Posted on 12/10/2004 8:48:07 AM PST by crushkerry
This house, divided against itself, will surely not stand
Folks, if you want tomorrows news today, just read Crush Kerry (soon, we promise, to be renamed Ankle Biting Pundits.)
We told you the radical left was going to make borking Bernard Kerik their chief post-election priority, and the hatchet job has already started.
Then we told you the Dems were in worse shape that anyone else was reporting. In fact, at the time we wrote the brief article on the unhealthy state of the Angry Party, fissures with in the GOP were all anyone was talking about. Once again we were right. But perhaps we even underestimated the state of the problem. The fact is, the Democrats are amidst a civil war the likes of which we may have never seen before. And they are a long way from sorting themselves out.
David Limbaugh puts it well in a recent post: Just when the Dems thought Republicans were imploding from within over conflicting approaches to the intelligence reform bill, Dems have already one-upped the GOP in the disharmony department. We're sure to see more of this debate as Dem players, like Dean, begin to compete for the DNC chairmanship. But then again Terry McAwful's lead boots are going to be pretty tough to fill.
The fight will only become more pronounced as the various candidates for General Chairman of the Democrat Party begin to layout their disparate visions for the partys future. Some wise bloke will recommend reaching out to those Hilter-esque Christians in middle-America and the radicals will take his head off. Thatll be gooooooood watchin. (For the record, weve endorsed Howard Dean for Chair.)
The group taking the head off the reasonable guy will undoubtedly be MoveOn.org. The leader of MoveOn.org sent an e-mail to the groups members insisting that we own the Democrat Party. They administered the proverbial Homer Simpson glove slap to the current crop of leaders and vowed to take it back. Far from a gesture of solidarity, the e-mail shook with all the hostility and pent up rage that caused the fringe group to post an ad on their website which compared our president to Adolph Hitler, costing Democrats at least two House seats.
Moveon.org has become a big problem for the Democrats. Anyone who even slightly criticizes the group is in for a harsh counterattack. Like a cult in decline, they have begun to turn on apostate members, rather than seek to proselytize to the unconverted. We were around in the Clinton era when rightwingers wanted to take over the GOP (shoot, we were among them), but there was never this level of acrimony.
Meanwhile the uber-popular lefty site Daily Kos has openly criticized the putatively moderate Democrat Leadership Council, calling them idiots, comparing them to The Flat Earth Society, and challenging their very relevance to the success of the Democrat coalition.
The entire Democrat operation is so backward-thinking these days. They seem more obsessed with finding a voting irregularity around every corner than with winning elections. We cant possibly have lost! the thinking goes. Everyone hates George W. Bush like we do, right? But no one challenges their thinking. In such a logic vacuum, loudmouths like the simps at MoveOn.org can stroll in effortlessly and take control. They are doing so now. And they are going to win.
About a week ago, we asked folks to help us rename MoveOn.org, as the name just didnt seem to fit anymore. You all came up with some pretty funny stuff. But no one not even us came up with the name they have chosen: The Democratic Party.
Ping
We need healthy division to make this system work. The problem is not even with a moderate amount of incivility. It isn't even the act of trying to destroy each other (entirely). The problem is the dishonesty that goes with the battle -- and the willingness to destroy our entire structure of government for a temporal win. A destroyed politican will get over it. There is always another waiting. A disabled party can rebuild. A destroyed system of representative government might not recover without destoying all of us.
I can't wait for that. They say a camel is a horse designed by committee, but when the committee is an insane asylum you can bet your last dollar that the outcome will be....interesting.
Let the mayhem begin! Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!
One needs to understand that the Beltway Democratic Party elite who have worked in party patronage jobs for most of their life are fighting among themselves for fewer and fewer Senate & House staff and committee jobs. They were desperately hoping to have a US President hand out lots of Executive Branch jobs, but Bush won. To make matters worse the WA DC Republicans are now (horrors!) requiring lobbyists to be real "Republicans" to gain access.
This means that the core financial benefit of being a loyal democratic party hack is disappearing at the federal level.
On the local level, the money being funneled in from Washington DC by the Democratic party is becoming less and less reliable. That means that the "economic and financial" benefit of being a democratic party hack, whether through a labor union, citizen activist group, or public welfare class of people is drying up as well.
Without the historic "glue" (i.e. federal money) to bind together the Democratic party membership, the Democratic party is about to implode.
I fully expect to see the Democratic party restructure itself into a "green party" and a "socialist party." One of the very surprising things about the Nader campaign was that he was saying (and many radical Dem's were listening) that the Dem's were under the control of big corporations and big labor that acted like corporations. Moveon.Org is just telling the Dem's what Nader was saying in his campaign.
Again, I expect the Democratic party to implode and become at least two other political parties in the very near future.
Excellent analysis. Let me add something for your consideration. I don't think Dean wants to be the DNC chair. I think he wants to be denied the chair by the rest of the party, so he can mobilize his base, Look...Hillary is proceedign inexorably to the nomination by annointment...if Howie wants it in 2008..he has to stop her..at least slow her down..now...so..he creates an issue..
Robert I think you are right, and the lack of competition may result in the Republicans experiencing a fissure as well as the Christians finally realize that the Republican elite NEVER intended to honestly pursue their issues.
We may have 4 parties in the very near future in a system really designed for only two.
Green and Socialist are the same thing.
yes, if the Dems go that route, then moderate patronage-oriented folks with become RINOs and hope to suck up to the GOP, making the GOP the dominant majority party (but fraught with factionalism, like the Dems were when they were the majority).
but let us not overestimate our strength here - the Dems are close to even in the statehouses owned. they own Cali and several of the big states. Bush beat kerry by only 3 points, and Bush was an incumbent.
It is not impossible for the Dems to get their act together and win in 2008.
We've got crushclinton reserved.
We're going to be www.anklebitingpundits.com as soon as some technical issues are worked out. The name is a play on the words of a Newsweek columnist who said after the bloggers exposed Rathergate that bloggers have made us "a nation of ankle biters".
Thanks
lolol...the middleman always seems perplexed
btt
This sounds good for us. However, if the civil war turns into secession and schism, then the moderate democrats will be able to dump the radicals and form a party to take the center. With the DUers to the left and the GOP to the right, they may eventually take over the middle. However, that would be good for the country, since the radical leftists would be out of power for good.
Interesting theory. But will his tactic work? Hitlery may already have it sewn up, especially if she gets Icky in as DNC chairman.
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