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November 10, 2014

Smoking gun, DNA, fingerprints and video of the perps... 3rd way & DNC murdered this election.

If we let them walk free, they'll do it again. Just like bankers.

November 9, 2014

Debbie Wasserman Schultz forms a Committee to Investigate the Committee

A party committee will conduct a "top-to-bottom assessment" of the Democrats' performance in recent midterm elections and try to determine why they have struggled to turn out its core voters in non-presidential elections.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/08/democrats-election-review_n_6126576.html

The answer is simple. In Presidential elections the entire national political party focuses on one individual. If that individual is talking a good game, people respond.

If all that talk doesn't turn into action, or worse, if the candidate later does the OPPOSITE of the things they said they would do to get elected, people lose their trust. They register that distrust and dissent during midterms.

Liberals worked at grass roots efforts to get Obama elected. As soon as 2008 was over, DNC ripped everything up and pretended cross-over conservatives elected Obama (lol). They went straight to work rewarding Republicans and Wall Street.

If conservatives were impressed at all with Obama in 2008, they were impressed by the community driven, 50 states, grass roots efforts by LIBERALS to get LIBERALS to vote.

In 2014, candidates distanced themselves from Obama, but that is a superficial analysis. Candidates were really running away from the liberal framework who put them into office.

We now have four political parties that hate liberals.

1. Tea Party
2. 3rd Way
3. Republicans
4. Democrats

Democrats like Hillary Clinton hold $250,000 Wall Street speaking sessions to solicit ideas from the gilded upper class and talk of the working class as obstacles to their own self-fulfillment.

When it comes to improving the quality of life (wages, health care, justice, civil rights) for American workers, only liberals have a proven track record of success. Everyone else is a distant second.

After purging liberals from the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is doing exactly what ass-covering out-of-touch administrators do. She has formed a committee to investigate the committee.

Here's what needs to be on the whiteboard, somewhere near the top:

Clueless, soul sucking administrators and bean counters have made the Democratic Party as inspiring as a loaf of Wonder Bread; white, spongy and flavorless.

We deserve better. Much better.










November 8, 2014

Dear Democratic National Committee,

We just aren't that into you.

Signed,

The Working Class

November 8, 2014

By 1968 you can’t say “n***”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing,

[It's a matter of] how abstract you handle the race thing. In other words, you start out … Now y’all aren’t quoting me on this … you start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.

And you’re getting so abstract now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites…. “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” …

http://americablog.com/2012/11/audio-of-infamous-lee-atwater-interview-its-a-matter-of-how-abstract-you-handle-the-race-thing.html


Today - it's all coded messages and bullshit doublespeak. It isn't just black versus white - it's rich versus non-rich.

"Free markets" - sending millions of jobs to slave labor in Mexico and Asia.

"School Reform" - cutting wages and benefits of teachers and selling schools to corporations.

"Secure our energy future" - fracking without regulating the pollution it creates.

"War on Terror" - letting NSA spy on our husbands, wives, children.

"Bank Reform" - tax deductible, low impact fines passed on to consumers.

"Entitlement Reform" - Cutting social security and raising the retirement age."

"3rd Way" - right wing hipsters who are wealthy, attractive and better dressed than the average tea bagger.

They just can't come right out and say it.





November 7, 2014

What's wrong with 3rd way advocacy?

3rd way is simply a group of Republicans who don't get along with the tea party. They have enough money to buy the Democratic Party.

You can thank them for "centering" the Democratic Party to the hard right. And, by the way, believing that NSA should spy on your children is most definitely hard right. Believing that Wall Street fraud doesn't need to be prosecuted because "no one got hurt" is definitely hard right. Not just hard right, it's also incredibly fucked up thinking. These are ideas that only dictators and despots endorse.

William K. Black said that "Third Way is this group that pretends sometimes to be center-left but is actually completely a creation of Wall Street--it's run by Wall Street for Wall Street with this false flag operation as if it were a center-left group. It's nothing of the sort."


William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator.[1] Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black

November 7, 2014

Chill. Hillary's got this.

She's a zen chess master keeping her powder dry.



November 5, 2014

Here are the rats that are fucking Democrats

In no particular order.

1. NSA, CIA, FBI spying on Americans.

2. Corporations helping NSA, CIA, FBI spy on Americans.

3. A Congress and White House as corporate proxies.

4. Militarized police force.

5. Wealth disparity on par with the 3rd world.

6. Education and health care inflation.

7. Education and health care policy written by corporations.

8. Over educated, under employed workforce.

9. Fracking pollution.

10. Trade deals sending millions of jobs to Asia.

11. Immunity for Wall Street crime.

12. Endless war on drugs.

13. Endless war on terror.

14. Taking minorities for granted.

15. Taking the middle class for granted.

16. Considering social security cuts and increased retirement age as economic stimulus.

17. The third way and blue dogs.


November 5, 2014

Holy mother of God, Ernst is even more bat shit crazy than Michele Bachmann,

we couldn't beat this circus freak? That stomach curdling laugh, it comes from a dark, dark place. A perfect vacuum of intellect.

I'm reminded of foolish Democrats who were begging for the tea party to run.

"A gift to the Democratic Party" they said.

The rise of the tea party has been and remains a real threat and points out a serious failure of Democratic Party leadership to understand the fundamentals of middle class frustration.

So here we are.

Still think it's a gift?



November 5, 2014

If you've been to Asia and witnessed the slums and factory farms filled with impoverished workers,

the US has just taken another step in that direction tonight.

Sure, we're not there yet. But that doesn't mean we aren't going to get there.

Like global warming, the change isn't noticeable when all you look at is your backyard thermometer.

It's coming. Sooner or later it is going to catch up with you and your children.

Until Democrats cultivate an authentic, principled and populist campaign that champions the middle class, things will continue to get worse.

We can start turning things around by flushing the MBA parasites out of the DNC.

When the vampire squids at DNC decided to suck the life out of every Democrat outside a "battleground" state, they conceded Washington to the hard right wing in both parties.

Dean was right, 50 states is the way to win. But try telling that to the MBA bean counters who get paid whether Democrats win or lose.

If we know anything, tomorrow the conservatives will be here blaming the losses on liberal ponies and rainbows, pushing hard to keep the nation moving to the right. And as Democrats move to the right, they give the green light to the Republican Party to move even harder to the right.

The middle class is literally dying and willing to do anything to get noticed.








November 5, 2014

I have met and worked with Ed Rendell many, many years ago, see him on MSNBC

and can't figure out how he got wrapped up with the 3rd way bullshit.

I knew him when he was such a fighter against injustice, talked the talk and walked the walk.

Money changes everything.

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