Beto O’Rourke leapfrogs most of the 2020 Democratic field
(This is the sixth edition of our monthly power rankings of Democrats most likely to get their party’s presidential nomination in 2020.)
It’s Beto O’Rourke’s world, every other Democrat is just living in it.
That’s the reality of the moment as the Democratic Party begins to ramp up for what will almost certainly be the largest presidential field in modern memory. O’Rourke seems to be everywhere these days – such as meeting with former President Barack Obama – and is, without doubt, the candidate everyone else thinking about the 2020 race has (at least) one eye on…
[Here] our rankings of the 10 people most likely to wind up as the Democratic nominee against President Donald Trump in 2020. We do this every month, so if your preferred candidate isn’t on the list (or isn’t as high as you’d like) stay tuned!
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday that Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee “see a path” toward obtaining the President’s tax returns once Democrats take power in the chamber next year.
“I think it’s a little more challenging than you might think,” Pelosi told reporters at a press briefing Thursday. “I think they’ll take the first steps.”
“Yes, there is popular demand for the Congress to request the President’s tax returns,” she added later. “They will have their path as we go forward. I’m sure the White House will resist, and so the question is, where do we go from there?”
By three votes, the House of Representatives advanced a farm bill, but not before the Republican leadership slipped in a provision that would turn off any possibility of the Congress’s fast-tracking an effort to turn off American aid to Saudi Arabia due to that country’s abominable war in Yemen. And this, at roughly the same time that the Senate apparently was moving to pass a War Powers resolution limiting U.S. participation in this humanitarian atrocity.
This is one of the last acts of Paul Ryan’s speakership, and he richly deserves the contempt that will be heaped on him for playing legislative monkey-mischief with starving children. And in a farm bill. God, what a fake the man is…
Consider what Ryan and his majority did today. They made it impossible for the United States to swiftly extricate itself from accessorial conduct in a horrible ongoing crime-by-famine, and they did it by sabotaging a bill that helps get food to people in this country…
That’s how Paul Ryan will leave Congress, complicit in the death by starvation of children he doesn’t even know.
Sebastion Cooper 