are they huffing the ink on their campaign brochures ???

granted, I’m not fully up to speed on eleventy-million dimensional chess, but I’m really gonna need one of the wonkier, inside-baseball types to explain this all to me

I’m not even sure Reagan went this far

Michael,

is this Chucky and his little lap dog Menendez ratfucking Reid ??

forgive my simplistic thinking, just can’t think of anyone more in need of Labor’s support this fall than Hangin’ By A Thread Harry

Doubtful. I think they’re just a bunch of f@#ing r#$ards.

well shuhhhhh. :D

could their thinking be:

Bashing Hippies – Good !, Bashing Hippies and Labor – Mo Bettah !!

Memo to the DNC, DSCC, DCCC and most if not all incumbent Democrats:
This is what you’re going to get from me this election cycle.

Oh my…you couldn’t make this up.

Does Senator Menendez even realize that Lincoln and Halter are BOTH Democrats? This is the guy running the effort to keep Democrats in a majority in the Senate?

Wow…

Fine Menendez in the fall you can blame us why Blanche looses why we won’t be supporting her.

This is a really big deal. For some reason the curtain has been totally yanked back and the guys pulling the strings are giving us the finger. Weird but great. Great because maybe people will get mad. I want Labor mad as hell. I want “progressives” like the Nation’s Vanden Heuvel to start being real lefties. We are all Greeks now. Neo Liberalism is a bust. To the barricades.

I returned their fundraising letter with as much prejudice as would fit in their return envelope. I wish I could have sent them more.

Spending millions to defeat a Democrat instead of on races to help Democrats win is still a reasonable use of money and capital to Trumka, who called nearly derailing Lincoln “a virtually unprecedented achievement.”

I know this one-dimensional spin will work for many who want it to be true, but on its face is so stupid it’s repugnant. The unions did exactly what they author is accusing them of not doing. Derailing Lincoln in support of an actual Democrat is too hard for the author to understand. Sheesh!

My ability to state the obvious is how I earned my reputation as a genius./s

Why does this story conjure visions of a drunken asshole standing out in the street beating a dead horse, all the while loudly crying;

“Why do you make me do this to you?”

Sadly, I am sure they will.

So working people are a special interest now? I thought they were voters unlike the corporations who hate them?
Net roots are special interests I thought we were concerned citizens who unlike you read and debate the issues much more than Obama, the Senate or Congress does!
Remember the Bush years Menendez remember the Democrats surrendering to Bush on every issue? Remember who fought back Menendez remember who was right about the economy, there were no WMD, Ossama is in Pakistan so just why are we in Iraq and Afghanistan, Katrina etc.
Who said the stimulus package was not big enough? Who sais National healthcare is cheaper than the private system or Obama care.
Senator Menendez I call you out your an Uncle Juan! I strip away your Hispanicness you have forgotten your people and your voters your a bought and paid for Corporate Tool.
Please stop calling yourself Menendez you embarrass us in ways we have not been embarrassed since Santa Ana.

Oh man…that’s perverse logic.

Mind you, I’m not disagreeing with the analogy.

LOL.

Obama’s like the guy who breaks up with his girlfriend the day before Valentines Day so he can get out of buying her a gift.

He never had any intention of getting EFCA passed. and now he has an opportunity to distance himself from labor.

Still, the big question I have, and I am a union (CWA) member: Who’s going to do all the free work we union members do for the Democratic Party come election time? No way will I be manning a phone bank, canvassing, or driving people to the polls again. Not for these assholes. Never again.

Let’s hope that the union leadership has finally learned that you gain nothing by compromising with these folks. They were pretty willing to throw their allies under the bus during the health care “reform” effort. I understand and share their irritation, but at the same time I’m remarkably unsympathetic. Their rank and file deserves better than they’ve gotten lately.

Good he who can destroy a thing can control a thing. Rahm thinks we lack the guts and at the end of the day support Blanche not going to happen.
No Blue Dog gets my vote.
Tell me Rahm did you talk so tough after you helped the Dems lose control of the House after Clinton? Are you bragging about helping pass NAFTA now Rahm?
Have you ever had an idea besides NAFTA pass Rahm you know something you could brag about in public?

My sentiments exactly.

As a union member (ALPA), one of a vanishing breed in America seemingly, I am about to say fuck the Democrats after the shameful way that the White House and DSCC has behaved.

LIncoln’s anti-labor stance as a million-heiress is perfectly consistent with her sense of entitlement as a member of the non-working ruling class in America. As a perfect corporatist she can expect all the perks of being in the ruling class up to and including a Supreme Court ruling in her favor should she ever need it personally or for her “business interests”.

I’m with Trumka, the unions and labor are not going to be an “automatic” extension of the Democratic Party any more. If Democratic candidates want labor to work for them, they need to work for labor and working Americans every day they are getting paid by tax dollars. Anything else is a fraud, period.

As Greenwald observed today, Menendez and the people he’s working with are the real Democrats these days, at least at the national level.

Let’s all tell the Senator our perception of his perceptions:
Washington D.C.

528 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
202.224.4744
Barrington, New Jersey

208 White Horse Pike, Suite 18
Barrington New Jersey, 08007
856.757.5353
856.546.1526 (fax)
Newark, New Jersey

One Gateway Center, Suite 1100
Newark, New Jersey, 07102
973.645.3030
973.645.0502 (fax)

In 2009, Menendez succeeded Senator Chuck Schumer of New York as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Menendez’s tenure, which has followed two straight election cycles of dramatic Democratic gains, has been marked by more troubled Democratic outlook. Critics of Menendez have pointed out the surprising Democratic loss in the 2010 Massachusetts Senate special election that followed the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez

Insults from the Genius who helped Rahm lose Ted Kennedy’s seat? Was Bozo the Clown unavailable?

The effort to unseat Lincoln surely was a reasonable use of Union money because the DP isn’t worth a shit to Unions and their members. Why give Union money to DP grifters? To hell with them.

That’s it! It’s time to declare war on the WH and Congressional Dems. Check out this site. More are popping up all the time.

http://www.squidoo.com/progressivesagainstobama

A hallmark of modern political leadership is that failures are always someone else’s fault.

Well hell, I guess I know where I’m not wanted. There are people who might actually hold positions that I can support that want my vote this coming November, rather than those whose interest in my opinion goes only as far as paying lip service every other November. Time for a bit more research.

As a gentleman with the handle TonyC said over on Greenwald’s blog:

To get what you want, you have to be willing to walk away if you don’t get it.

Ah, I guess this is the transparency that Obama and friends promised us back in the day. I suppose all of those folks in the “veal pen” are “special interests” too.

I’ve never seen politicians so eager to throw their power away.

That’s why when a pol talks about “special interests” I always want to know which special interests they are referring to. Barack Obama talked constantly of taking on the “special interests” without defining them as a candidate, and I have to say I am a little surprised to see so many liberals seemingly shocked that establishment Dems would lump labor in with big business as “special interests”. This has been a long time coming and was deeply embraced by candidate Obama, though apparently, some folks missed it.

Yes, but what are you going to do instead in order to have a voice? Start a new party? Drop out completely and be a complainer from the sidelines? Field another Obama? Interesting article about Obama in the NYT mag – online. He has no ideas for how to rep us lil peeps either. If nothing – then what? Revo time?

Progressives need to field an incredible, strong, populist candidate that articulately and easily speaks to all intelligent poor and middle class people and energizes them. Not another Obama – he has sort of served his purpose.

Stoddard is a Republican, isn’t she? Sure sounds like it. I guess it’s almost ALL Republicrats for a long time now.

Yes, losers always blame someone else.

I was afraid of that, Cujo.

Then, you weren’t watching.

Well, there is that.

So ol’ Bobby just told union workers, about 1/5 of NJ work force, to piss up a rope. And I thought the DLC was pretty much dead and buried.

Menendez is my senator–I’ll have to write him and tell him that my opinion of him is pretty much in line with his opinion of labor and “the left”. He’d better not be counting on my vote in the future.

Oh god, A.B. Stoddard. Every time she’s on TV, they might as well focus the camera on a beige wall. You’d get about the same political analysis. The lady has the insight of a discarded napkin.

In the fall elections progressives should actively support and volunteer for the opponent of any Blue Dog, DINO or Obama apologist. Until the Democratic Party establishment is made to suffer they will continue to marginalize progressive elements in the party. Who’s next, the Latinos?

Sometimes in moments like these folks really show their colors -

We now see clearly what sort of tools Schumer, Menendez, and the other DLC bastards such as Rahm E. and the Big O are -

Frankly its about time we admit that these creeps are the norm in DC not the exception. Once we see clearly who they are we can start to clean house.

I certainly hope the Unions tell them all to shove it up their ass this fall.

Senator Bob is obviously getting a good start on some legalized dope. Why in the fuck should union members give a good goddamn about helping out when their elected officials seem to think so little of them?

Apparently it’s become fashionable in the Obama administration to “diss” the unions as being irrelevant parasites except when they need financial and GOTV support. In the annals of the unconscionable trashing your supporters and then asking for money is like killing your family and then begging for mercy based on your status as an orphan.

Where is it written that unions have to support make-believe populists who are available for every PAC guy with Benjamins, and only remember where they are from on the occasional days they go back to their states/districts?

Fuck’em. They want to get any money from me, I want to see a signed contract promising to support the EFCA with no excuses, using whatever legislative shenanigans they need to employ to get it passed.

http://www.squidoo.com/progressivesagainstobama

Possibly OT–

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?”
It is the East, and Juliet Banksters Big Oil British Government Pentagon ordering system the Citizen is the sun ! ?”

New “villain rotation” trial balloon for politicians desperate to STA (“Save Their @sses”)?:

“Pentagon Waste: Could Billions Have Been Saved Through Smarter Ordering System? Defense Logistics Agency Needs Only Half of What it Orders, Wasting $7 Billion“

Unfortunately I’m not a union member but I too will not be volunteering any time or money to the Democratic party until the corporatists and Dino’s have been relegated to the trash heap of history. That includes Obama as well.

I wouldn’t even trust anything these duplicitous pr@#ks sign.

Progressives need to field an incredible, strong, populist candidate that articulately and easily speaks to all intelligent poor and middle class people and energizes them. Not another Obama – he has sort of served his purpose.

I respectfully disagree. Looking for a savior who also is able to rise through the corrupt democratic apparatus is a fool’s errand: in fact ANYONE who gets nominated is going to be a corporatist stooge. In my opinion what we need is continuous organization and mobilization outside of the system of elections.

Not crazy about A.B. either…

But…

She’s only the messenger.

Surely you don’t think Stoddard had an original thought…?

It’s time to promote democratic socialism for all the people, not just for the fat cats and aristocrats.

Keep hoping…my guess is that they deserve the beat down.

I just saw on Ed Shultz’s show Leo Girard AFL-CIO professing undying love
for the Prez… how idiotic the WH just gave ‘em the back of their hand & this guy is still cuddling up to the Prez…keep the abuse coming.

It’s the unions leadership that is hurting the union members.
they compromised on everything from the WH and get nothing…..

I guess those WH party invitations were too much to resist.
The unions need fighters to lead not people who get on TV & cuddle the WH & congressional dems.

Senator Menendez also gave South Carolina Alvin Greene. Help me understand Menendez’ logic:

“The bottom line is that Democrats recognize it’s not going to be a competitive race to challenge Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), regardless of the candidate chosen as his rival. Menendez said the party is “not engaged there” and that it is “not a place that I am focused on.”

“I will allow the South Carolina Democratic Party and Congressman Clyburn, who I serve with and I know can be tenacious, to continue to pursue it and we will look at,” Menendez said.” http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/dem_senate_chairman_wont_touch_greene_mystery_says.php?ref=fpb

How is this different from Arkansas and Lincoln, who will most likely lose the Democrats seat come November?

That’s my takes, too. What the DLC and etc. are really pissed about is that they are being revealsed to be essentially no different from the GOP: pro-corporate, pro-bidness, anti-middle class, feathering their own nest.

What they don’t seem to understand is that WHY WOULD WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEM WHEN SITTING OUT OR SUPPORTING THE GOP GETS THE SAAME RESULTS?! (I.e., crappy HC”R”, no serious regulation of WS, no jobs bill, no COBRA extension, fighting with every breath for UI, etc. etc.) AND, in a BONUS ROUND, we get INSULTED, TOO.

Go take a look in Nevada.

There the union leadership is going all in with Harry Reid,what exactly
has Reid done for union members in the last 4 yrs.
Yet there they(union leadership) are lining up behind Reid.

….you really think the Dems have respect for unions when all the have to do is say they support unions …and then the unions go crazy to support a candidate who don’t give a damn about ‘em.

Yup…

And they don’t care that Reid gets a 38.8% approval-52.3 disapproval rating (Pollster.com) from his Nevada constituents…or, that those kind of numbers are, as a rule, just horrible for an incumbent seeking re-election.

After all, who are they going to dump their money on in the Nevada Senate race…

Sharron Angle?

A lot of union members’ money could be following the Arkansas Halter money right down the drain…

Maybe they should move that money elsewhere…with those negatives, Harry sure doesn’t look like a very good bet.

Big Unions are Special Intrest groups…. each and every person on this sight who dosent have a Govt job, has been raped your hole life by Government they lie,cheat an kill everyday w/ Your money !! really Unions use the same tatics as APAIC…. so pick a side, are you pro special intrest or not? you cant have it both ways, shit what we have now is both ways…. when i was 4 years old my mom a heroin addict seen me eating a piece of candy i stold from the supermarket bin. We were driveing she made a quick turn i meber cuzz the fright i felt was the same as when she caught me, she drove back to the store not saying anything gets me out of the car and looks at me real differnt… 36 years later i know it was seriousness, she told me you got a sweet tooth and smiled….. but no matter how much u like something you Never cheat to get it !! she made me go in the store and tell the man what i did….. Let A Junky teach you a lesson !! im stoned srry for rambling on

Scarecrow is upstairs!
Pigs Fly! Republican Leader Boehner Joins UK Conservatives Urging Govt Bail Out BP

The Chamber of Commerce backed Blanche also. Just wait and see who they back in November. It will not be Blanche. She is toast!

I need some dipshit DLC’er Obamatron to remind me why I should ever vote for a Pansycrat again. Bueller???? Bueller???

It was bad enough when the Republicans blamed the Unions for everything, but now the ignorant Democrats are jumping on the band wagon.

Watch! This could be the lead-up to bills being put forward to ban Unions. If You think they wouldn’t dare do that, set back and watch.

Banks, Corporations, and Big Money groups are fine, but those damn Unions keep sticking their noses into Politics. After all their members don’t mean anything to the politicains other than a vote.

How brave of Mr. Mendendez and the Diet Republican Party!

June 11, 2010, 4 a.m. ET: Controversial parts of Mr. Menendez’s original message, captured on this site, are now gone. The current text:

http://www.dscc.org/news?type=press_release&press_release_KEY=1400

“Congratulations to Blanche Lincoln on winning a hard-fought primary. Blanche has proven once again she is a true independent voice for the people of Arkansas, but she is also a fighter for what she believes in and will never stop standing-up for her convictions or for her state.

“Tomorrow we kickoff the general election and the choice for Arkansas voters could not be any starker. Blanche Lincoln is focused on the needs of Arkansas’s middle class and is working hard to hold Wall Street and the big banks accountable. Congressman Boozman helped create this economic mess, opposes all of the efforts to turn the economy around, and would return us to the failed policies of the past. He has opposed common-sense job creation plans and continues to support the privatization of Social Security. John Boozman puts his political interests first in order to defend the big corporate interests that fared so well when George Bush was president.”

Well, this is one “special interest” who will stay home in my pajamas sitting at my computer munching on Cheetos in this Fall’s elections. I know when I’m not wanted. Oh, and Bob? You can stop sending me all of those heart-wrenching emails begging for money, because I wouldn’t piss on you to put you out if you were on fire and I was the only on around in a desert. And if you want to know how I really feel, you have my phone number. Why don’t you quit playing footsie with all those lobbyists and call me? I’ll tell you. It would only take a minute or less.