SUCH EXCITEMENT, I CAN'T STAND IT – AT 5:22 P.M. ET:  The Democrats went to a little town in Virginia to unveil to the world their exciting new program to save America and much of the immediate universe. 

It was a pathetic show.  From McClatchy: 

BERRYVILLE, VA. – The Democratic Party’s top leaders talked about reviving Teddy Roosevelt’s fights against big corporations, mimicked Bernie Sanders’ calls for a massive minimum wage hike, and echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s promise to deliver a “New Deal” to the American public.

It was the kind of message the party’s liberal wing has waited years to hear.

“For a long time the Democratic Party has been pretty timid about the role of government,” said Tamara Draut, a vice president of policy and research at the liberal think tank Demos. “It’s a good thing to see them leaning in to it.”

In an attempt to prove they are about more than saying “no” to President Donald Trump, the party’s congressional leaders gathered Monday in this small Virginia town to unveil an agenda they hope will unite Democrats for the foreseeable future. It didn’t include any mention of the polarizing president or the investigation into his campaign’s ties to the Russian government, a decision Democrats say they made deliberately to show they have their own ideas and messages.

The leaders and their aides say Democrats tried to conceive an agenda any Democrat can run on — whether the candidate is in a deep red state or bright blue city — a months-long process they describe as exacting and careful to bring everybody on board.

But the most important audience for their “Better Deal” program was the party’s increasingly vocal liberal wing, which has blamed the party’s electoral wipeout in recent elections on the establishment’s perceived political timidity and fealty to corporate interests.

COMMENT:  It's absurd.  You can't appeal to moderates and hard leftists at the same time.  The leftists despise moderates more than they despise conservatives. 

It was sad to see Chuck Schumer speaking for the Dems.  Doesn't he understand it's not his party any longer?  Schumer, with all his faults, is an intelligent, sane guy, although a liberal.   His was the Democratic Party of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy.  The new Dems are the party of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama.  They'll ease Chuck out as fast as they can.

Neither party, right now, has much to brag about.  The Republicans are in the best position numerically they've enjoyed in almost a century, but don't know how to govern.  The Democrats are losing everywhere, but believe the nation is yearning for their return.

Does the term "third party" appeal to you?

July 25, 2017