Where is Chellie?
That’s the operative question in the wake (wink wink) of a recent gathering in Washington of a thing known as the Abundance movement.
“At the Abundance movement’s largest-ever gathering, with its manifesto still on the best-seller lists, its biggest champions wrestled openly with its status as a dirty word in US politics,” Semafor reports.
Several U.S. representatives and other lawmakers were quoted in Semafor’s coverage but one was apparently conspicuously absent – Chellie Pingree, the U.S. Representative from Maine’s southern liberal flank.
Maybe Chellie has had an “abundance” of fear realizing that her lefty thinking is too radical to appeal to a statewide audience that she is hoping will elect her daughter, Hannah, governor next year.
But if that’s her fear, you’d think she’d show up to say “hey y’all, we need to R E F O R M.”
In a book released earlier this year, two reporters proposed an “Abundance Agenda” they argued “better manages the tradeoffs between regulations and social advancement,” according to Wiki.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson “lament that America is stuck between a progressive movement too afraid of growth and a conservative movement that is allergic to government intervention,” Wiki writes.
At the Abundance convention, “the attendees who spoke most about politics wanted to save the Democratic Party,” Semafor reported.
If the only way of “saving” the Democrat Party is to get rid of the word abundance, then Chellie isn’t going anywhere.
Not to Abundance conferences, not to family entrance of the Blaine House.
Yet again, Democrats can’t get it through their thick skulls – they don’t have a messaging problem, they have a policy problem.
Changing the word ‘abundance’ to ‘logic,’ for instance, will still be a dog that won’t hunt for American voters warming to the Trump agenda: crackdown on crime and illegals – the two biggest problems stealing America from its dream.
Chellie has supposedly been recently moderating her politics but if that’s really the case why isn’t she on the rooftop?
Because nothing has changed or will change for the Minnesotan living on North Haven.
