Will Liz Cheney’s upcoming book have any impact on voters? I suspect not, but I am curious as to what you think, as well as why she is “doing what she is doing”?
Hope to hell she swings through all the suburban districts of the 10 most important "swing" states. If not...thanks for the memories Liz for the paper-tiger heroics of your J6 tenure.
Thank goodness for Obamacare (it provides my son's health coverage). I'm sure I'm not alone in this view, so why does Trump fixate on repealing it - getting more press about this than most of his other comments and gifting the Democrats with a cudgel.
In the Lunatics mind --- Having had a nig**r as president was the besmirchment of all thing White America.
Even worse --- he was re-elected!!
In listening to and reading from folks who had extended connections to both Obama and Trump they came away with:
Obama is charismatic and extremely smart, perhaps brilliant (BTW - even Clinton haters...hedge fund manager...say that Bill was mind-blowing brilliant)
Obama is charismatic as much as a superb Rolls Royce salesman. And perhaps the most ignorant person ever met.
Don"t you think we are all WAY overthinking the 2024 election? I"m the same age as you Chris, and in my lifetime, the 3 Incumbents who lost (Carter, HW Bush, and Trump) all were running during a recession. We can talk all we want about Abortion, Biden's age, Trump's criminal cases, or Israel, but if we have sub 4% unemployment, 3% GDP growth, and a sub 3% inflation rate (like we currently have) in November 2024, Biden more than likely cruises to reelection, right?
In some ways I feel empathy for Marionette Mike Pence, in others I have followed him as a:
~ failed U.S. Congressman, who never had one piece of authored legislation make it out of committee much less to the House floor in SIX terms,
~ failed governor about to be beaten for re-election 2016 by a relatively unknown Democrat because of his anti-LGBTQ executive orders, based on his overly-religious sanctimony that got him in hot-water with the corporate community (Eli Lily, Anthem Managed Care, a dozen tech companies) and convention services,
~ Sycophant-In-Chief as Vice President to the historically worst U.S. President, with continuing seepage of information from his term on his never-ending spinelessness,
~ embarrassing attempt to seek the Republican presidential nomination by trying to be a "normie" while groveling to those who wanted to hang him!
With that offered, Chris, do you think that Mike (with the blessing of Mother) will attempt:
1) anymore political gambits?
2) to maintain a lifestyle in the Democratic stronghold of Carmel, Indiana, a toney suburban city of Indy...and aspiring to live in Indy's Woodland Country Club neighborhood, by working the Conservative-Christian rubber-chicken circuit offering bygone Republican-era speeches to pay for said lifestyle?
3) being true to his ceaseless religious hectoring admonitions/smugness as one of the Chosen to attend seminary to become an ordained minister, thus walking-the-talk with Mother to bring the word of the "True Jesus" to the Ecuadorian false Pagan/Catholics?
Do I seem a bit cynical and sardonic?
I grew up in New York City with Irish-American/Old-German pols who were no-doubt corrupt, but yet truly cared about their constituents.
These hand-in-the-till pols ensured there was no desperate poverty in their precincts. They lived in the nicest houses in their neighborhood they represented, to look into the eyes of their people.
Pence and his ilk are wanna-be-one-percenters, catering to the ultra-rich and not their Congressional, state, and national constituents using no-bargaining language based on their perceived "greater-good."
While Trump is a lunatic, he is not the origin of the problem...Pence and his fellows (Democrat as well as Republican) want to pretend they are "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," yet instead are aspiring Satrapies.*
[A satrapy was a Persian territory governed by a satrap. A satrap served as a viceroy to the king, though with considerable autonomy."]
I sort of had to laugh about the talks of repealing Obamacare myself. How long have Repubs talked of repeal/replace O amacare Day 1 and they've never advance a single bill/idea that improves upon or even delivers similar benefit?!? Richard is correct....a true gift Trump passed along today.
Which leads me into my question:
Rem that there was a time in the 80s....and even into the 90s....(maybe early 00s)...when Republicans were a party of ideas and policy wonks.
My question(s):
At 48yo, I rem those times.....Will I live long enough to see Republicans become a party of ideas/ideals again? Or are we simply stuck w a 2nd party that exists as a party of opposition....one that operates more effectively as a minority party even when in power? Will Republicans ever care again about governance? Or have they imbibed on Chaos Kool-Aid for far too long to ever turn back?
Clearly more than one question so combine as you see fit, if you choose to respond!
I loved your work at CNN and have been an avid reader since those days. As a fellow recently “downsized” employee, I found your 365 day article fascinating and took a lot of great advice from it. Thank you for the candor and wisdom.
My question is about Nikki Haley and the Koch endorsement. Does the endorsement matter or is Trump insurmountable? Can she defeat DeSantis, let alone Trump and receive the nomination? And with regards to the Republican nomination, whom do you believe is the strongest candidate to displace Trump and even win the White House? I have voted democrat all my life, however find myself an ardent fiscal conservative and even more strongly a social liberal; I would have no issue voting Republican if a strong candidate were presented, if Trump were removed from the equation whom do you believe has the best chance to win the White House over Biden?
Am i just dreaming to think that Nikki Haley might actually pull ahead, and appoint Liz Cheney as her running mate? Nikki/Liz might be one unbeatable ticket.
I'd like to read your comments about Tim Alberta's piece. My question is how big, how powerful, how influential are the Christian Nationalist Evangelicals? How significant are they and will they be in Nov. 2024. (I found the article terrifying.)
In light of Rosalynn Carter’s passing and wondering where she fits in the pantheon of First Ladies, I know the go-to #1 is almost always Eleanor Roosevelt, but after her, what’s your ranking?
What do you think is the best and most effective way for Joe Biden to attack the age issue, which to me should be a NON-THING, and contrast his age with Trump’s age and the issues with Trump that go far beyond a number. Like internment camps and sociopathy and mass deportations and imprisoning journalists and Project 2025 and the loss of democracy and liberty for generations.
I thought Joe nailed it with the photo of his birthday cake.
How can he build upon and amplify that type of response?
What are your thoughts on the Fox Newson-Desantis debate? Was it at least a way for Democrats to try to pierce the Fox News/Conservative Ecosystem bubble?
Will Liz Cheney’s upcoming book have any impact on voters? I suspect not, but I am curious as to what you think, as well as why she is “doing what she is doing”?
I suspect not, either. I’d like to think it would but the J6 hearings didn’t seem to change anything.
What a sad comment on our country.
Very sad and tragic.
Hope to hell she swings through all the suburban districts of the 10 most important "swing" states. If not...thanks for the memories Liz for the paper-tiger heroics of your J6 tenure.
Thank goodness for Obamacare (it provides my son's health coverage). I'm sure I'm not alone in this view, so why does Trump fixate on repealing it - getting more press about this than most of his other comments and gifting the Democrats with a cudgel.
I believe he wants to repeal it solely because it’s “Obama” and he hates Obama getting credit for anything.
In the Lunatics mind --- Having had a nig**r as president was the besmirchment of all thing White America.
Even worse --- he was re-elected!!
In listening to and reading from folks who had extended connections to both Obama and Trump they came away with:
Obama is charismatic and extremely smart, perhaps brilliant (BTW - even Clinton haters...hedge fund manager...say that Bill was mind-blowing brilliant)
Obama is charismatic as much as a superb Rolls Royce salesman. And perhaps the most ignorant person ever met.
Good question and not sure the GOP wants to tackle it.
Mike Johnson will be thrilled to repeal it. He also wants to upend anything President Obama put in place.
No votes in this Congress....20 ReTrumplican Congressmen was hanging on by their fingernails as Trump shouts his pablum-inspired "policies".
Even if Biden loses the general...Blue state Republicans will be defeated en-mas.
If Biden loses the general, we’re done. No more democracy or elections. It’s Trump for life.
I’d like to hear about the food in Portugal!!
Don"t you think we are all WAY overthinking the 2024 election? I"m the same age as you Chris, and in my lifetime, the 3 Incumbents who lost (Carter, HW Bush, and Trump) all were running during a recession. We can talk all we want about Abortion, Biden's age, Trump's criminal cases, or Israel, but if we have sub 4% unemployment, 3% GDP growth, and a sub 3% inflation rate (like we currently have) in November 2024, Biden more than likely cruises to reelection, right?
Comments like this give me hope! Thank you Daniel!
In some ways I feel empathy for Marionette Mike Pence, in others I have followed him as a:
~ failed U.S. Congressman, who never had one piece of authored legislation make it out of committee much less to the House floor in SIX terms,
~ failed governor about to be beaten for re-election 2016 by a relatively unknown Democrat because of his anti-LGBTQ executive orders, based on his overly-religious sanctimony that got him in hot-water with the corporate community (Eli Lily, Anthem Managed Care, a dozen tech companies) and convention services,
~ Sycophant-In-Chief as Vice President to the historically worst U.S. President, with continuing seepage of information from his term on his never-ending spinelessness,
~ embarrassing attempt to seek the Republican presidential nomination by trying to be a "normie" while groveling to those who wanted to hang him!
With that offered, Chris, do you think that Mike (with the blessing of Mother) will attempt:
1) anymore political gambits?
2) to maintain a lifestyle in the Democratic stronghold of Carmel, Indiana, a toney suburban city of Indy...and aspiring to live in Indy's Woodland Country Club neighborhood, by working the Conservative-Christian rubber-chicken circuit offering bygone Republican-era speeches to pay for said lifestyle?
3) being true to his ceaseless religious hectoring admonitions/smugness as one of the Chosen to attend seminary to become an ordained minister, thus walking-the-talk with Mother to bring the word of the "True Jesus" to the Ecuadorian false Pagan/Catholics?
Do I seem a bit cynical and sardonic?
I grew up in New York City with Irish-American/Old-German pols who were no-doubt corrupt, but yet truly cared about their constituents.
These hand-in-the-till pols ensured there was no desperate poverty in their precincts. They lived in the nicest houses in their neighborhood they represented, to look into the eyes of their people.
Pence and his ilk are wanna-be-one-percenters, catering to the ultra-rich and not their Congressional, state, and national constituents using no-bargaining language based on their perceived "greater-good."
While Trump is a lunatic, he is not the origin of the problem...Pence and his fellows (Democrat as well as Republican) want to pretend they are "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," yet instead are aspiring Satrapies.*
[A satrapy was a Persian territory governed by a satrap. A satrap served as a viceroy to the king, though with considerable autonomy."]
You get referenced in the new Mitt Romney book, as apparently he read your analysis.
What does it mean to you that some of the most powerful people in Washington read your work? Is it exciting? Nerve-wracking?
I sort of had to laugh about the talks of repealing Obamacare myself. How long have Repubs talked of repeal/replace O amacare Day 1 and they've never advance a single bill/idea that improves upon or even delivers similar benefit?!? Richard is correct....a true gift Trump passed along today.
Which leads me into my question:
Rem that there was a time in the 80s....and even into the 90s....(maybe early 00s)...when Republicans were a party of ideas and policy wonks.
My question(s):
At 48yo, I rem those times.....Will I live long enough to see Republicans become a party of ideas/ideals again? Or are we simply stuck w a 2nd party that exists as a party of opposition....one that operates more effectively as a minority party even when in power? Will Republicans ever care again about governance? Or have they imbibed on Chaos Kool-Aid for far too long to ever turn back?
Clearly more than one question so combine as you see fit, if you choose to respond!
I loved your work at CNN and have been an avid reader since those days. As a fellow recently “downsized” employee, I found your 365 day article fascinating and took a lot of great advice from it. Thank you for the candor and wisdom.
My question is about Nikki Haley and the Koch endorsement. Does the endorsement matter or is Trump insurmountable? Can she defeat DeSantis, let alone Trump and receive the nomination? And with regards to the Republican nomination, whom do you believe is the strongest candidate to displace Trump and even win the White House? I have voted democrat all my life, however find myself an ardent fiscal conservative and even more strongly a social liberal; I would have no issue voting Republican if a strong candidate were presented, if Trump were removed from the equation whom do you believe has the best chance to win the White House over Biden?
Thank you-
Am i just dreaming to think that Nikki Haley might actually pull ahead, and appoint Liz Cheney as her running mate? Nikki/Liz might be one unbeatable ticket.
If Nikki wins, she'll choose a MAGA to bulk up her cred.
I'd like her to troll the party and Mother by choosing the "Seasoned Sycophant" ---- Marionette Mike Pence.
Dream on! Cheney is a pariah in the Republican Party and Haley is not a centrist Republican.
Do you think the new support from Koch will benefit Niki Haley enough to get her the votes she needs to secure the GOP Nomination?
I'd like to read your comments about Tim Alberta's piece. My question is how big, how powerful, how influential are the Christian Nationalist Evangelicals? How significant are they and will they be in Nov. 2024. (I found the article terrifying.)
In light of Rosalynn Carter’s passing and wondering where she fits in the pantheon of First Ladies, I know the go-to #1 is almost always Eleanor Roosevelt, but after her, what’s your ranking?
What do you think is the best and most effective way for Joe Biden to attack the age issue, which to me should be a NON-THING, and contrast his age with Trump’s age and the issues with Trump that go far beyond a number. Like internment camps and sociopathy and mass deportations and imprisoning journalists and Project 2025 and the loss of democracy and liberty for generations.
I thought Joe nailed it with the photo of his birthday cake.
How can he build upon and amplify that type of response?
You wrote a little bit about Lisbon, what was your sons take on it? Had to be an awesome experience for him.
What do you ultimately think Manchin will do? I am hoping he does not run but don’t trust him.
What are your thoughts on the Fox Newson-Desantis debate? Was it at least a way for Democrats to try to pierce the Fox News/Conservative Ecosystem bubble?