Sirota: DC Strategists Panic as Dems ignore them and fight back

[Ian_rd]

D.C. "Strategists" Panic As Dems Ignore Them & Fight Back

... Brownstein bases his piece, in part, on interviews Washington Democratic "strategists" - that class of professional election losers quoted regularly trying to prevent just about any courageous Democratic lawmakers from actually doing much of anything. Just look at yesterday's piece in Roll Call where you had this same Democratic cabal saying the party shouldn't mount an aggressive lobbying/ethics crackdown, or look back at the Iraq War where you had the Democratic strategic class saying it was good politics to just blindly follow the Bush administration's lies (incredibly, they are still preaching this kind of acquiescence on Iraq even today). These "strategists" are the Washington, D.C. parasites who are far more concerned about protecting their own tiny rackets of DCCC contracts and candidate consulting gigs than actually helping the party take back the majority.

Today, these "strategists" are publicly worrying that Democrats challenging the President's illegal behavior "could threaten the party in this year's elections." The first quote in the piece goes to an unnamed Democratic "strategist" who says "If Democrats want to be the party of people who think is too tough and the Republicans are the party of people who are tough, I don't see how that helps us."

This supposed "strategist," of course, is dishonestly spinning the situation to benefit his opponents - not exactly "strategic." The debate over the domestic surveillance is not a debate over spying on terrorists vs. not spying on terrorists, as this "strategist" - and then Brownstein - assert. Oh sure, as I documented earlier, the media has done everything it can to try to force the scandal into that frame - reporters behavior in this has been nothing short of disgusting. But that's not what this is about. This is about whether this president - or any president - can ignore the Constitution and federal laws to order any kind of spying he wants without a court order. And the fact that these "strategists" aren't even mentioning the fact that the President broke the law - even with Republican Senators admitting he did break the law - should indicate exactly why the Democratic Party today seems so rudderless and poorly run: because the "strategists" running it are morons...

Read the article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/dc-strategists-panic-_b_14427.html

[Dhalgren]

1. The Democratic Party is dead.

It joins the ranks of former political parties such as the Bull Moose Party, the Whig Party, etc. The freedom-loving people of this nation have got to get together and find another way to save our country - the Democratic Party will never do it...

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. I disagree

I will agree that the leadership, strategies and dirty money aspects of the party need to change, but I am not willing to throw the party of Jefferson and Jackson into the sewer to pursue a decades long formation of another party.

[Skinner]

2. That's a great read.

Thanks for posting it.

[bemildred]

4. Bingo. Let's kick them out and take our party back. nt

[mopinko]

5. all i can say is

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
and to think that our campaign contributions pay these parasite's salary!

[cascadiance]

6. These bums are either "morons" or "criminals" or both!

Sirotta lays it out as it is! These beltway folks are the kind of people that both the Republicans we've talked to (who bitch about "big government" Dems) as well as we grass roots progressives who are increasingly becoming alienated with these cancerous tumors in our own party will both agree should be THROWN OUT! And It IS coming folks! We just need a way for us all to discover each other since the bought and paid for media isn't the way for that to happen any more!

NO MORE DLC!