Howard Dean, we need you!

The super congress has tea party douche bags and Harry put one of the biggest health-care reform sell-outs on this stupid thing. All I see is just more of the same. The goal of the tea party is to dismantle the US government to the point it's as weak as a kitten. McConnell put hardliners in place to make sure it happens.

The system in place assures that the rich will never pay their fair share and that the status quo remains. The Dems will continue to refuse to push back against the repukes. The repukes have made it their number 1 priority to make sure Obama is a 1 term president. Jobs and the middle class sure as hell aren't even on the radar for them. At least we can say the Dems care, but it most certainly isn't enough to fight like hell for us.

I absolutely do not want the anti-choice racist warmongering repukes in the WH or in power for that matter. That is not an option as far as I'm concerned.

I'm just sick and tired of this crap. We've all tried to do our part as best we can. We win some and we lose some, but lately we're losing a hell of a lot, the Dems don't have our backs and that's what makes this suck so damn bad.

I want to feel energized again. I want to feel like fighting. I want us to be strong again.

The one person who I think can get the Dems back in fighting form again is Howard Dean. He was the best DNC chair we ever had. His strategy to win was brilliant and it worked. Now maybe being back at the helm of the DNC may not be the place for him, but his voice resonated in a way that struck a chord with a lot of people in this country. We need his voice and we need his energy. We need his heart and we need his strength.

We need you, Howard Dean!

Maybe I'm full of crap or I'm being nostalgic. All I know is that I'm damn tired of the repukes running roughshod over anyone who doesn't think like them and the Dems throwing the carpet down on top of us so they can say they protected us.

help get more DINOs in congress like you succeeeded in doing a few years back...that worked...NOT!

Look at what we've got now.

get many DINOs elected that ruined the health care bill and financial reform...I know I know...the narrative here is that it's all Obama;s fault but if there were real dems in congress the 2 aformentioned bills would have been much better.

It was a first step. Not unlike the 2 WI districts that turned last night.

DINO = REPUBLICAN

Quit revising shit.

I know Howard Dean is like some god like figure here but the fact is Dean got many DINOs to run as Dems...that's just a fact and he even has admitted to that....FACTS PLEASE COME BACK TO DU LIKE THE OLD DAYS....PUHLEEEZE!

Rahm brought the third-wayers in. Dean brought the grass roots in.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_meaning_of_the_midterms

...SNIP
But the more compelling story, which continues to unfold even today, comes when Bendavid pulls back from the day-to-day of the campaign to examine what the midterm elections meant for the identity of the Democratic Party. In an election where more moderates and centrists were elected than in any year past, many—bloggers being the loudest among them—have wondered whether the party has abandoned its base.

Certainly Emanuel holds no such romantic notions that there even exists such a base of voters loyal to core Democratic values. He is adamant that “we have no base!,” a view that clearly guided his strategy for selecting candidates. As Bendavid writes, “he would not support the most loyal Democrats, or those whose populism was purist. His only criterion, he said, was who could win.” This kind of single-minded, values-be-damned vision is anathema to some on the party’s left. Writing for The Nation after the election, John Nichols complained that “many of the Democrats who prevailed on November 7 did so despite efforts, not because of them” and argues that liberal candidates could have won had Emanuel made the decision to support them. Yet as Bendavid points out, “of the 30 candidates who took seats from the Republicans, about 20 had been nurtured, funded, advised, and yelled at by Emanuel for months. Perhaps a half dozen had been supported by grassroots activists with little help from the DCCC.”

The relationship that epitomizes the rift between Emanuel and the party base is the congressman’s tenuous partnership with Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean. As the book relates, Emanuel spent most of the campaign furious with Dean, whose Fifty State Strategy to build up party infrastructure nationwide he saw as little more than a way to throw money to the wind. In May 2006, Emanuel and Senator Charles Schumer, his counterpart in the Senate, met with Dean to ask for more money for their respective campaigns. Banging his hand on the table, Emanuel chided Dean’s grassroots plan, “No disrespect, but some of us are arrogant enough, we come from Chicago, we think we know what it means to knock on a door. You’re nowhere Howard. Your field plan is not a field plan. That’s fucking bullshit.” The two wouldn’t speak again until election time.

:rofl:

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Otherwise known as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, which, whether you agree with it or not, is nonetheless on the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Taking money from them to speak in their defense would therefore be a felony (but don't worry, the money is being funneled through domestic speaker agencies). Howard Dean is not alone--the diverse list of people who have gotten big bucks to speak about a group they admittedly know nothing about is long. But it's certainly an odd story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/mek-lobbying_n_913233.html