Cheri Bustos

On Monday I asked my Twitter followers if it is enough for a candidate to just be a Democrat fighting a Republican. A slight plurality said no. Only 16% said "yes, for sure," and another 25% said they would vote for the garden variety Democrat but not contribute to their campaign.

Bustos and Casten-- Climate IncrementalistsCorporate Dems in Illinois really are spearheading the effort to keep the fossil fuel industry alive. New Dems, Blue Dogs and Vote-For-Sale Democrats are moving quickly to normalize false "solutions" to the climate crisis and to make them acceptable to the public.

Although there are rumors that South Jersey machine boss George Norcross is toying wit the idea of replacing Jeff Van Drew with Patrick Kennedy as the Democratic nominee for the second district seat, so far Van Drew has no primary opponent, just a 3 Republicans trying to get to the right of him, no easy task.

Cheri Bustos and Marcia Fudge"Cheri has proven herself a flawless leader... of the Congressional Women's Softball Team," a member of Congress told me this afternoon. "Making her head of the DCCC was a big mistake-- at least for us...

Cheri Bustos with pals Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman SchultzWhen Pelosi gave her new DCCC chair, Cheri Bustos (Blue Dog-IL), the thumbs up to undercut challengers in primaries, Pelosi, Hoyer, Bustos and all their corrupt conservative robots ran to the media-- too lame, as usual, to check-- screeching about how they had to protect "the majority makers." The majority makers, they insist, are the freshmen who beat Rep

The joke's on usI’d like to take at least a little credit for preventing Debbie Wasserman Schultz from becoming DCCC Chair after Rahm. If you ask her, she’ll tell you that I got her fired as chair of the DCCC recruitment committee. She actually asked a friend of mine in Congress what it would take to get me to stop writing about her.

All My Sons And Daughters by Alejandro CartaginaRachel Cohen and Ryan Grim have been keeping an eye on reactionary anti-democracy Blue Dog— and DCCC chair— Cheri Bustos. Bustos is working overtime to disadvantage the progressive movement… but not effective pushback from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which didn’t even bother to run a candidate against her when she moved— successfully— to grab the DCCC chair.

If you read DWT with any regularity-- or just wander over from time to time to look at the pictures-- you probably know the work of artist, cartoonist and charicaturist Nancy Ohanian, who does many of the illustrations. Nancy had long careers at the New York Times and the L.A.

On Monday, Vox published a strong piece by Tara Golshan about the establishment Democrats' uncomfortable dilemma over Lipinski: The Democratic Party is protecting one of its last anti-abortion members in a safe blue district.

Two-headed dog, two-headed dog, I've been working in the Kremlin with a two-headed dogGood essay this week by Sean McElwee and Tory Gavito for GQ-- The Democratic Party Is Waging a War Against Its Very Own Base.