‘It’s action that counts, not words. …”

~ Patrick O'Grady

The Democratic National Committee gathers to elect a new chair as the party faithful ask their oddly quiescent leadership, “Wot?!?”

10 thoughts on “‘It’s action that counts, not words. …””

  1. Political parties can’t solve the problem. They are the problem. Specifically, the extreme members of these parties. I understand why Kyrsten Sinema became an independent. I expect members of both houses of congress to work together to solve the country’s problems and issues. I remind them of that in all my communications with them. Since I am not wealthy or famous, my lamentations probably fall on deaf ears. In other words, there I go pissing into the wind again.

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      1. Meanwhile, as the Donks have been trying to figure out who’s gonna drive their 1959 Edsel Villager of a political party — assuming he can get it started — E. Lawn Mulch has gotten his Nazi-salute paws on the keys to the Treasury and will be taking that for a spin around the block.

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      2. Caught him on Maddow last night. Liked his energy. The Donks have a ton of problems, but one near the top is the deer in the headlights look they get when the Rethuglicans say or do something so stupid, they don’t know whether to mock them, argue back, change the subject, or just sigh and say “Bless their hearts.”

        Part of T***p’s appeal is his dog-on-a-bone, won’t let it go attitude. Objectively, he lost the Obama long form birth certificate gambit. Except 49% of us are idiots who couldn’t stop staring at the shiny object. He’s doing it now with tariffs. Ain’t an economist on the planet who thinks they’re a good idea. But the Donks just can’t package a retort.

        So fingers crossed Martin can get some energy going in fighting back.

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  4. Will Rogers said it best a century ago: ” I don’t belong to an organized party I’m a Democrat”. The People in charge are walking, talking Charley Foxtrots. It’s the economy, stupid not trans, not diversity Reduce message to KISS rule Keep It Simple Stupid.

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    1. Jonathan Chait at The Atlantic agrees with you.

      Chait writes:

      The good news about the DNC, for those who prefer that the country have a politically viable alternative to the authoritarian personality cult currently running it, is that the official Democratic Party has little power. The DNC does not set the party’s message, nor will it determine its next presidential candidate.

      The bad news is that the official party’s influence is so meager, in part because the party has largely ceded it to a collection of progressive activist groups. These groups, funded by liberal donors, seldom have a broad base of support among the voting public but have managed to amass enormous influence over the party. They’ve done so by monopolizing the brand value of various causes. Climate groups, for instance, define what good climate policy means, and then they judge candidates based on how well they affirm those positions. The same holds true for abortion, racial justice, and other issues that many Democrats deem important. The groups are particularly effective at spreading their ideas through the media, especially (but not exclusively) through the work of progressive-leaning journalists, who lean on both the expertise that groups provide and their ability to drive news (by, say, scolding Democratic candidates who fall short of their standards of ideological purity).

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