Comments on: Thanks, Howard and Jerry http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/12/thanks-howard-and-jerry/ If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams Wed, 23 May 2012 02:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Sullivan http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/12/thanks-howard-and-jerry/comment-page-1/#comment-26200 Tom Sullivan Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:00:46 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=6365#comment-26200 Players are already positioning for a run at the NCDP chair. Several hundred State Executive Committee members (including those from Buncombe) will elect a new chair and other officers in Raleigh on Jan 31. What does it mean to you? More people-powered politics, the kind Dean pioneered, Meek emulated (100 County Strategy), and Obama damn near perfected. “Meek’s example speaks volumes about the new people-powered movement,” Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong wrote in "Crashing The Gate," pre-Obama. “It’s about democratizing America, starting at the local level.” And we're just getting warmed up. Players are already positioning for a run at the NCDP chair. Several hundred State Executive Committee members (including those from Buncombe) will elect a new chair and other officers in Raleigh on Jan 31. What does it mean to you? More people-powered politics, the kind Dean pioneered, Meek emulated (100 County Strategy), and Obama damn near perfected. “Meek’s example speaks volumes about the new people-powered movement,” Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong wrote in “Crashing The Gate,” pre-Obama. “It’s about democratizing America, starting at the local level.”

And we’re just getting warmed up.

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]]> By: At the workdesk http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2008/11/12/thanks-howard-and-jerry/comment-page-1/#comment-26198 At the workdesk Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:47:32 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=6365#comment-26198 When I read descriptions of Rahm Emmanuel last week such as the following (to quote Gordon): Rep. Rahm Emmanuel is an excellent strategist and pragmatist. He’s a bottomless well of energy, discipline, and persuasiveness. He’s also wildly partisan), I thought those qualities best suited for the head of the DNC or the DSCC, not an appointee to the position of Chief of Staff. Anyway, I think the heads of the DNC and DSCC need to be like that. I wish Emmanuel well, but as far as I'm concerned, the man seems like a mismatch for the job. When I read descriptions of Rahm Emmanuel last week such as the following (to quote Gordon): Rep. Rahm Emmanuel is an excellent strategist and pragmatist. He’s a bottomless well of energy, discipline, and persuasiveness. He’s also wildly partisan), I thought those qualities best suited for the head of the DNC or the DSCC, not an appointee to the position of Chief of Staff.

Anyway, I think the heads of the DNC and DSCC need to be like that.

I wish Emmanuel well, but as far as I’m concerned, the man seems like a mismatch for the job.

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