Given Podesta and Frank's track record with the progressive wing of the party.

plucking. Our party is not going to be taken over by an outsider.

FDR? Heck, would you have been sick of Republican Teddy Roosevelt?

I will never be a 3rd Way Democrat but I know better than to knock them.

I guess we Democrats should start believing in trickle down voodoo economics and allow corporate America to run the show.

AOC was a rising star until she allied with Bernie. Elizabeth Warren has many of the same policies as Bernie yet she doesn't get bashed.

IMO the DNC needs to be neutral, needs to follow the wishes of the majority, whether that be Biden or Bernie.

Nor was he America First.

with experience at the cabinet level, and an understanding of the way things actually worked from the inside.

He was attacked from the left with the exact same language that is used against non-Sanders candidates today. He was excoriated by the socialists for saving capitalism, and by the populists for being an out of touch millionaire.

is dead. Nobody apparently studies it, either.

I learned them from Pete Seeger's banjo instruction book, back in 1962. Then I switched to Scruggs style picking and quit frailing, except for a couple of tunes.

I hadn't heard that song before. Thanks!

I frail mostly nowadays, but it's a fun song. I hadn't noticed that's the same progression until you said that: thanks!

I was trying to play too many instruments, so I gave up bluegrass. I was never a great banjo player anyhow. I could pick my way through most anything, but didn't spend enough time mastering the thing. Story of my life. I was part of a quartet that played bluegrass music, but our real plus was our singing. Not so much the instrumental part. We played all over the place, though, back in the early to mid 60s. We even played at the Monterey folk festival one year, over in the corner, with a small audience. I even got to meet Joan Baez at that festival, which was pretty overwhelming for me as a skinny 19-year-old kid. She was nice enough, though, and smiled a lot.
"Keep practicing," she said, after hearing us play and sing.

Not long after I picked up the banjo, I went to a music store to buy some new strings and some finger picks, since I was starting to learn Scruggs-style picking. There was a guy in the store, just playing the life out of a Bacon 5-string. I listened to him for a while, and said, as only a 16-year-old kid would, "How long have you been playing the banjo."

"About six months," the guy replied. Depressed the hell out of me, until I realized that he was making a joke. Then he said, "I can give you lessons kid..." But, I had no money for lessons, so I took my strings and shiny National finger picks and went back to my books of banjo tablature and learned on my own.

IYKWIM?

seems more like a feature than a bug.

running today. He compromised repeatedly on all types of policy.

divisive and feeds Trumpist goals without even being conscious of that fact. Certainly progressives, a large and vocal minority within our party, needs its agenda to be heard, an opportunity to influence leadership, and to have its candidates represented fairly and equally with
those of a more majority viewpoint.

But Bernie-ism is driving a wedge, justifying support for a loathsome racist now, threatening defection, proud to employ dirty tactics...

Its leader needs to renounce this divisiveness and dirty, desperate politicking.

Yes, I absolutely agree that that particular brand does no service to progressive ideals and harms
our party while it may still do worse.

Look what when an outsider took over the republican party. They've lost themselves and will never be the same.

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Aligning himself with the right once again.

Please note, sarcasm thingy added. I don’t know how to get that fancy red thing but Barney Frank is a champion of the left and a champion of actually getting things done. He was a champion when working for Kevin White, he was a champion when working for Michael Harrington he was in the Massachusetts State House and in the US House. It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and complain of the work others have done. He passed actual legislation and took progressive stands when it was not as easy or popular an it is now. He is a true Hero and a true Champion for progressive causes.

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imagine that! Would they prefer someone who voted green?

Is that too much to ask?

Impartial. Is that what they’re calling unabashedly pro Bernie these days?

that our party stop letting someone who is not a Democrat run as a Democrat.

and retire from office, while he's at it.

required to earn influence in it. Easy.

He serves and votes as an Independent, because he has no interest in being part of the party.

He has stated this many times.

Is that clearer?

really?

for key staff positions?

Hillary Clinton was the last Democratic Presidential nominee, for God's sake!!! Why shouldn't some of her people be on the DNC committees? Just because a defeated candidate doesn't like them? Which candidate is giving a big "F U" to the party by the key staff he hires?

Barney was recently on Real Time bad mouthing Bernie.

I say, play it Sam-if we can take it, he can take it.

You'll never hear Barney Frank calling the Democratic party "feeble" or "ideologically bankrupt". Barney Frank won't be accusing the Democratic party of being "corrupt" and he won't be calling Democrats "the party of the elite" and "the party of the one-percent". Barney Frank does not hate the Democratic party and he does not proclaim the party to be "an absolute failure."

Frank doesn't accuse Democrats of being "do-nothings", and he doesn't accuse Democrats of "focusing 'too-much' on Diversity". And something else about Barney Frank's character: he doesn't defend or make excuses for racists... he knows that if someone refuses to vote for a candidate because of his/her skin color... then that voter is indeed a racist.

Thank GOD for Barney Frank, DEMOCRAT!

We need more LOYAL DEMOCRATS just like him!

It’s hard to find space to the left of him, but in the new world order, maybe there is.

"They are so afraid of Joe Biden. This is unbelievable. Their entire day was focused on their #1 fear." "Yesterday on the senate floor they kept attacking Biden. That is a godsend for Joe Biden."

The Republican's Tuesday impeachment "trial" message: "It didn't happen, it doesn't matter if it did, and Joe Biden sucks."

they are revolutioning!

is so 'establishment' and all those in fashion buzz words.

Some need outrage more to survive than food, water and even oxygen.

Tom Perez was ELECTED

they can take a hike.

the 2016 Convention DNC platform committee. The DNC had elevated him to the position on the committee as an olive branch Bernie's campaign.

West rewarded them and the Democratic Party by joining up with Stein after having a hissy fit with the committee.

To my knowledge, West has never apologized for his part in getting Trump into the White House.

His JUVENILE behavior doesn't surprise me at all. He doesn't seem to be too smart in how things work, and how to "play well with others" (so to speak.)

fail...complain, I guess?

Here we go again.

Trump and his team are no doubt laughing their asses off.

I could be wrong about that-- I'm only going by what he says about us.

Really? Aren't we supposed to strive for unity?

Not smart, but then their actions last time, well, past is prologue, right?

Have you never heard that phrase before?

What do you think of Sanders buddy Cornel West's statements about President Obama? And Nina Turner's diatribes against Hillary? They make 'stick a knife' sound mild.

So do you agree that people who say things like that shouldn't be on the convention committee?

Another display of a grand desire to unite the party.

I guess uniting the party is fine as long as it’s the progressives falling under the bus.

My only question is why do they expect it to go any better than last time.

where it WASN'T the left wing thrown under the bus by the moderates.

Care to share?

It's 'truth to the power' if you do it for Bernie.

party. Who is he to come along and tell Democrats what to do?

Who do they expect to control the democratic convention? The green party? Republicans? Joe Rogan?

to control DNC Committees. How obsurd.

I'm sorry but I've been a Democrat for years. Will till I die, unlike others.

Asking for a friend...

Bernie is the Cleveland Browns of candidates. They are hyped to high heaven early on only to inevitably be crushed later. Occasionally they may have a shot of playing spoiler and rob someone superior of a chance at winning. This opens the door for undeserving people to win.

Like Trump.