[Hello. I’m new here. Been reading the legacy. Something I’ve posted elsewhere still in an emacs buffer — so, I’ll just jump in.]

I, a progressive voter since 1963, am incensed with Dean, Pelosi, Reid, et al., and find them to be contemptible a55h0l35.

Nancy Pelosi’s most notable achievement was to take impeachment off the table. Two years later, and Bush has been allowed to continue virtually unobstructed. The Bushit clock will have run out soon, and we can start marking Democratic Friedman units (at least, 180 coalition and 10 thousand Iraqi deaths per F-unit).  Read more 

Sob, I’m still upset that the man behind this effort isn’t president.  Read more 

Refresher Course #1
Refresher Course #2
Refresher Course #3 with quote:

After the Republicans have admitted to a thumping, why is it that the only one complaining on the Democratic side is James Carville, who today in addition to trashing Howard Dean, praised the RNC, the outfit that brought us the racist ad that defeated Harold Ford, James’ supposed candidate for Chair? Perhaps he’s not aware that under Dean in this midterm election the DNC has raised record cash —- all hard dollars — including three times as much from major donors, eight times as much online and made a $30 million investment in the ‘06 cycle, three times as much as the DNC put into the last midterm. Not to mention we made an $8m overhaul of our voter file which was successfully used in 47 states and through the 50 state strategy invested in states like Pennsylvania, Kansas, Indiana and Montana where we had critical victories on Tuesday.

Time to shut your stupid, jealous, whining, insignificant hole. But of course, he won’t:

Democratic strategist James Carville says his party should dump Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic Party because of incompetence.  Read more 

It’s a good thing Howard Dean didn’t hand over all our money to Rahm and Upchuck Schumer, because otherwise those clowns might have pissed it all away on Beltway consultants and cocktail weinies and lost us yet another election:

Kansas: Our 50-state strategy organizers helped transform the Democratic Party in Kansas under the leadership of Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Strong leadership from the Democratic Party created a wave of party-switchers — moderate Republicans fed-up with the right-wing stranglehold on their party. The reinvigorated state party knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors and elected Democrats up and down the ballot, including new Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Boyda in the 2nd Congressional district and new Attorney General Paul Morrison, who beat his opponent by over 134,000 votes.

Minnesota: Four DNC field organizers in Minnesota have created an unprecedented field program. Republican Mark Kennedy was supposed to have a lock on the open Senate seat, but with new technology by the DNC and 1.6 million voters contacted, Amy Klobuchar defied expectations and handily won the race after thousands of unlikely voters came to the polls. We’re not stopping here — this work will continue apace as we position our party to take back a Senate seat in 2008.

Ohio: Our field organizers in Ohio expanded the state party’s infrastructure, making inroads deep into what has long been considered “Bush Country.” A DNC-funded field director, four field organizers, and a voter database manager all helped run voter contact operations in parts of the state that hadn’t heard from the Democratic Party in years. Take Butler county, for example, where Democratic performance improved by nearly 50% on our 2004 results as we elected a new Democratic Senator, Democratic Governor, Democratic Secretary of State, and more Democrats up and down the ballot.

South Dakota: The Democratic Party in South Dakota is now a powerful political operation. In 2002, Democrats recruited only 66 legislative candidates. This year we recruited 90. Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth was re-elected, and South Dakotans rejected a radical measure that denies the basic right of women, in consultation with their families and doctors, to make their own decisions about their reproductive health.

New Hampshire: In this crucial state we re-elected our Democratic governor and picked up House seats. In the course of our work we laid a permanent foundation for the party — including a research and tracking operation that helped elect Democrats this cycle and will be the foundation of a tracking operation to hold Republican presidential candidates accountable as they crisscross the state.

Indiana: Over a year ago, Democrats in Indiana started planning for Election Day. They focused on a strategy that initiated a new media campaign to hold Republicans accountable for their actions, and worked to drive the Democratic message using grassroots support. The state party was able to hire a communications director, and because the executive director no longer had to focus on working with the media, he was able to concentrate on fundraising - raising enough money to hire an organizer to work in the 2nd congressional district, another Democratic pickup, where Democrat Joe Donnelly gained more than 17,000 votes than the Democrat had in 2002.

And in other states, Democrats gained new majorities in eight state legislative chambers. We now have majorities in 55 state chambers - the largest shift since 1994.

And the last, key point:  Read more 

“Dean’s List” is an Honor—“Dunce” is Not

So the “National Republican Senatorial Campaign” wanted to say something cutting and cruel and derisive about John Edwards, because he was meeeen to Dear Leader in a fundraising letter. (He said Bush didn’t handle Katrina very well. O the horror! O the shock!)

So they called him “Dean for a Day”! Oooh. Owwie. I bet that just made Sunshine Johnny cry big tears.

Eh, okay. Not. And why should it, pray tell? If I didn’t know better I would think this “NRSC” was a gang of unpaid interns from the College Republicans whose campaign bible was “The Wit & Wisdom of Ann Coulter” or something.  Read more