No one can put the Ocasio-Crowley primary in a box and sell it in other districtsLast week the New York Times published a lazy piece by Shane Goldmacher, The Ocasio-Cortez Effect: Wave of Challenges Hits Entrenched N.Y. Democrats, that defines superficial reporting.
Perfect primary targetThis cycle there are, literally, 7 fake Democrats in the House who have voting records worse than at least one Republican. This is the bottom of the barrel among Democrats (with their 2017-'18 ProgressivePunch crucial vote scores)-- along with the Republicans who vote more frequently along progressive lines:
Even Lipinski's own colleagues in Congress want him outOn Sunday, Politico ran a story by Laura Nahmias and Lauren Dezenski, Progressives storm Democratic primaries. It brought up some important races but didn't talk much about when incumbents deserve to be primaried and when they don't, a tough, sometimes, nuanced question.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s well paid IT staffer, Imran Awan, has been arrested by the FBI trying to flee the country after scandal broke around his consulting firm and hacking of congressional computer system.
For some strange reasons, Democratic Congress members want to make the Imran “hacking” narrative go away.
Eclipsing history, deleting history and CovertBand + this day in history w/Ruby Ridge and our song of the day by Tobacco on your Morning Monarchy for August 22, 2017.
More suspicious financial activity is surfacing related to former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and her IT consultant Awan brothers…as Democrat party officials have been exposed approving a $120,000 write-off linked to the Awan brothers in 2016.
Earlier we mentioned that the House voted to authorize unconstitutional domestic spying on American citizens yesterday. The day didn't get any better. Next up was the crackpot Republican bill to overturn the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants.
The House leaders-- afraid of midterm voters-- avoided voting for war in the Middle East yesterday and instead voted to fund what McCain insists are "moderate" Syrian rebels… you know, the ones who have been selling arms and captives to ISIS (the "non-moderates") for months. Do we never learn? Anything? Buck McKeon's slippery slope amendment passed 273 to 156 with 85 Democrats and 71 Republicans voting against it. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) has learned history's lessons.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn)I'm from Brooklyn. I went to PS-197 and then James Madison High School. So did Ken-- not to mention Bernie Sanders, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chuck Schumer and… Norm Coleman. When Ken, Chuck and I were kids, the congressman was the dean of the House Dems, Emanuel Celler, who served from 1923 to 1973. [An opponent of civil rights he was finally defeated in a primary by a more progressive Democrat, Elizabeth Holtzman.
