Schumer and Emmanuel take credit for Dem victory?
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The pictures of Schumer and Emmanuel in their posed elations. They look as though they had spun gold out of vapor.
Hey Chuck, thanks for showing up to help Lamont. Nice job.
Extremely difficult to digest. Watch 'em spin.
Here's Harry with more illusions about DNC success:
Yahoo
A "political genius," Sen. Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., said of Schumer, the Brooklyn-born, two-term New York senator who oversaw the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The party faced long odds to gain six Republican seats, but sealed it Thursday when Virginia Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) conceded to Jim Webb -- a Schumer choice.
A political genius? In what way? What candidates did he field to success? The Iraq disaster was the catalyst for election fury and the submarining of the rat fuck GOP. I did not hear Sen. Schumer gustily denounce the war as vocally as
Lamont or Webb although I did hear some rhetoric while stumping for Webb. But Schumer is not recognized as a high profile, lets get out of Iraq voice.
At the end of the above ditty there is the allusion that Schumer was integral in Webb's run for the Senate. Hogwash. Everyone knows that's hooey. It would seem that simply by virtue of gracing Webb with his presence, that the Senator was somehow his benefactor. His champion. Yugggh.
This glowing fluff of a piece goes on to gush over Emmanuels career-quite boring actually except for his ballerina skills. And that he has a bad temper and is verbally abrasive. Really.
Not one mention of the Mighty blogs and the netroots and Kossians and Kossacks and MoveOn and Howard Dean (someone stop me!), Ned Lamont and what seems to be an increasingly developed, national netroots campaign funding machine. Bye Bye DNC. In time.........
Now, here's what I don't get so please, elucidate me.
The two chairmen recruited conservatives who won in Republican-leaning districts and states, raised millions more than when the political parties had it easier with soft money and carefully picked their targets in the campaign's closing days with a last-minute infusion of cash.
Yes, their chosen candidates won their campaigns. Like whom? Doesn't say. But, didn't we recruit liberals and net funded candidates that won all over the country? And an army that won nationwide at the local levels? Winning on gay marriage and stem cell research? By being liberal? HAH?
I'm sorry, could you speak up? What? Those must have been the candidates Chuck and Man threw their support to. Also, it seems to me the idea that Rom and Chuck's pouring of 9th inning cash saved the day seems to me to be standard post election delusional boilerplate.
For Reid and Schumer to whisper anything pertaining to the blogs and the net environment would validate it...us...we. Of course, that is a threat to their influence which is why Reid screwed us on Lamont. Well, one reason. I'm sure he studied the dynamic and decided to go with Joe by not actively stumping for Lamont. Perhaps rather than to risk Holy Joe going to the Repugs if he wins? Seems to be a common consensus. But, there's another possibility that squirmed its way into the equation. To support a netroots candidate would again validate our influence. Schumer doesnt even like the blogs or bloggers or the netroots. I think everyone knows this.
Final note. For Harry Reid and Schumer not to throw their weight behind Lamont despite crunching Lieberman in a valid primary and the fact that Loserman had deep pocketed Republican donors including Bloomberg and his army, is well-a national disgrace to the party. A legitimate
Democratic nominee is screwed and left to battle it out with the opposition party's millions to a mountebank Lieberman. And with no assistance from the DNC side of the party.
It is not so much that Reid did not throw his support behind Lamont-although really it is!-but that he allowed the rats and vultures in the Republican party to bankroll the fuck Lieberman and defeat a Democrat. That's politics ladies and gents of the worst kind. This is really egregious and KOS is also not pleased and judging by the scrolls here on KOS, there are many others who feel the same way. Obviously Reid went sour on netroots collaboration. I guess the blogger forum was just a taste test for Harry. Not a meal or a dinner. I think it is time to re-evaluate his committment.