There must be ten Google News articles this morning pointing at Nancy Pelosi as the prime suspect in the recent Democratic GA-6 and SC-5 losses.
That’s unfair, of course.
The entire DNC hierarchy should be blamed!!!
And then kicked right out on their elitist, centrist, entitlement-poisoned asses.
Here is one of the most telling phrases in those articles. (Emphasis mine.):
As Democrats point fingers in the wake of Jon Ossoff’s loss in a Georgia special election on Tuesday, some of them are aimed at Nancy Pelosi, the party’s longtime House leader, who appeared in almost every GOP attack ad broadcast in the most expensive House race in history.
That about pins it, in my view.
They spent all that money to win, and then they featured the least telegenic, most confused (recently, anyway), least likable Dem figure (Except for maybe Chuck Schumer…even HRC at her worst was better onscreen than these two.) in their whole stable of hustlers.
How stupid can you get!!!
This is the exact same mistake that was made in the presidential election, only this time featuring an even less attractive character. They could have run Bernie; they could have run Biden…hell, they could have run The Rock for all I care…they could probably have run almost anybody who appears to be even semi-human and caring and beaten Trump.
But they didn’t.
They ran HRC. They even went so far as to fix the primaries just in case her awful political skills eventually started to show.
And, of course…they lost, resulting in quite possibly the single worst electoral result that has ever threatened the survival of this country as even a flawed democracy.
And now…after after a huge, 6+ month anti-Trump mass media campaign…what happened?
They put Pelosi up to bat.
Result?
I got yer result.
Right here!!! (NY Times):
Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years. He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa, his first trip back to the political battleground state since he won it in the 2016 general election.
His mood buoyant after twin Republican wins in congressional special elections the night before, the president also revealed his anticipated plan for putting solar panels on a proposed wall on the Mexican border — an idea he boasted he had come up with himself.
—snip—
Even the execrable, lying NY Times couldn’t find a way to spin this positively, although they did indeed make a valiant try.
Read on.
A notice to all the neocentrist Dem posters/botsters on this site:
You have already lost.
Or, to put it better…we have already lost. Who “we?” The well-meaning liberals and progressives who had any remaining hopes that the Democratic Party might be able rediscover its New Deal roots.
You only have three alternative results, botster people:
1-The current DNC continues on its suicidal ways and the Democratic Party eventually joins the other U.S. political parties in the Political Museum on the shelf marked “Extinct.”
2-The Dems continue their ongoing rightward move, further allying themselves with the centrist Republicans and creating a neocentrist block that will continue to try to resist Trump’s every move while remaining powerless to actually get rid of him. He wins a 2nd term against a DNC-chosen patsy and topples the whole neocentrist construct while doing so. And then there is real hell to pay.
or
3-The neocentrist alliance actually manages to get rid of Trump. Could happen, he’s obviously in too deep with too many negative characters to be able to survive any real investigation. Only…if that sort of investigation truly got serious (Instead of pitty-patting around with a trumped-up Russiagate), it would reveal collusion with the same sorts of people up and down the entire elected government.
We cain’t be havin’ that, now can we?
Nope.
But if they did manage to get rid of Trump and replace him with a more…manageable…construct of some sort, where would the so-called “ideals” of the Democratic Party be?
In the political dumpster, that’s where.
In the corporate-owned, political dumpster.
What to do, what to do!!!???
I only have one practical suggestion, and no idea whatsoever how to manage it.
Clean house at the DNC.
Listen to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Start a real attack on the corporate control of government.
Would this work?
Done right?
Yes.
Done in a mainstream, U.S.-style, compromise politics, pander to the mainstream media manner?
Duh!!!
That’s how we got into this mess in the first place.
WTFU.
Or go down with the ship.
Your choice.
Fight, goddamnit!!!
Fight!!!
Later…
AG
The Dem elite have been cowards for so long that I don’t know if they know how to fight anymore. The “little people” like a fighter who stands up for them. That’s why Trump could worm his way into getting the Republican nomination because his supporters thought he was a fighter. Trump still tries to convince people he is a fighter, but they will find out it’s all a scam.
Dem elites need to listen to more Kenny Rogers if they want to gain back the white working class. As Rogers sings, “Sometimes you gotta fight if you’re a man”.
They aren’t in the least bit cowardly when it comes to getting their man or woman the nomination or into the final. The problem is that their guy predictably doesn’t run well in the general elections. Ossoff reminded me of the guy Democrats helicoptered in to run in CD 25 last year. They were terrified that the Sanders’ guy would come in second and give the incumbent Republican a tough race. The biggest problem with helicoptered candidates is that they leave as fast as they arrived. So, the bench remains empty after often considerable effort and money has gone into the one-shot candidate.
All of a sudden ten Google News stories pointing to Pelosi.
I find that many dogs on a single scent, given the current media, kind of suspicious. And a little bit too much of cherchez la femme. Seems kind of setting up a scapegoat there.
It’s almost like Jon Ossoff didn’t run his own campaign but had handlers who did the beck and call of San Fran Pelosi. Ready-made for a Trump/GOP ad campaign for any other candidates for the House.
I understand that there are strings and handlers, but that hound pack so soon after Tuesday is very suspicious. Setting up a national election in 2018 against Pelosi seems such and easy and lazy tactic for the Trump/GOP that that’s likely where they are going — media on board and everything.
If the message doesn’t change and if the candidates are not in place by this fall, fugged 2018 as a comeback year. And then there is the once-again uncertainty about Congressional district boundaries in at least 2 and possibly more states. And the very clear evidence that, Rooskies or no, the GOP is taking aim at registration lists and election day allocation of voting places. Too many secretaries of state and board of elections are too loose with computer security of those lists, and there is a guy in the White House staff whose companies lost/leaked personal information and registration information about 200 million Americans. Isn’t that close to the entire eligibility list? (Are there more than 130 million under age 18?)
Is there any hardnosed concern about those issues in the national Democratic leadership? Would they be able to play a situation in which it was proved that the GOP sought to undermine the election but the Rooskies took a hands off attitude? (Yeah, a hypothetical, but how essential are the Rooskies to the Dem narrative right now? It looks to me like they are close to standing or falling on that one piece of evidence.) Because domestic compromise of elections is scarier and harder to deal with than foreign compromise of elections. It places you in a process outside conventional politics and one close to covert war, even covert civil war. Talk about scary politics; that is it.
From NYTimes:
And this:
He shoulda run in California,
AG