We are eating ourselves, or Isaac's Political Post of the Week
There's a currently a movement to challenge right-wing Democrats in the primaries for the upcoming mid-term elections - folks like Senator Lieberman (CT) and Representative Cuellar (TX-28). A fair amount of money, time, and energy is being spent on these efforts. And while I agree in principle, I don't think it makes the most strategic sense.
Democrats should be focused like a laser on regaining control of Congress. That would give us control of committee agendas, which means we would - among other things - decide what to investigate, and which bills are submitted to the floor for discussion.
Any time, any money spent on moonshot candidates like Ned Lamont (to challenge Lieberman in the primary) takes away from time and money spent on regaining control of Congress. Period. We lose our focus, we lessen our chances.
There's a currently a movement to challenge right-wing Democrats in the primaries for the upcoming mid-term elections - folks like Senator Lieberman (CT) and Representative Cuellar (TX-28). A fair amount of money, time, and energy is being spent on these efforts. And while I agree in principle, I don't think it makes the most strategic sense.
Democrats should be focused like a laser on regaining control of Congress. That would give us control of committee agendas, which means we would - among other things - decide what to investigate, and which bills are submitted to the floor for discussion.
Any time, any money spent on moonshot candidates like Ned Lamont (to challenge Lieberman in the primary) takes away from time and money spent on regaining control of Congress. Period. We lose our focus, we lessen our chances.
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posted by isaacjosephson at 1:24 PM
2 Comments:
Except that some Democrats our selling us out big-time in committee already. So where does that get us?
Who are you, anonymous coward with a spelling problem?
I believe the committee chairs decide the agendas. The controlling party has the chair. So, it doesn't matter at this point if a few weak-minded fools are voting with the Republican majority on agenda items set by Republican chairs.
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