NOT ENOUGH RAHM TODAY? WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED
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I didn't discover the Beachwood Reporter until today but from now on that's where I'll go whenever I want any political news about Illinois-- or just some hard-hitting snark! Do you get the idea these guys have about the same opinion of Rahm Emanuel as we do here at DWT? Maybe they can help find a primary opponent for him in 2008. Or...
Maybe Tammy Duckworth will run in the district she actually lives in next time around, which would be Melissa Bean's district. Which would mean that Melissa Bean would have to run in the district she actually lives in, which would be the district Dan Seals just ran in. Which would mean that Seals would have to run in the district he actually lives in, which is Jan Schakowsky's. Or maybe Rahm Emanuel will just eliminate districts as he consolidates power.
And some stats, for our math-minded friends, also from Chicago:
In 2004, Christine Cegelis received 105,367 votes (44.2 percent) against Henry Hyde. Last night, Tammy Duckworth received (unofficially) 77,222 votes (48.5 percent) against Peter Roskam. Sure, 2004 was a presidential year, bringing more people to the polls, but still.
Challengers rarely win on their first try. It's why I'm so optimistic about John Laesch, Tony Trupiano and Robert Rodriguez. Hopefully their momentum won't be destroyed by some Rahm-like creature the way Christine's was. Today in his celebration of the Netroots victories Chris Bowers pointed out how the right wing version of efforts like Blue America was a complete bust... well almost a complete bust. Rahm handed them their one victory-- on a
A TINY LITTLE UPDATE: RAHM IS A DISGRACE AND UTTER FAILURE
The DCCC, which has been bragging all day how Rahm is the svengali of yesterday's victories, hasn't been mentioning that they lost the three races they spent the most money on: Duckworth's, Lois Murphy (who they made so vanilla, uncompelling and tepid that she managed to lose a race that was in the bag) and Ken Lucas, who, judging by his past record as a congressman, would have voted with the Republicans on substantive matters as often as with the Democrats-- Rahm's kind of guy.
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I just love those photo-cartoons where you put their heads on different outfits. Rahm in tutu is perfect, right up there with diaper Joe and the Dirty Dick one. So symbolic too. All that spinning and twisting. He looks very proud of himself too. And the colors look great on him. Thanks.
Actually, Rahm studied ballet, presumably before he fought in the Golan Heights with the Israeli Army. The pic is made up but he was a ballet dancer at one time.
Howie, you do realize that if we'd left this up to Rahm, we'd have a GOP House next year. Of his 21 initial "Red to Blue" picks, there are only 9 declared winners (3 still too close).
I want to know what you think of the WaPo article today where Rahm says that the liberal wing will have no input and we should rule from the center-right? WTF?
Somebody slap him.
The dumping on Tammy Duckworth to get at Rahm is disgusting. Tammy was a great candidate, inspired & inspiring, & had hundreds of volunteers who believed in her passionately. She won the primary, guys, sort of like Lamont, & she lost the general, kind of like Vic Wulsin & other netrootsers. Gee, maybe neither the netroots or the party bosses are infallible. Maybe the thing works best when we work together like we did for Webb & Tester & others. Or maybe we can just waste our energy & form up our typical circular firing squad, even when we win.
Working together seems to mean that the people lose in the interests of business as usual in DC.
Maybe better yet, we just dig in and start solving the problems that face Americans like Health Care, Jobs, and the Iraq debacle. Then, after we solve the problems figure out if the solutions fell into the left of center category or the center.
For Rahm to decide up front to be kissy face with the Republicans makes it seem like he is in charge.
The people decided on Tuesday that they were in charge.
If anyone thinks the bloggers and the people are in any mood to allow nothing to happen as a result of this election, they misread. We did not fight this hard for this long making virtually nothing in order to concede to mediocrity.
working together means just that... and it Rahm who fails time and again to work with the grassroots and netroots. How difficult would it have been for Rahm to support a few truly progressive candidates among his 21 "Red to Blue" choices (most of whom lost, despite the fact that they were blanketed with DCCC cash).
Howard Dean gets it -- he understands the importance of grassroots support for candidates -- and encouraging grassroots participation, in ways that Rahm displays nothing but contempt for.
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