I mean I was surprised that wasn’t his response when confronted about it

Bernie Sanders: The Buck Stop Somewhere.

He doesn’t have a lot of experience with accountability.

Well, there is the fact that she has been attacked by those very Bernie Bros, who lack any sense of nuance to see her coming forward as another story of sexual harassment in the workplace. Instead, they attack her for bringing Sanders’ name into the discussion at all.

Bernie said a really dumb thing though when asked if he knew about it “I was a little busy campaigning” it was flip and sarcastic. And shitty. He should have said “the buck stops with me and I need to do better” end of statement.

Well, they were not wrong. Paul Ryan was a policy wonk; he certainly did not advocate for good policy, but still a wonk. Paul Ryan’s problem was that he was a lousy political tactician. Different skill sets.

I’m also completely fed up with the contempt so many people have for the older female politicians who have been working for decades. There seems to be a paradox of younger women saying getting older is cool and wishing they had mentors, and then also telling older women that only young firebrands have the answers.

“they would essentially make the left the enemies of some pretty powerful moneyed interests”
True, but here’s the thing, America isn’t yet that far gone that voters couldn’t overcome this. (We’re not, say, Russia yet.) If we consistently voted and consistently agitated, moneyed interests wouldn’t matter as much (they’d…

Ilhan Omar is great. How about Sharice Davids? She flipped a seat in Kansas! Lucy McBath, whose son was murderered and who used that tragedy as an inspiration to run for congress and do something about gun violence. She is so inspirational. Kirsten Sinema in Arizona, the first open bisexual in congress. And etc. Yeah.…

100% agree. The all or nothing and I’ll burn the place to the ground approach is the bullshit that got us where we are now.

Yeah, I admit I’m super disappointed to not see hardly anything on my rep (Ilhan Omar!!) who also has some fantastic progressive ideas and an amazing history. I really like AOC, but she’s taking up a lot of air in the room, which may be where some of these criticisms are coming from. 

Well, and logical best courses of action aren’t always logical.

I have a wild idea that it’s connected to a yearning for an easy fix, much like some Christian ideas of Jesus-as-Santa-Claus.

Has Jezebel noticed the several, even many, other women newly elected to congress or nah? Because this is getting a little Kardashian. 

THANK YOU. This exactly. It’s actually a little distressing that we are so obsessed with putting AOC up on a pedestal, from which she will of course fall when she inevitably doesn’t live up to Perfecting Everything Immediately. This is some pretty mild criticism from colleagues she needs on her side, and we’re already…

I have a long posting history that’s consistent with my stances. Calling anyone who you disagree with “tomato” is disingenuous; actually engage with what I’m saying.
And yes, they are elected officials, who were elected based on certain promises and stances. Should they abandon the people they represent, who might or…

One of the big disappointments in the US system, for me, is this unrelenting need to find the next big hero who is going to fix everything. The It Girl or Boy of the moment who says all the right things and there’s a collective swoon - and the same is true of the Villain of the Moment. To watch it occur, over and over…

“unless Democrats slowly only elect true progessives”
I was listening to the last episode of the 1848 revolutions on Mike Duncan’s “Revolutions.” The 1848 revolutions failed for a whole bunch of reasons, but a big contributor was the splintering of the liberals with the radical left, which paved the way for…

I’m sure I’ll get flamed for not fangirling, but WaPo has a good Op ed detailing why folks are not having AOC yet.

I really like AOC’s policies, but the response of her colleagues seems pretty human; haven’t most of us been annoyed at a new coworker who shows up with grand ideas (that are potentially great and wonderful!) and starts pushing for them without even getting a sense of how those ideas might have failed in the past, or…