Good day all. It seems that the Democrats are living in constant terror of another trouncing by President-Elect Donald Trump.
The reason for their fears is that they won’t have anyone in a leadership position how is ready to resist the Trumpinator. Here are the details from Politico:
As Donald Trump’s inauguration draws near, Democrats fear they remain woefully unprepared to fight the new president’s agenda.
The party loses its standard-bearer once President Barack Obama leaves office, and the Democratic National Committee won’t get a permanent chairman and staff until March, two months into the presidency.
That Democratic power vacuum has raised concerns about the party’s ability to provide a united message — or even to stand up a centralized rapid response operation — for the incoming president’s first 100 days in office. Their worst nightmare is that Trump, ever the showman, will define his opening act with little unified resistance.
“It’s a very serious concern. I just went on TV twice today on Fox and MSNBC on the Cabinet appointments and I winged it,” said Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and 2008 presidential candidate. “You need something right now. Trump every day is doing something outrageous. What do we do? Criticize everything he does? Hold back a bit? I know we need to develop an economic message, but that’s long term. We need something now. Most of the Democrats I talk to are down, and they’re asking who’s in charge.”
And what are these “Outrages” President-Elect Trump is committing? Well, he’s putting together a first rate cabinet, something we haven’t seen in a very long time. He’s also talking to companies and now jobs are starting to flow back into the United States. IBM just announced it was going to bring 25,000 jobs back to America and give them to Americans. President-Elect Trump is also looking at opening up all the territory that Obama and the Democrats have locked down and prevented developing our oil and mineral resources. For Democrats, that is outrageous behavior.
Individual elected officials, led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown, have already signaled their intention to put loud and sustained pressure on the president-elect through a series of speeches, statements, TV appearances and op-eds, and on social media. But they are doing so without the benefit of any partywide communication about a coordinated message for their Trump barbs — the kind of guidance and direction so recently provided by Obama or Hillary Clinton and her campaign surrogate operation. In some corners of Capitol Hill, senior senators have even taken to blindly calling advocacy groups in town, asking where they can find relevant opposition research against Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Here’s one big issue for the Democrats. Trump is already improving things for the average American and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet. Moonbats like Warren, Brown and Sanders are unable to accept that their way, (Socialist totalitarian power to the over-educated Elite), has not only failed, but been heartily rejected.
They know, on an instinctive level, that if Trump succeeds, it will mean the end of the Democrat party for at least a generation, if not end it completely. It wasn’t supposed to be that way either. It was supposed to be the Republicans that collapsed and faded away, leaving the Progressive Globalist Democrats in charge, forever.
DNC Vice Chairman R.T. Rybak stressed the urgency of the moment.
“The importance of these first few weeks is illustrated by my memory of the first few months of the Reagan administration, where radical change came so fast that it was difficult for opponents to know where to fight, which battles to pick,” said Rybak. “There’s a need to affect these issues immediately, and there’s also the related issue of how to reposition, how to be the party we need to be.”
And history has shown that Reagan’s way worked. It started an economic boom that took four presidents to destroy, and also caused the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, much to the dismay of their fellow travelers in the Democrat party.
Democrats are hardly without any response. Since Trump was elected, the DNC’s opposition research department has been working overtime, while the communications staff has cranked out a nonstop stream of pro-Obama and anti-Trump news releases. Party officials have also been in touch with Senate and House leadership communications and research teams to work out the plan moving forward, particularly as Trump seeks to confirm his Cabinet picks.
A fat lot of good that’s doing too. Trump’s choices, besides driving the Democrat’s insane, are looking to bring competence and rationality to the Beltway. The fact that so many agencies are terrified of the “New Management” speaks well of the new managers, and is making a lot of people, from the guy trying to find a job to captains of industry, very happy. It also shows that the Democrats were so certain that Felonia von Pantsuit was going to win and win big, that they didn’t put together any contingency plans.
But the party was caught flat-footed by Trump’s victory, and there was no detailed contingency plan in the event Hillary Clinton was defeated. The widespread expectation was that President Clinton’s handpicked choice for DNC chairman would take over on Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration. That Democrat — likely a prominent figure practiced in both fundraising and television pontificating — would be backed by a building brimming with operatives shipped down from Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters.
You could almost hear the cash registers ringing as the bribes to Felonia’s minions started rolling in on November 7th. Now? The registers are empty and the phones are not ringing.
Working in tandem with a refurbished political wing of the White House, the staff would be tasked with readying the party for a furious attempt to limit Senate losses and gain back governors’ mansions in 2018, ahead of long-brewing plans to reverse Republican redistricting gains two years later.
Yeah, that wasn’t going to happen and now 2018 is looking like a complete wipe out for the Democrats at all levels of the government. Of course, considering how corrupt the Clintons are, particularly Felonia, the odds of there even being an election in 2018 weren’t looking all that certain. (Civil wars tend to be very disruptive after all) Now the Democrats are scrambling and they are not making good choices.
The redistricting push has been largely handed over to a new group helmed by former Attorney General Eric Holder.
Holder is in contempt of Congress. I do not know what the legal ramifications are, but if that charge is still pending, well, Attorney General Sessions might be taking a look into it. Holder doing a perp walk would be a bad thing from the Democrats point of view. One of the problems for the Democrats is that most of those in Washington weren’t around the last time the lost the presidency.
With Washington crowded with Democrats who weren’t around the last time the party was so thoroughly booted from power, the reflex is not to look straight to the national committee — which has led to a chorus of confused whispers from senators and House members looking for guidance.
“This is not a new scenario,” said David Axelrod, Obama’s former top adviser. “Without the White House, parties always feel their way. The congressional leaders and party chair have some claim to messaging, but other voices will emerge, and full clarity won’t be achieved until a new nominee is chosen and a Democratic president is elected.”
Delusion, thy new name is “Democrat.” The Democrats have been receiving one shellacking after the other since 2010, with only Obama’s win in 2012 being a high point. The recent attempt to dethrone Nancy Pelosi by someone who actually has a clue was crushed by the bi-coastal Moonbats, and Pelosi has stated she sees nothing wrong with the way the Democrats have been doing things. In her mind, the problem is messaging, not the message.
One group trying to step into the perceived void is American Bridge, the main Democratic opposition research organization, which last week revealed preliminary plans to launch an anti-Trump rapid response and research operation. The group, founded by Clinton ally David Brock, has been in close contact with many of Clinton’s top donors as he searches for funding
David Brock? Is he the best the Democrats can come up with? The man is a flaming idiot and so rabid in his attacks that only the extreme left pays any attention to him. All he is, is an overpaid mouthpiece for George Soros.
In the meantime, Democrats are publicly keeping a bold face, and many continue to insist that the opening of a Trump administration provides the party with a chance to unify in opposition, as Republicans have in the past.
Good luck with that. The Republicans are used to losing and have way to much experience in handling it. Winning elections has traditionally been their problem, and when they do, they usually don’t know how to handle it. (Which is why we end up with people like McConnell, Boehner and Ryan) President Trump is an actual leader, one we haven’t had since Ronald Reagan, and he will be the driving force in Washington. (Which McConnell and Ryan haven’t figured out yet)
“Any time the White House is held by one party, you see the other party in Congress assert itself and lead the opposition. Many of us who are younger Democrats in the House are especially energized about playing a leading role in opposing Trump,” said Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle. “You will see Democrats on Capitol Hill lead the rapid response to Trump. The Republicans in Congress during 2009-2010 did a masterful job of this.”
There is a small problem with this plan. The Republicans had ideas, and they had the Democrats basically cut them out of everything. This is why we have Obamacare, and why not a single Republican voted for it. President Trump is going to talk to Democrats, and you will have a few of them “cross the aisle” on some of his plans.
Since the Democrats basic plan is “More power to Washington, stripping the rights away from individuals, taxes, regulations, taxes and taxes”, I don’t see any really hope for them in the near future. Something really bad would have to happen for the Democrats to have any chance of turning things around politically.
“We’ll have a competition among the next, young Democratic leaders about who has the sharpest message moving forward,” predicted former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges. “The Republicans, for the last eight years, had plenty of people competing to be the voice of the party, and it’s not like they were waiting for [RNC chairman] Reince Priebus’ memo before they started talking.”
Good luck with that! There is a reason why you are the former governor and not the current governor of South Carolina. The fact of the matter is, the Democrats have been pushing Big Government since the Roosevelt Administration. They didn’t work then and they haven’t worked since. All the Democrats have done is split the country and drive us to the point of bankruptcy. If they don’t come up with real ideas that actually benefit the American people, and just continue with their primary goal of centralizing power into their own hands, they will eventually collapse. The sooner, the better as far as I’m concerned.
Thatisall
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