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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[LarryBnDC]

The biggest danger to American democracy is the so called Problem Solvers Caucus.

Given that it was put together by No Labels,  which has done some good things,  I have to ask why you say that.

No Labels is a right leaning “centrist”, corporate organization working against Democrats under the guise of faux bipartisanship and they’re funded with dark money to advance power for corporate and special interests. Period.

Hi,  Larry.  ,You haven't really supported that statement that I'm aware of.   The founder,  Nancy Jacobson,  doesn't seem right-leaning or anti democrat.

(wiki excerpt)
Jacobson's first foray into political organizing occurred when she was a student at Syracuse University, where she organized a fundraising event to support then Senator Gary Hart’s 1984 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.[4] She supported Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 1988,[5] and on Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1991, and was the finance director of the 1992 Presidential Inaugural Committee.[6] She later served as finance chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).[4] From 1995 through 2010, she was the national finance director for Sen. Evan Bayh. She oversaw his political and fundraising strategy during his 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination...   

In November 2020, following the 2020 election, as ballots were continuing to be counted and there were concerns about disinformation, No Labels launched a $1 million dollar national ad campaign called Respect the Vote, urging Americans to respect the electoral process.....

 

Other process reforms are described here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels

The problem is Mark Penn:

Penn, a former political strategist for both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has gained new national attention for criticizing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of the Trump administration. While not affiliated with No Labels, he used a Tuesday appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to talk up a plan — advanced by No Labels — to elect a speaker of the House with bipartisan support.
“There’s a problem-solvers group that is looking to have some influence, if the result is close, in terms of changing the rules and naming the speaker,” Penn said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/15/contractors-sue-non-partisan-group-no-labels/


The whole challenge, of course, was an attempt by the well-funded corporate gnomes of the Third Way, and No Labels, and the Problem Solvers Caucus—which is notable in political history for never having solved a single problem—to defang the new Democratic majority before it really gets rolling even in the mildest leftward direction.

The caucus was born out of meetings of congresspeople organized by No Labels, which was founded in 2010 as a bipartisan group, backed by wealthy donors, ostensibly dedicated to civility and good government. Nancy Jacobson, Penn’s wife, is the No Labels CEO, and Penn is also closely involved with the group. Gottheimer was elected to Congress in 2016 and co-founded the caucus, with Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., shortly thereafter.
No Labels, of course, is another bag of horribles, and it was drunkenly careening all through the Democratic primary and general election campaigns in 2018. From The Atlantic:

But over the past year, No Labels’ leaders considered primary challenges to at least three incumbent House Democrats—starting with Pelosi, in January 2017. They also discussed running a primary challenge to freshman Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat. He had been elected with No Labels’ support but had in early 2017 accepted a mostly honorific position as an assistant whip for the House Democrats...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25323488/nancy-pelosi-speaker-mark-penn-problem-solvers/

When Mark Penn visited the White House last month to advise President Donald Trump on polling, it wasn’t exactly a surprise. The former strategist for Bill and Hillary Clinton—who insists he’s still a Democrat—had been loudly defending the president for months. Still, it was jarring to see Penn cozying up to the man who has repeatedly said that Hillary should be in prison.

Then again, Penn has long been comfortable with Trump’s divisive style of politics. Exactly 12 years ago today—as the 2008 Democratic primary campaign was getting started—Penn wrote a remarkable memo outlining his vision for how Hillary Clinton could win the nomination. The document, first reported by Joshua Green in The Atlantic, belittled Obama’s “diverse, multicultural” background and his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii. Penn suggested subtly drawing attention to Obama’s “lack of American roots” by, among other things, using “our logo to make some flags we can give out,”


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/mark-penn-memo-obama-clinton/

And then there is this official No Labels bullshit

https://www.nolabels.org/dont-eliminate-the-filibuster-raise-the-bar/

[bankshot1]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

[josh]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

Lol!

[josh]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

Lol!

Never change, Ward.

The day you start responding with actual evidence, the world will end.

[LarryBnDC]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

Lol!

Never change, Ward.

The day you start responding with actual evidence, the world will end.

Red is a shill.

There’s no conviction behind what he posts. Mostly just regulations of the talking points of the day.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2037742/-Republican-screwups-on-infrastructure-hurt-people-from-Kentucky-to-Michigan-to-Mississippi-to-NYC

[facilitatorn]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

Lol!

Never change, Ward.

The day you start responding with actual evidence, the world will end.

Red still wanks to his poster of the coke-head, draft dodging election thief half-assed failson-in-chief and current portraitist in his flight suit. He hates Rather for outing shrub as a scrub before the boy wonder really got around to proving it in office.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vice.com/en/article/88ndax/aocs-sick-grandma-isnt-off-limits-for-mtga

The GOP is all top shelf. People you’d absolutely hire for any job.

[josh]

Red's a stickler for rigorous fact checking and transparency in process as it regards journalism.

An its why he endorses Fox News!

LMAO


Rather has more integrity in his pinky than the Murdoch clan and the clowns they employ, ever had.

And more than the uncredible Red State Ward on his worst day.

Lol!

Never change, Ward.

The day you start responding with actual evidence, the world will end.

Red is a shill.

There’s no conviction behind what he posts. Mostly just regulations of the talking points of the day.

Regurgitations, presumably.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/12/health-warnings-as-death-valley-scorches-in-544c-heat

Just wait till we get to the height of summer…

[josh]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/12/health-warnings-as-death-valley-scorches-in-544c-heat

Just wait till we get to the height of summer…

Fac, I moved your post about Frank, et al, over the the Knicks forum, where I think you meant to put it.

[bambu.]

Any Americans who hate their flag and or disrespect it should  be told to go live in Cuba.

[bambu.]

Riots in Cuba   US embargo being blamed.

[Yankguy1]

Any Americans who hate their flag and or disrespect it should  be told to go live in Cuba.

Will this be a new policy or can it be applied retroactively to the Trump administration?