Don’t expect Jan Schakowsk in IL-8. Kos has more
This is extraordinarily stupid. Mind-boggling so. It’s rare for one seat to really matter in the House? Sure, but we’re 15 seats away and we’ll be making gains this November. Enough to take back the House? I’m still skeptical, but regardless, it’ll be extraordinarily close. If that one seat costs us the majority and the subpoena power to investigate the Bush Administration’s myriad abuses, will it have been worth it?
The unions don’t have to support Bean. She hasn’t earned that support. But to work to defeat her makes no political sense. Not if the unions want control of the House by the party of the people, rather than the ideologues currently running the country into the ground.
I’ve always said there are several votes Bean has made I don’t like. However, is it a party of Boehner and Blunt or a party of Pelosi and Hoyer that we want in control? Bean has excellent environmental credentials and is pro-choice (something Scheurer is not). I don’t expect the unions to jump up and down for her, but working to defeat her won’t get them anything they want.
“However, is it a party of Boehner and Blunt or a party of Pelosi and Hoyer that we want in control?”
Is there an option C?
Is there an option C?
No.
Is there an option C?
no.
look, this is really simple. i don’t mind people who want to elect “good democrats” (however they define that), but even “good democrats” won’t come to power without the votes of the “marginal” democrats already in congress. let a thousand flowers bloom, a thousand different voices be heard — and may they all be on the d side of the aisle…