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one wants to beat someone in a
presidential primary.
Warren did not actually do
anything, at all, that could be remotely construed as mounting a
primary challenge. I actually cannot point to anything particularly
noteworthy that Elizabeth Warren has done at all in recent days.
The origin for all of this rampant
speculation came in the form of
a New Republic article that eerily followed the exact same rubric as another article that came
out three years before the 2008
presidential election, describing
the potential primary challenge to
Clinton from the left in the form
of Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.),
who went on to adamantly refuse
to mount that primary challenge.
Nevertheless, there was much
sturm und drang about an article
in which an anonymous source
— an anonymous “former aide,”
which is very, verrrrrry low on
the anonymous source reliability scale, by the way — saying,
“Yeah, Hillary is running. And
she’ll probably win. ... But Elizabeth doesn’t care about winning.
She doesn’t care whose turn it
is.” I mean, there you have it,
right? Rando Mystery Aide probably knows best.
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
11.17.13
Anyway, after a whole lot of
coverage and frenzy, we get the
news via Politico that, actually,
steps have been taken to totally
solve the problem of Elizabeth
Warren’s primary challenge,
which is not actually a real thing:
If anything, Clinton’s world
appears very aware that income inequality is an issue that
matches the prevailing mood of
Take that, Elizabeth
Warren! Not only is Clinton
probably going to make
a ‘strong progressive
economics argument,’ she’s
been making these strong
progressive economics
arguments all along, ha ha!”
the Democratic base — witness
incoming New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio, who was Hillary