This is just scary.

From linked article~

"With current DCCC Chair Steve Israel (D-NY) stepping down, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will shortly name a new chair. One of the people running hard for the job is Congressman Jim Himes of Greenwich, Connecticut -- hedge fund country. Rep. Himes' former job, before taking his seat in 2009, was Vice President of Goldman Sachs. Of all Democrats in the House, he is probably closest to Wall Street.

As a member of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, one of Himes' prime goals has been looking out for the interests of hedge funds, private equity companies and other shadowy parts of the financial system, as well as big banks. Himes is a prime sponsor of a bill, H.R. 1105, which would exempt hedge funds and private equity companies from key disclosure protection provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act."

Please tell me WHY so many republicans are pretending to be Democrats???

you want to sit with them?

Besides, it takes a special something to inflate the assets of the wealthy while denying opportunity to 50 million Americans in poverty, ten million of whom dropped into poverty after you came into office, along with the tens of millions who now live in near poverty, to the point that 1 in 4 of their children don't have enough food. Children who will, almost certainly, now live the rest of their lives in poverty as well. And then try to pretend it is anything other than bad policy.

These people seem to have it.

Because we all know why people infiltrate the enemy camp...and we are the enemy.

I saw a video of the Democratic party chairwoman in Florida...she was one involved in the 2000 election theft on the side of Bush and has a long history of being a right winger...but she is our party chair in Florida?

They own both parties, plain and simple.

Everything is set up against a real election.
The massive money, the Supreme Court, and add the stupidity of the general population we are screwed.

TPP will complete the screwing.

... we shall surely perish.

We should have started that process last week.
The DNC is broke ,no mone,, the DSCC and the DCCC is even worse financially. So we start a progressive party and real Democrats will fund it because I don't expect to see many checks going to the DNC for those Republican lites

How long or I should say how much longer are Democratic Voters going to make excuses for the DNC and the Democrats in Congress.
Just like in 2010 when we got our ass kicked Democrats sat around and made their own excuses as to what went wrong in the House.
Now they are using the same bookmarked page full of excuses.
(Democrats keep repeating over and over)" Hillary is the one no one can defeat her"
Bullshit Hiiary would be just another stepping stone for our country to be completely taken over by the corporatists,
So its either we organize a real progressive party that will bring back the real Democratic Progressive voter than we will continue to get our ass kicked

sure, they get massive contributions whether they win or lose, but enough liberal members and fickle swing voters will ensure the party totters on without falling into permanent-minority status

there'll be pretty language to appeal to what voters want, and fingerpointing and the creation of issues so that one party or the other can claim that issue, but *representativeness* in the sense of doing what the people (rather than just the elite) need is going to cause some sort of crisis by, say 2030

neoliberalism is literally based on Pinochet's economics, and the Dems did nothing to roll it back (or even bring the public's attention to this economic framework within which politics today operates) with the WH and a Supermajority: sure it smooths out depressions into recessions, but it's a fundamentally different, er, dispensation from the postwar-boom economy (which was based on cooptation of labor, cost-plus budget padding in the MIC, naivete on the environment, redlining to keep the benefits whites-only, Fordist materialism, cornucopian belief that resources were boundless, a crude postwar clampdown on minorities, radicals, gays, and women, naked neocolonialism south of the 30th Parallel, and an arrangement whereby Europe was rebuilt to the benefit of it and the US (an operation that'd be unsustainable elsewhere): they still got their money from making things, instead of multiplying money through casino capitalism

that are seeing a satisfying return on their investment. Want to keep the status quo in 2016?
Nominate Hillary and we will have a Rpublican in the White House,a Republian Senate and a Republican House of Rep.
And our Democracy as we have known it is history.
Maybe its time to refresh our history knowledge and refer to "The Fall of the Roman Empire"

Of course, this is a natural outcome to serving the financial elite and multinational corporate interests over average American interests.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Please, friends, let's keep this kicked so more will read this important Alternet.org essay. It is short and goes straight to the core of the Democratic Party's heart and soul: Who we should serve (The American People), and who we should NOT serve (Wall Street.) Ask yourself if you want to be a member of the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" Party, or the age-old Democratic Party who cares about ALL of our citizens, not the few (1%) over the many (the 99%.) If you're not sure, go listen to those speeches (by Mario Cuomo, 1992, and Ann Richards, 1988) that were uploaded last night from past Democratic Conventions:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017225891

Please find time to go listen to those speeches.

And after you do these things, I encourage you to write to Nancy Pelosi and tell her to appoint Donna Edwards (D-MD) to lead the DCCC. This is an important crossroad we're standing at. Ms Edwards will help to steer the Democratic Party away from Wall Street and back toward donors from regular rank and file Democrats. She will recruit REAL Democratic progressives to run for Congress, instead of former Vice Presidents of Goldman-Sachs (Jim Hines, D-CT), and instead of a rich co-sponsor of the "Race to the Top" Education Act, (Jared Polis D-CO.)

Remember who preceded Steve Israel at the DCC post: Rahm Emaniel.

And finally, thanks xchrom, for referring us to this important article at AlterNet.org.