He’s just waiting for the right woman to come along …
by digby
I had a whole lot of progressives tell me in 2016 that they yearned to vote for the first woman president but they were just waiting for the right one to come along. It was about hewing to the right progressive issues, nothing personal. And there was certainly no sexism involved.
So why isn’t Elizabeth Warren doing better?
Here’s the latest of a long string of aggressively progressive plans and policies she’s laid out already:
Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the legislative filibuster, the first major presidential candidate to explicitly endorse ending the Senate’s longstanding 60-vote threshold.
The Massachusetts Democrat is set to make the announcement at the National Action Network on Friday, just two days after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) invoked the unilateral “nuclear option” to shave off debate time of presidential nominees. Now Warren says it’s time to “fight back.”
“I’m not running for President just to talk about making real, structural change. I’m serious about getting it done. And part of getting it done means waking up to the reality of the United States Senate,” Warren will say. “So let me be as clear as I can. When Democrats next have power, we should be bold and clear: we’re done with two sets of rules — one for the Republicans and one for the Democrats.
She added: “That means when Democrats have the White House again, if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama, and puts small-minded partisanship ahead of solving the massive problems facing this country, then we should get rid of the filibuster.”
Of all the people running, she has been the boldest and the most detailed on issues and they are all unabashedly progressive.
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