Discussion for article #229870
I can definently dig that,Congressman Isreal,
Good. Maybe he will start responding to constituent emailâŚ
Positively the WORST campaign so far this century, up to and including 1988âs Democratic Presidential train wreck. It didnât start with the DCCC, but they made a bad campaign from the top down (and Yes, I mean the White House) even worse. If playing âmusical chairsâ someplace at the top or near it could have helped anything at all, it would have already been done. This is window dressing, put on after the vandals have thrown a brick thru the plate glass window.
As for real âhope and changeâ forget about who the chair warmer is.
Why?
Because exactly one second after the last polling place was counted, reported, closed and locked on Tuesday, the 2016 Presidential campaign kicked into high gear. The DCCC and all the "levers of power "now belong to the 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate. And you donât need eight years of political science to know whom Democrats suppose that will be.
The DCCC muffed it, up and down the line.in 2014.
What they will do, and who will do it in 2016, at this point matters not a wit. The Democrats as a Party have much more to worry about in trying to preserve themselves as a viable Party, never mind slicing up the money sandwiches floating around a town full of lame politicians, and the lame ducks they have made.
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I think he should return to the back bench where he belongs. That was one really, really bad election.
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Harry Reid has got to go as Minority Leader in the Senate too. He was the one who controlled how those Senate races were run, and he was the one who decided they should keep their heads low, and act like they were not Dems basically. I keep hearing that leadership moans about the President not inviting them over for drinks. Screw that. This is not high school. Reid sucks at getting the message of the Dems out.
The Republican brand rates lower in approval than they ever have, and yet they won, and they won because for 6 years Reid has allowed the right to create the narrative, and is horrendous at having basically any narrative at all for the Dems. This crap that they have to have the same people in power year after year needs to stop, and they need some fresh blood at the top. The only plus I see in any of this, is that now the Cons are going to show all of the idiots who thought things would be better with them in power, that they are going to do nothing but make things worse. This is why we need someone who can get the effing message out.
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Put a kick ass real liberal in charge and have Howard Dean advise him or her on how to run a 50 state campaign.
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And take Ms. Wasserman Schultz with you. The heads of DNC and DCCC need to be people who are on the job full time, not people who work it part time as an adjunct to their roles as members of the house of representatives. It is to important in todayâs political word, and these spokespeople have to have the time to be out in front of the cameras with a consistent message to drive the corporate media narrative. Get the progressive half of the mediaâs beloved equivalence out in cyber space and the air waves.
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To your point:
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the democratic party needs to get away from the extortionist politicians in ny and nj and start working for the middleclass of this country again.
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What happened to GOTV in crucial states??? I believe that democrats need to spend less money on ads and more money on GOTV. We need to pinpoint where our base is and focus on those areas. I still donât get why people donât vote. If they yell about how messed up everything is and sit home than they donât have any grounds to have things changed. Your vote talks, sitting home is bull crap. Yelling about voter ID, voter suppression, etc. and sitting home when you can vote what is the point???
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Good. I told them they wonât get another penny from me until they clean house. I am sure they shook with fear out of losing my pittance but it looks like other people said the same thing.
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He absolutely, positively should step down. He was clueless and weak as to how to manage the Democratsâ message â to fight the relentless vitriol thrown by the GOP candidates with their own vitriol â and his own partyâs FEAR of Obama. He and Debbie Wasserman Shultz should never be in a Democratic leadership position again.
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The best thing that could happen to the Democratic party is for Nancy Pelosi and all her blue dog buds like Mr. Israel to step down from leadership and let people who wonât cower when a candidate expresses support for progressive ideas take over the job of getting Dems elected.
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We have to ask the question, just who do Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Steve Israel et al work for. If they work for the fishing buddies of the Koch brothers then their refusal to stand for the rest of us makes sense. If they really feel they work for the rest of us then they did a sucky job this election.
Either way from the point of view of most Democrats they should all be fired.
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Too little too late. I didnât realize there was actually a group, leader or plan involved with the Democrats. One suspected they had gone into hiding a few years back.
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That article is spot on, and everything I have been saying for some time now. I literally scream at some of the wussie Dems who always fail to correct the record when they are on TV. I think the truth that no one wants to say, is that the Dems allowed Obama to be vilified, because many of them are racists too, and allowing the black man to take the heat for their own failures as a party is much easier.
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I think you nailed it, when you said âhis own partyâs FEAR of Obamaâ. The Dems may not have been the ones to spew the racist crap for the past 6 years, but they did nothing to counteract it, which in my book makes them almost as big of racists as the RWNJâs are. The Dems have been the ones time and time again to âleakâ through surrogates that Obama is âstandoffish and aloofâ, which is a nice way of saying they think he is an uppity black man who wonât grovel at their feet.
Believe me, today I wish I had all of the hours back that I volunteered for the Dems, and heard other Dems over and over again, when I called them and urged them to vote throughout this election, tell me how sick and tired they are of their own partyâs politicians. The Dems better get a clue, that the number of registered Independents in this country are not just disaffected Republicans. We need a progressive surge, because every single one of their policies poll well with ALL voters.
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Damn right! It disgusted me and I voted for Dems while holding my nose. But, I know it turned off others in the Obama coalition and I think many didnât bother to come out because of it.
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too late⌠he should never have been in that position in the first place. but, at least, now heâll have plenty of time to complete the work on his novel⌠since congress apparently doesnât have any legislative work to be doing.
wasserman-schultz is a friggin embarrassment⌠sheâs a dreadful advocate for democrats and has no business in a âleadershipâ position. her responses are canned and decades old.
i did notice that mediawhore chuck schumer was missing in action⌠havenât seen his mug in weeks (months?) â surely hiding out so he isnât associated with this outcome.
can someone explain to me how these ohsobusy representatives of the people â who have so many pressing duties â always seem to have time to write novels (that i donât believe for a moment return a profit)âŚ