Earlier today, I wrote to you about an unusual “clarification” issued by Rep. Pramila Jayapal after 30 progressive Democrats got a ton of blowback for a letter sent to the White House Monday morning urging Biden to push for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. This afternoon, Jayapal went further, issuing an extraordinary public statement withdrawing the letter. She said the original had been “unvetted” and blamed staff for it. Multiple members of Congress told me they were not informed that the letter was being sent on Monday, and that the collecting of signatures had been going on since July, continuing until recently. But not getting a heads up on that sort of thing is not necessarily out of the ordinary.
Once more the bumbling and self-fighting ones in charge of defining the destinies of the Democratic Party, after having open wide the door to Donald Trump -- and all the evil things that followed and still follow -- with the predictably hopeless candidacy of Hillary Clinton, now are wasting, once more, an opportunity to help this nation find its way, in this case in the fraught issue of Ukrainian conflict.
These "achievements", among some others, mark them deeply as bad friends of democracy and, therefore, as no friends of mine.
I do make an exception of Progressives, that were rallied to something constructive, for a change, by Bernie Sanders in 2016, to be rolled over by "moderates" with an undemocratic maneuver using "Super Delegates" as a weapon of true-center-left mass-destruction. To choose a hopeless candidate because, I think, she "smelled like them." And because "she was going to break the Glass Ceiling!" Big campaign points, those. As the successive history of this country has shown them to be.
Once more the bumbling and self-fighting ones in charge of defining the destinies of the Democratic Party, after having open wide the door to Donald Trump -- and all the evil things that followed and still follow -- with the predictably hopeless candidacy of Hillary Clinton, now are wasting, once more, an opportunity to help this nation find its way, in this case in the fraught issue of Ukrainian conflict.
These "achievements", among some others, mark them deeply as bad friends of democracy and, therefore, as no friends of mine.
I do make an exception of Progressives, that were rallied to something constructive, for a change, by Bernie Sanders in 2016, to be rolled over by "moderates" with an undemocratic maneuver using "Super Delegates" as a weapon of true-center-left mass-destruction. To choose a hopeless candidate because, I think, she "smelled like them." And because "she was going to break the Glass Ceiling!" Big campaign points, those. As the successive history of this country has shown them to be.
Way to go, Democrats! Wait to go, USA!