But not quite.

Instead of electing Keith Ellison as DNC chair — which I had so desperately hoped — the Democratic National Committee punted and elected Tom Perez as DNC Chair. But wait, they didn’t entirely puss out: Keith Ellison is Assistant Chair. I guess that’s if Perez somehow has a “heart attack” (air quotes) or some such thingie. Then wouldn’t that be a joyous day indeed?

Note to Perez: ensure your life insurance is paid up. Then have an employee check your lug nuts daily.

From the WashingtonPost.com:

Thomas Perez elected the first Latino leader of Democratic Party

by David Weigel

ATLANTA — Former labor secretary Thomas Perez was elected the first Latino chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, narrowly defeating Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at the end of a contentious battle over the fate of the beleaguered party in the age of President Trump.

Perez’s victory concluded the first contested race for the DNC leadership since 1985, a contest the party had extended by a month to allow more debate. It put in place the Democratic leadership that will navigate thousands of state and local elections — where the party hopes to reverse the losses of the past six years — and a 2020 presidential race that could divide the party again.

Yeah, right, blah blah blah. Get to the good stuff.

Ellison’s defeat was a blow to the party’s liberal wing, personified by activists, labor leaders and organizers, many of whom had supported the presidential bid of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and had come to Atlanta to cheer Ellison on. Many of them warned that by picking Perez, the party was alienating the growing “resistance” that has organized against Trump.

See? Didn’t I say just that? Haven’t I said that all along? Ellison needed to be elected DNC chair so that he could right the wrongs of a thousand years.

The race was close enough that it required a second round of balloting, with Perez winning 235 of 435 votes cast. With tensions still high as the result was announced, nine Ellison supporters chanted “Party for the people, not big money!” and stormed out of the room.

President Trump weighed in on a Tweet in a fashion that I would have embraced:

Trump, in classic fashion, responded to the election by simultaneously congratulating and belittling Perez in a tweet: “I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!”

I am, however, quite sad insofar as — though the DNC went a little left — it didn’t go as hard-a-port as I had so fervently wished. We knew the Demorats believed they had to double-down on whatever strategy didn’t work because, after all, the New York Times said so:

Move Left, Democrats

by Steve Phillips

The Democratic National Committee will choose its next leader on Saturday, and when it does it should choose a leader who will resist the pressure to pursue the wrong white people. Hundreds of articles have been written about the imperative of attracting more support from white working-class voters who supported Barack Obama in 2012 but then bolted to back Donald J. Trump.

The “wrong white people”? So there are proper white people? What does this tell you — again — about the Demorats? That is this: they see everything, everything, in terms of only two things: race and sex.

Any more, that’s all they have.

The far more important — and largely untold — story of the election is that more Obama voters defected to third- and fourth-party candidates than the number who supported Mr. Trump. That is the white flight that should most concern the next D.N.C. chairman, because those voters make up a more promising way to reclaim the White House. The way to win them back is by being more progressive, not less.

Right. What a play. Insist on doubling-down on what didn’t win and, instead of a bit of self-examination, make the play for “it’s everyone’s fault but ours.”

Whoever prevails as chairman must resist the pressure to follow an uninformed and ill-fated quest for winning over conservative white working-class voters in the Midwest. The solution for Democrats is not to chase Trump defectors. The path to victory involves reinspiring those whites who drifted to third-party candidates and then focusing on the ample opportunities in the Southwest and the South.

Correct. Those Caucasoid working-class morons in the Midwest — all flyover states — don’t mean shite. The only Caucasoids who mean anything at all can be found in northeastern newsrooms and DC enclaves, as well as Left Coast cities like San Francisco, Lost Angeles, Seattle, Portlandia and Sacramento.

Let’s remember, after all, that American blacks — a massive Demorat base — don’t know how to vote. Hell, they don’t have the first clue as to how to even get ID if required to vote. Right? That’s so oppressive on its face.

Wrong. As you can see.

So what was Obama’s so-called “legacy” — upon which the Demorats feel so incredibly compelled to double down?

His legacy is that of division on every political and social level imaginable. Sam Stein, for God’s sake, Senior Political Editor for the Huffington Post, said that Obama leaves the party “in a much worse position,” the “states are decimated,” he “lost control of the House and Senate,” the “governorships are decimated.” All factually correct.

Under Obama, the American voter has consistently rejected the stance of the Demorats (including Mr Obama) for the past eight years (2008 to 2016) as they lost 63 seats in the House and 10 seats in the Senate. Republicans (from 2008 to 2016) gained 900+ seats in state legislatures, along with 12 governorships across the US — meaning that 2/3rds of the governors in the nation are now Republicans.

As the Divider-In-Chief, Obama’s entire agenda revolved around striating people by class, sex, race, religion, earnings, region, state, city, county, clothing, music, laws, wages, healthcare, culture, employment, family, mode of transport, energy consumption, food, cable channels watched, media consumed, social settings, the way you view America, even your writings, statements and thoughts.

Good times. The DNC semi-dodged a bullet but only by half.

Let’s just see how much Keith Ellison steps all over the face of Perez. And if the Demorats allow him to.

BZ

P.S.

Here’s what the Demorats and the DNC are NOT doing:

The Senate has only confirmed 14 of the 549 senior federal positions that Trump needs to run his government. Cabinet secretaries and people who run the departments, bureaus, agencies and the rest of government still need confirmation. The hold-up is due to Demorats only. And the written interrogatories being sent back and back by Demorats.

So please note: the REST of the government is being administered and run by career bureaucrats and Obama holdovers. Read that: Obama holdovers. Do. The. Math.

There are another 120 vacant federal judgeships and, of course, the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme Court. Each requires Senate approval.

Guess what? The Senate is on vacation. What I suggest? Fill all those mounting court vacancies by “recess appointing” judges on March 21st.

Not like there isn’t precedent for that or anything.

BZ