U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel
A new hope?
I'm happy to read that U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois was named to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today after the Jan. 1 death of my congressman, Robert Matsui, who had headed the committee.
I'm hoping that Emanuel, being younger (he's 45), will bring fresh ideas to the Democratic Party's leadership and will help the party to actually win some elections. (Three Democratic House seats were lost in November under 63-year-old Matsui's leadership of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.)
Most of the older Democratic Party operatives, I surmise, think that we should still do things the way we did them back in the day. They probably mean well, but they are deadwood, and like deadwood, they need to be removed.
The Democratic Party, if it is to survive, needs some new blood in its leadership, preferably some younger blood.
Emanuel's selection to replace Matsui is a good first step in that direction.
The first big test of the Democratic Party's future survival will be whom is selected as chair of the Democratic National Committee next month. The selection of an ineffectual old-school Democrat for that critical leadership post would mean probable doom for the party.
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