I hate to say it, but he’s got a point — and it kills me to admit it. Democrats playing small ball have brought us to this point where we’re scraping to stay afloat, and maybe it’s time for a purge. We should put someone with real vision in charge of the DCCC:

With House Democrats bracing for Election Day losses on Tuesday, Ralph Nader is calling on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top party leaders to call it quits.

The prominent consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate says the failure of those leaders to win the House gavel over three straight election cycle should means it’s time for a new crop of lawmakers to take control of the party.

“Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Steve Israel should now recognize the wisdom of baseball’s ‘three strikes and you’re out’ … step down from their posts and invite fresh leadership who can save the country from the ravages of today’s Republican party,” Nader said Tuesday in a statement. Hoyer (Md.) is the minority whip, and Israel (N.Y.) is chairman of the party’s campaign committee.

Nader is quick to praise the three leaders for their hard work and fundraising prowess. But, he added, “the result is just exemplifying the adage that nice guys finish last.”

“Between 2010 and 2014 … they have demonstrated their inability to reverse a growing Republican majority espousing cruel, brutish and harmful policies to almost any human interest, any environmental interest, and any Main Street interest in conflict with Wall Street demands for privileges and immunities of crony corporate capitalism and to any interest in waging peace over war,” he said.

Overview

November 5, 2014November 4, 2014 ~ susie ~ 6 Comments

I’m too tired to really get into the numbers yet, but here’s what I can say: We lost some races, but they were all squeakers. Which means, no matter how the Repugs will try to spin it, that they don’t exactly have a mandate. They will act as if they do, but I imagine they’re going to have to put the brakes on at least a little.

But the Dems have a problem. Notice how, even in the states where the Republicans took the governor’s mansion AND the Senate seats, they passed minimum wage increases? You’d almost think that, if the Dems had run campaigns as Democrats, they’d have won a lot more of these races!

And honestly, I’m so sick of progressives acting like we’re not in a deep economic hole. I don’t care what the GDP is, or the Dow, or the unemployment rate. People are hurting. They have shitty jobs that pay a lot less and uncertain futures. You can’t sell them this bullshit, it’s insulting!

It’s gotten a lot worse in my neighborhood – hell, the entire city. Every time I stop at a light, there’s someone with a sign and a coffee can, begging for money. I’ve never seen it this bad. And Democrats want to brag about the GDP? They got what they deserved.

Bye bye Tom

November 5, 2014November 4, 2014 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

At lead we kicked Tom Corbett to the curb!

York County businessman Tom Wolf has been elected Pennsylvania governor after spending $10 million of his own money on a powerful TV ad campaign that helped send Gov. Tom Corbett to a historic defeat.

With Tuesday’s victory, the 65-year-old Democrat will be Pennsylvania’s 47th governor and the first since 1979 never to have held elective office.

A folksy ad campaign launched in January seemed to give Wolf a head start that proved overwhelming to the Republican governor, who was deeply unpopular after stumbling through his first term.

In the ads, Wolf presented himself to voters as a Jeep-driving Ph.D. who shared profits with the employees at his York-based furniture business.

Corbett is the first incumbent to lose in the four decades since Pennsylvania’s chief executive was allowed to run again.