A Muslim and a Domican walk into a bar....

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

Holy sh** that was funny! Glad I didn't have coffee in my mouth on that one! You are the King!!!!

Be careful using the word Democrat around here.

Just don't say it three times in a row or we'll get [whisper] Hillary [/whisper] for president.

Actually I think they made the lesser of two evils choice. Selecting Ellison would have amounted to a double down on identity politics and leftist lunacy personified by Sanders and Warren. But is it too late or just prolonging the inevitable? I think so.

On a side note, that dude (Perez) is ugly. Like should never be on TV ugly.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

2020 baby. She's baaaack.

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

It's hard to believe they selected Perez, it's almost as if they want to keep moving in the same direction even after losing the election. I half expect the Democrats to support Hilary running again...

This is the photo they'll be using for her campaign poster.

Again the problem was just a repeat of the primary. Anybody who thinks Sanders would have done better than Hillary is an idiot. Hillary handled him with kid gloves in the hopes of not alienating his supporters more than they already had. This was due to the heavy dependent on mercurial electorate (young and minorities). Trump wouldn't have been so nice. There is so much about Bernie, and people with his ideology in general that just don't play well in the US.

This basically came down to the same thing. Do we want more of the same (stability), or do we want a radical ideologue who embodies everything wrong with the direction the party is going. While blue collar and middle class people will be the key demographic for a long time. Why? They vote more than minorities and the youth. The direction the dems are pursuing is to energize the youth, which is a gamble, or a minority which will inspire people of the same ethnic group to vote. Problem is that works more with blacks. Hispanics tend to be more pragmatic. I don't think the net gain of having a latino on democratic ticket will swing the meter much from existing norms to warrant the alienation of large and reliable constituencies.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

The Democrats have to get away from "Identity Politics" -- at the end of the day all the women, black, gay, transgender, Muslim, and every other possible distinctive minority in the room still needs a job, has to pay taxes and needs to be protected by the federal government as a citizen from terrorist activity.

The solution of "tax the rich white people" isn't always the right answer. They need a new call to arms.....

Tax the rich and middle-class white people???

Tax the white people???

I'd argue that the Democratic party has been going in the wrong direction ever since the Democratic Leadership Council rose to power and declared that economic populism was dead. The Democratic party has become pro-corporate and except for liberal positions on some social issues they have become Republican Lite. I don't know if Bernie Sanders would have beat Trump it is time Democrats changed their message. The Democratic Party has become tone deaf to the plight of working class Americans. Most Americans are broke. They may have a little equity in their house or some retirement savings but they have at least as much debt. They feel like they have nothing to loose so they were willing to vote for a wild card candidate like Trump. The status quo hasn't worked out very well for a lot of people and Hillary Clinton represented the status quo. Sanders would appeal to a lot of the formerly ignored and taken for granted voters who pulled the lever for Trump.