Failure of the Democratic Consultant Class (w/ Becky Bond of CREDO SuperPAC)
Becky Bond the Director of the Credo Super PAC explains the dangers that progressives face if Republicans win the Senate, what races is Credo focusing on? Why progressives need to vote and...
By: Sam Seder
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters during a rally for Kentucky senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 369 meeting hall in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) more >
With Democrats in danger of losing big on Election Day, some progressives already have started blaming the Obama administration for failing to define any agenda for voters this year and are pledging to remake the entire party in the image of populist hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), a rising force on the left and the biggest champion of Mrs. Warren and other populist liberals, took direct aim at President Obama Tuesday and said the Democratic party must be remolded.
The criticism comes as Democrats face the real prospect of relinquishing control of the Senate and losing seats in the House.
The White House failed to define any agenda for voters in 2014, the PCCC said in a statement Tuesday. Progressives will remold the Democratic party in Elizabeth Warrens image focused on big ideas and popular economic issues. Well organize in New Hampshire and Iowa to ensure that all Democrats running for president take a position on Warrens populist agenda of reforming Wall Street, reducing student debt, and expanding Social Security benefits.
Potential Democratic candidates for president, including frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, have given clear indications they intend to sound a highly populist note in the 2016 elections.
But progressives dont want to wait until 2016 to see populist ideals come to the forefront in Washington. Theyre urging Mr. Obama to base the final two years of his presidency on the platform outlined by Ms. Warren.
If President Obama makes Elizabeth Warrens agenda the centerpiece of his agenda in 2015, his popularity will rise and Americans will get the debate about big, bold ideas that we deserve, the PCCC said.
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President Barack Obama tells us, You did not build that. Hillary Rodham Clinton tells us, Corporations do not create jobs.
Every penny spent by city, county, state and federal governments comes from one place taxpayers. Every one of their employees and projects undertaken gets the money from one place taxpayers. Every check sent for unemployment, Aid to Dependent Children, food stamps and other programs comes from one place taxpayers. Governments cannot do one thing for anybody until they take money from one place taxpayers.
People who work and pay taxes keep this country going, and we are in the process of reducing their numbers due to a progressive agenda that is failing. The current agenda and the debt will eventually ruin this country, and I hope I am not here to see it happen. My regrets to my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
MIKE McCOY
Fort Wayne
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Why are progressives so blithe about pressuring Christians to act like non-Christians?
Why are progressives so blithe about pressuring Christians to act like non-Christians?
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I was born to parents who believed if you didnt vote Democratic you couldnt be buried in the Catholic Church. A family joke is that my first word was vote. The Church would later switch parties. Not me. On Tuesday Ill stand at the polls as I do every year and say that if Democrats win, peoples lives will be better.
Each year its a harder case to make, even to other Democrats. Each year the middle class grows smaller, the democracy grows more corrupt and the chance of stopping global warming in time to save ourselves or our planet grows dimmer. You cant run forever on the slogan Die Slower! Vote Democratic! Times running out on the democracy and the middle class, just as it is on global warming.
In the words of political upstarts everywhere, its time for a change. If it comes, it will be from within the Democratic Party, or rather from the progressives who still reside there. But for all the talk of a populist revolt, progressives have yet to spark one. If Democrats win the Senate on Tuesday, thats unlikely to change. If they lose, progressives might wake up, which would be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. It may not feel like much consolation, but its true.
Let me be clear. There may be scant evidence of it lately, but it matters who runs the Senate. You dont throw away a race on a theory; who knows if even losing the Senate would be a shock sufficient to revive Democrats? But we do know our politics grows ever more vicious and empty and that we are in desperate need of serious political debate. We know Wall Street colonized the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party colonized the left, and that well have no such debate without a stronger, more independent progressive movement to help set its agenda.
This election has been an insult to democracy. The $4 billion spent on it has tightened the grip of the powerful without moving the needle on a single issue. Its ceaseless squalor has startled a public that thought politics hit rock bottom in the last election. The explosion of Super PAC and 527 dark money is one cause of it, but it only strengthened what is by now a 40-year trend.
Rail all you like against the Supreme Court or the Republicans. It isnt just them. If you ever gave money to a Democrat you get the emails that read like pleas from phishing friends robbed in Majorca who need only your bank routing number to get home: Bill, its seconds till our filing deadline. Our extreme Tea Party opponent has Congressman Bob locked in a basement. Theyve shot Fido. So much is at stake. Please send
Most days thats all you get. October marked the first anniversary of the last government shutdown. Ashamed to find themselves tied with a party so recently found in the throes of lunacy, Democrats kept mum. They routinely fumble issues they once owned. Their spring crusade to raise the minimum wage petered out by fall. They cant talk about corruption on which they feast. They cant talk about climate because they shun topics that require any explanation. So they talk of saving the sensible center from extremists, a familiar line for being the central trope of the Obama administration and the very same promise Republicans make.
Democrats call the election historic but cant say why. Its hard to enlist people to an agenda you cant articulate, or make them care who runs a government that has stopped working. Voters see politics as a cesspool and Congress as a sideshow. So do progressives, yet they act as if the next Democrat in line will get us where we need to go. Heres some really good news: the merry-go-round on which theyre trapped cant run without them. Not only can they get off, but if they do, it stops for good.
Regardless of how Democrats do on Tuesday, many progressives will rush to hop on another horse. Someone should stop them. The time has come for progressives to hit the pause button on electoral politics, to take some time to reexamine their agenda, rethink their strategy and recognize their power. Some thoughts for them to ponder if they do:
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