MB Civic

Edward Teller in Firedoglake ..

As [DCCC critic Howie] Klein notes, “When will the corrupt Inside-the-Beltway Democratic Establishment learn that actual Democratic voters don’t want Blue Dogs and that Republicans have their own reactionaries so they don’t need them?” To take back the House in 2014, the Democrats need to do the opposite of what Obama functionaries like Rahm Emanuel [and Blue Dog DCCC head Steve Israel] did to progressive activists and candidates between 2008 and 2012. By the beginning of December we will see if the White House will move leftward in the upcoming term. If they do move left, and want to regain the U.S. House, pushing for a full purge of the DCCC might be a helluva a place to start

not holding my breath – mab .. read more