Politico Reporter: With DNC Lawsuit, Democrats Worry Their Party

The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee has decided to be clown itself further by suing Wikileaks, Russia, and the Trump campaign for collusion during the 2016 election. For a party that’s tired of the media talking about Hillary and 2016, this is a way to keep both issues front and center. It’s going to re-open the wounds between the left and far left of the Democratic Party, erecting another obstacle for unity as the party heads into the 2016 election.

Now, if you’re a Democrat, it keeps Russia in the news, as the interest in it has flat lined (for quite some time now; no one cares), though depositions and other points of investigation and discovery can be executed; CBS This Morning’s Leslie Sanchez gave rundown into how a Democrat would view this move by the DNC. Well, some of them at least. Sanchez also noted that a) it still doesn’t resolve the allegations the progressive Left has hurled at the DNC, which is that they colluded with the Clinton campaign to torpedo Bernie Sanders; and b) they’re virtually bankrupt. The DNC had to take out a $2 million loan to keep the lights on. They’re millions of dollars in the hole. And even members of their own party see this as a bunch of baloney. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) called the whole affair a “silly distraction.” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said this was an “ill-conceived” exercise, and that she does not support it. As Cortney noted earlier this morning, the RNC has plenty of cannon fodder.

For McCaskill, you can see why she would probably say this, given that she could be fighting for her political life, and that voters in a state where Trump won by double-digits probably wouldn’t be thrilled to see her give a robust endorsement of this political stunt. Yet, Speier has nothing to worry about it. She’ll probably represent her district until the end of her days unless redistricting forces her into a primary. It takes a lot for a California liberal, who is anti-Trump and from a state where this Russian collusion nonsense is digested daily, to tell her party’s committee apparatus that this is a dumb, dumb move. After over a year of investigating, there is zero evidence to suggest there was collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. The Comey memos, which were supposed to contain some bombshell from the former FBI director about these allegations, yielded nothing; it barely lasted 24 hours in the news cycle. It’s pathetic, really. Democrats cannot stand that they lost in 2016. They can’t lose; they’re so awesome, or something. So, because of that—they had to be cheated. Or maybe they had a terrible candidate with no charisma, economic message, or political skill that though she could win, despite these awful flaws, while also calling half the nation deplorable for supporting Trump. Doesn’t sound like a big baseline to win. Trump was not heavyweight either a candidate, but he spoke to the voters’ interests, spoke about jobs, visited their communities, and made himself as a cheerleader for the country; liberals are incapable of doing that because they’re obsessed in their campaign to tear down America.

Hillary lost. She will never be president. Acceptance is a natural part of the process during grieving.

On a side note, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski had Mimi Rocah, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on this morning’s broadcast of Morning Joe, where she said her first reaction to the lawsuit was “oh no, please don’t.” She said that as a prosecutor it’s important to control the flow of information in your case. She said it was not good if you’re Mueller or are working on his team. Brzezinski added this is yet another time the Democrats seem incapable of hitting a homerun concerning the timing, to which Politico’s Jake Sherman said there was little disagreement over that with elected Democrats on the Hill.

Sherman said Democrats “like their party is focused on Russia almost maniacally to the detriment of every other issue that matters.”

I know what you mean. How about this as a synopsis (I know folks are impatient...but...this thing is coming to a head...it is going to be a surprise to a lot of Americans when the summonses start coming out and their house of cards on this idiotic collusion comes tumbling down.

That lawsuit last week filed by the DNC against Trump? That is clearest sign to me yet that many on the left see as well and clearly as some of us do, that this farce of “Russian Collusion” is going to become unsupportable, and that they are running out of options.

That lawsuit is just to buy more time, and keep this fairy tale of collusion in the forefront until the election. Just watch...

As soon as that lawsuit enters the discovery phase, the DNC will drop that lawsuit like a hot rock. They know that if they enter that phase, those “hacked” DNC servers will have to be exposed...and there is going to be no evidence whatsoever of collusion...and may well present evidence of “other” things they don’t want public.

This is just a ploy. And it won’t work. They are going to go down on this.

Here’s what the Democrats and their friends in the lugenpresse had to say about not accepting an election result, in October 2016:

A ‘HORRIFYING’ REPUDIATION OF DEMOCRACY — The Washington Post, Oct. 20, 2016

DENIAL OF DEMOCRACY — Daily News (New York), Oct. 20, 2016

DANGER TO DEMOCRACY — The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 20, 2016

ONE SCARY MOMENT; IT ALL BOILED DOWN TO ... DEMOCRACY — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 21, 2016

“(Shock) spiked down the nation’s spinal column last night and today when the Republican nominee threatened that this little election thing you got there, this little democratic process you’ve got here, it’s nice, it’s fine, but he doesn’t necessarily plan on abiding by its decision when it comes to the presidency.” — Rachel Maddow, Oct. 20, 2016

“Trump’s answer on accepting the outcome of the vote is the most disgraceful statement by a presidential candidate in 160 years.” — Bret Stephens, then-deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal

“I guess we’re all going to have to wait until Nov. 9 to find out if we still have a country — if Donald Trump is in the mood for a peaceful transfer of power. Or if he’s going to wipe his fat a— with the Constitution.” — CBS’s Stephen Colbert, Oct. 19, 2016

“It’s unprecedented for a nominee of a major party to themselves signal that they would not accept — you know, respect the results of an election. We’ve never had that happen before. ... This really presents a potentially difficult problem for governing ...” — MSNBC’S Joy Reid, Oct. 22, 2016

“This is very dangerous stuff ... would seriously impair our functioning as a democracy. ... This is about as serious as it gets in the United States.” — CNN’s Peter Beinart, Oct. 20, 2016

“Obviously, it’s despicable for him to pretend that there’s any chance that he would not accept the results of this election; it would be — in 240 years you’ve never had anybody do it. ...” — CNN’s Van Jones, Oct. 20, 2016

“That’s horrifying. Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating — he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.” – Hillary Clinton

““Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has accepted the will of the voters, even in extraordinarily close races, such as when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida to win the presidency in 2000,” – New York Times

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