DCCC contributions spike after Clinton's threats
OOPS, they did it again:
Last week Hillary Clinton's camp sent a threatening letter to Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to extort a retraction of her view that "superdelegates ought strongly consider the expressed will of voters in their states":“We have been strong supporters of the DCCC,” the letter stated. “We therefore urge you to clarify your position on super-delegates and reflect in your comments a more open [view] to the optional independent actions of each of the delegates at the National Convention in August.”
In what has become merely the latest in a string of gaffes by the Clinton's, the DCCC has experienced a spike in contributions since the attack. Major Obama donors have called Speaker Pelosi and DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen asking how they could be helpful,and several major Clinton donors, outraged at the letter sent in the name of the campaign, have privately offered their assurances to the DCCC that no money would be cut off. Pelosi was understandably peeved at being "called out" so publically by the Clinton camp:
Two sources close to Pelosi said that the Speaker did not appreciate being called out by the Clinton campaign so publicly. “I I can tell you she’s been disturbed about some of the Clinton campaign’s comments and tactics the last two months, especially saying John McCain would be a better Commander in Chief,” said one Washington-based Democrat who has spoken with Pelosi about the matter.
Pelosi has not endorsed; Clinton advisers and many journalists believe she is a secret supporter of Barack Obama's, although Pelosi aides insist that she's been careful to be - and to appear to be -- neutral.
Labels: Clinton, contributions, DCCC, Pelosi, super delegates
Despite Image Gains, Dem Leadership Continues to fail We The People
These numbers all show slow and steady improvement, as they well should. However, Democratic leadership is still completely out of step with the will of the American people. We the people elected you in a clear mandate one year ago with some specific goals in mind. Among those goals were: holding this administration accountable and ending the debacle in Iraq.
While I am happy that you now have and have used the power of the gavel to ever-so-slowly lift the large slimy rock of secrecy that has cloaked the abuses of these cronies and their butt-lickers over the last 7 years, I and the vast majority of citizens who elected you to be our agents of change, are furious over your lack of resolve in checking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when it comes to Iraq!
Ms.Pelosi, if you actually follow through on today's threatened action regarding further funding (or UNfunding if you will) of this military action, then you will at least have started moving in the right direction. Your actions thus far have left me little hope for this, however, and it has grown more and more difficult for myself and my peers to place much trust nor value in the strong words that pass from your lips.
On another note, Dennis Kucinich ( Who really IS an advocate for We The People) has actually gotten his measure to impeach Dick Cheney through the house and into committee, yet, for some strange and unknown reasons, Mr.Conyers has also developed a bad case of the shivers. More to the point, he is acting as if his testicles are in someone's iron grip. This is the very same Mr.Conyers who was instrumental in the release of the Downing Street Memo. The Conyers that has dogged this administration long before it ever became publicaly or politically popular to do so.
We The People have lots and lots of questions on these matters, Nance! What are you, Harry Reid, Conyers, et al, so afraid of? Does this administration have blackmail dirt on all of you? Are you more concerned about the 2008 election than the good of our country? Or are you just so completely out of touch with middle America that you actually think we are with you on these misguided and HORRIBLY WRONG stances?
We The People await your response. . .
Labels: congress, Harry Reid, Iraq, Pelosi
Rahall: Pelosi Personally Told Bush Of Syria Trip And He Did Not Object
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Think ProgressRep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), who traveled last week with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as part of her delegation to the Middle East, said this morning on C-Span that Pelosi told Bush of the trip to Syria a day before they left, and Bush did not object.
Rahall said, “The Speaker had met with President Bush in the halls of the U.S. Capitol just the day before we left and mentioned to him that we were going to Syria. No response at all from the President.”
Watch it:
Despite the White House’s public rhetoric that the trip was a “bad idea,” President Bush “did not tell her not to go, nor did the State Department tell us not to go,” Rahall said. “The State Department was certainly aware of our traveling to Syria and our full itinerary. And there were State Department officials in every meeting that we had on this codel. So that is all hogwash as far as I’m concerned.”
Transcript:
CALLER: I am a Republican. And I thought under the Logan Act that Ms. Pelosi has committed a felony because under our Constitution, section 2 of the Constitution, that the president is the one who conducts — sends the people off, to conduct our foreign affairs. Now he told her he didn’t want her to go. That is a violation of the Logan Act. She should be hauled off in jail because if i was to commit a felony, i’d be hauled off and gone to jail.
RAHALL: First of all, that’s baloney. We were in violation of no u.s. laws. Second of all, the President did not tell her not to go, nor did the State Department tell us not to go. There were three Republican members of Congress in Damascus a few days before our trip. There was a Republican member of Congress in Damascus meeting with the President after our trip.
The Speaker had met with President Bush in the halls of the U.S. Capitol just the day before we left and mentioned to him that we were going to Syria. No response at all from the President. The State Department was certainly aware of our traveling to Syria and our full itinerary. And there were State Department officials in every meeting that we had on this codel. So that is all hogwash as far as I’m concerned.
Labels: Pelosi, Syria
Last week Hillary Clinton's camp sent a threatening letter to Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to extort a retraction of her view that "superdelegates ought strongly consider the expressed will of voters in their states":
