June 12, 2019

Here's a poll that makes the point it was constructed to make.


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95 comments:

tim maguire said...

They've given up on Kamala already?! Or is this just this week and it will be somebody else next week?

John Borell said...

Reminds me of the "we must do something" urge when doing nothing is often the best answer.

Here's my plan for most of Warren's issues: do nothing and let the problems sort out themselves.

Building on a post below, when talking government plans, less is more!

DarkHelmet said...

Warren is a pandering phony and Sanders is a nasty old communist. So the poll question really should read: Who has better chance of being elected president: a pandering phony or a nasty old communist?

Karen said...

First time I ever heard her speak years ago, I thought to myself, there is a very dangerous person. My thoughts have not changed.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Yay leftwing media narrative. sell it.

Original Mike said...

Didn't Hillary have a plan for everything?

Nonapod said...

Between cholera and typhus, which would you prefer to be stricken with? Which do you believe you would die from?

Fen said...
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Fen said...

I'm guessing Warren's "plan" is as detailed as Pelosi's Articles of Impeachment?

jae said...

"I've got a plan"

So did the Cylons, and look how that worked out.

Big Mike said...

Warren's press conference about the results of her DNA test tell me that she has a political tin ear. She will exhibit it more times between now and when the nominee is selected.

WisRich said...

I think the MSM has seen enough of the candidates and their vote is in: liz Warren.

tcrosse said...

Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans.

Rick said...

She has a plan for everything

Recession: more government control, spending, taxation and demonizing "the rich".
Economic growth: More demonizing "the rich", taxation, spending, and government control
Stagnation: More spending, taxation, demonizing "the rich", and government control.

Nonapod said...

Anybody can have a plan. Having lots of "plans" doesn't mean any of them are feasible.

A candidate could say they have a plan for free college, free healthcare, and an end to global warming. They could even get specific. Like, say that we're going to insitute a massive new wealth tax to pay for it all. Basically have the government confiscate the wealth (not the income, mind you... the wealth) of anyone with a net worth more than 50 million dollars over and above that 50 million. As in literally take their third and fourth houses, their private jets, their yahts, liquidate all their investments above 50 million. That's a plan.

YoungHegelian said...

"Comrades, the Central Committee of the Supreme Soviet has just released its latest Five Year Plan. It is the duty of each & every worker & the cadres to align their production goals with the goals of the Five Year Plan & to strive to their utmost to make the goals of the Plan a reality! Onward on the true path of Socialism!"

How'd that all work out?

Yancey Ward said...

Tim Maguire with the first comment is right, I think. The media wanted Harris, but Harris increasingly doesn't seem up to the challenge, so Warren is the fallback candidate that isn't male and white. It also has helped that Warren is out there campaigning hard and is drawing larger crowds than the other ones- I do think momentum is with her at this point- other than Sanders and Buttuvwxyz, no one else is drawing any attention.

Leland said...

Admiral Holdo had a plan too.

YoungHegelian said...

@tcross,

Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans.

This morning, going north on I-270, I saw a purple dump truck that had that motto painted across the back.

FullMoon said...

Yeah, they all got plans and promises.

Yancey Ward said...

I haven't written Harris off yet, but she has been god-awful answering too many questions with non-answers, and ridiculous non-answers, that I am losing confidence that she will right the ship.

wild chicken said...

You know who has ideas? Trump. Trump has ideas. And the Vision Thing too.

Who woulda thought?

Ann Althouse said...

Elizabeth Warren has a plan.

Kamala Harris is waiting for the briefing book, which she will consider reading.

tommyesq said...

They've given up on Kamala already?!

Kamala has made clear that she has no plan, not even a "do nothing" plan.

narayanan said...

Please describe Warren's plan
1)when she set up CFPB
2)when she took her DNA test
3)when she checked the box for Native American

gilbar said...

i (still) feel that once All the democrats realized that they will Lose to President Trump; they will nominate Kamela Harris so that they call blame it all on 'racism'
The fact that people are still talking about old white guys shows that Some democrats still have hope

FullMoon said...

Warren is a pandering phony and Sanders is a nasty old communist. So the poll question really should read: Who has better chance of being elected president: a pandering phony or a nasty old communist?

"Denver City Council candidate Candi CdeBaca is not shy about her love for communism. No matter how many times it has failed in violence, poverty and mass murder, she’s still a fan. In April Candi promised to push communism “by any means necessary.”
On June 5th Candi won a seat on the Denver City Council."

BTW: NOT A CALIFORNIA TRANSPLANT TURNING RED STATE BLUE. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command

"Candi CdeBaca, Denver, Colorado. 2.9K likes. Candi is a 5th generation Northeast Denver resident"

gilbar said...

however, Our Professor Althouse correctly points out that Kamela is trying, as best as she can, to make people realize that she is Not one of the sharper tools in the box

Kamala Harris is waiting for the briefing book, which she will consider reading.

gilbar said...

Candi CdeBaca, Candidate for Denver City Council District 9. The community activist and founder of Project VOYCE
?????

So, there is a concerted ANTI-SPELLING effort in Denver now?

madAsHell said...

Buttuvwxyz

One of my favorite Superman villains, Mr. Mxyxptik was an imp from the Fifth Dimension. Mr. Mxyzptlk possessed nearly limitless reality-bending powers, which he often used to pose challenges to Superman for his own amusement.

Superman would trick Mr. Mxyzptilk into saying his own name backwards, and cast him back into the Fifth Dimension. I'm seeing a lot of parallels here with Trump as Superman.

Fen said...

Elizabeth Warren has a plan.

So do the Cylons.

Coincidence? I think not. Both are pretending to be human.



Achilles said...

Ann Althouse said...
Elizabeth Warren has a plan.

Kamala Harris is waiting for the briefing book, which she will consider reading.


I am not entirely convinced Harris can really read all that well.

She certainly can't evaluate what she is reading in a critical manner.

Amadeus 48 said...

Elizabeth Warren would do well to study the works of that noted tactician (and serial buttocks fondler) Mike Tyson:

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

I don't think I'd like Elizabeth Warren's plans, but I am looking forward to her first contact with the enemy.

BarrySanders20 said...

A Nifty Phrase Because We Love Her

A first-person Media Ditty crafted by the media to help recover from the wounds of the literal existential threat and sung to the tune of Paul Simon's 50 Ways . . .

The problem is all inside your head, Liz said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
We need a nifty phrase because we love her

She said it's really not my habit to intrude
For the more I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
So I repeat myself, at the risk of being cruel
We need a nifty phrase because we love her, nifty phrase because we love her

Just make a new plan, Stan, Attack Big Biz, Liz,
Dont need to think on you own, Joan, just listen to me
Repeat what I say, Ray, Follow my lead, Meade,
Read from Journalist, miss, since we all agree.


Jim at said...

First time I ever heard her speak years ago, I thought to myself, there is a very dangerous person.

First time I heard her speak, I ran my fingernails down a chalk board just to get the sound of her voice out of my head.

Achilles said...

You all are missing the forest for the trees.

Warren is obviously studying Trump and how Trump defeated the Swamp in 2016.

It is not natural to her and she misinterpreted a few things. She thought Trump was trying to be "like" the deplorables that support him and she did a couple stupid things like fail to drink a beer and 1/1024th debacle.

At some point, if she hasn't already, she will see that his support derives from what Trump can and will do for his supporters, not who he is.

I think she has somewhat realized this and this shows in her new messaging.

Buttigieg is still running on intersectionality but he is the only other candidate who can make that adjustment out of the major candidates.

The first debate is going to introduce a half dozen or so completely fresh faces. Biden is going to fall faster rather than slower.

There is going to be a shakeup in the dem primary soon. The current status is too pathetic.

BarrySanders20 said...

If I was a big media person I would ask Liz just one, one-word question about implementing each of her many plans:

HOW!

Nonapod said...

A lot of people here seem to be predicting certain doom for Biden with Warren being the eventual nominee. I still think it's more likely that Biden gets the nod. The reason I still believe so is that I think it has to do with the Dem primary voters perceptions of the general election voters, who they think will appeal to them more.

And when it comes to the Dem primary voters perceptions, I think Warren's biggest problem is that she already "lost" to Trump in a way over the silly DNA fiasco. I think they think that that PR loss makes her too vulnerable and less appealing to general voters. They know that Trump wouldn't never let that one go, would be constantly reminding people of it with the Pocahontas nickname.

But I'm probably infering or mind reading too much right now.

Fen said...

Does Hillary still control the DNC?

Nonapod said...

Does Hillary still control the DNC?

Well, she's not running. This indicates to me that her influence among the Right People™ in the upper echelons of the party has waned quite a bit. To be clear, I've no doubt that she wanted to run. She's lusted after the presidency like Golem for the one ring for her entire life. But the powers that be told her to pound sand.

n.n said...

Warren is not alone to believe that she can have the baby and abort her, too. Hopefully, she will make the right choice, before it is made for her.

tcrosse said...

Does Hillary still control the DNC?

Well, she no longer controls the money. The donors seem to have moved on.

JaimeRoberto said...

To Warren's plans I say "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

gilbar said...

screw these losers!
Jo Biden just told America (well, Iowa,) that IF ELECTED, HE WILL CURE CANCER
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-promises-hell-cure-cancer-if-elected-president

THAT is REAL power! Let's see these other LOSERS (including President Trump) CURE CANCER!!

traditionalguy said...

Those damn Cherokee Indian savages. Always planning on attacking the White Anglos.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

beware of the cylons. they are everywhere.

madAsHell said...

Women talking-heads talking to women.

chuck said...

The whole exercise drips with cynicism about the voters. Or am I just being cynical?

clint said...

Yes... but remember what her plan was to embarrass President Trump and prove she really is a Native American?

Should we expect any of her plans to actually be, you know, helpful?

Achilles said... "There is going to be a shakeup in the dem primary soon. The current status is too pathetic."

Sometimes, especially against an incumbent with a strong economy, the pathetic tops the opposition ticket. Joe Biden would be a candidate in the mold of Mondale, Dukakis, and Dole -- with similar results.

stevew said...

If record numbers of people are employed, across all racial and ethinic groups,
If pay is rising generally and specifically, also across the board,
If the border situation continues to stabilize,
If foreign conflicts are stable and diminishing,
If trade issues are being addressed,

Then what is it that we need all these plans for?

Being a Masshole she is one of my Senators (and NO I did not vote for her). She has a real problem, albeit a superficial one, in that her voice is irritating and grating and her personal style of delivery does not express confidence or leadership. Of course there is the tone deafness (see: "I think I'll have me a beer").

Temujin said...

Liz Warren: the man with the plan.

I love when politicians tell us they have a plan. A Ten Point Plan. Or...a Healthcare Plan. Or a Social Security Plan. Or a Plan for Peace. A Plan for your future.

I got your plan right here.

stevew said...

Binders full of plans.

Trump is about outcomes.

gilbar said...

stevew said...
her voice is irritating and grating and her personal style of delivery does not express confidence

Yes BUT! When she talks, she Often raises her fist high in the air like she is an Activist or something; so, we should ALL Follow her where ever she goes.... Ba! Ba! Ba!

LA_Bob said...

Achilles said, "...At some point, if she hasn't already, she will see that his support derives from what Trump can and will do for his supporters, not who he is..."

Warren has shown evidence of "evolution" in the past. She was far more conservative in her early academic career until she studied bankruptcy patterns and concluded that "average" Americans were not gaming the credit card issuers as many in Congress believed.

In general, I'd say this ability to learn is a good thing. It explains why Warren might end up winning the nomination, as Althouse suggested. Certainly Kamala hasn't shown much ability to learn and change up till now.

I just hope Warren has a plan for her concession speech come November 2020.

narciso said...

it turns that was a fraudulent study, her primary detractor is dead, her collaborator was the future president of the university of virginia, who had to step down re that fake sexual assault case,

Michael K said...

Warren is the fallback candidate that isn't male and white.

Nope, 1/1024th Indian. Maybe.

I could see her winning the nom but Trump will laugh her off the stage.

Her salvation could be industrial strength vote fraud. The Democrats have been experimenting with it.

alanc709 said...

Seattle will trade you Kshama Sawant and 2 minor league socialists for Candi CdeBaca.

Achilles said...

Fen said...
Does Hillary still control the DNC?


She never did. She was a well paid tool. Nothing more.

You all need to realize where the power lies. The DNC is a tool. All of the people in it are tools. The media are tools.

Hillary is a bit player compared to the 1000 or so people that own the international media and most democrats/cuck wing republicans and the EU etc.

Trump is a threat because he does not rely on those people for power. He can actually listen to the people who voted for him.

Achilles said...

This is why Warren is gaining traction because she is going at the people in control and trying to listen to democrat voters.

Biden will fall because he is the most obvious tool in the shed.

narciso said...

warren's gig is she found an easy audience on Colbert and oprah and dr. phil, they'll buy most anything, now her theories underlay the consumer gosplan, the tarp bill and the stimulus plan,

Bilwick said...

Her heap big plan for everything: more statism, less individual liberty. How original and bold and creative of her! Not like all those other Democratic State-shtuppers!

wwww said...

Nobody knows who is going to win the nomination. Many times someone with 1% this early has won Iowa.

Big Mike said...

Biden will fall because he is the most oblivious tool in the shed.

FIFY Achilles.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

Warren would never say it’s OK to cooperate with a foreign power to interfere in our elections...unlike Trump did today in an interview with Stepenopolis.

Before you fools cast shade on any Democratic candidate, you need to look at the creature you voted for and take responsibility for being idiots.

Drago said...

Hiax Dossier Truther Inga: "Warren would never say it’s OK to cooperate with a foreign power to interfere in our elections..."

LOLOLOLOLOL

The entire democrat party knows that the dems conspired and colluded with the Brits, the Italians, the Aussies, the Ukrainians AND the RUSSIANS to interfere in our elections!!

I did not think our hoax dossier dummy could beclown herself more thoroughly, but there you go!

A real LLR Chuck-level Self-own Own-Goal!

Btw, does everyone know that Inga still (STILL!!) believes the hoax dossier is REAL?!!

She most certainly does....and the stupidity is GLORIOUS to behold.

GLOR---I---OUS!

Drago said...

Inga thinks Bidens Hyde amendment and China as competitor flip flops are signs of strength!

LOL

At least Biden hasnt needed security to toss him head first like a sack of potatoes into an SUV.....yet...
.

Drago said...

Hoax Dossier Truther Inga: "Warren would never say it’s OK to cooperate with a foreign power to interfere in our elections.."

Obama never said that either......but he did it anyway.....after spying in congress illegally......after spying on members of the media AND their family members.

Stalin never said he was going to imprison and execute milluons of people....but he did it anyway.

Lefties are just like that.....

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Michael K said...

Before you fools cast shade on any Democratic candidate, you need to look at the creature you voted for and take responsibility for being idiots.

Inga when did you start work at Babylon Bee ?

gilbar said...

HEY Dr K! Don't be dissing the Babylon Bee like that! : )

narciso said...

So what's Kamalas path can she win Iowa new Hampshire or North Carolina,

rehajm said...

Hillary has a plan. Let Liz and Joe Camel flounder then Romney a presser with the elder statesmen bit.

Jon Burack said...

No, no, not Stalin! He had a five-year plan. Warren will have a four year plan. And then another one. I mean, anyhow, five-year plan socialism never worked. But that actually wasn't real socialism. Four-year plan socialism has never been tried. It'll be better than Sweden. Just wait.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Elizabeth Warren
1 hr ·
The Mueller Report made it clear: A foreign government attacked our 2016 elections to support Trump, Trump welcomed that help, and Trump obstructed the investigation. Now, he said he'd do it all over again. It's time to impeach Donald Trump”

Another reason why Warren is surging. Leaving fools and Trump sycophants behind, good work Warren, keep at it.

narciso said...

Meanwhile the opposing campaign actually paid for info ostensibly from Russia, which was as solid as a bulwinkle script.

Rick said...

Inga...Allie Oop said...
Warren would never say it’s OK to cooperate with a foreign power to interfere in our elections..


Years of investigations have proven this false but the nutjob conspiracy theorists march on as if the facts are irrelevant.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

If Warren said that, she's a lying asshole.

narciso said...

Which is just another ending in y for her.

iowan2 said...

The Mueller Report made it clear: A foreign government attacked our 2016 elections to support Trump,

Your going to have to reassess everything in the Mueller Report. John Durham has been interrogating the CIA about the Jan 7,2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. He is demanding specific facts that support the conclusions of the Assessment. One of those conclusion was the Russian were supporting Trump. Durham is looking for those facts.

The Mueller report is a lie. His statements of facts, and findings of facts are slowly being exposed as lies. People are going to have to come to the realization that the Mueller report is a Democrat Party campaign document.

The Godfather said...

Having a plan is great! The next thing is, WHAT is the plan? As far as I can see, Warren's plan is to confiscate a huge amount of money from filthy rich people and use it to provide "free" stuff to non-rich and (mostly) young people. It might even work, for a little while. But most filthy rich people are smart, and even those who aren't can pay smart people to "plan" for them. So one way or another, the filthy riches will be snatched out of the Government's grasp.

Then, who's going to pay for all the free stuff?

Does Warren have a plan for that?

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

“After years of false accusations and McCarthyite smears, the collusion hoax now defines the Democratic Party.”

Indeed

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

The Mueller Dossier.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

INSTY:

"THE TALKING POINTS HAVE GONE OUT: Elizabeth Warren has a plan. Just ask the DNC-MSM:

Propelled by her “I’ve got a plan for that” motto, Warren has improved as a retail politician since her first successful U.S. Senate bid in 2012. Proposals like the wealth tax, to go along with her drumbeat of ideas on issues like canceling student debt and breaking up big tech companies, have flipped the media narrative on her presidential campaign. Here is just a short list of recent headlines:

Washington Post: Warren’s nonstop ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum

New York Times: Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time

The Guardian: Elizabeth Warren gains momentum in the 2020 race plan by plan

Bloomberg: Elizabeth Warren Rises in 2020 Race as Policy Focus Catches Fire

CNN: Elizabeth Warren Breaks Through Crowded 2020 Field — With A Plan

Politico: How ‘I got a plan’ became a thing: Warren nerds out and the crowds go crazy


Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and their marching in lockstep all makes sense.

Darrell Harris said...

Polls do not attempt to measure opinion. They attempt to shape it.

Fen said...

Inga: Warren would never say it’s OK to cooperate with a foreign power to interfere in our elections

So is she calling Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Blumenthal, Comey, Brennan and McCabe out?

If not, then she is full of shit.

Fen said...

A foreign government attacked our 2016 elections to support Trump, Trump welcomed that help, and Trump obstructed the investigation

Fauxahontas is a liar. The Mueller report says:

1) Russia did not support Trump
2) Trump did not welcome their overtures, refused them several times
3) Trump did not obstruct the investigation

Gojuplyr831@gmail.com said...

Didn't Custer have a plan?

Bay Area Guy said...

The Dem primary states almost all have proportional voting rather than "winner take all" voting.

So, Liz Warren's plan is to get 1/1024 of the vote in Iowa.

Mr. Forward said...

Warren has a plan
She’ll work on her tan
Open a can
Run as a man
The road to the White House
Is clear
It only requires more beer.


FIDO said...

This isn't a new plan: free shit for everyone.

But there aren't even any back of the envelope fiscal discussions on how to pay for it.

Are Feminists and reporters so innumerate that they don't actually GET this or does the Democrat base not pay taxes?

rehajm said...

But there aren't even any back of the envelope fiscal discussions on how to pay for it

Others in support of the party invented their own economic fantasy to pay for it. It’s referred to as Modern Monetary Theory. Supposedly it was invented in the 1990s but the first time I heard of it is when Mankiw was being attacked during the Obama administration.

Phil 314 said...

Would Barack Obama say to Liz Warren “You’re likeable enough”?

Sofa King said...

Russians don't take a dump without a plan, son.

stlcdr said...

Isn't Warren in government? A high level of government? Maybe a Senator, or something? Don't those kind of people actually make rules and regulations according to a plan (house and senate)? What has being president got to do with the price of eggs?

Seems like she's playing on people's ignorance of what the branches of government do. Just like Pelosi et. al.

Bilwick said...

Rick, Inga's mind (such as it is) is already made up! Please don't confuse her with facts! (Next you'll be asking her for logical arguments. That would be cruel.)