The problem the dems have with Hillary is that she will not officially run but she will not go away either. She has absolutely no reason- nor does Joe- to come out and declare that she is not running. Both of them immediately go to the dustbin of history the minute they do that. But they are both selling books, and reporters will keep showing up in their driveway asking for their opinions as long as they want to dangle the prospect of running. There is no reason for them to give that up. I remember about six months ago Hillary actually had a week- maybe less- when she was healthy. You may remember that week. When she said she was no longer involved in politics but was going to speak out on issues she felt strongly about. AND THAT SHE WAS THINKING OF JUST MOVING ON AND BECOMING A METHODIST MINISTER. Wow, you have to have set your camera on fast shutter speed to capture that. But the end of the following week she had spread venom on everyone in both parties and both campaigns and was into full, full vitriol and conspiracy theories. I guess that was her fifteen minutes of being healthy for this lifetime.
My casual observation is that stuff like the endless Issa hearings, the Benghazi hearings, email gate, and uranium gate is strictly for the Republican unwashed masses. The Democrats are unmoved and stoic . If fact during Issa's endless round of circuses, I observed several Democrats that appeared to be asleep. But on the other hand, the shoe is now on the other foot, and the Democrats will have their hour of grandstanding in the spotlight, and the Republicans will see through the fluff. However, in this case, the Republicans are in a wee bit of peril, because there is a third party, and he is an "independent", if you know what I mean.
I agree their ideals are foolish.... but I would not mind a true debate between groups who truly believe. For instance... we would all be so much better off if we had left health care alone and obama said lets pay more for the uninsured. I would also be saving 12 to 20 grand a year if we had single govt payer. So I would have liked to see no change or real change. its the garbage that democrats and establishment republicans give us... that really sucks. even this tax bill. When not just say its corporate tax cuts. Instead we have them screwing with working peoples taxes to try and fake it. Just garbage lies and destruction almost all the time on every issue from both parties.
I have not heard any outbursts from her in awhile. The party bosses must have gotten to her and told her about the arsenal of damaging info they have on the Clinton Crime Family.
We haven't heard much out of the old bag Hillay Clinton in a while. I guess the democrats showed her how much ammo they have against her and threatened to use it if she didnt shut up. Its good she is not making news because she is a national embarrassment. Some wackjobs actually think she will be President some day.
Hillary disappeared and then appeared bigly everywhere for a brief period. It was all related to her book tour, and her contractual requirements with her publisher which called for her to do the book tour. Now that that is over she is missing again, except with ultra safe audiences and conferences related to girls self esteem or something. She didn't even show up at the Women's March, I don't think. No money in it for her.
How a Texas House primary erupted into a full-blown Democratic war https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/04/politics/texas-democrats-house-primary-drama/index.html A crowded Democratic House primary in the Houston area has become a stand-in for the broader battle within the party between progressives who backed Bernie Sanders and members of the establishment. The controversy erupted more than a week ago, when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party's political arm for House races, unleashed a scathing attack against journalist and activist Laura Moser, one of seven candidates in the Texas 7th District Democratic primary to take on Republican Rep. John Culberson this fall. Now, with two days left before the Texas primary on Tuesday, the infighting has opened wounds within the Democratic Party that never quite healed after the 2016 election, when Sanders supporters accused the Democratic National Committee of tipping the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton. And the fighting could go on past Tuesday: If none of the four leading candidates top 50%, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff six weeks later. Central to the DCCC's case against Moser is a 2014 Washingtonian article in which she wrote that she'd "sooner have my teeth pulled out without anesthesia" than live in Paris, Texas. The committee feared the article was ready-made for scathing attack ads casting Moser as a DC-loving, Texas-loathing carpetbagger -- the kind that her campaign might never be able to overcome. Attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, nonprofit executive Alex Triantaphyllis and oncologist Jason Westin are others seen as leading candidates. "Democratic voters need to hear that Laura Moser is not going to change Washington. She is a Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress," the DCCC said on its website as it posted a bundle of research critical of Moser. But progressive activists were incensed to see the DCCC -- which has long been accused of recruiting too many moderate, milquetoast candidates and weighing fundraising potential too heavily in deciding who to back -- weigh in with such a heavy hand less than three weeks from the March 6 contest. Our Revolution, the political organization that controls Bernie Sanders' massive email list, endorsed Moser on Thursday. "The DCCC's ridiculous attacks on Laura Moser are why Democrats nationally have lost over 1,100 seats," said Jim Hightower, an Our Revolution board member. "The people of Texas should be allowed to make their own decisions on who to vote for without the influence of Washington insiders." Our Revolution, along with two other progressive groups, Justice Democrats and CREDO, have also launched a petition aimed at DCCC chairman Ben Ray Luján, telling him to "stop attacking progressives in the Democratic Party." DNC Chairman Tom Perez, who has said the national party will remain neutral in primaries, also took a shot at the DCCC. "I wouldn't have done it," Perez said on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" on Friday. "I would have done it differently," he added. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently." Moser released her own ad highlighting the controversy Friday, saying the Democratic primary is about "rejecting the system where Washington party bosses tell us who to choose." "We tried that before and look where it got us," she says in the ad, making a clear reference to the party's 2016 presidential primary. A longtime ally and adviser to Clinton, Neera Tanden, responded to Moser's ad on Twitter, writing, "Honestly asking @lcmoser- do you mean this as an attack on @HillaryClinton or are you referencing something else? I'm definitely against party bosses choosing nominees but I don't know when that last happened." In recent days, backlash over the 2014 Washington article written by Moser and highlighted by the DCCC has extended beyond the DCCC. In it, Moser referred to living "directly next door to a deaf-mute drug addict" -- a comment that The Daily Moth, a news outlet for the deaf, highlighted as offensive. Moser apologized for language she said was "extremely inappropriate and insensitive, and I regret it deeply." "I try to be an ally, but I am still learning," she said. Kandice Webber, an organizer of Saturday's March for Black Women in Houston -- of which Moser was a sponsor -- also took issue with Moser's 2014 article, in which she argued that Washington residents should get over their city's high housing prices. She told BuzzFeed's Alexis Levinson that in the article, Moser was "completely tone deaf and it just, it reeked of white privilege." She said Moser "has no business" representing Texas's 7th District. "If I had read that article this time last week, she would not be sponsoring," Webber said. "I am a little uncomfortable with it because I think that at this point, she needs to answer for what she does."
It will only get worse. The bitterness between the "progressive" wing of the party and the dnc duds is ugly. They are an extremely confused and divided party. After the last election, the dnc dems/biden types concluded that the democratic party had to return to the center and recapture their roots in the working class that were lost to Trump- and to knock off all the identity politics stuff. Since then the progressives have pushed the party further and further to the left, and are at risk of developing a third party if a progressive does not get the nomination. They are not going to be used and abused by the dnc/camp Hillary like last time. A few days ago I was talking with a lefty friend , and saying that it was kind of mind boggling that the dems are not supporting Diane Feinstein in California because "she is not progressive enough." Holy Shoot. She is to the left of Che Guevera. So the friend says " they are just saying that because she is too old and they don't want to just come and say that." Whereupon in return I said " You think so? If Bernie were the same age and he lived there and they rolled him and didn't even bother to comb his hair, he would elected - no problem." Yeh, they got problems. Real food fight coming. And 2020 will be the first election in a long time without the dnc playing a role. It has pretty much collapsed and dems will hold out to see who gets the nomination and then just give directly to the candidate if it is their candidate. If not, they will give nothing and go away.