Breaking Democratic News: It’s Great Start
The DNC is meeting this weekend in Chicago. Something good came out of it.
The Democratic National Committee voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to limit the role of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee, moving to heal internal divisions that emerged during the bitter 2016 primaries.
The reform, adopted by DNC members at their summer meeting in Chicago, will bar superdelegates – lawmakers, former presidents and other party dignitaries – from voting during the first ballot of the nominating process.
Some delegates voted against it, saying “it would disenfranchise party leaders.” And they said that like it’s a bad thing. I think that’s the whole point. Party bosses have missed the boat and it’s time to return the party to the people.
Well done, DNC. Now quit sending me three damn emails a day asking for money.
Amen, particularly to the damned emails! If I never get another email from DSW it will be too soon!
1What do you want to bet that the GOP adopts superdelegates to avoid another tRumpster fire”?
2Dems are also getting an early start on debate planning. They want to do it before they know who the nominees are to avoid any appearance of favoritism.
It appears that the DNC learned a few things from 2016. Good.
3I’m contacted constantly by either the DNC or DCC for money. I tell them repeatedly that when they take interest in my home state and back progressive candidates, then and only then will I consider giving them my hard earned cash.
4If the d’s take the house and, horrors, the Senate watch the r’s fire up a lame duck session the type of which no one had ever imagined.
5Railroad judges through, replace sessions with the likes of cotton or pruit, pass any number of laws to cripple the incoming congress etc.
I can only hope that the d’s emulate their oppenents and start by impeaching every appointee, judicial and otherwise, cutting off all travel funds for executive branch, ban secret service from paying for anything to drumpf org., and generally showing no mercy to thuglicans.
As for D’s that might get swept into office in red arenas of ignorance and stupidity, just accept that you will have only one term and do not try to appeal to the delusional, ignorant, the ammosexuals and rethuglicans.
You are going to lose since the knuckle draggers will never support you so play to increase turn out by giving those who don’t vote a reason to vote.
According to Bloomberg, another part of the negotiations have resulted in a vote that a politician must be a member of the Democratic Party in order to run on our party ticket. If this is true, I consider it a very good decision, especially since Bernie Sanders was allowed to run in 2016 as a Dem and spent a whole lot of time sowing divisiveness. I have not given any Democratic Party org a single penny since it permitted Sanders to do this, and I won’t until it’s made very clear that if one is not a Democrat, one cannot use our party’s infrastructure to run on our ticket.
6magi, I agree completely.
It was a dumb to allow it in the first place. It went downhill from there. My kid was working the National convention. he said the Bernie people didn’t even have floor leaders, they did all they could do to make the Ds look like idiots and scammers.
Wouldn’t be surprised to find out in 20 years they were from Karl Rove or Manafort.
Send money to local candidates. To hell with the national committees. And Texas in Austin. IMO, they are 40 years behind what’s up now.
7majii, Crone…if there hadn’t been a Bernie and Warren, the progressive movement in the Democratic party would not exist.
8majii, Crone
Open debate on the issues is NOT divisiveness.
Sounds like the same sort of political cowardice that gave us the super delegates after the powers that be stbbed progressives in the back during McGovern campaign because they would rather have tricky dick thuglican then a progressive.
They prefer to look backwards instead of move into the future.
I certainly hope that this clause of purity of membership will prevent scams such of thuglicrats switching parties out of oppurtunism, Such as crist in florida, spector in Penn, and all so many of rahms thuglicrat recruits.
9Three e-mails? Try three phone calls. Or sometimes six.
10K, I voted for Bernie and sent him money, monthly. Who said anything about open debate? Is Warren a Republican?
Still think his campaign damaged the Democratic party even without the mess created by DWS and Brazille. Most people have no clue how party politics work. All they know is what they see on tv. The conflict was so heated, it will take years to overcome.
Just my .02
11Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2018
http://robertreich.org/post/177349093095
Totally in love with this idea. Let’s start a new direction. Annulment!
12being bad at the mechanics of party politics is not divisiveness.
13Remember during ’92 election when same complaints about Jerry Brown’s supporters was bandied about.
Give me an outsider like Bernie over a d like lipinski ( Ill 11) any day of the week and twice on saturday. But according to the inbred DNC lipinski is a “reasonable” person to carry the d’s banner even though he is anti choice, pro murder lobby, pro christian child molesting, anti environment and the list goes on.
You want divisiveness lipinski, and his ilk, are divisive but since they, like phil gramm used to be, are “members of the party” they are worthy of the parties support but Bernie isn’t?
But ok just make sure that people who claim to be demccrats as a party of convenience, such as crist, painter et.al are also banned from trying to claim the d’s slot.
You only get three a day?
The change in the rules on superdelegates won’t actually have any effect (other than psychological). Superdelegates haven’t actually changed the outcome of a nomination contest since they were introduced in 1984 — the candidate with the most primary/caucus delegates was always nominated. It’s unlikely that they would have changed the outcome in the future either, unless the primaries and caucuses went for some completely unqualified candidate like Trump — rather unlikely on the Democratic side.
14I wouldn’t call it a ‘great’ start — but it is a start, anyway.
Why the hell are the nay sayers concerned about ‘disenfranchising the party leaders’ anyway? Isn’t this supposed to be the party of the Big Tent? The party of the people? Why should party leaders get two votes to my one?
It was a stupid idea at its inception and we saw the result of that stupid idea in 2016. It’s time for Democrats to stop acting like Republicans in the, ‘Hey! Let’s give more power to the powerful!’ department.
And about those emails: If I acquiesced every time someone asked me for “Just $1” I wouldn’t eat that month. Fully 2/3 of my emails — and 98% of my snail mails are requests for money.
15Thanks for this post. No thanks for EJ’s apparently ineradicable loathing for Hillary, purporting to be on the same topic.
16Almost every email has an “unsubscribe” link in the fine print at the bottom. My life has been way less stressful since I started clicking it.
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