2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDems worry DNC chair 'too toxic' after Sanders blast
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-democrats-clinton-sanders/index.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003"There is a lot of sentiment that replacing her would be a good idea. It is being discussed quietly among Democratic senators on the floor, in the cloakroom and in lunches," a senior Senate Democratic source told CNN on condition of anonymity to discuss private talks among lawmakers.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)This type of thinking is a prime example of the utter brilliance of our Democratic Senators
Of course, we all know that smarts isn't the key criteria for becoming a Washington Democrat or Republican.
pengu
(462 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)But ........ too bad, it's nearly over! (Fuck the damage it's left - typical, also).
islandmkl
(5,275 posts)did he survive, is he still alive?
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...every possible fluxuation and gyration has been for Clinton. I suspect she was part of the "Clinton package" President Obama agreed to.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)at the federal, state, and local legislative levels. 2012 landslide wins for the GOP were just the beginning.
Not coincidentally, the "Democrats" on this site who had been defending DWS also happened to be the most RW ones.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)And that is why this single act of removing a DINO from a leadership position will not placate anyone: it will be too little, way too late.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)Clinton owns the chair now... right?
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)Last edited Wed May 25, 2016, 10:07 AM - Edit history (1)
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)RKP5637
(67,084 posts)so wrong. Thanks!
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)If there's a sitting Dem president, s/he gets to name the head of the party. Otherwise, it's whoever holds power inside th he party. That was Bill Clinton when Bush the Least was president.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)The Voting Process
On February 12, 2005, the members of the Democratic National Committee will elect a new Chairman by majority vote. If upon the first three ballots, there is no majority, the candidate with the fewest number of votes will be dropped from the ballot, and a new vote held. This will be repeated until there is a majority choice for Chair.
Who are the DNC Members?
There are 441 votes in the Democratic National Committee, split among 446 members. The goal of the membership makeup of the DNC is to have a representative sample of the members of the Democratic Party from the grassroots, local, state, and Federal level, as well as its various constituents such as labor, women, and minority groups. There are 200 state party members elected by state committees, conventions, and straight votes, depending on the state. Every state party chair has a vote, as well as the highest ranking member of the state party who is of the opposite sex as the state party chair. There are also 75 at large members chosen by appointment, as well as reprentatives from party organs like the House and Senate Conferences, Mayors, AGs, etc. According to the Charter, there is mandated gender balance within the Democratic National Committee, and among representatives from states and party organs.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/84345/-
MadBadger
(24,089 posts)MuseRider
(34,095 posts)in the House and Senate and all those Governorships did not show them anything but angry "Bernie Bros" woke them up?
What kind of a lesson is there in this statement? They should be careful with this. I fail to understand what their fears actually are.
Cosmocat
(14,558 posts)for the position.
Whatever gets them to move past their stasis to doing something about her ...
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)before this current fracas.
in well over her head ...
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)MuseRider
(34,095 posts)that nothing has made them reconsider her until now. Does this mean that are actively OK with losing seats to R's but not to Bernie? Does this mean that they will sit back and let her handle things as we lose and lose and lose but only yelling and anger will stimulate them to rethink? Do they not understand that the people who do believe in anger, disruption and perhaps violence will see that this is what actually motivated the party to "reconsider"? This is not a good plan. With things as desperate as they are for some people, many people actually, this kind of behavior could rapidly get way beyond control yet this is the only thing they have responded to.
*I do not believe violence and violent behavior or language is part of the Bernie campaign. I believe if they are supporters they are few among many. Who knows where they come from or who might have put them there. All the Bernie activities I have been to and my friends across the country have been to have been peaceful and no hint of becoming violent has been made from supporters or the campaign itself.
How is it going?
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)country. I feel that Hillary will keep the status quo. I said that in the Hillary group and they kicked me out! I was saying that in comparison to a Trump presidency. DWS runs the party by conflicts and divisional behavior IMO which will continue to fracture the democratic party and make it weak, especially for the GE. In years past the democratic party would have captured many of the Trump supporters that feel they have been screwed in life by the current/past system. IMO the democratic party is failing all over the place and I do fear what 2016 might bring.
She should be working to bond the party together while still having primaries. I feel she has run an extremely unfair primary and I say that relative to all candidates that might have been interested in running as the democratic nominee. It was clear it was biased from day one, and that is quite poor.
I feel a lot better, but I do think back on Kansas. It's a wonderful state and I found many people quite nice and still correspond with my neighbors. Brownback has demonstrated what he is made of, that is excellent.
See you later,
MuseRider
(34,095 posts)on all of it.
Brownback will be replaced by another much like him I fear. There are a couple of possible Democrat contenders but apparently the Dems in control here believe in trying what does not work over and over again. Wait for it....
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)MuseRider
(34,095 posts)so likely fine. We have had only one warning so far this year. At least the drought is over.
Thanks.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)RKP5637
(67,084 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Seems to me, they're making a show of considering this now since they don't have to do a damn thing any way since her term limit is up.
Saying they're considering this as a means to throw a bone towards people that don't like her, particularly Bernie supporters just looks contrived.
She is the author of the doom and gloom campaign back in 2012, soliciting donations by trying to scare us with what the republicans are doing. With subject lines like "it's all over" is just such a cynical and losing campaign. One which, I don't think they learned anything from.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Response to RKP5637 (Original post)
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