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The Death Of The Corporate Dems?

Just a few days before the polls open and people rush to vote….

I have made my thoughts clear that Bubba Clinton and his DLC group killed the Democratic Party for that was when they became no better than the GOP in their embracing of corporate donors.

But I am told be some that those days of Dems sucking up to corporate donors is drawing to a close….

Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florida Senate).

An equally big story is the remarkable decline of corporate Democrats.

Some Democrats worry about this. My old friend Democratic strategist James Carville compares the current wave of progressive primary wins to progressive campaigns in 2016 — especially that of Bernie Sanders — that he believes fractured the Democratic coalition.

“Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president,” Carville said recently, claiming that Bernie’s primary challenge to Hillary Clinton convinced voters in battleground states that establishment Democrats were no different from establishment Republicans, thereby weakening her prospects in the general election.

Even if James is right about 2016 (and I don’t believe he is) his assessment is irrelevant now because we’re at a radically different point in American politics than we were 10 years ago.

The silver lining on the dark storm cloud of Trump and his detestable regime is that it has exposed the greed, venality, cupidity, and corruption of America’s corporate elite.

https://www.alternet.org/progressive-democrats-2677726334/

Sorry but I do not see those days being over….just a reset and a new way to get their graft.

On a side note:  James Carville was an proponent of the Dems switching from representing the people to sucking up to corporations….he is a dinosaur and a very vocal one….progressives are sick to this twat and his mouth….

The “Ragin’ Cajun” first rose to national prominence in 1991 by encouraging Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who had just announced his presidential bid, to point out to a strapped country that the economy wasn’t doing so hot. At the same time, Carville encouraged Democrats to carve up the welfare state that was buoying Americans taking the brunt of the economic downturn. Democrats had been locked out of the White House since 1980, and they were willing to try anything to win. These counterintuitive policy solutions were assumed to be smart, and Clinton’s victory in November 1992 proved it. Carville was a kingmaker, and his “please nobody” politics were the Democratic Party’s future.

A congressional wash-out just two years later couldn’t knock the bloom off the Third Way rose among Washington’s Democratic consultant class. Carville’s reputation for colorful turns of phrase, and his tendency to stomp on any calls for the party to move left, made him a favorite of cable news programmers looking to make entertaining television.

Now 81, Carville has remained a stock choice for cheap heat, even as his positions became more predictable, such as a recent slam on left-wing media personality Hasan Piker in which he called the streamer a “raving antisemite” due to Piker’s opposition to America’s support of Israel and his comment that he would “vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.” As progressives and democratic socialists have notched recent wins across the country, Carville has been there to tell the activist wing of the Democratic Party to pipe down and tack toward Republican stances on issues like transgender rights and police reform.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/14/time-for-james-carville-to-sit-down-and-shut-up/

I agree….it is time for him to sit down and STFU.

It is time for a change….we have had nothing but conservs running this country and they came from both sides of the aisle….it is time for real change and the status quo will not bring about.

Am I wrong?

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What Do Dems Support?

The clock is ticking down to the midterm elections and now is a good time to ask this question.

So far all their chest thumping has been about impeachment…..and how will that benefit you or I?

We know what the Repubs stand for….the same as they have for decades…..kill entitlements, de-regulate business, so on and with Donny their dreams are coming true.

Now ask yourself….what do Dems actually stand for?

I have been asking this question for years but it seems to be more important these days as we close in on the mid terms…..

The DSA is making in-roads and the corporate Dems are trying as hard as the GOP to throw manure at the voters and the DSA candidates…one idiot recently said….

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), writing that the DSA “are not Democrats.”

“The Democrats have a big tent,” Gottheimer wrote. “That’s our strength. We embrace a range of ideas — but there’s no room for anti-American bomb-throwers who oppose our ideas, values, & leaders.”

There you go!

What are those wide ranging ideas?

What are those ever important values?

My guess Gottheimer gets substantial funding from AIPAC….if so his comment is bullshit.

Do Dems support universal health care?

Do Dems support the continuing wars of aggression?

The MAGA morons are trying desperately to resurrect the Red Scare…..but will it work?

McGovern, Dem from Mass says….“I don’t think people are going to be fooled by another Red Scare,” McGovern said. “They can try to resuscitate the ghost of Joe McCarthy. But the bottom line is that’s because they don’t want to talk about issues of affordability.”

Good point….but when are the Dems truly talking about the issues that you and I think are important?

I have been asking these question for a very long time and even blogged about it ten years ago…

What’s A ‘Democrat’ Anymore?

I realize I have used this post before…..but it still is an unanswered question in desperate need of a damn answer.

All indicators point to a sort of “Blue Wave” if Congress does fall under the Dem spell…..what will that mean?

Please riddle me this….Does anyone have an accurate answer?  If so please share.

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Dems Are Not Moving Left

If you believe the propaganda machine of the Right and even some of the so-called Dems the party is moving Left….that is pure Bullshit!

Every one is running sacred because of the progress the DSA has mad in our electoral process so the Right has to counter it with something….and what better counter than to resurrect the old ‘Red Scare’ tactic?

But it is a LIE!  And a whopper at that.

Basically they are, the Dems, are trying to return to their roots….

Be advised: “Democrats are in danger of going too far left in 2018.” So warn Republicans like Mitt Romney and ex-Democrats like Joe Lieberman and public personae as diverse as James Comey and Howard Schultz. In recent months, the pundit class has determined that the party’s leftward lurch heralds the rise of a “liberal tea party”—a movement that could very well unmoor Democrats from their longstanding center-left traditions, in close imitation of the spiral of events that caused the Republican Party to turn sharply to the right in recent years.

What’s fueling this argument? For one, more Democrats have rallied, either noisily or cautiously, around such policy innovations as “Medicare for all,” universal college and a universal basic income. That a smattering of Democratic candidates have elected to call themselves “democratic socialists” has only fueled the claim that such programs are “socialist.” “The center is Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, not Eugene Debs and Michael Harrington,” warned New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens recently. (Debs and Harrington were self-identified socialists.)

But there’s something wrong with this historical interpretation: Truman strongly supported single-payer health care. Moynihan supported a universal basic income in the 1960s. Dating back to World War II, Democrats sought to make a government-paid education available to as many Americans as possible. If Democrats are marching to the left, that road leads directly back to platforms and politicians who, in their day, commanded wide support and existed firmly in the mainstream of political thought.

What’s more, to label these programs “socialist”—which is to say, far outside the center of the political spectrum—reveals a constrained worldview. For over six decades, center-right parties in Europe—in Britain and France, Germany and Austria, and almost everywhere between—have either participated in or acceded to the very same policies.

In a remarkable way, today’s debate today strongly resembles a broader discussion that occurred in the United States and Europe in the 1940s, amid wartime mobilization and economic reconstruction, and in the decades following.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/04/elections-2018-democrats-history-liberal-progressive-socialist-222187/

The rank and file maybe trying to return to the roots of the party but I cannot say the same for the DNC which controls who gets support for any upcoming election.

Can you see the problem?

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Is Impeachment The Best Use Of Their Time?

The election returns are not in yet but many seem to think that there will be some sort of Blue Wave that sweeps Dems into Congress….and the idea of impeaching Donny is once again being floated if the majority switches to the Dems….

Personally I think it is a waste of time to attempt this thing again….the last time was nothing but an exercise in futility.  Donny was impeached and yet he remained to do as much damage as possible.

And now this same impotent situation returns…..personally I think it will be a waste and will divert the policies that will actually help us struggling masses.

I have not been a fan of Dem strategist, James Carville, I think he is a has been and a dinosaur, a throwback to the glory days of Clinton….but on this issue I tend to agree with Carville….

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville urged Democrats to avoid pursuing a third impeachment of President Donald Trump if the party wins control of the House of Representatives in November, arguing it would be “highly unlikely” to succeed.

On the “Politics War Room” podcast on Thursday, Carville and his co-host Al Hunt argued that impeachment would be a waste of time and Democrats should devote their energy to investigating the president instead.

“I’ll tell you one thing that I think Democrats should steer clear of, and that’s impeachment,” Hunt said. “It’s not that Trump has not committed impeachable offenses, far worse than what he was accused of back in 2019 with Ukraine. I mean, he has. I mean, you could come up with a bill of particulars of, you know, a dozen at least. But you know something, James? It’s not going to happen, and it is a distraction.”

Carville agreed, arguing that the Supreme Court is protecting Trump from the consequences of his actions.

“So, you investigate, and, of course, what you’re going to find — and you’re going to find it quickly — is overwhelming evidence of criminal activity. Now, of course, he can’t commit a crime according to the Supreme Court because, well, he’s above the law,” Carville lamented.

“But suppose you say, ‘This is incontrovertible proof. We got to do something about this. How can he stay in office?’ And impeachment would be a very difficult thing,” Carville warned. “It’s time-consuming. It’s highly unlikely to be anything because of the — you need so many votes in the Senate. But we’re going to find out a whole bunch of stuff really fast at the beginning of the year 2027. I promise you.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-warns-dems-against-impeaching-trump-win-control-midterms

Like I said I agree with those that think another impeachment process will be a huge waste of time and energy….but after all is that not what Dems do best….waste time?

You thoughts on impeachment please.

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OMG! Dems Have A Plan

I know I have been harsh with the Dems in Congress but not without good reason….they are anticipating a ‘blue wave’ (whatever that will accomplish) and have set about formulating a plan for some oversight.

Democrats aren’t waiting for midterms results or more polls: They’re sketching out a post-Trump playbook. From politicians on Capitol Hill to outside advocacy groups, the Washington Post reports, Democrats are drafting bills and ethics plans aimed at narrowing presidential power, tightening conflict-of-interest rules, and rebuilding barriers between the White House and the Justice Department once President Trump is out of office. Ideas on the table include curbing emergency powers used to justify tariffs and troop deployments, forcing public review of White House renovations, barring presidents from taking foreign payments without Congress’ signoff, and blocking settlements that could shield a sitting president from tax scrutiny.

There’s also a push to prohibit politically motivated prosecutions, require blind trusts for wealthy officials, and bolster civil service protections so a president can’t easily oust career staff members. Backers frame it as a Watergate-style reform moment waiting to happen, noting a Pew survey that found broad unease with expanding presidential authority. Conservatives call the effort hollow, arguing that Democrats won’t constrain their own presidents and that Trump is operating within a long tradition of muscular executive action. Even some advocates warn the big test won’t be writing new laws, but whether a polarized Congress—and a public that may like decisive action—will actually enforce them.

The Post piece can be found here.

All that sounds very ambitious but does anyone see it going into action?

Let me say I do not see the success they are promising.

Keep in mind the Senate and the place where good bills go to die….I am not certain even if they win the Senate that they will vote for these changes.

The Dems in the Senate voted to block a bill that would curb insider trading but they did find a loophole to preserve their profit taking so they could vote against the legislation….

Senate Democrats swatted down a Republican-backed bid to rein in lawmakers’ stock trades, saying it barely touched the problem. The Stop Insider Trading Act, sponsored by Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, fell short on a 53-47 procedural vote, needing 60 to advance and drawing zero Democratic support despite having passed the House in July, the Hill reports. The New York Times reports that the bill’s failure was “predetermined” after Republicans attached voter ID restrictions that the Senate had already rejected six times.

That may be a legit reason to vote against the bill….but it preserves their profit taking…..good call.

How will this ambitious plan help the average American with rising prices on everything?

Another example of the Senate’s lack of focus….

The Senate killed a bill that would protect average Americans from rising power costs…..

The United States Senate has decided against advancing the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill designed to shield everyday Americans from rapidly rising electricity costs driven by data center buildouts nationwide. On September 30, the bill fell short of the 60 votes required to pass the bill by just three votes, ending 57-43, according to a Reuters report. The Ratepayer Protection Act bill had cleared the U.S. House of Representatives just two weeks earlier, with the Senate as the last procedural step before President Donald Trump could sign it into law. Following the vote, the bill is now officially dead.

Another reason why I do not believe the hype about bi-partisanship.

This is more an attack on Donny and his minions than helping Americans survive.

Thoughts?

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“We Are Capitalists”

With the rising tide of DSA and conserv outlets labeling these people as communists the Dems have to try and distance themselves from the label….

I cannot believe that these dimwits took the bait.

Democrats in competitive midterm races are increasingly declaring themselves proud capitalists, worried that Republican accusations of socialism and communism could sway critical swing voters this November, interviews with candidates and a review of campaign materials show. The effort represents an extraordinary moment in US politics, where Democrats who have long operated within a capitalist system as one of the country’s two major parties now feel compelled to emphasize their commitment to a market-based economy on the campaign trail.

dozens of Democrats in tight races are declaring their support for capitalism in social media posts, town halls and TV appearances as President Donald Trump and Republicans intensify efforts to cast them as dangerous radicals bent on turning America into a socialist state. Sixty national, state and local Democratic candidates, including 10 sitting members of Congress, have signed a pledge with a new group, Promise to America, declaring “we are capitalist, not socialist.” “This is the first time in my 50 years in politics that Democrats have had to explicitly declare their support for capitalism,” said Doug Schoen, a veteran party strategist. Trump and his allies have highlighted victories by members of the left-wing Democratic Socialists of America movement and progressive candidates in Democratic primaries to portray the whole party as socialist. “It’s going to be a communist country if they win,” Trump said of the Democrats at a Republican convention in Dallas in September.

Democratic leaders dismiss the characterization as false and designed to distract from the high cost of living, voters’ top concern.

https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article317436727.html

When I read this article all I could do was think to myself….”No Shit”!

“We are capitalists”….is there ever any doubt?

Anyone that even considers these slugs as communist are morons….it is that simple.

Once in Congress they cater to the wealthy and gladly accept bribes ….oh my bad…. donations….to further their bank accounts.

Must they state the obvious?

It is more about trying to avoid the negative label of ‘communist’ as the vote draws near….anything they must do to preserve the culture of corruption they will do…..they just want their piece of the special interest pie.

Whatcha think about this ?

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To Create Another Donny

Let’s say Donny actually leaves the White House and at his age there maybe another such tool lurking but will the Dems, the status quo Dems, help create the next horrific Donny?

Now there is a good question….and it needs asking and more important it needs an answer.

This is an interesting look by David Sirota….

When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown, an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the untold story of how Obama-era Democrats turning promises of economic hope and change into more of the same created the backlash conditions for the rise of Donald Trump.

It is a miracle Meltdown ever got made, because calling its tale “untold” is an understatement. The story of Obama’s 2008 victory concluding with Trump’s 2016 win involves a sequence of economic facts and events that have been suppressed, shadowbanned, memory-holed, and censored from America’s political conversation. This is particularly true in media outlets that serve liberals, who seek comfort in the idea that Trump is an anomaly rather than a symptom of something their own political party participated in creating.

Every now and again, there are attempts to warn about this perpetual doom loop. Gibney and I did so ourselves after Meltdown debuted in the pages of Rolling Stone, where we cautioned against Democrats coming into office promising big New Deal-style economic changes, then mostly delivering only for their big donors. We warned that such a bait-and-switch would result in the inevitable backlash from disillusioned voters who would ignore syrupy odes to restoring democratic “norms” and decide once again to vote for a Joker-style candidate like Trump promising to blow up the entire system.

The piece went viral, but the message went largely unheard amid Democratic politicians and pundits insinuating that voters were insufficiently grateful for Joe Biden’s allegedly wonderful economy.

Fast forward five years and we are on the verge of the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries. For the most part, Democrats and their media outlets are still soothing themselves with the fraudulent story of Trump as an anomaly rather than a symptom and still promoting the politics of restoration rather than transformation. Indeed, the over-the-top celebration of Barack Obama’s new $800 million monument to himself was an example of this desperate pining for a return to a pre-Trump normal — even though that “normal” was what created Trump in the first place, and even though restoring such a “normal” could create the conditions for an even worse Trump in the future.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-status-quo-democrats-could-create-another-trump/

Interesting if not a bit terrifying….but do you think Sirota is on to something?

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“Let The Chips Fall”

The Dems in Congress, a group that I have no confidence in, are already preparing if they take the House back….and the Minority leader, Jeffries, has made his desire known….and that desire is impeachment process.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is refusing to rule out a third impeachment of President Donald Trump if Democrats retake control of the House in the November midterm elections.

Asked whether Democrats would pursue impeachment if they win the majority, Jeffries said they have “not ruled anything in, and we haven’t ruled anything out,” regarding impeachment.

Jeffries said House Democrats would be guided by the facts, the law, and the Constitution, with Judiciary Committee Democrats led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Oversight Committee Democrats led by Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., taking leading roles in potential investigations.

“We’ve got to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the United States Constitution, and then let the chips fall where they may,” Jeffries said.

The comments leave open the possibility that Democrats could pursue impeachment after taking control of the House, even as party leaders have sought to emphasize investigations and congressional oversight as their initial priorities.

Jeffries’ position also revives the prospect of another impeachment fight involving Trump after Democrats twice impeached him during his first presidency.

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Democrats have nevertheless been preparing for an aggressive oversight agenda should they win the House, with investigations potentially involving Trump’s administration, immigration policies, business interests and other areas.

Within the party, there are differing views about whether impeachment should be pursued.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/hakeem-jeffries-third-donald-trump/2026/09/14/id/1269408/

All this is a waste of valuable time….yes they impeached Donny three times, I believe, and yet he still remained…..what did they actually accomplish with those extensive investigations?

Does anyone think there will be cooperation from DOJ or the AG office?  And damn sure that the GOP will be a major pain in the ass.

Will this time be any different?

I think not.

The country is struggling under the boot heal of Donny and instead of tackling more important issues the Dems will resort to what they did before….and that effort accomplished nothing with the exception of maybe some footnote in a history book somewhere.

How will this address high prices, lack of benefits, attacks on healthcare, and the Gestapo-esques tactics of ICE….just to mention a few of the problems facing this country.

So will this the best use of valuable and possibly limited time for Congress to go off half-cocked?

Am I looking at this wrongly?

Please input will be appreciated.

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There Is Simple Solution For Dems

The clock is ticking on the midterms.

At almost every turn in the primaries the status quo Dems are losing to progressives (DSA if you really want to go there) and while fighting among themselves the Dems have overlooked the simple solution for their problem.

The GOP is running scared because of the DSA and the Dems are totally shocked that their brand of corruption and gutless governance has turned the voter off….

This is a really good observation about the Dems problem….

With the primaries winding down and several Democratic Socialists and other progressives having defeated more moderate Democrats, there has been a lot of hand-wringing on the center left about whether these “insurgents” are so radical that they will impede a blue wave in the midterms.

Since Republicans have few accomplishments of their own to run on and lack a platform that appeals to anybody other than their MAGA base, the right-wing propaganda machine has been working overtime to push the narrative that the Democrats have been taken over by communist lunatics.

To back up those talking points, they highlight some of the most radical ideas that can be found on the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — such as abolishing the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court — and the fact that real socialism has failed where it has been attempted.

To be fair, that last part is certainly true, and some items on the DSA’s agenda are way out there; but are they any crazier than, “Let’s give all the money to billionaires and hope some of it trickles down to regular Americans,” or “Our top priority must be the construction of a grand ballroom”?

Still, it begs the question of whether the Democrats have a socialism problem.

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However, as the primaries have shown, there are also a lot of disenchanted Americans on the left who don’t feel that corporate Democrats are serving their interests or are even fighting for them.

Therefore, we would argue that the party doesn’t have a “socialism” problem, it has a policy problem.

The Solution to the Democrats’ DSA Problem Is Very Simple

There you have what is happening in a nutshell and it goes further than anything the MSM has offered up in recent months.

Me?  I love it and I will vote progressive every time….I just do not like the idea of calling them Democrats. ….for they are so much more than that tag.

The nation is beginning to wake up….and now when the elections in November roll around there should be all kinds of false BS spread and hopefully the voter will see through the crap and vote for what is best for the people and the nation.

Enough said?

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To Fight The Imbecilic Fight

There is so much happening around Donny that the Dems could be focused on….but no they had rather join in the imbecilic fight among themselves.

As usual the Dems are proving just how worthless they truly are with this tired discourse on progressives.

There was an opinion piece in USAToday that highlights this useless fight.

Once again, Democrats are playing into Republican talking points. It almost seems like they’d rather incite fights among factions of their own party than try to keep the opposition from controlling the narrative, or remind voters of the disastrous Republican reign of the past two years.

In an ABC News interview that aired Aug. 9, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, was asked about comments former Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong had made in 2020, saying the country should “cancel Thanksgiving.”

“And I have a local city councilman that has this saying ‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ and I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referencing an X post by New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé.

I don’t think Hong’s comments in 2020 were smart – I don’t necessarily think they’re why she lost the Aug. 11 primary election, but I also concede that they were the perfect fodder for Republicans to attack her with. I’m just frustrated that, of all the things happening in this country, members of the left are choosing to critique one another instead of everything happening during President Donald Trump’s second term.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/08/24/woke-meaning-republicans-democrats-redefine-policy/91341106007/

Come on people the president is at a weak moment and there are midterms on the horizon and yet instead being on the attack they are slap fighting among themselves and using tired dinosaur strategists from the past to do some of the hard lifting in the media.

Once again the Dems prove just how incompetent they are and the need for the progressives to thrown their worthless butts out.

This fight is doing nothing but taking away from the fuck ups of Donny and making people think back to the 1950s when they should be laser focused on the future.

Will this be a winning tactic for 2028?

I think not….I think they are handing the GOP just what they need to make a successful run in 2028.

Did I miss anything?

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