Democrats Failing to Learn Tough Lessons
Do some Democrats actually take aim before shooting themselves in the collective foot?
Item: A group of Arizona progressive Democrats went to the state party meeting in Prescott last weekend bound and determined to censure the first member of their party to be elected to the United States Senate in 30 years.
Kyrsten Sinema had served in the state legislature and then in the House of Representatives before taking on Republican Martha McSally for the upper house when Jeff Flake stepped down. Sinema won by about 60,000 votes.
The noisy progressives who descended on Prescott wanted to punish the highly independent Sinema because she had voted to confirm two Trump cabinet members (even though she has voted “correctly” with the Democrats 81 percent of the time.)
The party had better sense than the would-be spoilers who had forgotten that Arizonans have a real fondness for an independent who is not slavishly ideological.
Item: Congress member Joe Kennedy announced last weekend that he is running for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts against the very popular Ed Markey, who has served in Congress since before Kennedy was born.
The grandson of Robert Kennedy, the former Senator and Attorney General, and grandnephew of JFK and Sen. Ted Kennedy, he may think it’s his birthright to sit in the Senate, but Markey has done the kind of job in both Houses that endears him to left-leaning Massachusetts folk.
This is not to say that anyone has life tenure in public office, but a primary fight will be very expensive and highly divisive.
Item: The House Judiciary Committee fouled up the grilling of Trump pal Corey Lewandowski until the last minute, when they let a very skilled counsel take over and do the job of a practiced trial attorney.
In future hearings, the egomaniacal House members – all up for re-election next year – will fail to heed the lesson of a week ago and will want to fumble in asking questions of people determined to make fools of them.
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