The following Democrats are, per rumor and insider gossip, running for president: Sen. Corey Booker, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Thus, it bears taking particular note of how they behave to our unfolding national nightmare.
Wall Street-fave Booker voted with Republicans against drug reimportation to keep Big Pharma happy. Cuomo will be 2020’s Joe Lieberman. We’ll have fun beating the crap out of him. McAuliffe has been a surprisingly good governor, but do we really need another ethically challenged, kinda corrupt candidate? So for now (given this list), the most intriguing potential candidates are Gillibrand, Harris and Klobuchar. Except, well, let’s strike Klobuchar from the list.
“I believe we must fulfill our constitutional responsibility to have a hearing and a vote,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a member of the Judiciary Committee, while urging Mr. Trump to choose a nominee “in the mainstream.”
Ms. Klobuchar, who stood on Sunday with members of her state’s large Somali population, said she was not concerned that the party’s base would turn on its elected officials.
“As a whole, the 48 Democratic senators share their anger and passion and will pull the emergency brake on such things as the executive order, but also some compromise if there are areas we can find common-sense agreements,” she said.
“We must give Republicans the courtesy of hearings and votes even though they denied us that ‘courtesy’ for an entire year because I’m sure Trump will be receptive to our ‘urging’!”
“I’m not concerned about whether our base will turn out even though there we continue to underestimate the anger and frustration in our base!”
“To make my last point clear, we must find compromise and common ground with Nazi Trump and his cult Nazi party!”
Fuck this shit. If her read of the protests is “the base will stick with us as we try to find ways to normalize the Nazi-in-Chief”, then we can safely move to other choices.
p.s. Interestingly, Klobuchar may be the funniest person in the Senate, and that includes Al Franken. She is fucking hilarious. I want to like her as a presidential contender, but then she has to go with that “we all need to work together” crap and … ugh.