This article in Politico caught my eye about the DSCC dropping Texas and Maine off their lists. It was the fact that
the DSCC, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,
was holding their meeting with reporters at The Third Way, a think tank that is pretty much opposed to progressives and constantly favors bipartisanship and neoliberalism.
Seven months ago, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee rolled out a list of six states it saw as potential pick-up opportunities in 2012.
But during a morning roundtable with reporters Thursday at the Third Way, the executive director of the DSCC notably dropped two of those states from the list.
When asked directly about what GOP seats he sees in play for Democrats -- aside from Massachusetts and Nevada -- DSCC head Guy Cecil only referenced Indiana and Arizona.
He did not mention the "6 in '12" campaign that was unveiled with much fanfare by the party committee back in April, which included Texas and Maine.
Is it any wonder then why we feel like our Senators in the Senate aren't listening to us and we get upset when many of these Democratic Senators constantly side with Wall Street, and the 1% when voting on bills? It all makes sense now given the close ties of the DSCC to the Third Way, and why the Third Way thinks populism is bad:
If you really want to know what Third Way is all about, just look at their Board of Trustees: 22 of the 30 come from Wall Street, including all three officers (and features the global head of equity trading at Goldman Sachs). It's nothing more than a Wall Street front group.
Their agenda can be summarized as follows:
(1.) Foreclose on Democratic voters, by opposing principle paydown or a foreclosure moritorium.
(2.) Fire Democratic voters, by slashing public sector jobs
(3.) Make the Democratic voters who still have jobs take a pay cut
(4.) Liquidate the pensions of remaining Democratic voters.
You know, the kind of things that get Wall Street all excited.
So then, again, why are we just letting the DSCC handpick our Senate candidates in the primaries? Why not pick our own candidates themselves so they can be free of the influence of the Third Way and other conservative special interest groups?
I think this is where it's going eventually. Where we run our own candidates on the Democratic party platform without the support of the traditional D party apparatus since much of it is co-opted by the Third Way and Wall Street. We're getting a start already with Darcy Burner's run.
We know who Darcy Burner is. We know she's one of us, and that she stands with the 99% and not with the 1%. I don't know who these other candidates are in the race for Inslee's seat, but I know that I want her in that seat, and not any of them. She can't be co-opted by the Third Way and by Wall Street.
Get involved in the Democratic primaries, and know who's running that's on your side. Check their campaign reports. Check to see who they've been meeting with. It's time for actual progressives in those seats, instead of those supported by the Third Way and the 1%.
No more fake Democrats. The 99% has had enough.