FRICTION DEVELOPING BETWEEN DEMOCRATS???

Now you’d think it would be pretty much of a real no-brainer for them, but in their attempt to figure out how best to recover from the mauling they took in the midterm elections last month, Democrats seem more divided that ever over what sort of economic message they should be concentrating on ahead of the presidential election in 2016. So what would seem to be the obvious choice to the rest of us, seems to go ignored by what is, apparently, a significant number of Democrats. But then our world isn’t ruled by leftwing politics.

So anyway, it should come as being no great surprise, that the more ‘liberal’ members, or those who so very proudly identify themselves as progressives, of the Democrat Party are seen rallying behind the senior Senator, believe it or not, from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, and her emphasis on income equality. Meanwhile it’s the more moderate Democrats who, like Bigfoot, I doubt really even exist, dismiss her message, believing that it will only result in more pain at the voting booths. But a moderate Democrat is about as rare as a moderate Muslim.

So instead of falling in behind Warren, it’s these supposed moderates who are calling for policies that will lead to more economic growth and who are hoping that presumed presidential frontrunner Hitlery Clinton will end up getting behind their cause. Delaware’s Democrat Gov. Jack Markell asks, "In a world where there are more self-described conservatives than there are self-described liberals, is having a campaign that only tries to win by appealing to your base the right strategy?" To which he responds, "I would argue it’s not."

Markell has made the point that the next Democrat nominee must reach independents as well as "some Republicans," while adding, "In my mind, an agenda around [economic] growth is the most likely message to do that." But that is very obviously at odds with Warren who, in recent weeks, has become a catalyst, of sorts, for progressives in the party as she pushes her position that the country should be curtailing corporate power and curbing the amount of wealth controlled by the nation’s richest individuals.

To that end, she won a great many admirers in the party last week and served to enhance her populist hero status when her anti-Wall Street faction nearly derailed the bipartisan $1.1 Trillion spending bill in the House. She also highlighted her position as the leading liberal in Congress when she led the opposition to the White House’s choice of banker Antonio Weiss for a leading post at the Treasury Department, which she claimed could result in Wall Street wielding undue influence on financial policy.

Although Warren maintained earlier this week that she’s "not running" for the White House, there are many progressives within her party who hope she changes her mind. Meanwhile, Hitlery is fully expected to announce in the coming months that she will be a contender in 2016. The only real question that hangs over her head is whether she’ll support a populist policy of income equality or the more moderate stance of economic growth. Those in the know say that the former first lady has always favored the second course.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Peter Nicholas said, "While all Democrats say they want to foster a growing economy, the two wings of the party are at odds over which points should be most central to their message." He said that the liberals and moderates in the party have "largely minimized differences and kept a united front" for the past six years while facing increasing Republican attacks Barry’s policies. He said, "But the uneasy alliance has become strained after the midterm elections, in which the party suffered deep losses."

I think there are, in this country, a great number of people, at both ends of the political spectrum, who doubt the seriousness of the Democrat Party when it comes to doing what many of us see as being necessary for getting the economy to actually grow. And while you’re always going have the malcontents whining about not making $15 an hour while working in the fast-food industry, the rest of us out here in the real world recognize how that is, simply put, quite ludicrous. But those are the morons who will flock to left-wing kooks like Warren.