Aside from their icy-mobster visages, Rahm Emanuel and Mike Pence have something else in common. Both, as members of presidential administrations, tried to rewrite Centers for Disease Control (CDC) pandemic guidance for political purposes. The reason why one was successful and the other was not has nothing to do with courageous CDC scientists threatening to […]
Apparently George Washington was both prescient and correct when he warned, in his "farewell address" (1796), that political parties serve "always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection."The Founders made a big mistake, though-- still not corrected all these years later-- in not including the choice "none of the above"-- in all elections.
In an OpEd for the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Rahm Emanuel celebrated the idea of "Biden Republicans," basically conservative GOP voters who have had enough of Trump and are eager to vote him out of office by electing Joe Biden who was long bragged about being the most conservative Democrat in the Senate.
In 2018, the DCCC successfully perpetrated the myth of the Blue Wave. That kind of p.r. is part of their job. The problem is, they believed it. And the results reinforced that mightily. There were 41 seats that flipped from red to blue. In 2016, the House Dems hadn't done badly. Even with an apparent Trump victory, they had managed to flip 6 seats and they increased their national congressional vote margin by 2.5%.
MAGA by Chip ProserMany people woke up this morning and read Peter Bakers' NY Times column, The Cold Calculations America’s Leaders Will Have to Make Before Reopening in the context of Georgia's crackpot governor's decision to start reopening mostly businesses catering to and operated by minorities.
So far Emanuel has not been arrestedThe other day I was doing some research for a post about Mark Sanford and wandered onto an old (2014) City Paper piece,
Feel the love?In 2006, I started interacting with other progressive bloggers nationally through some e-mail groups. I freely shot off my mouth pretty regularly and often attacked Rahm Emanuel, than head of the DCCC. I assumed the 600 or so people on the list knew what I knew about Emanuel and his record as a neoliberal, self-serving and corrupt shit head. Bad assumption.
After Tuesday's post on the Rahm Emanuel column in The Atlantic, one of the cynics who comment at DWT got the point and wrote "Rahm laments that nobody ever was held responsible. He indicts himself here.
Rahm knows from first hand experience how Democratic Party leaders have driven it to hell in a hand basketI think we can all agree that the source of The Atlantic piece, It’s Time to Hold American Elites Accountable for Their Abuses, is suspect, to say the least, but when Rahm Emanuel wrote that "if Democrats want to address simmer
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou take a look at the shocking decision by prosecutors in Chicago to drop the Jussie Smollett case.
Smollett pled guilty to nothing, his record was expunged, no written records of the deal were filed with the court, and all existing records of the crime were sealed. Smollett exhibited no remorse or humility, as the Empire actor was not willing to admit he fabricated the attack, telling reporters, “I have been truthful and consistent from day one.”
