Not This Sh%$ Again

(I am seriously Jonesing for "Say F%$# January) 

When talking about political has-beens, two names immediately come to mind, James Carville and David Axelrod.

Neither of them have been worth listening to since their guy left office, but they refuse to shut the F%$# up.

Case in point, David Axelrod wants Rahm Emanuel to be the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

No.  Just no.

The man is a bully, and he is incompetent.

The wave election of 2006 occurred in spite of his being head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  He fought tooth and nail against Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, and dumped millions into candidates who stood for nothing and lost.

Charlie Pierce nails it:

Can we all just agree not to listen to the likes of James Carville and (especially) David Axelrod anymore? Two political railbirds who bet on talented long shots, won big, and decided they had Figured It All Out. Pursuing the metaphor to the present day, the two of them are now haunting the grandstand, looking for half-eaten hot dogs and hoping that someone will come by and recognize them. Someone like, say, The Hill:

“If they said, ‘Well, what should we do? Who should lead the party?’ I would take Ambassador Rahm Emanuel and I would bring him back from Japan, and I would appoint him chairman of the Democratic National Committee,” Axelrod said Tuesday on his podcast “Hacks on Tap.”

Hacked Tapped Out is more like it.

“He is the most skillful political kind of in-fighter in the Democratic Party....He’s been a member of Congress, he’s been White House chief of staff, he’s been the mayor of Chicago. Now, he’s been ambassador to Japan, and he ran, in 2005 and [2006], the campaign to take back the House when Democrats were trying to take back the House of Representatives,” Axelrod continued.

Man crushes are so unseemly in someone of Axelrod’s age.

Emanuel has been wrong on policy and wrong on politics throughout his entire career.

His virtues, such as they are, is that he is a corrupt asshole.

Someone whose only skill is failing upward does not deserve a 3rd chance.

The last thing we need is a bunch of Obama retreads running the Democratic Party.