PLEASE give Hillary Senate Majority Leader. Harry Reid fails on so many levels.
I've heard rumors of Jennifer Granholm being floated for SCOTUS.
Definitely Bill Richardson for Secretary of State. And ITA on Richard Clarke, Daschle, and Max Cleland.
Also, in my fantasy world, Dennis Kucinich as Secretary of Labor.
Rahm Emanuel, bleh. I'm not a fan of Pelosi but I like her better than Rahm. He's the guy who poo-pooed all over Howard Dean and his 50 State Strategy. If we'd listened to tools like him, we wouldn't be looking at Virginia and North Carolina as possible swing states, and our forecast for House and Senate numbers wouldn't be so bright.
Al Gore -- 45th President of the United States after two awesome terms of Barack Obama.
I actually hadn't heard of Granholm until this but sounds good to me.
Yeah, I know Rahm hated on the 50ss, but that was because he didn't think his preferred candidates were getting enough money. And as Speaker he wouldn't have to worry about that, he could focus on arm-twisting and getting shit passed through the house.
ALTHOUGH HE COULD PRETTY MUCH EAT BABIES AND I WOULD LOVE HIM. So I'm a little biased, w/e.
I don't hate all DLC, just the really dickish ones like Harold Ford who looooove Republicans and can't say enough nice things about them, rofl. I do think the DLCers have good points at times though. Some of the netroots can get a little too isolated in their own worlds and think we should run ultra-liberal candidates and shun the blue dogs. And some of the DLCers think we should run only blue dogs who agree with Republicans more often than not. We need both sides to keep in balance, haha.
I get where the DLC folks are coming from, I really do, but I feel like we've compromised too much and the end result was the general political dialogue shifting more and more right. I don't hate them, but I think their vision for the Democratic party is akin to surrendering the values that make us Democrats.
Ah yeah, I have a bone to pick in some respects with some of the Clinton values. Although my distaste has more to do with Clinton's interactions with the House & Senate than anything else (like anything Rahm was a part of, lol)
But I do think we have to start out by running candidates whose values fall in the middle, like Obama. Run to the middle, govern to the left - like the polar opposite of what Bush 2000 did when everyone said he'd be more moderate than Gore.
Fortunately if he is president, Obama won't have to deal with a Gingrich type for a few more years.
I'd rather see Wexler take Mel Martinez's Senate seat in 2010. Wexler is one of the most popular incumbents and Martinez is one of the least popular, so it's a very real possibility.
Granholm is awesome. She sometime gets a bad rep here in MI because she hasn't instantly resurrected the flailing auto industry, but I personally think that it's gonna take a lonnnnnnnng time for that to happen, if at all.
and on a totally superficial note, she also goes to my church (a pretty liberal Catholic church) and she's seriously a genuinely nice person.
I've heard rumors of Jennifer Granholm being floated for SCOTUS.
Definitely Bill Richardson for Secretary of State. And ITA on Richard Clarke, Daschle, and Max Cleland.
Also, in my fantasy world, Dennis Kucinich as Secretary of Labor.
Rahm Emanuel, bleh. I'm not a fan of Pelosi but I like her better than Rahm. He's the guy who poo-pooed all over Howard Dean and his 50 State Strategy. If we'd listened to tools like him, we wouldn't be looking at Virginia and North Carolina as possible swing states, and our forecast for House and Senate numbers wouldn't be so bright.
Al Gore -- 45th President of the United States after two awesome terms of Barack Obama.
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Yeah, I know Rahm hated on the 50ss, but that was because he didn't think his preferred candidates were getting enough money. And as Speaker he wouldn't have to worry about that, he could focus on arm-twisting and getting shit passed through the house.
ALTHOUGH HE COULD PRETTY MUCH EAT BABIES AND I WOULD LOVE HIM. So I'm a little biased, w/e.
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I really like Jennifer Granholm. Too bad she's Canadian and can't ever run for president.
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But I do think we have to start out by running candidates whose values fall in the middle, like Obama. Run to the middle, govern to the left - like the polar opposite of what Bush 2000 did when everyone said he'd be more moderate than Gore.
Fortunately if he is president, Obama won't have to deal with a Gingrich type for a few more years.
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Looove him.
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and on a totally superficial note, she also goes to my church (a pretty liberal Catholic church) and she's seriously a genuinely nice person.
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I, personally, would rather have Russ Feingold.
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