Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask President Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance, according to the people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. Warner has told others that he is deeply concerned that Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump.

If the justification was that Biden has faltered multiple times in meetings with multiple Senators, I’d have a different attitude.  But this is all about the debate, and at the same time that Biden is attempting to point his campaign in the right direction, these fuckers are outside the tent pissing in.

This will have to be brief because I’m between family gatherings, but one of my family members (we’re all Democrats) was only able to watch the second half of the debate, and his take-away was that Biden didn’t do that badly.  But he noted that every. goddam. thing. he’s heard out of professional Democrats’ mouths since the debate has been how Biden “lost”.  Very little has been said about the tons of lies that Trump told.  Very little has been said about the “post birth Roe” fantasy that Trump spun.   The right way to message this is “yeah, Biden had a bad night, but did you hear the shit that came out of Trump’s yap?”  Instead, we have 10 days of the worst messaging by supposedly loyal party establishment figures in modern political history.

If you think that Mark Warner and the rest of the centrist assholes he’s going to assemble to try to push Biden out are going to wholeheartedly back Kamala Harris, please send me some of what you’re smoking.  The reason you don’t hear the progressives scheming and leaking to the Post is that they’re pretty happy with what they’ve gotten from the Biden administration.  Warner et. al. are acting as chaos agents in hope of a never-gonna-happen brokered convention that will yield someone who isn’t as progressive as Biden.  They also ignore the reality that the Biden/Harris campaign funds (~$250 million and counting) can only go to Harris if Biden drops out.  Johnny Unbeatable can get $3,300 from the Biden/Harris PAC — that’s it.

We are in fucking cloud cuckoo pundit fantasy land, dragged there by assholes like Warner.