Audacity of Truth
Rahmbo:
"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."
-Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) on Obama's COS, 3/7/10
Velvet Lair- Legends March 18, 2010
- Some things are just not cute March 18, 2010
- The adventures of the lady spider killer continue March 11, 2010
- Intermission February 19, 2010
- People who allow their dogs to poop in other people’s yards February 16, 2010
- Big Government
- Hot Air
- Open thread: House votes coming; Update: Ryan, Pence videos added; Update: 219-212; Update: GOP’s hail mary fails; Update: Roll added
- Last gasp: GOP may try to kill the bill by forcing a vote on Stupak’s language; Update: Pro-life group strips Stupak of award
- Pence to Stupak: You traded 30 years of pro-life law for a promise from the most pro-abortion president in history
- Michelle Malkin
- The gloater-in-chief: “Another stone laid in the foundation of the American dream;” Pelosi jokes: “No money exchanged hands (laughter);” Slaughter: “There is nothing now that we can’t tackle”
- Consequences: Stupak stripped of “Defender of Life” award
- The vote: Open thread; Reports: STUPAK CAVES; 9:50pm Closing statements; Boehner: “Heavy heart;” “Have you read the bill…Hell, no, you haven’t!;” Pelosi: Health care a “right and not a privilege;” First vote: 219-212; last-ditch GOP effort fails; FINAL reconciliation vote tally: 220-211
- Jake Tapper
- Legal Insurrection
- Lynn Sweet
The DNC is unhappy with Howard Dean again
Via the Washington Post:
Democratic congressional leaders aren’t happy with the way Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is spending money. At a private meeting last month, they let him know.
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) challenged the former Vermont governor during a session in Pelosi’s office, according to Democratic sources. The leaders complained about Dean’s priorities — funding organizers for state parties in strongly Republican states such as Mississippi — rather than targeting states with crucial races this fall.
Neither side was willing to give ground, according to several accounts of the meeting. Dean argued that his strategy is designed to rebuild the party across the country, and that he had pledged to do so when he ran for party chairman. Reid and Pelosi countered that if Democrats squander their opportunities this year, longer-term organizing efforts will not matter much.
Democratic congressional leaders are particularly worried because the Republican National Committee holds a huge financial advantage over the DNC. One congressional Democrat complained that Dean has — at an alarming rate — burned through the money the DNC raised, and that Republicans may be able to swamp Democrats in close races with an infusion of RNC money.
I blogged back in January about a related story on the DNC’s displeasure with how the Doctor of Disology had been spending campaign cash. The 2006 elections will be interesting on two fronts: 1) to see whether or not Republicans can withstand the tidal wave of scandals (some worthy of the title of ’scandal’ – namely the Jack Abramoff brouhaha, while others – like the NSA surveillance program, pLamegate, and the UAE port deal – are not) that have come to light in the last two years and 2) they’ll be a referendum on whether or not Dean’s money-spending strategies that have landed him a few times in hot water with the DNC will pay off big.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Dems to Dean: where’s the money?
- Chris Wallace interviews Howard Dean
- Best advice given to Dean this year
- Dems once again fail to find unified message on Iraq
- Winning in spite of defeatist attitudes
- Thank you for confirming it, Howard
- Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah! Er, Nooooooooo!
- Howard Dean is not getting the job done
- Race-baiting Democrats and the media’s complicity
- Howard Dean: Weapon of Self Destruction V3.0
- “We’re going to use Terri Schiavo later on”
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Dean is probably correct on this issue as he was on the war in Iraq, unlike Reid and Pelosi who gave their support to the bush war debacle. Peace
Good morning, Sister Toldjah!
When it comes to “Bang For The Buck”
The Left is discovering that Dean Sucks!
With money going to all the wrong places
Buying Air Time for useless messages and ugly faces
While Leftist Red State War Chests echo emptily
As long as Howie sticks around, I shall dance with glee!
Jack.
- I think what you see going on is the grip of the hard left on the Democratic party is slipping, probably an early sign for 2008 that the Clintonestas are winning the internal struggle, as much to show a harbinger of the party swing to support Hillerys run aspirations, as a show of total disappointment that the much heralded “leftwing youth movement” and cash flow, failed to achieve in the past two elections. Look for more of this sort of “disassociation” by the more moderate elements, who see disillusioned voters swinging away from the party on the one hand, and yet more loss of Red State voter support, through alianation by impolitic public statements by Liberal faces such as Dean and Gore.
- Of course the democrats worst nightmare is having to run against a Condi/Guiliani ticket. They refuse to even respond when you ask them about it, thinking about the spectre of losing a portion of their black American base under those circumstances. I don’t blame them.
- Bang
“2) they’ll be a referendum on whether or not Dean’s money-spending strategies that have landed him a few times in hot water with the DNC will pay off big.”
They would make a bad referendum. The entire point of the Dean candidacy to the DNC was to stop the short term focus on the 2 year cycles. He was elected on a promise of long term reform, which ought to have no effect on the short term, or a predictably bad one. Yes you can see that congressional leaders might not like this, but its what the party needs.
Howeird Dean uses a bazooka when a pea shooter could do the trick.
If the dems can’t win more seats this time they will be history.
Let’s hope so…..
The signs point to all sitting politicians being voted out of office this November. So only people with more money then brains are going to pony-up bucks for losers. Peace
- For once Andrew I agree with you. The problems of short timebase thinking have become so systemic in the Liberal leadership, gains on the ground are as short lived as the next news cycle, and the basic problem with that is that most of the “Outrages of the moments” turn out to be far less than they seem in the beginning, and therefore do not add much to the overall gravitas for the Democrats.
- I and others have been saying for over three years now, that the Dems need a Newt like plan to recapture public interest, and begin the long climb back to national party viability. Sans that, even possible good efforts such as Deans ideas of going headon in the strongholds of the right, will lose steam and be wasted exercises.
- Pelosi and Reid are reacting in a human enough way, looking for the fast track, but the situation with Hillery muddies the water, putting the twin camps within the party core at loggerheads, at a time when they need cohesiveness the most.
- If the Dems are going to go that route, and hang all their hopes on Clinton, they need to do it as quickly as possible so they can present a common front, turning away from the moment to moment Bush bashing approach to a real party platform, and a strong public united front.
- Eleventh hour rectitude is not going to get them anywhere because Bush isn’t running, and the GOP is obviously going to run a very strong popular ticket, hoping to solidify their gains and continue their majority positions. If the economy remains strong, and Iraq settles down the Democrats have a really difficult political hill to climb.
- Bang