elected to the Senate in 2018 and that is not a sure thing.
The meta-strategy of rallying identity groups for victory is facile. Women showed up for a one day big rally, but did not remain organized throughout the year. And besides, Democrats seem more keen on catering to illegal immigrants for DACA than using feminist politics as a harbinger for change. The question is how identity politics will further reshape the Democrat party. Joe Kennedy III's State of the Union rebuttal leaned south, by championing transgendered rights and assisting "undocumented citizens".
Democrat Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (D-NY) attended a 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, but left an hour and a half early. This might raise some eyebrows among news junkies and politicos in the throes of a General Election campaign in her home state at a solemn memorial.
However, as Mrs. Clinton was waiting for her transportation to arrive, videographers captured a medical episode.
Eyewitnesses reported that Hillary's knees buckled and had to be helped (carried) into the van. Reporters on the Hillary 2016 beat were not allowed to follow. They were told, and most of the media dutifully reported that Secretary Clinton just "stumbled". Then the story shifted to Hillary was suffering from a minor case of heat exhaustion and was dehydrated on a 72 degree morning with low humity.
Hillary was taken to her daughter Chelseas's $10 Million flat in the Flatiron District. After a spell, Hillary briefly appeared and claimed that she was fine on a beautiful New York late summer afternoon and was taken to her home in Chappuqua.
When this facile fabrications were not bought for long by the Lamestream Media, the campaign facilitated a statement from Dr. Lisa Beckett that Hillary has been diagnosed with a case of pneumonia related to her allergic cough. It is curious that Hillary's staffers neither presented the public with the truth (first calling the incident a stumble and then blaming it on heat exhaustion rather than the pneumonia diagnosed three days before) nor did they modify her schedule for more rest. Hillary spoke at a New York fundraiser on Friday, in which she accused half of Donald Trump supporters to be a "Basket of Deplorables". The Clinton campaign has postponed a September 13 Hollywood fundraiser to give Hillary more rest.
There are some reports that Democrat operatives are concerned about the whirlwind of Hillary concerns. The dogged reports about Hillary's Health may prompt the DNC to hold an emergency meeting to "consider" a replacement in case Mrs. Clinton needs to drop out for health reasons.
Firstly, Sanders announced at the Democrat convention that he was again leaving the Democrat party to become an Independent (Socialist). Secondly, if the 68 year old Mrs. Clinton has to bow out of the Presidential race, it would be really bad optics to replace her with a 75 year old. Then there is the problem of logistics. Sanders ran as an outsider. Having a substitute candidate would necessitate working in close cooperation with party insiders and big money donors to retool the Democrat ticket on the fly.
Then there is the reality that rules don't really matter to Democrats when it gets in the way of winning. Think about how ex-Senator Bob Torriccelli (D-NJ) in 1996, which he was replaced after substitute closing date by Senator Frank Lautenburg (D-NJ). In 2000, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan (D-MO) died in a plane crash three weeks before the general election. In that instance, voters elected a dead person so his widow Jean Carnahan (D-MO) could assume the Senatte office by appointment from the Democrats. When Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) died in a plane crash in 2002 11 days before the general election, Minnesota Democrats inserted former Vice President Walter Mondale. But Democrats seemed to have overplayed their hand when they turned the televised Wellstone memorial into a Democrat pep rally. Mondale lost to Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN).
In Presidential politics, the last major substitution was when it became public that Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Senator Thomas Eagleton (D-MO) had been hospitalized for severe depression and supposedly undertook "shock therapy". This embarrassed the Democrat nominee Senator George McGovern (D-SD). So Eagleton withdraw at McGovern's request on August 1, 1972 and Kennedy inlaw Sargent Shriver was named to be the Democrat VP. Mc Govern/Shriver went on to lose 49 states.
If Hillary did bow out from what was supposed to be a sure coronation, who would realistically replace her? Bernie backers would be ideologically appeased if a progressive like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) were chosen. But Warren may not have the name recognition this cycle to be a successful short notice substitution. Moreover, her anti-Wall Street message might well cause big moneyed backers to back off.
This would leave the affable but verbally blunder bound current Vice President Joe Biden. Biden refrained from running in 2016 because he was grief stricken at the death of his son Beau. He has national name recognition, the backing of the Obama Administration, a carefully cultivate image as "Lunch Bucket Joe", but he is not known for being strident against Wall Street. That being said, Biden would be 74 years old on Inauguration Day.
In an already extraordinary election year, Democrats may well find religion in the message of this church sign.
Has former Senator Scott Brown spent too much time hanging around Republican presumptive Presidential nominee Donald Trump? Or is he stooping to conquer?
Well, the attack on Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) "Cherokee" character may date back to the 2012 Senate campaign, the DNA angle is quite new and seems to compliment current Trump-eteering. After all, Trump did refer to his progressive bete noir as Pocahontas
Well, by keeping involved in Election 2016, Biden will be well positioned waiting in the wings--along with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)-- if in the end Hillary Clinton decides to spend more time with her grandchildren.
When President Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, had a record that included recovering from a stagflation recession of the Carter era and the shock to implementing Reaganomics, as well as a nation which was chary about leadership in international affairs.
In response, the Reagan re-election campaign released the classic political ad “Morning in America”. This optimistic ad celebrates the joys of ordinary individuals living the American Dream.
Twenty six years later, President Barack Obama had put his footprint on the American government by wildly spending through an $837 Porkulus that did not stimulate any discernable Keynesian economic growth and an administration which groveled before the international community for perceived wrongs and leveling the playing field.
Citizens for the Republic, the conservative Political Action Group founded by Ronald Reagan in 1977, released “Mourning in America”, a mid-term election spot which reframed the national plight during the age of Obama. The “Mourning in America” ad illustrates how the heavy hand of government can transform the American Dream of into the American Nightmare for the average American.
Orthography and attitude do matter. I prefer the sunny optomism espoused in Reagan’s City on a Hill speech compared to the envious class warfare rhetoric which candidate Obama released in Roanoke, Virginia.
Clearly, Mr. Obama buys into Massachusetts Democrat Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's native wisdom on how the collective contribution of society allows some individuals to excel. This tempestuous take on the American Dream seems like a petulant American Day Dream of have nots enviously eyeing the achievements of the successful.
Should we choose “Morning in America” or ought we elect to continue “Mourning in America”?
It is astounding that a sitting Senator is either so ignorant to not know that the USA is a constitutional Republic with democratic suffrage and an Electoral College or that she is such a demagouge who will blur such distinctions for political advantage. 
