Posted on 11/01/2017 2:23:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On Nov. 9, 2016, about 12 hours after Hillary Clinton conceded defeat to Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, convened a conference call with her fellow House Democrats. Most of them were still back home in their respective districts and still in shock. Not only would Trump be president, but the Senate remained in G.O.P. control, and — despite rosy predictions from Pelosi and her party’s pollsters — so did the House.
Several members on the call later told me they expected their leader to offer some show of contrition, an inventory of mistakes made or, at minimum, an acknowledgment that responsibility for the previous night’s disaster began at the top.
But Pelosi sounded downright peppy on the call, noting a few vulnerable House seats that the Democrats had managed to hang onto.
“It reminded me of that scene at the end of ‘Animal House,’ where Kevin Bacon is standing in the middle of all this chaos, screaming: ‘Remain calm! All is well!” Scott Peters, a congressman from California who was on the call, told me.
But the Democrats’ path back from the wilderness is not a short one. The Democratic National Committee today is an understaffed, demoralized bureaucracy.
Few of the Obama campaigns’ innovations have meaningfully outlasted his presidency.
State Democratic Party leaders complain about O.F.A. — rebranded again recently as Organizing for Action — hoarding campaign resources to little end. And Priorities USA, the extravagantly funded super PAC that was started to support Obama’s 2012 campaign, never built the kind of entrenched ground-level presence maintained by its analogues on the right.
But that message had grown threadbare by 2016. No longer was it sufficient to campaign on hope and change, or even on the president’s successful efforts in 2009 to stave off a deep recession.
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I won't be happy until they are all dead and buried, with a wooden stake through their bodies where their hearts would be, if they had one.
Then we can turn our attention on the GOPe and consign them to the same fate.
Then I'll be happy.
They can’t find their a$$e$ with both hands
They will need a mirror and a flashlight.
When the NYT hints that Obama deserves any blame for anything, much less losing a national election, it’s wonderful news. His phony facade had to unravel at some point, but I didn’t think it would begin so soon.
Democrats like to characterize Trump’s election as a fluke but it seems to be Obama’s election and re-election that were flukes, borne by a desire to put racist accusations behind us. Need I say, it didn’t work?
Refresh my memory, just what did economic genius Obama do to “stave off a deep recession”?
‘State Democratic Party leaders complain about O.F.A. — rebranded again recently as Organizing for Action — hoarding campaign resources to little end.’
The Leftists on Jack Pine Radicals are more blunt. They say Obama sodomized the Democrati
Party/DNC.
Obama screwed up literally everything he touched, including the socialist Democrat party. Thanks Obie!
Both parties are in a civil war. We have three politcal factions crammed into two parties. Globalists, nationalists and socialists are each vying for political power.
Obiewan Obama is coming out of retirement to “help” Democrats get elected. Let’s hope that he is just as successful as the last time he help them.
The RAT Party has nowhere to go. Obama was it. They go far far left to the point of violent kookdom now. They have nothing different to offer and never will.
They are people bereft of morals, values and decency. The big lies have caught up with them.
really, this is a A Post-Trump Democratic Party in Search of Itself; if Hillary had won, they wouldn’t be “searching” anything ...
The Rats are wedded to identity politics and are in love with fantasy, not reality, in addition to lies, money and power.
They are too anxious for the browning of America, and can’t help themselves wishing out loud for a general white genocide.
Even though US voters are generally disconnected and stupid, its difficult for voters to ignore the Rats when they say they want you dead.
They’ll find many more just like themselves in India searching and searching and searching ,LOL
“We have three political factions crammed into two parties.”
Good observation.
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