SCHUMER PRESSURES ANOTHER DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE
This isn't a post about Minnesota, but it is still worth mentioning.
Last night, Paul Hackett, darling of the liberal blogosphere, announced that he is leaving politics under pressure from Chuck Schumer and Beltway Democrats. Hackett called the way Democrats abandoned him a "second betrayal."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/politics/14ohio.html?s=hackett
As you can imagine, liberal blogs are not happy at how they’ve been used by D.C. Democrats. Below is a sampling of their comments today:
Radio Left: http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/14/1760958.html
My Fax to Reid and Schumer Re: Paul Hackett Dropping Out of Ohio Race
by Radio Left at 11:17AM (EST) on February 14, 2006 Permanent Link Cosmos
To Senator Charles Schumer,
To Senator Harry Reid,
February 14, 2006
Having just read where Paul Hackett dropped out of the senate race in Ohio due to pressure placed upon him by the both of you that is one of the many reasons why I resigned my position as committee member for the Democratic Party and left the party itself. From where I see it, we let the people decide and not the party power brokers. If this race were to make it to the primary, the people decide and not the party power brokers. This is after all a government for, of and by the people. Isn’t it?
…Perhaps through his out spoken nature, that is what Paul Hackett was fighting for and that was to remind people that they have the power and must wrest it back from party power brokers.
Sincerely,
Mary MacElveen
Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/14/10916/5674
Hackett's Career Destroyed By Ruthless Democratic Party Bossesby downwithtyranny
Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 08:09:16 AM PDT
…But we'll never know who the voters would have chosen because the Inside the Beltway party bosses, as is their wont, have driven Hackett out of the race AS THEY ARE DOING TO GRASSROOTS CANDIDATES AND PROGRESSIVES ALL OVER AMERICA.
…This would have probably been an incredible U.S. Senator, someone very different from the Inside the Beltway swine-- regardless of party-- who speak a language of their own and only to each other. But, as I'm sure you know by now, Hackett told the Democrats to screw themselves after they went behind his back to funders and pressured them to stop the money flow to his campaign. He pulled out of the race Reid and Schumer lured him into after Reid, Schumer and the hideous monstrosity of the Democratic Party (our very own version of Tom DeLay), Rahm Emanuel stabbed him in the back and pressured him out. This is what a straight talkin' guy can expect when he gets into the water with these barracudas and man-eaters.
The Democratic Party really is predominantly just one thing now: a vehicle for the careers of its elected officials and their employees. I had hoped when actual grassroots Democrats got Howard Dean the DNC Chair he would be able to make a difference. But no one can make any difference with this nest of filthy poisonous vipers. They literally have one thing, and one thing only, going for them: the Republican Party is far worse.
Cross-posted from Down With Tyranny
Brewed fresh daily: http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2006/02/14/so-long-odp/
February 14, 2006So long, ODP by Tim Russo
I took my last paycheck from the Ohio Democratic Party in 1996, the year a guy named Bill Clinton became the last Democrat to win Ohio other than a Supreme Court candidate. In the intervening years, I’ve watched my party in my home state literally implode. Yesterday was the final straw.
Over the past few months, the same folks who have spent the last 10 years dismantling this once great political party brick by brick have wallowed in their self-declared Machiavellian genius, taking the greatest opportunity to thoroughly defeat the GOP in my lifetime and methodically squandering it, prancing around like king makers with no kingdom, banging their tired worn out shoes on the politburo’s table like Kruschev over a crumbling empire seen only by the blind, laughing at the mirage of success visible only to the delusional. All while simultaneously managing to anger not just the old timers, but just about every ounce of new blood the ODP had no right to expect would come their way, but did anyhow, inexplicably, because politics is supposed to be about hope.
…This state has suffered tremendously because my party is a complete joke, yielding uninterrupted GOP rule for so long that Ohio literally rots beneath our feet. There is nothing about the 2006 Democratic ticket that will change any of that, a ticket whose existence is owed not to a choice by voters, but to the divisive short circuiting of the democratic process.
The GOP will be laughing all the way to the halls of power. Again. And my party’s “leaders” will have themselves to thank for it. Again. The final irony is that had they all merely slept through the last few months, rather than pretending to be smart, May’s primary may have yielded precisely the result they now have, without any of the downside. Now they have their ticket. They can keep it.
Filed under: BFD, Politics @ 2:19 am
The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/pressuring-paul-hackett-t_b_15637.html
Pressuring Paul Hackett To Abandon Campaign is Old Politics at its Worst (17 comments )
READ MORE: 2006, New York Times
This is simply old politics at its worst. There is a party which hand-picks its candidates, decides who can and cannot run, directs money to the favorite candidate, and dictate terms…Telling Paul Hackett that he cannot run for the Senate, and purportedly calling contributers to dry up his funds, is the worse kind of old politics. It will drive voters away from the supposedly "open" party, the Democrats, and further add to public cynicism about how politics in America is played in the early 21st century.
Shame on us.
Daily Kos Comment Board (In response to Kos’s acceptance of Hackett’s pullout): http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/2/14/0135/82714/177#177
dumb (4.00 / 15)
WTF, Kos?
This is the exact kind of back-room BS that we're all participating here to overcome. Whether or not Brown was the right candidate, this can, will, and should wound the party's standing with its netroots base.
And your casual endorsement of this move is an ugly decision that I hope you'll reconsider.
by matt le w on Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 10:47:21 PM PDT[ Parent ]
thank you (4.00 / 6)
For a blogger that loves to stand on principle, I find Kos's resigned acceptance of this forced decision disappointing. At a certain point, the Party is lost when it can't run exciting candidates that push the envelope. Perhaps that point is when even Markos and many of this community are resigned to Democrats sniping vets.
If Daily Kos can't be pissed about this and demand answers, then who will ever stand up to create a new Party that can win?
Einstein's definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
by The Stuffed Tiger on Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 11:16:12 PM PDT
Last night, Paul Hackett, darling of the liberal blogosphere, announced that he is leaving politics under pressure from Chuck Schumer and Beltway Democrats. Hackett called the way Democrats abandoned him a "second betrayal."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/politics/14ohio.html?s=hackett
As you can imagine, liberal blogs are not happy at how they’ve been used by D.C. Democrats. Below is a sampling of their comments today:
Radio Left: http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/14/1760958.html
My Fax to Reid and Schumer Re: Paul Hackett Dropping Out of Ohio Race
by Radio Left at 11:17AM (EST) on February 14, 2006 Permanent Link Cosmos
To Senator Charles Schumer,
To Senator Harry Reid,
February 14, 2006
Having just read where Paul Hackett dropped out of the senate race in Ohio due to pressure placed upon him by the both of you that is one of the many reasons why I resigned my position as committee member for the Democratic Party and left the party itself. From where I see it, we let the people decide and not the party power brokers. If this race were to make it to the primary, the people decide and not the party power brokers. This is after all a government for, of and by the people. Isn’t it?
…Perhaps through his out spoken nature, that is what Paul Hackett was fighting for and that was to remind people that they have the power and must wrest it back from party power brokers.
Sincerely,
Mary MacElveen
Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/14/10916/5674
Hackett's Career Destroyed By Ruthless Democratic Party Bossesby downwithtyranny
Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 08:09:16 AM PDT
…But we'll never know who the voters would have chosen because the Inside the Beltway party bosses, as is their wont, have driven Hackett out of the race AS THEY ARE DOING TO GRASSROOTS CANDIDATES AND PROGRESSIVES ALL OVER AMERICA.
…This would have probably been an incredible U.S. Senator, someone very different from the Inside the Beltway swine-- regardless of party-- who speak a language of their own and only to each other. But, as I'm sure you know by now, Hackett told the Democrats to screw themselves after they went behind his back to funders and pressured them to stop the money flow to his campaign. He pulled out of the race Reid and Schumer lured him into after Reid, Schumer and the hideous monstrosity of the Democratic Party (our very own version of Tom DeLay), Rahm Emanuel stabbed him in the back and pressured him out. This is what a straight talkin' guy can expect when he gets into the water with these barracudas and man-eaters.
The Democratic Party really is predominantly just one thing now: a vehicle for the careers of its elected officials and their employees. I had hoped when actual grassroots Democrats got Howard Dean the DNC Chair he would be able to make a difference. But no one can make any difference with this nest of filthy poisonous vipers. They literally have one thing, and one thing only, going for them: the Republican Party is far worse.
Cross-posted from Down With Tyranny
Brewed fresh daily: http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2006/02/14/so-long-odp/
February 14, 2006So long, ODP by Tim Russo
I took my last paycheck from the Ohio Democratic Party in 1996, the year a guy named Bill Clinton became the last Democrat to win Ohio other than a Supreme Court candidate. In the intervening years, I’ve watched my party in my home state literally implode. Yesterday was the final straw.
Over the past few months, the same folks who have spent the last 10 years dismantling this once great political party brick by brick have wallowed in their self-declared Machiavellian genius, taking the greatest opportunity to thoroughly defeat the GOP in my lifetime and methodically squandering it, prancing around like king makers with no kingdom, banging their tired worn out shoes on the politburo’s table like Kruschev over a crumbling empire seen only by the blind, laughing at the mirage of success visible only to the delusional. All while simultaneously managing to anger not just the old timers, but just about every ounce of new blood the ODP had no right to expect would come their way, but did anyhow, inexplicably, because politics is supposed to be about hope.
…This state has suffered tremendously because my party is a complete joke, yielding uninterrupted GOP rule for so long that Ohio literally rots beneath our feet. There is nothing about the 2006 Democratic ticket that will change any of that, a ticket whose existence is owed not to a choice by voters, but to the divisive short circuiting of the democratic process.
The GOP will be laughing all the way to the halls of power. Again. And my party’s “leaders” will have themselves to thank for it. Again. The final irony is that had they all merely slept through the last few months, rather than pretending to be smart, May’s primary may have yielded precisely the result they now have, without any of the downside. Now they have their ticket. They can keep it.
Filed under: BFD, Politics @ 2:19 am
The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/pressuring-paul-hackett-t_b_15637.html
Pressuring Paul Hackett To Abandon Campaign is Old Politics at its Worst (17 comments )
READ MORE: 2006, New York Times
This is simply old politics at its worst. There is a party which hand-picks its candidates, decides who can and cannot run, directs money to the favorite candidate, and dictate terms…Telling Paul Hackett that he cannot run for the Senate, and purportedly calling contributers to dry up his funds, is the worse kind of old politics. It will drive voters away from the supposedly "open" party, the Democrats, and further add to public cynicism about how politics in America is played in the early 21st century.
Shame on us.
Daily Kos Comment Board (In response to Kos’s acceptance of Hackett’s pullout): http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/2/14/0135/82714/177#177
dumb (4.00 / 15)
WTF, Kos?
This is the exact kind of back-room BS that we're all participating here to overcome. Whether or not Brown was the right candidate, this can, will, and should wound the party's standing with its netroots base.
And your casual endorsement of this move is an ugly decision that I hope you'll reconsider.
by matt le w on Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 10:47:21 PM PDT[ Parent ]
thank you (4.00 / 6)
For a blogger that loves to stand on principle, I find Kos's resigned acceptance of this forced decision disappointing. At a certain point, the Party is lost when it can't run exciting candidates that push the envelope. Perhaps that point is when even Markos and many of this community are resigned to Democrats sniping vets.
If Daily Kos can't be pissed about this and demand answers, then who will ever stand up to create a new Party that can win?
Einstein's definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
by The Stuffed Tiger on Mon Feb 13, 2006 at 11:16:12 PM PDT
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