Colorado-based Congressional hopeful Jared Polis may be a registered Democrat, but he’s got some harsh words for his political peers.
As Down With Tyranny reports, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee neglected to invite Polis to their campaign training conference. Rather, the committee and it’s allies – including Christine Pelosi – invited Polis’ rivals.
While we can’t say whether or not Polis’ sexual orientation had anything to do with it, we can say Polis ain’t pleased. He claims the party would rather take care of insiders than open the door to change. Could it be they’re pulling a Republican?
Read – and feel – Polis’ anger, after the jump…
Says Polis:
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
The Democratic establishment frequently stifles the voice of the netroots and grassroots communities.
As I talk to Democratic voters across my district, I find that they are increasingly fed-up with the way Washington DC Democrats keep giving in to Republicans. Whether it’s making it harder for working families to emerge from bankruptcy, ending the war in Iraq, leaving gender identity out of ENDA, or letting telcos off the hook for illegal surveillance, the Democratic establishment risks increasingly estranging itself from where our voters are, and more importantly where our values are. You would never know that Democrats held strong values if you look at what comes out of the insular DC insiders. We are the party of values; let’s start living them and celebrate dissent and diversity.
It’s too bad that Polis’ moral compass probably led his campaign straight off the political cliff.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Again and again, it is clear that the Democratic party is the Democratic Leadership Council Party. Liberals, populists and gays not on the civil union plan, are not welcome and are automatic and permanent second-tier candidates whom you apply passive aggressive clues as to their support.
The Neocon “Republicans” and the DLC “Democrats” are two wings of the Corporatist Party of the USA.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Rahm Emmanuel, the chair of the D(LC)CCC and Steny Hoyer, majority leader, are the architects of a DLC House of blue and yellow dogs who follow the Big Bush Dog and the frustration of the American people on many issues.
Bob R
The Democrats lost me years ago, the Kerry debacle was the final straw. I am now an Independent who yearns for a new party, a third party, that will put an end to these Corporate Democrats once and for all. I give no money or no support to the Democratic party. I will support financially and with my vote those candidates who reflect my values and beliefs. If that means staying home, then so be it. I’m tired of going to the polls to choose between two piles of shit and voting for one because it smells less than the other. Thanks to Rahm Emmanuel we have people like Joe Lieberman in office.
Matt
I’m so torn on this. Bob and RtRev are right about The Democratic Party being a spineless tool of the valueless DLC, whose “middle way” means an unappetizing something that’s neither hot soup nor bouillabaisse. And those who say there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between republicans and democrats have a point, but an incomplete one; thing is, for all their failings, a dem president and dem congress would (probably) not have gotten us into Iraq; would (probably) have responded better to global warming, Katrina, and 9/11; and would (probably) be vaguely “better” for the “GLB and sometimes T” community than the biblethumping warmongering neocons. So while the Better Me says Yes, Bob, let’s stick to our guns and demand an actual liberal values from our supposedly liberal party (today’s “liberals” are basically euro-conservatives), there’s another part that says, If we stay home in a snit, then we’ll get Huckabee or Guiliani or Thomson or Romney, and four MORE years of guaranteed crap, whereas with Obama or Edwards or Clinton there MIGHT be a crumb or two of goodness in the generally gray and flavorless mix. (sigh of resignation and despair)
andy
I am so disappointed in this supposedly liberal party. I am voting liberal -period. Yes the war is a huge issue, but so are civil rights in my opinion. When it comes down to the final vote, if the democrats don’t start changing their tune the party will not get my vote.
Leland Frances
Ignore the idiot Rt. Rev. Dr. RES. He’s a Canadian who can’t even vote here.
As for anyone who can who’s still looking for a political Messiah, including Polis [gays can be just as stupid as any straights], GROW THE FUCK UP!
That kind of thinking is what put George Bush in the White House in the first place! Naderites didn’t like Bush, Gore was imperfect, so they threw their votes away in a childish hissy fit. Well, those children have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS of the thousands of Americans and the TENS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqis killed in an invasion that would NEVER have taken place under Gore!
Only 537 certified votes changed History in 2000. Are any of you so narcissistic that you want to see that happen again? That you want THE most important issue of ALL–the future of the LIFETIME appointments to the Supreme Court decided by ANOTHER Republican fascist? If you are, YOU make me more sick to my stomach than any Republican. At least THEY are honest about what they’re willing to create and destroy.
Bill Perdue
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES, Bob R, Matt – you’re all correct in your opposition or distrust of reactionary democrats and their clueless shills.
The problem is that for now we have little to offer those looking for an alternative. In point of fact we have to build a party that can meet the challenge of fighting the Republicans and Democrats and organizing the radicalization now beginning. We can’t just continuously ask people to vote for communist or socialist parties as a protest. Eventually people want to move from protest to power.
That means joining and building the US Labor Party (like your NDP, Rev, or the Labour parties in New Zealand, Australia and England) The USLP is organized and led by militant unions like the California Nurses Association, National Nurses Organizing Committee AFL-CIO and dozens of others unions, including about half the members of AFL-CIO who split, forming the Change to Win group whose goal is to organize instead of wasting money and resources getting Democratic backstabbers elected.
That means we have a lot of work to do, but our workload will be much easier than those who mindlessly shill for Democrats. The truth about the Clintons, who gave us DOMA and DADT and their tainted connections to bigot christians and grubby fundraising is just beginning to come to light in the press. Senator Dianne Feinstein is helping put bigot judges like Southwick of Mississippi on the Federal bench, Frank and Pelosi turned on us, tossed transsexuals under the bus without a look backward, and replaced ENDA with their toothless Democratic bogus version. Obama is going after Hillary bigot votes and Edwards was recently exposed as the major investor in a company that was repossessing the homes of Katrina victims.
It may take awhile but our job isn’t going to be all that difficult.
And please excuse Frances, he’s prone to hissy fits and creating straw men so he can ever heroically smite them. In addition he’s a supporter of Hillary Clinton, who arrogantly voted to divide Iraq into three procounsular provinces to make it easier for American colonial governors to force the Iraqis to hand over their petro assets to American oil companies, which she also arrogantly voted for. Given that, his redneck arrogance in dismissing you as ‘unuhmeruhcun†is understandable but like most of his rants, inexcusable.
Our movement is nothing if not international, and we want to apologize for Frances comments. Scores of people have called him on his foul mouthed use of terms like ‘cunt’ ‘ bitch’ ‘fag’ and his borderline racism with comments like “Black churches have influenced him, (Obama) the majority of which rabidly oppose gay rights.†(Queerty . Sep 21, 2007) but it doesn’t worry him.
That because he wants to grow up to be Hillary’s chief altar boy. He’s reactionary enough to make it.
Leland Frances
“Scores”? There you go counting your multiple personalities again, Comrade Perdue.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
You are correct, Leland Frances, I am a Canadian married to a native American citizen, who wants to remind you that he does vote, and for liberal Democrats. He is a dual national. Nigel’s family came to the USA in the 17th century and specifically, MA. His family is Yankee Brahmin New Englanders who are culturally liberal Republican and Episcopalian, with a good dose of Congregationalists in the mix. His ancestors make him both DAR and GAR in the bargain.
My idiocy, if I admit to same, is engaging you and your ad hominems and F Bombs you discharge to obviously enthrall us with your linguistic skills.
I, not you, my deluded person, live in a nation where equal rights, marriage rights, and total ENDA for all was fought and won. We did NOT gain it by supporting neo-fascists and call them allies.
I have admitted before that supporting the mediocre is better than supporting the grossly evil and incompetent. Yet, only when the Liberals in my former riding were willing to support the seat in Toronto-Danforth to the NDP Leader, then the pseudo-Liberals realised that an NDP was better than a phony Liberal.
The problem for the world is that the POTUS is an international figure who touches all lives on the planet. As parents, we wanted to raise our son in a world where prejudice based on race, ethnicity or sexual orientation is illegal and a criminal felony, if not eradicated.
Bill Perdue, I am sure that you will support the least of the two possible evils for POTUS. The reality is that you know the difference between allies and casual acquaintances – or love making and a hand job.