Two People To Fire Right Away
by tristero
In comments to my previous post, commenter Graham Firchlis rightly asked:
OK, then. Don’t wuss out like Carville. Name some names. Who, and please be specific, is to blame [for the inexcusable debacle of Massachusetts]?
Aside from Coakley herself, who is political history, that is not easy to determine. Still, in the NY Times article I linked to, we read:
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he had “no interest in sugarcoating” the defeat in Massachusetts. Several party leaders said they expected Mr. Menendez to remain in his position for the rest of the election cycle…
Fire him. Don’t work around him, as the rest of the passage I excerpted suggests they’ll do. Just fire him. (Note: I’m sure there’s some euphemism I don’t know about for firing the chair of the DSCC – “stepping down to spend quality time with my family,” maybe? – but whatever it is, now’s the time to deploy those euphemisms and get rid of him).
…in private conversations, Hill sources say White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has blamed Coakley, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake for failing to see Brown’s surge in time to stop it.
Celinda Lake was the main pollster for the Dem Mass race? Assuming Politico’s right, fire her.
Man, oh man, I can practically smell the rage I’m gonna get in comments. Fire Menendez? He’s Hispanic, Dems need Hispanic voters, and besides, he’s a pretty good guy. No doubt. And he’s in the wrong job. Time to move on.
And Celinda Lake? Tristero, you blithering idiot, she’s done great work!. Did you actually look at her site? Well, in fact, I did. Here’s what’s on her front page:
Not so much as a hint about what happened, despite the fact that the page was updated today with a link to an article Lake co-wrote for Huffington on a different subject. Oh, and did you see that “read more here” link in the picture above? Well, I’ve copied the link here. Read it and weep.
Fire Lake Research.
Can’t replace her firm ’cause no one’s as good as they are, when they’re good? Well, find out who was in charge of the Coakley-related polling at her company and demand their immediate termination. Regardless, it’s time to start cultivating closer relationships with Lake Research’s competition.
Sound impolitic? No. What’s impolitic is permitting the successor to Ted Kennedy to be a former nude model who plans to vote against Kennedy’s signature issue.
Go ahead. Flame away at me in comments. Call me ignorant, childish, naive about how politics works, vindictive – whatever, I can take it. Go ahead: Pin the blame entirely on Coakley, on the “brilliant” campaign run by the male Palin clone, on the economy. on the disappointing Obama. Tell me how it’s totally unfair to single out just these two people for punishment when it’s the zeitgeist, the weltanschaung, the whole megillah.
Then, let’s find out how to fire these incompetents and replace them with people who can do a good job.